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New comment by cowboy_henk in "Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+"

cowboy_henk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:25:15 +0000

Adyen and PayPal aren’t far off. Certainly close (~1.6T). That said, the gap is growing, stripe is growing faster.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Claude making verbose code comments – ignoring instructions to stop"

cowboy_henk — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:41:14 +0000

You may think it's obvious, but what about users who cannot read code? Even better if you also have the LLM automatically write tests for this code, with comments of its own! Now whenever you want to change something, the LLM needs to update it in 4 separate places, reducing the risk of making mistakes because it has to quadruple-check its edits. Of course that means you spend a bit more on tokens, but you have a much higher chance of your PRs getting accepted because it looks like you went the extra mile.

Power Foam – unified 3DGS representation for both rasterization and ray-tracing

cowboy_henk — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:33:52 +0000

Article URL: https://powerfoam.github.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255432

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

cowboy_henk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:04:16 +0000

In the 1800s most families only had a single provider, so this percentage may have been higher back then than it is now.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:39:18 +0000

A 36% success rate on screwing in a light bulb means there's probably something to LeCunn's take that VLM/VLA models aren't going to be the thing powering tomorrow's robots, but only time will tell.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake"

cowboy_henk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:11:34 +0000

Twitter is the “hype machine”. It’s basically the advertising arm disguised as a social media company.

At SpaceX’s valuation, even a 1-2% increase in share price due to some astroturfing on the platform they themselves own basically pays back the cost of acquiring twitter.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:21:05 +0000

We're also shareholders in all other publicly traded stocks (assuming you're referring to pension schemes etc), which means competition in the AI model market is better than a few winners making everyone paying through their nose for access. Even better, open weights models which cannot be disabled on a whim means the entire world economy can benefit.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day"

cowboy_henk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:12:20 +0000

6USD per year adds about 0.016USD per day. Definitely more, still pretty cheap.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

cowboy_henk — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:16:49 +0000

The obvious response is the realization that spending trillions on training LLMs is not a viable business model if they can be distilled for a much lower cost.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model"

cowboy_henk — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 09:38:38 +0000

Especially if thinking is hidden now. No way to know if the model plotted against you until it’s too late.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:34:15 +0000

The main reason for adding a daily puzzle (or really the seeded RNG) is that part of the game loop is retrying the same seed to find the best lines for that map. Since all pieces are deterministic, we've found it fun to retry the same map to see if a different line works better. It also adds a competitive/multiplayer element to the game, rather than it just being for single player use.

I think both "play styles" make sense, we've just found it more fun to share with friends this way!

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:51:21 +0000

Just fixed this, let me know if you run into more issues.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:21:25 +0000

Admittedly some of the auxiliary features were made with Claude's help, but I'd argue that's not what makes this interesting. The game (core loop, sprites, etc) were all made by hand.

The passkey feedback is good though, I see a few more people have had issues with it. I'll have a look at fixing it!

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:59:13 +0000

It was a matter of time I suppose. Would love to see the solver!

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:51:03 +0000

There is some polish with Claude over the past few weeks, but we wrote the engine over 10 years ago actually. Each piece moves using a modified version of A* to simply find the shortest path to Prince Chazz (the piece controlled by the player).

Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike

cowboy_henk — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:50:31 +0000

Article URL: https://princechazz.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48616304

Points: 433

# Comments: 149

New comment by cowboy_henk in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

cowboy_henk — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:40:01 +0000

TNO literally stands for "Dutch Organisation for Applied Scientific Research" (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk).

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

cowboy_henk — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:29:09 +0000

Pretty sure salaries at large tech companies are way higher in places like London, Zurich or Amsterdam than in Warsaw or Prague for example. Berlin may be closer to the eastern countries.

It might help to discuss actual ranges instead of "intimate experience" so we can tell if your experience matches reality.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "Zed 1.0"

cowboy_henk — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:12:41 +0000

Agreed, this is the main reason why I keep switching back to other editors.

New comment by cowboy_henk in "SpaceX files to go public"

cowboy_henk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:51:23 +0000

Isn't it much simpler than that? Dividends and profits are taxed. Reinvesting to grow revenue isn't. That's why you see companies doing stock buybacks; prevents them from paying taxes, prevents their shareholders from paying taxes.