Hacker News: croddin

New comment by croddin in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

croddin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:34:46 +0000

Was likely for a grok avatar named valentine (https://grok.com/valentine) but they used https://x.com/v instead which only ever made two posts all in October 2025

New comment by croddin in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

croddin — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:29:18 +0000

They don’t need to throw a stack of cash at them, Anthropic and OpenAI have programs for open source maintainers.

https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/

New comment by croddin in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

croddin — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:34:12 +0000

In other news, "Show HN: This up votes itself"[1] from 14 years ago is still the 20th most voted story in HN history.[2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902 [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

New comment by croddin in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

croddin — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:17:34 +0000

As many other comments have said there probably is a good percent of stars by claws themselves, I would be curious what percent this is but it is also interesting: current "dumb bot" stars/spam etc is entirely automated and coordinated but these claws probably independently reasoned over long thought chains about why it is a good idea to star openclaw.

New comment by croddin in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

croddin — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:50:58 +0000

Starlink and Falcon 9 have been an excellent pairing, Falcon 9 partially reusable rockets created a lot launch capacity and starlink filled the demand. Starship if it meets its goals will create more launch fully reusable supply by orders of magnitude, but there is not the demand for all that launch capacity. Starlink can take some of it but probably not all so they need to find a customer to fill it in order to build up enough to have the volume to eventually colonize mars.

New comment by croddin in "Self Driving Car Insurance"

croddin — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:52:47 +0000

I could see prediction markets handing insurance in the future, it could probably get fairer prices but would have to be done right to avoid bad incentives, interesting to think about how that might work.

New comment by croddin in "AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

croddin — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:44:48 +0000

For comparison, what percentage of the time do human run publications misrepresent news content?

New comment by croddin in "Historical Tech Tree"

croddin — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:22:05 +0000

Top 10 by total descendants (direct + indirect)

1: Control of fire — 585

2: Charcoal — 444

3: Iron — 422

4: Iron smelting and wrought iron — 419

5: Ceramic — 404

6: Pottery — 402

7: Induction coil — 389

8: Raft — 365

9: Boat — 363

10: Alcohol fermentation — 353

Top 10 by total ancestors (direct + indirect)

1: Robotaxi — 253

2: Moon landing — 242

3: Space telescope — 238

4: Lidar — 236

5: Satellite television — 231

6: Space station — 228

7: Stealth aircraft — 228

8: Reusable spacecraft — 224

9: Satellite navigation system — 224

10: Communications satellite — 224

New comment by croddin in "Historical Tech Tree"

croddin — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:11:32 +0000

I vibe coded with gpt-5 and the source json (https://www.historicaltechtree.com/api/inventions) to get this list:

Top 10 inventions by number of direct descendants

1: High-vacuum tube — 13

2: Automobile — 12

3: Stored-program computer — 12

4: Voltaic pile — 11

5: High-pressure steam engine — 11

6: Glass blowing — 10

7: Papermaking — 10

8: Bipolar junction transistor — 10

9: Writing (Mesopotamia) — 9

10: MOSFET — 8

New comment by croddin in "OpenAI o3-pro"

croddin — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:01:48 +0000

There is still plenty of room for growth on the ARC-AGI benchmarks. ARC-AGI 2 is still <5% for o3-pro and ARC-AGI 1 is only at 59% for o3-pro-high:

"ARC-AGI-1: * Low: 44%, $1.64/task * Medium: 57%, $3.18/task * High: 59%, $4.16/task

ARC-AGI-2: * All reasoning efforts: <5%, $4-7/task

Takeaways: * o3-pro in line with o3 performance * o3's new price sets the ARC-AGI-1 Frontier"

- https://x.com/arcprize/status/1932535378080395332

New comment by croddin in "Purple exists only in our brains"

croddin — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 16:17:56 +0000

This is equivalent to saying a C Major chord only exists in our brains since it isn't a note.

New comment by croddin in "Seven39 – a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

croddin — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 02:51:01 +0000

I think there is still an issue. I think it is counting down to the next 7:39 local time. Right now it says opens in 22h 50m for me (I am in mountain time) (this was at 8:49 MST / 10:49 EST)

New comment by croddin in "Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink"

croddin — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:03:34 +0000

Here is Elon's quote of that tweet with the monocle emoji https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1882301283090190520

New comment by croddin in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

croddin — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:48:50 +0000

This could be a clue

https://x.com/sama/status/1756090136935416039

New comment by croddin in "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"

croddin — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:25:38 +0000

VPN doesn’t work for TikTok so must be based on the App Store. VPN does seem to work to use CapCut so far though.

New comment by croddin in "About availability of TikTok and ByteDance Ltd. apps in the United States"

croddin — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 06:14:46 +0000

Even if you already have TikTok on you phone, you can’t use it now and get the following message:

> Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now

> A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now.

> We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!

New comment by croddin in "Hawai'i-Issued Real IDs Can Be Added to Apple Wallet Beginning August 28"

croddin — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 22:03:11 +0000

It gets people to not need to carry their wallet anymore so they will use apple/google pay instead of physical cards.

New comment by croddin in "Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup"

croddin — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:36:03 +0000

They could emergency return to earth right away if needed.

New comment by croddin in "Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct"

croddin — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:04:36 +0000

I found the .05/.08 here: https://wow.groq.com/

New comment by croddin in "Cost of self hosting Llama-3 8B-Instruct"

croddin — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:09:33 +0000

Groq also has pay as you go pricing for llama3 8B for only $0.05/$0.08 that is very fast.