Hacker News: daniel_iversen

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

daniel_iversen — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:35:11 +0000

Doesn't inference have very good profit margins* but all the losses come from training?

* For now, when they don't have to compete much against companies like DeepSeek who supplies inference at 1/10th of the cost

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

daniel_iversen — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:28:36 +0000

I’ve used Claude for a couple of months now and didn’t know about the specific “plan mode” you can put it into!

New comment by daniel_iversen in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

daniel_iversen — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:33:43 +0000

I'm quite sure (and you could find it somewhere of course) that the Chinese models would've been fine-tuned for certain leanings and world views. Even so, at what point is even the quality risk (assuming your use case won't be affected by those adjustments) and any potential privacy concerns outweighed by the fact that it's literally an order of magnitude (and sometimes multiple, for output tokens etc!) cheaper than the US frontier models?

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

daniel_iversen — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:34:07 +0000

I've just started listening to the book "Brave new world" (no spoilers please!) and this is literally how the book begins (but with humans) - what could possibly go wrong!

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Vivaldi 8.0"

daniel_iversen — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:49:06 +0000

I’d love to know that as well. Long time Brave user that was curious about Vivaldi a long time ago and can’t remember why I went in the other direction. I want privacy and battery life on macOS

Pocket Raspberry Pi Computer for Hackers [Pre-Sale]

daniel_iversen — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:05:12 +0000

Article URL: https://shop.m5stack.com/pages/m5-cardputerzero

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080607

Points: 3

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New comment by daniel_iversen in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

daniel_iversen — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:01:15 +0000

Hi, congrats on the launch!

Firstly, it doesn’t seem to work for me and my wife - we hold the phones together but clicking start does nothing (and we’ve accepted Bluetooth etc).

Secondly, I wonder if you’ll have a massive chicken and egg issue with the physical feature. I get it’s the main feature but could you overcome it somehow initially while still maintaining your long term “gimmick”? Like could you allow people to connect with the first X friends (5? 10? 20? Whatever that can get virality and flywheel going) or connect with as many as you want virtually for the first X months etc. You could even have the contacts fade away slowly if they don’t get verified in person etc. You might want to model out different strategies (and be extremely conservative) otherwise you’ll be relying on lottery-level luck. Good luck anyway though :)

New comment by daniel_iversen in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

daniel_iversen — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:57:10 +0000

More like a sovereign wealth fund type of concept

New comment by daniel_iversen in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

daniel_iversen — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:09:37 +0000

Yes. And it can be done in less "communist" ways; have countries' governments invest serious capital (even if they have to raise debt - they do anyway) in income producing assets related to AI, like large stakes in AI labs, building data centres etc.

Claude-desktop-buddy [small ESP32 hardware companion software]

daniel_iversen — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:46:49 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-desktop-buddy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47829458

Points: 2

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New comment by daniel_iversen in "Banned by Anthropic?"

daniel_iversen — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:50:35 +0000

I have mixed feelings about this kind of thing; on one hand, holding big companies to account is important. On the other, sites like this can feel noisy and probably misleading. Of course Anthropic can protect their platform from technical abuse, and of course they should be working to keep it away from bad actors or people in genuinely vulnerable mindsets, and that’s tricky! And honestly, if out of hundreds of millions of users and billions of chats, if a few thousand get flagged for safety concerns (to society, to others, or to the person themselves) I’m probably okay with that. It’ll never be perfect, and there’ll never be full agreement on where the lines should be. But Anthropic seems to be trying to bring AI into the world safely, and I for one appreciate that.

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

daniel_iversen — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:45:40 +0000

Hi! Others have noted this too but you can't seem to buy credits right now, it says "This page couldn’t load" in a custom error page when you've selected the amount and click continue to checkout. Congrats on launching such a cool project that's getting people excited, thinking and discussing :)

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

daniel_iversen — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:09:25 +0000

I’ve been wondering the same. And I think pretty much all the impressive small lab models were guilty of it, right? At least there is still larger players like DeepSeek and mistral to provide a bit of diversity in the market

Scientists question CIA "Ghost Murmur" long-range heartbeat detection

daniel_iversen — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:29:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-quantum-ghost-murmur-purportedly-used-in-iran-scientists/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47717101

Points: 5

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New comment by daniel_iversen in "What came after the 486?"

daniel_iversen — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:54:17 +0000

Me too, and I recall the Cyrix "Pentium-like" chips were cheaper and faster than Intel's actual Pentium chips! [1]

[1] https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/49259.html

New comment by daniel_iversen in "Windows 3.1 tiled background .bmp archive"

daniel_iversen — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:58:11 +0000

Remember this video? https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1169ku2/unknown_p...

Remote work increases due to oil prices [pdf]

daniel_iversen — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:37:56 +0000

Article URL: https://iea.blob.core.windows.net/assets/2aa0c404-fed1-4ee1-80db-6ab5b6016266/Overview-Trackinggovernmentemergencymeasures2026.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488064

Points: 1

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New comment by daniel_iversen in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

daniel_iversen — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:44:20 +0000

Curious to hear why people pick GPT and Claude over Google (when sometimes you’d think they have a natural advantage on costs, resources and business model etc)?

Amazon Zoox self-driving vehicle

daniel_iversen — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:53:49 +0000

Article URL: https://zoox.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373749

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Fast non-Chromium browser for AI agents: LightPanda

daniel_iversen — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://lightpanda.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360492

Points: 1

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