Hacker News: davedx

New comment by davedx in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

davedx — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:28:02 +0000

Dude, Chinese labs distil attack via the APIs, if Musk wanted to do something like that, technically he could. Legally it would be a giant slam dunk liability though

New comment by davedx in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

davedx — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:55:04 +0000

I use Gemini for heavy web scraping-adjacent API work. Web grounding has been super useful for the project.

I will definitely not be updating to this new model, and I think once 2.5 Flash is deprecated I'll have to re-architect so Gemini is only used for web grounding requests. This is an insane price increase.

New comment by davedx in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

davedx — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:21:01 +0000

IME a lot of the difference between solar for the US vs Europe for example, is that the energy usage in the US is way higher (often due to HVAC usage), so you just need much larger sized systems than in Europe if you want to cover your usage fully. Our house here in NL is 3.5 kWp, people I know in the US have more like 20-30 kWp.

New comment by davedx in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

davedx — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:48:55 +0000

Temporarily rate limited ... By CloudFlare?

Emergent Quantization from a Dynamic Vacuum

davedx — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:40:11 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/l8y7-r3rm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118561

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by davedx in "Googlebook"

davedx — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:19:08 +0000

Why are you opposed to using personal computers for education?

Altman and Brockman Self-Dealing on Cerebras

davedx — Tue, 05 May 2026 07:39:38 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/ns123abc/status/2051455685838209470

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48019251

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by davedx in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

davedx — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:00:02 +0000

Its not AI spam, there are typos

New comment by davedx in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

davedx — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:50:51 +0000

Do you fly?

New comment by davedx in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

davedx — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:51:42 +0000

It most certainly is also greed. Stockholders want returns. One way to do that is maximize profits at all costs. Greed.

New comment by davedx in "Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances"

davedx — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:18:12 +0000

Oh god yeah, watching Subnautica speed runs with glitches allowed was eye opening

New comment by davedx in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

davedx — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:43:20 +0000

I don't think active duty special forces can just "quit", can they?

New comment by davedx in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

davedx — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:01:03 +0000

Huh, if you don't own the models then you don't own the ecosystem end to end though?

New comment by davedx in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

davedx — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:57:30 +0000

- go head to head against google workspace

- apple public cloud

Lets go!

New comment by davedx in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

davedx — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:56:03 +0000

Making cars is just a low margin business with a huge manufacturing footprint. They'd have been competing directly with Chinese EV makers. Dodged a bullet IMO

New comment by davedx in "Laws of Software Engineering"

davedx — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:41:06 +0000

As a very senior SWE with a decent amount of eng decision making responsibility these days I still find I get so much mileage out of KISS and YAGNI that I never really think about any other laws.

So much SWE is overengineering. Just like this website to be honest. You don't get away with all that bullshit in other eng professions where your BoM and labour costs are material.

New comment by davedx in "Laws of Software Engineering"

davedx — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:38:10 +0000

"today, performance is mostly about architectural choices, and it has to be given consideration right from the start"

This doesn't make sense. Why is performance (via architectural choices) more important today than then?

You can build a snappy app today by using boring technology and following some sensible best practices. You have to work pretty hard to need PREMATURE OPTIMIZATION on a project -- note the premature there

Salesforce Launches Headless 360

davedx — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:53:11 +0000

Article URL: https://venturebeat.com/ai/salesforce-launches-headless-360-to-turn-its-entire-platform-into-infrastructure-for-ai-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803510

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by davedx in "KLM cancels 160 flights due to fuel shortage"

davedx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:45:54 +0000

This really should be bigger news.

New comment by davedx in "KLM cancels 160 flights due to fuel shortage"

davedx — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:45:13 +0000

Euro airlines hedge quite a bit actually - Ryanair is one of the most hedged airlines around. US airlines do it a lot less these days; Delta has their own refinery instead.

Hedging won't make more jet fuel appear though