Hacker News: deadeye

New comment by deadeye in "Tesla Roadster"

deadeye — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:11:01 +0000

Just go test drive a Tesla. No one can properly explain the driving experience.

You don't have to buy it and it costs you nothing. The sales people aren't sleazy either.

Just try it so you can speak from experience.

New comment by deadeye in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

deadeye — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:04:41 +0000

>the property tax is a form of wealth tax...

I stopped reading after that. That's when it became obvious the author has valued ideology over understanding.

Property taxes affect renters just as much as home owners...unless you think your rent only goes up because your landloard is greedy.

New comment by deadeye in "Ask HN: How is AI destruction of books legal?"

deadeye — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 11:57:37 +0000

Its private property. I don't like it either, but I wouldn't like intrusive laws either.

New comment by deadeye in "The U.S. just had its hottest summer on record"

deadeye — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:20:24 +0000

Supposedly I live in much above average. But I thought it was below average and nothing seem3d out of the ordinary.

New comment by deadeye in "Does herdr worth it? Harnesses like pi ship most of these features"

deadeye — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:27:25 +0000

Harnesses are the new Javascript web framework hotness.

Have you noticed there haven't been any new web frameworks in a while?

That's been replaced by harnesses.

New comment by deadeye in "A graph that should be front-page news"

deadeye — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:27:24 +0000

The mean is created using 29 years of data. Why those particular 29 years? IDK.

But I tend to dismiss findings like this that don't explain why they chose a very specific dates as the baseline.

New comment by deadeye in "Anthropic embedded spyware in Claude Code – and attempted to hide it from you"

deadeye — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:15:12 +0000

This seems a bit dramatic.

New comment by deadeye in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

deadeye — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 01:08:40 +0000

I don't have much love for this guy. He donated millions to the EFF to the point where CL owned the EFF.

When CL bullied people who lightly scraped their site with CFAA threats, the EFF would not help. Ultimately, they ended up on the wrong side of history.

While Musk has created hundreds of thousands of jobs and God knows how many millionaires, Newmark complains about him while having only created around 50 jobs. 50.

Instead of building something else and employing more people he watches TV and feeds pigeons.

Bravo. He's basically a beatnik who won the lottery.

New comment by deadeye in "Midjourney Medical"

deadeye — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:31:48 +0000

This is more true than people realize. My wife and I got full body MRI scans.

Both showed "possible" medical issues. My though was "Great, I have a baseline, in two years I'll get another one and compare".

My wife on the other hand got a bit obsessed about her results and had what was probably an unnecessary procedure to biopsy something, which turned out to be benign.

I suppose you could argue that another way...better safe than sorry...but the stress that is caused by known uncertainty vs unknown uncertainty can be too much.

New comment by deadeye in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

deadeye — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:54:03 +0000

I don't let the AI make any choices. I have a lot of instructions and sample code for it to follow. It is basically a glorified code generator at that point.

New comment by deadeye in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

deadeye — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:23:44 +0000

I wonder if that is even possible since the whole point of the motor is an imbalance of magnetic forces.

New comment by deadeye in "Meteor Explodes over Massachusetts"

deadeye — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:01:20 +0000

From the outer Cape it sounded like a long low rumble. I tought it was the wind making an unusual noise.

New comment by deadeye in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

deadeye — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:33:39 +0000

I don't think compacting often is good for saving money. It generates more output tokens and then the input is no longer from cache, which is priced differently...typically very differently.

Is there any tech community in Virginia Beach

deadeye — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:07:00 +0000

I'm looking at moving to VB. I don't need a job, but would like a more active tech community than the desert I live in now.

Anyone know?

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New comment by deadeye in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

deadeye — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:49:54 +0000

I wish the syntax looked more like typescript. This will confuse my eyes for a while.

New comment by deadeye in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

deadeye — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:48:40 +0000

Or is it posible this administration just took a win-win-win position?

1 - US oil and gas companies make money as oil proces rise. The US is the largest producer in the world.

2 - China loses it's major source of oil and gas.

3 - Iran gets neutralized. It may not look like it now, but it will probably end up that way.

New comment by deadeye in "SQLite Code of Ethics"

deadeye — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:07:16 +0000

It's nice to see some humble people inside the tech space.

Too many of us believe we are gods as we command our machines to do our will. That was me once.

New comment by deadeye in "Michael Burry: the market today feels like 'last months of the 1999-2000 bubble'"

deadeye — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:39:25 +0000

If the news about his investing over the last several years is true, he's been shorting a bull market for 4 years now. It better go bust or he will.

New comment by deadeye in "A Context Editor Is All Codex Needs"

deadeye — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:14:38 +0000

Won't this have a negative impact on token cache?

New comment by deadeye in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

deadeye — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:04:19 +0000

Successful men are not intimidated by successful women, they just don't desire them (for their success)...in general.

The intimidation comes into play when men are put at an income disadvantage. Women also don't find men who make less than them desirable (in general). So it's a double wammy.

A single mutli-millionaire guy is not going to be impressed by a woman who works 50 hrs a week and makes $400k.

He would rather someone available to take care of his needs while he can take care of the financial needs.

This is the opposite of what successful females want.