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New comment by dmix in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

dmix — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:05:23 +0000

I fully support humans landing on Mars and large budgets but I don't think anything gets exaggerated in these discussions quite like the commercial technology ROI of space programs.

New comment by dmix in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

dmix — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:58:15 +0000

Doesn't explain why UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrian, and Saudis would tolerate a fee transiting the strait. Let alone why America would agree to that in negotiations given they have little incentive to agree to any large demands.

If that is agreed upon it's going to come with some concessions by Iran which is even less likely.

New comment by dmix in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

dmix — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:50:55 +0000

This is why I stopped reading these Bitcoin creator stories. It's usually more about the journalist and their 'process' than the story.

New comment by dmix in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

dmix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:50:12 +0000

Iran charging a massive toll would also cause a crisis with the gulf states and they aren't going to tolerate it. This is much bigger than Iran vs US, and the idea they hold the cards for such a claim is mostly propaganda.

New comment by dmix in "F-35 Got Hit"

dmix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:48:18 +0000

Possibly with fragments, which is the best outcome considering how dangerous MANPADs are.

The US and Israel didn't lose a single pilot over Iran after 15,000+ sorties which is saying something on their capabilities.

New comment by dmix in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

dmix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:46:53 +0000

You can't keep JS devs away from the new shiny framework for long.

New comment by dmix in "Claude Managed Agents"

dmix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:43:48 +0000

Completely agree re: AI chatbot/RAG being just like the pre-PHP web world. There's a hundred half baked solutions floating on blogs and github but not a coherent dominant framework that puts it all together properly. Langchain is close but still feels a bit abstract and DIY.

That plus everyone is using 5 different vector DBs and reranking models from different vendors than the answer models etc.

New comment by dmix in "F-35 Got Hit"

dmix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:37:48 +0000

It's been speculated the F-35 detected the missile and deployed it's towed decoy behind it which the MANPAD missile hit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ALE-50_towed_decoy_system

New comment by dmix in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

dmix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:44:47 +0000

Making outrageous demands is normal in these negotiations. You can just look at what Hamas demanded during the ceasefires. What usually happens is no strong concessions from either side and hostilities just end. The regimes get to survive just in a badly degraded state.

Most importantly Iran can't afford to keep the strait closed to enforce this. If they block shipping their own will be blocked as well - which hasn't yet happened, they were still allowed to ship oil. Iran was already in terrible financial shape before the war and they aren't negotiating from a strong position of power to take those risks.

New comment by dmix in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

dmix — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:03:43 +0000

You can get 8gb fibre for around $65/usd a month in Toronto.

New comment by dmix in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

dmix — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:57:47 +0000

And Iceland.

New comment by dmix in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

dmix — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:39:57 +0000

In Canada our internet became much faster for cheaper with better customer support when the government allowed competition from smaller players. Telecom also got better when they allowed a foreign competitor to compete against the government mandated oligopoly. But the market is still heavily regulated in a way that benefits the existing monopolies.

New comment by dmix in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

dmix — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:55:38 +0000

Every SaaS company has to deal with resource whales

Either they pay up or get off

New comment by dmix in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

dmix — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:48:23 +0000

Pretty sure this is old news being repackaged

New comment by dmix in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

dmix — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:36:51 +0000

I noticed they call it FSD (Supervised) on their site now https://www.tesla.com/en_ca/fsd/safety

probably to differentiate from their limited testing of Robotaxis in Austin https://robotaxitracker.com/?provider=tesla

And there's a community which tracks their progress independently https://teslafsdtracker.com/

New comment by dmix in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

dmix — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:11:57 +0000

So according to the article, it had 48k extra cars during a quarter in 2024 and now the new record of 50k in Q1 2026, after they sold 358,023 out of 408,386.

New comment by dmix in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

dmix — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:54:49 +0000

You must not have read about all the hype Iran had before the war and before 2024 especially. The US airforce/navy has performed extremely well. In Desert Storm they lost far, far more aircraft and that only lasted 1.5 months (Iran is 1 month in). Even the ballistic missile strikes against Israel haven't been exceptionally notable, considering Iran is going full-bore and has thousands of ballistic/cruise missiles and drones. They should be able to do much more to regional military bases.

The main issues with this war are strategic questions and people mocking the presidents inconsistent communication. But otherwise for an air campaign this has been about as good as one could expect - within the limits of what an air-only campaign can do.

New comment by dmix in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

dmix — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:46:17 +0000

US also has A-10s doing gun runs in Iraq too. It makes sense the US is more willing to take risks 1-month into the war given how effective they've been and for Iran to also adapt their manpad teams after they probably failed a ton of times previously.

You saw the same pattern where Ukraine and Russia both constantly adapted on the battlefield and the war changed rapidly over the first year.

New comment by dmix in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

dmix — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:39:04 +0000

That matches what I'm curious about. Where an LLM is doing the bulk of information discovery and tool calling directly. Most simpler RAGs have an LLM on the frontend mostly just doing simpler query clean up, subqueries and taxonomy, then again later to rerank and parse the data. So I'd imagine the prompting and guardrails part is much more complicated in an agent loop approach, since it's more powerful and open ended.

New comment by dmix in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

dmix — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:19:52 +0000

This puts a lot of LLM in front of the information discovery. That would require far more sophisticated prompting and guardrails. I'd be curious to see how people architect an LLM->document approach with tool calling, rather than RAG->reranker->LLM. I'm also curious what the response times are like since it's more variable.