Hacker News: dtquad

New comment by dtquad in "Ocean Iron Fertilization"

dtquad — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 05:02:25 +0000

I hope China will look into this.

The Western mind will think it is "unnatural" and playing God with nature on a completely unprecedented scale but large-scale geo engineering like this is probably the few options we have left.

New comment by dtquad in "Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case"

dtquad — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 00:30:09 +0000

In that regard the Danish pension funds are actually playing it safer than our neighbors. The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund, the largest of its kind in the world, is 40% US equities (read: US tech stocks) and 10% US private equity (read: more US tech).

Some Norwegians are starting to be concerned but only because they think Trump will seize their assets.

New comment by dtquad in "Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case"

dtquad — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:29:39 +0000

Maybe apps that take less than 3 minutes for a 17-year-old to install, register account, and learn how to use, are not really defensible "monopolies" and maybe these apps shouldn't be the target of antitrust laws that were intended for early 20th century robber barons.

New comment by dtquad in "Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case"

dtquad — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 03:18:28 +0000

>monopolies

Where exactly? They lose market share to every new AI wrapper app and most young people are on the Chinese video app.

>are good because line goes up

The "line goes up" sarcasm really doesn't work when we are actually suddenly in a "line goes down" situation and it clearly sucks.

New comment by dtquad in "Mark Zuckerberg's failed negotiations with the FTC to end Meta's antitrust case"

dtquad — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 01:44:49 +0000

This anti-big-tech hysteria in the US is dangerous. Applying early 20th antitrust thinking to modern tech companies is short sighted and doesn't show the whole picture. These American big tech companies that people like Steve Bannon and Lina Khan want to split up have been responsible for not only the impressive US GDP and wealth recovery and growth since the 2008 financial crisis but also for much of the rest of the world's wealth recovery and growth since the 2008 crisis.

Danish pension funds have 25% allocation on US stocks but ~70% of the total returns in 2022-2024 came from US stocks with big tech companies leading the charge.

New comment by dtquad in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

dtquad — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 22:57:16 +0000

The reason many prefer Cursor over VSCode + GitHub Copilot is because of how much faster Cursor is for tab completion. They use some smaller models that are latency optimized specifically to make the tab completion feel as fast as possible.

New comment by dtquad in "Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation"

dtquad — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:21:09 +0000

GPGPUs ended up becoming the AI/cloud accelerators that FPGAs promised to be back when Intel bought Altera.

FPGAs are not ideal for raw parallel number crunching like in AI/LLMs. They are more appropriate for predictable real-time/ultra-low-latency parallel things like the the modulation and demodulation of signals in 5G base state stations.

New comment by dtquad in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from 'reciprocal' tariffs"

dtquad — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:37:41 +0000

>This assumes that he has more power than the tech companies

lol

Even the San Francisco city council is bullying American tech companies and tech executives.

The power of US tech companies is vastly overstated.

New comment by dtquad in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

dtquad — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:29:32 +0000

>the Chinese economic model of government-controlled economic direction, though not perfect, would work better

You want the US government to provide more subsidies to US tech companies so they can stay competitive? Because that is what China is doing for its tech sector.

New comment by dtquad in "Google Is Winning on Every AI Front"

dtquad — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:38:31 +0000

>Linux, where there's just one thing, but its free and impossible to monetize directly

Redhat and SUSE are multi-billion dollar Linux distro companies.

New comment by dtquad in "Google is winning on every AI front"

dtquad — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:22:13 +0000

Google is the primary target for current US anti-big-tech sentiments that are getting political traction with Lina Khan and Steve Bannon teaming up at a recent conference against US Big Tech companies. J.D. Vance has also expressed that he agrees with Lina Khan and Steve Bannon and would like to see US Big Tech companies like Google be forcibly split up.

What will happen with Google's AI wing when Google inevitably gets split up in the next 4-8 years?

New comment by dtquad in "$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money"

dtquad — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:19:38 +0000

The Pelosis' trades are public knowledge. Pelosi and her husband have outperformed the market by being tech-optimistic Californians. One of their most lucrative investments was investing in Nvidia after ChatGPT was released triggering the AI boom. Did that require any particular political "insider knowledge"? No.

New comment by dtquad in "$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money"

dtquad — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 07:12:13 +0000

How would a "friend of Pelosi" know when Trump would post his "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!" and "90 days pause" posts?

Ask HN: What are you using Gemini 2.5 Pro for?

dtquad — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 12:51:47 +0000

I have been blown away by how good it actually is when using it in Google AI Studio and turning the temperature down to 0.7 or less.

The "vibe coding" claims about one shotting entire non-trivial programs finally seem actually possible.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43653212

Points: 1

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New comment by dtquad in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

dtquad — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:18:48 +0000

>Too early for the people fundraising to build US manufacturing capabilities.

It's a good idea to hedge against future trade uncertainties.

After COVID some Danish and German companies began looking for non-Chinese alternatives for electronics manufacturing. The only area where China is the absolute better alternative is PCB manufacturing without mounting chips/components. The Danish and German companies get tens of thousands of these bare PCBs from China. The chips/components are from Taiwan, South Korea, the US, Italy, and Germany and can be cost effectively mounted in Denmark and Germany.

New comment by dtquad in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

dtquad — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 09:49:49 +0000

Interesting and important question.

I know MobilePay by Danske Bank is one of the most popular payment apps and can be linked directly to a Danish bank account (probably using the Danish "Dankort" payment infrastructure) without Visa/Mastercard involvement.

Most Danish POS and e-commerce solutions support MobilePay and surprisingly the biggest international POS/e-commerce providers also support MobilePay:

https://docs.adyen.com/payment-methods/mobilepay/

https://stripe.com/en-dk/payment-method/mobilepay

https://help.shopify.com/da/manual/payments/shopify-payments...

Our independence from US-based Visa/Mastercard payment infrastructure is enabled by our decades-old "Dankort" digital payment infrastructure that was initially based on magnetic strip cards. Even today most people opt for a so-called "Visa/Dankort" chip card that domestically use the Danish Dankort payment infrastructure but can internationally be used as a Visa.

New comment by dtquad in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

dtquad — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:23:26 +0000

There are alternatives to both inefficient government-run monopolies and US tech giant monopolies.

Even a small country like Denmark has multiple software and finance companies doing apps and software in the digital payments and banking field.

New comment by dtquad in "Foreign visits into the U.S. fell off a cliff in March"

dtquad — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 21:23:15 +0000

A lot of US undocumented immigration is not people jumping the US-Mexico border but instead people from India, the Middle East, and China intentionally overstaying their Visas. Obviously they don't want to come during an administration that is hard on immigration.

New comment by dtquad in "E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X"

dtquad — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:13:32 +0000

Twitter was never really big in most European countries. I only have an account to follow AI hype and drama.

New comment by dtquad in "Iran abandons Houthis under relentless US bombardment"

dtquad — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:05:22 +0000

The Trump administration seems to have given themselves completely free reign in Yemen.

Iran and Houthis forgot that Qatar is no longer paying Western NGOs to say every Saudi bomb kills 1000 babies.