Hacker News: dubcanada

New comment by dubcanada in "Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts"

dubcanada — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:37:05 +0000

Let's be real here, Apple does not have to compete with AI for fab capacity, they can outbid anyone if they want. They have more money and longer contracts then anyone else. Apple customers will just end up paying for said DRAM price inflation.

The ones who will actually suffer is Apple 2.0 (presumably a different competing company), start ups, research, companies that are not worth trillions.

New comment by dubcanada in "Precursor"

dubcanada — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:55:12 +0000

I get flagged way more often on Starlink then I did on my local ISP fiber.

New comment by dubcanada in "Precursor"

dubcanada — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:54:40 +0000

Acting like a human is something scapers already do. Using residential proxies, using latest Chrome user agents, not moving/typing as fast, etc. This is just 1 more layer, moving mouse naturally.

New comment by dubcanada in "Precursor"

dubcanada — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:45:00 +0000

There is nothing stopping a bot from moving their cursor like a human. This is basically just putting up a door with zero walls and telling people to stay out of your house.

All of these things are completely abusable/bypass-able and just annoying for actual humans who trigger flags.

New comment by dubcanada in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

dubcanada — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:29:40 +0000

Google Chrome tells me it's like 14 different things. How is that any different then DeepSeek saying it is Claude?

New comment by dubcanada in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

dubcanada — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:37:44 +0000

Because nothing bad happened to you, therefore nothing bad happens?

New comment by dubcanada in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

dubcanada — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:50:49 +0000

Don't know why people keep parroting this, this is incorrect. Chinese electricity prices are equal or slightly cheaper then most of North America. But significant pockets such as those around the Quebec or other hydro plants are significantly cheaper then Chinese power pricing.

Not only that, China may subsidize AI, but so does the US.

New comment by dubcanada in "Roku LT Operating System open source distribution"

dubcanada — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:44:45 +0000

On hackers news a technology focused platform where custom weird languages thrive. You're complaining about a company who the original developer made their own language.

Isn't this exactly how all of the other languages where created?

New comment by dubcanada in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

dubcanada — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:36:44 +0000

Industrial Chinese electricity costs is similar to that of Texas, It's 8-9cents a kWh. The only benefit is industrial China decides to put millions of solar panels down, so "peak" sunlight hours can drop electricity costs significantly since their rates are highly dynamic.

New comment by dubcanada in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

dubcanada — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:25:46 +0000

China has a population of 1.4B, US is 349M. 0-8 Beijing time is their off-peak? How is that funny, that's literally how timezones work?

New comment by dubcanada in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

dubcanada — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:23:45 +0000

This statement makes no sense, because you literally said the "US is getting bad". We already gave up all of our data, if you wrote something about the CCP you should already expect they know about it.

New comment by dubcanada in "Magnifica Humanitas"

dubcanada — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:29:18 +0000

I frankly disagree, how do you know "will this make humanity better?" until the product is done? AI wasn't what it is today because of a specific companies innovations. It stemmed from decades of research built on top of other research. How did any of those builders know what they were getting into?

Every technology should be done to the fullest potential, how are we ever supposed to explore the stars or cure cancer if everyone is scared of accidentally building Skynet?

New comment by dubcanada in "Magnifica Humanitas"

dubcanada — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:13:21 +0000

AI has nothing to do with technology, the questions are 100% psychological not technological. It's fundamental shifts in deep degrees of how humans have worked for centuries. Most of which the church has been the centre of.

New comment by dubcanada in "Magnifica Humanitas"

dubcanada — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:10:58 +0000

I don't think humans would skim stuff... Frankly I've always used a tool that preskimmed resumes. Even before AI. You can't expect a HR person getting 10k resumes a day to skim everyone or even look at 10% of them. Even 20+ years ago 80% of resumes went right into the trash bin before I even opening it.

New comment by dubcanada in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

dubcanada — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:26:11 +0000

Not sure what bubble you live in, but that is incorrect. Maybe in California it's 80/20. Every single statistic globally is nearly 80/20% for android. There is a few rich markets and they may be 80/20 for Apple, but realistically Android wins every single time, no matter what market you look at.

China/India are like 30-40% of the world, and they are both under 20% usage.

Europe - 60/40% split for android

US/Canada - 40/60% split for iPhone

Even some of the higher countries are only 70/30% for iPhone.

Ignoring that is fine if your target is rich North Americans.

But you are still chopping off X% of customers.

New comment by dubcanada in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

dubcanada — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:59:13 +0000

For iPhone only users, so right off the bat your product is targeting 50% ish of a companies customer base. And the non iMessage people get a worse experience?

New comment by dubcanada in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

dubcanada — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:54:39 +0000

How is this any different then

https://blooio.com/ https://www.sendblue.com/ https://www.lindy.ai/ etc?

I will say I am the exact opposite of your market, I want absolutely nothing like this. In fact I'd prefer iMessage to allow ZERO programmatic interfacing.

New comment by dubcanada in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

dubcanada — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:10:15 +0000

Well to be honest, none of these are likely bugs. HERMES.md maybe... but everything else is likely them testing waters.

New comment by dubcanada in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

dubcanada — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:05:00 +0000

If only opencode wasn't super buggy, it is really bad at just not returning responses, wasting tokens, duplicating responses, lagging, etc. It is nowhere near claude code levels, not even close. Even codex which is also not near claude is much better then opencode.

New comment by dubcanada in "GPT-5.5"

dubcanada — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:42:37 +0000

grok is 17%? And that's the lowest, most models are like 80%+?

While hallucination is probably closer to 100% depending on the question. This benchmark makes no sense.