Hacker News: eli

New comment by eli in "Now AI agents need what RSS does"

eli — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:47:56 +0000

Well yeah if they provide open access to content then AI labs wouldn’t have to pay them for bull access.

New comment by eli in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

eli — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:38:49 +0000

Makes sense as part of a larger coding workflow, especially if it’s fast. Using a trillion parameter model to figure out how to call a targeted edit tool or generate a commit message is a waste. Also narrow tasks like “make the background darker” or “rename this function and update callers”

New comment by eli in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

eli — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:30:51 +0000

I think it’s more correct to say they charge subscription users much much less. I assume less even than the cost of providing the inference, if you actually are using it.

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:26:01 +0000

Getting fewer people owning homes that nobody lives in is a good thing.

Where are you getting the idea that these homes are on the rental market? Why aren’t they being rented?

I also don’t actually think this applies to buildings that are uninhabitable.

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:16:39 +0000

Yes it is proposed for only the new second home tax. It does not currently exist at all.

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:28:57 +0000

NYC surely does generate a lot of wealth, but a lot of vacant luxury NYC condos are just a place to park cash. No particular connection to the city.

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:26:51 +0000

They are not changing how property values are assessed for everyone

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:24:06 +0000

Seems like disincentivizing people from owning mostly vacant homes should free them up for someone who does intend to live there

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:11:35 +0000

No, there is no global change that I'm aware of.

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:06:11 +0000

How does a tax on SECOND homes decrease supply? Wouldn't it incentivize sales of mostly vacant properties to someone looking for buy a first home?

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:32:47 +0000

Those are two different things: the new tax, and fixing the broken appraisal process.

New comment by eli in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

eli — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:27:51 +0000

The tax is only on non-primary residences - one person owning multiple homes. I don't expect it to have a significant effect on housing supply, but I think it logically could.

New comment by eli in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

eli — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:57:24 +0000

Letting people know promptly is also the right thing to do and probably mandated by (at least some) customer contracts. You can't tell just some people; it would leak anyway.

New comment by eli in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

eli — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:27:15 +0000

We absolutely are doing that at the state and local level. Vehicle registration fees vary by weight and type of vehicle most places.

New comment by eli in "Congress Wants You to Pay $130 a Year Just to Drive an Electric Car"

eli — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:25:13 +0000

The headline is intentionally inflammatory, but that's pretty much what the article says.

FWIW, the gas tax also only pays a fraction of the actual cost of maintaining roads.

New comment by eli in "AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]"

eli — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:24:41 +0000

It's quite expensive to self-host but you have many places to run it. OpenRouter alone lists a dozen different providers for DeepSeek 4 Pro. https://openrouter.ai/deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro/providers.

So long as there is demand, there are always going to be providers competing to offer it at a low cost. My understanding is that the median price on there is in the ballpark of what it costs to run the inference. This is very different from e.g. Opus, which you can basically only buy from Anthropic at the price they set.

New comment by eli in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

eli — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:35:47 +0000

I think that's a common experience but not universal.

Just about everyone cares about process and quality when things start falling apart. And at least with current technology, it seems like vibe coding your way into a large project will inevitably land you in that spot.

New comment by eli in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

eli — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:25:40 +0000

Yes, I believe it's xAI's position that they were technically in compliance at the time. I don't know that a judge would agree. The new EPA rule is more of a clarification; they do not concede that point.

New comment by eli in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

eli — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:05:47 +0000

When it works, it feels genuinely miraculous. Working in a common problem space, like gluing together APIs, it generally does well. Doing something novel or even a little complicated, it can really lead you astray.

New comment by eli in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

eli — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:19:55 +0000

A much more charitable framing: people who enjoy the process vs people who enjoy the result.

(Though, granted, the results are a lot better if you craft it by hand)