Hacker News: elias_t

New comment by elias_t in "Gemini 3.8 Flash"

elias_t — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 16:15:05 +0000

I use it quite a lot and after a week of use I’m being hard rate limited

New comment by elias_t in "US consumer spending on Apple's App Store fell for the first time in a decade"

elias_t — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:11:03 +0000

It’s not about their physical products but their services business. I think the upcoming sales in September are going to confirm your point nonetheless

New comment by elias_t in "My Friend Aaron"

elias_t — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:20:42 +0000

Same here

Making LEDs at Home [video]

elias_t — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:35:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHyoz8fFpUM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49390576

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by elias_t in "Show HN: Check if any of the $656M in unclaimed royalties at The MLC is yours"

elias_t — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:19:29 +0000

Wow thanks for this! Right now it’s rate limited, could we pass you the metadata directly maybe? To not burn your ip with their servers

New comment by elias_t in "How China Saved the Global Oil Market"

elias_t — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:09:17 +0000

I think they give stability to the world market and therefore their own exports. With low domestic demand they wouldn’t survive high gas prices.

New comment by elias_t in "Coin-sized device can hack a Boeing 737"

elias_t — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:54:47 +0000

It’s crazy how much trust there was prior 9/11. I’m wondering if it’s the same nowadays if you get to a certain position or if everything is perfectly compartmentalised

New comment by elias_t in "Taxpayers Funded a $533M Artillery Plant That Made Nothing"

elias_t — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:20:32 +0000

I heard about this but could you elaborate? From the outside it seems like a nice idea to cut costs

New comment by elias_t in "Felix and I"

elias_t — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:22:38 +0000

Really nice read!

I would have loved to know more about how the business ended. It could have flown naturally with the rest of the story. Same for D’s journey!

Even if most comments felt like there was envy at Felix’s life I think that’s because we only see the negative aspects of Jacob’s life and only the nice ones of Felix’s. Deep down I know that Felix is a bit lonely on a treadmill trying to keep up an entrepreneurial journey and that he might wake up at 45.

New comment by elias_t in "Orbit co-founders are running a 50k fellowship for "cool applications""

elias_t — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:25:21 +0000

That’s cool, but I’m not sure to understand what’s in it for them? It’s funded by a company but I couldn’t find any info about it.

Is it pure philanthropy?

New comment by elias_t in "German advocacy group lodges criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses"

elias_t — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:10:40 +0000

I think they will argue that the led gives an indication that it's recording and therefore not "hidden in everyday object". The issue is more about people removing the LED, I guess they will toughen the law about this in the future.

New comment by elias_t in "SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost"

elias_t — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:44:22 +0000

The same argument can be made about snowflakes and other providers that handle the data layer. If they can leverage AI in a safe contained environment they would become the clear winner

New comment by elias_t in "What makes companies dodge taxes?"

elias_t — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:05:47 +0000

“Companies are responding to the incentives that politicians are providing” it misses the full picture, those same politicians are being lobbied by these companies. If a 10M lobbying budget gives 100M less taxes it gives x10 ROI and therefore is an investment opportunity for companies

New comment by elias_t in "Show HN: Sign language translation with smart glasses"

elias_t — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:05:03 +0000

You could make the same argument about spoken languages. There isn't a single sign language

New comment by elias_t in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

elias_t — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:58:20 +0000

I'd say by checking the code myself but at the end of the day it's just about trust. Codeberg is facing the same issue, it's all about human reports and common sense, but there aren't bulletproof solution to this problem. Maybe a prompt injection somewhere.

New comment by elias_t in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

elias_t — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:32:37 +0000

How do you even enforce such policy?

New comment by elias_t in "Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm"

elias_t — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:56:48 +0000

It’s even worse, because they would have to say: “the bomb dropped itself because we forgot a screw in the airplane, but see how effective it is!”

New comment by elias_t in "Meta says AI model accessed the internet and hacked another firm"

elias_t — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:55:04 +0000

That’s crazy that such errors in isolating the models became a marketing stunt.

I’m afraid of what it will be next. They will remove guardrails just to provoke more and more headlines

New comment by elias_t in "US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran"

elias_t — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:42:10 +0000

> hows that going for them?

"In its July 15 report — based on interviews with more than forty-two thousand people across thirty-six countries — Pew found that China is now viewed more favorably than the United States in most nations surveyed." [0]

[0] https://www.cfr.org/articles/china-now-outranks-the-united-s...

New comment by elias_t in "US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran"

elias_t — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:23:59 +0000

> The only one profiting is China since they've mostly transitioned away from oil...

They had to use their own oil reserves to regulate the market, where they win is in soft power