Hacker News: elliotec

New comment by elliotec in "Nvim-treesitter (13K+ Stars) is Archived"

elliotec — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:03:47 +0000

What successful services have you built because of entitled users?

New comment by elliotec in "“Collaboration” is bullshit"

elliotec — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:54:34 +0000

Exactly. The old Iron Triangle. One of the three will always be most important depending on the constraints. Two of them will be possible.

New comment by elliotec in "How to Not Pay Your Taxes"

elliotec — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:27:10 +0000

I don't know if you're right or wrong, but it is an incredibly common tactic and done all the time by many businesses and people. There are of course ways to do this that are less noticeable by the IRS (as acknowledged in the article) and it doesn't seem like they have the capacity to investigate and audit the vast amount of this practice. My understanding is they are typically focused on fraud and/or folks simply not filing.

New comment by elliotec in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

elliotec — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:32:10 +0000

> never the time to short a company

> can be part of a combination strategy

New comment by elliotec in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

elliotec — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:11:39 +0000

Kagi has tons of results from Reddit and they're always high and relevant. I don't know if this means they're doing it even though they're "not allowed to" or what but they definitely get it somehow.

New comment by elliotec in "Wirth's Revenge"

elliotec — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:50:46 +0000

I agree completely. The internet did reset our expectations and tolerance for latency. My observation was not an endorsement by any means, I don't feel one way or another about it. But it sure would be nice to have speed!

New comment by elliotec in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

elliotec — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:45:52 +0000

> In reality tax rates go up or down on everyone at the same time, because that's how the negotiations shake out.

This is absolutely false, especially in the US. Progressive tax brackets, breaks for the rich, and targeted changes for capital vs. income, deductions, etc. are the norm. Tax rate change is _always_ selective.

New comment by elliotec in "The Waymo World Model"

elliotec — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:21:28 +0000

Another comment mentioned the Philippines as the manifest frontier. SF is not on the same plane of reality in terms of density or narrow streets as PH, I would argue in comparison it does not have both.

New comment by elliotec in "The Waymo World Model"

elliotec — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:20:03 +0000

Can you explain? I lived in PH, and my guess is that you mean navigating and modeling the unending and constantly changing chaos of the street systems (and lack thereof) is going to be a monumental task which I completely agree with. It would be an impressive feat if possible.

Edit: or are you talking about the allegations of workers in the Philippines controlling the Waymos: https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-wo... I guess both are valid.

New comment by elliotec in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

elliotec — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:48:17 +0000

Money is power. So to answer your question literally, if MY taxes went up, I would not have more power, but if the rich's did, I would because they'd have less power.

New comment by elliotec in "The Great Unwind"

elliotec — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:26:00 +0000

Are you serious? You said “dozens of CEOs” have been jailed for their role in the 2008 crisis. That is categorically false.

The article you posted is about a banker convicted in 2013 for fraud committed in 2011 that has nothing to do with contributing to the 2008 crisis. No CEOs were jailed for that.

Take your anger somewhere else because the truth is that it’s still zero, just like it was 5 minutes ago and 18 years ago. What would you possibly have to gain from lying about stuff like this?

New comment by elliotec in "Wirth's Revenge"

elliotec — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:09:09 +0000

Yeah, I think a lot of this can be attributed to institutional and infrastructural inertia, abstraction debt, second+-order ignorance, and narrowing of specialty. People now building these things are probably good enough at React etc. to do stuff that needs to be done with it almost anywhere, but their focus needs to be ML.

The people that could make terminal stuff super fast at low level are retired on an island, dead, or don't have the other specialties required by companies like this, and users don't care as much about 16.7ms on a terminal when the thing is building their app 10x faster so the trade off is obvious.

New comment by elliotec in "The Great Unwind"

elliotec — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:38:37 +0000

It's also incredibly bizarre they'd go on such defense like this beyond zero evidence. Why on earth would someone make this shit up 18 years later?

New comment by elliotec in "The Great Unwind"

elliotec — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:34:49 +0000

Where is this database? Say names. Literally even one. Who are the dozens of CEOs? Why would you make something like this up and spread misinformation? It's been 18 years, even if someone had big stake in the game I can't understand why they would lie about this so steadfastly. Look it up.

New comment by elliotec in "The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K"

elliotec — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 08:27:00 +0000

If you're sitting about a meter away, that's probably fine. Most desks aren't deep enough, and any closer would be a real problem for head movement.

But if you have it wall mounted at eye level or a deep desk you're likely okay.

New comment by elliotec in "Television is 100 years old today"

elliotec — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:27:02 +0000

I am not really sure what you mean by "have television" - I, as I assume many here, have a TV "screen" as you put it, but it's used for Apple TV apps, home media server viewing, Netflix, and video games. I actually do have a digital antenna with it but never use it. I think the only time I have in the last 10 years or so was to watch one olympic event last summer.

New comment by elliotec in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

elliotec — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:52:10 +0000

https://elliotec.com

Needs an update, we'll get there.

New comment by elliotec in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

elliotec — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:57:55 +0000

Any examples? I've never heard of him, but that seems like a big statement.

New comment by elliotec in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

elliotec — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 05:27:31 +0000

Are they _solving_ these issues of dynamism with typing? What other issues does it introduce?

New comment by elliotec in "Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"

elliotec — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:57:35 +0000

Same, I know how to use a terminal quite well but don’t know the latest best way to “sail the seas” as they say.