Hacker News: erikstarck

New comment by erikstarck in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

erikstarck — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:14:12 +0000

I'm as much of a Tesla Fan Boy that you can be but I have to say, the F-150 seems like a darn good vehicle and it's sad they're killing it. I especially like the V2X features.

New comment by erikstarck in "Ask HN: What are good books/blogs to read for a first time CTO?"

erikstarck — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 10:31:30 +0000

The Mythical Man Month and The Phoenix Project.

New comment by erikstarck in "Tesla union strike fails in Sweden as workers refused to walk out"

erikstarck — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:40:59 +0000

Threatened… or informed them about what would happen? What’s the difference?

New comment by erikstarck in "Tesla threatens to bring in strikebreakers as Swedish workers strike"

erikstarck — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 10:11:38 +0000

I suppose Swedish Tesla workers have the same beneficial stock buying agreement that other countries have. No more of that if they are unionized.

New comment by erikstarck in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

erikstarck — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:51:10 +0000

The margins were inflated during the pandemic, though. Musk even called their prices "embarrassingly expensive".

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/teslas-prices-are-embarras...

New comment by erikstarck in "Rivian embraces Tesla's charging standard for EVs"

erikstarck — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 15:49:01 +0000

First of all, the mission of Tesla is to transition the world to sustainable energy. If you believe them, that should be enough.

But, second of all, this also makes business sense. Everyone will have to use the Tesla app, where they can get targeted offers and become a kind of "Tesla Light" customers. People wonder why Tesla doesn't advertise. Well, with these deals, the need for advertising is a lot less than without them. Also, Tesla is essentially becoming a platform for EVs. How long before some OEM license Tesla software?

And, remember that there are over 17000 superchargers in the US alone and the deal with Ford and GM only allows access to 12000 of them in the US and Canada together. To get the full Supercharger experience, you still need a Tesla.

New comment by erikstarck in "Examples using Photoshop’s new “Generative Fill” feature"

erikstarck — Wed, 31 May 2023 09:03:30 +0000

Less than x [time unit] since y released z.

Here are n [jawdropping|amazing|stunning] examples of what people has done with it.

New comment by erikstarck in "I lost everything that made me love my job through Midjourney"

erikstarck — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 11:21:15 +0000

Probably for all the unimportant NPCs running around in a game, AI does a good enough job. But for the main characters and the plot, I suspect a human touch is still needed. Climb up the value chain. If you're cranking out monsters in volume, you're at the bottom.

New comment by erikstarck in "Facebook is going after LLaMA repos with DMCA's"

erikstarck — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:04:05 +0000

Intelligence Augmentation?

New comment by erikstarck in "Remote work is starting to hit office rents"

erikstarck — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 06:09:53 +0000

Yeah. Clearly no one goes there anymore. The place is too crowded.

New comment by erikstarck in "GitHub Copilot X – Sign up for technical preview"

erikstarck — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 14:58:51 +0000

"Developers! Developers! Developers!"

He wasn't kidding.

New comment by erikstarck in "ChatGPT generated a puzzle game"

erikstarck — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:54:44 +0000

You guys are funny. An AI generates a game, comes up with the rules, writes the code and designs the web page for it. Your reactions:

- Bah, it's not very fun.

- It's been done before.

- It took too long to make.

Seriously. Let me repeat that. An AI generates a game. It comes up with the rules for the game. It even writes the code and designs the web page for it!

Come on! This is amazing!

New comment by erikstarck in "Boston Dynamics’ bipedal robot Atlas can now grab and toss"

erikstarck — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 09:08:26 +0000

Cool video for sure.

Wasn’t there a post the other day about Tesla’s self driving video was staged since it was the best take on multiple attempts?

Does anyone think this was not “staged” and carefully preprogrammed for a specific demo?

Not that it’s not impressive but still. I can’t have “staged” robots in my warehouse.

New comment by erikstarck in "Tesla FSD data is getting worse, according to beta tester self-reports"

erikstarck — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:24:09 +0000

Yeah, and highest margin by far in the auto industry. While growing 50% per year.

New comment by erikstarck in "What would it take to bring back the dinosaurs?"

erikstarck — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 16:33:02 +0000

Yeah, they need to place theses jurassic creatures in a park on an island somewhere.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

New comment by erikstarck in "I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you"

erikstarck — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 13:23:06 +0000

Right. My initial reaction was “what!? Minecraft has an ending?”. Finishing the game is not at all part of the appeal of the game. It’s like having an ending to your LEGO pieces.

New comment by erikstarck in "Lexman Artificial Podcast – Elon Musk Part 2"

erikstarck — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:55:50 +0000

Text generated by GPT-3 and voices are rendered with https://github.com/neonbjb/tortoise-tts

Lexman Artificial Podcast – Elon Musk Part 2

erikstarck — Tue, 24 May 2022 10:54:54 +0000

Article URL: https://soundcloud.com/jn2022/lexman-artificial-podcast-episode-003-elon-musk-part-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31490398

Points: 2

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New comment by erikstarck in "We asked 100 humans to draw the DALL·E prompts"

erikstarck — Fri, 13 May 2022 05:17:36 +0000

Clearly, the AI wants to hide its sinister nature to us.

New comment by erikstarck in "A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem"

erikstarck — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 15:13:52 +0000

If you haven't read "The Five Love Languages" yet and are in a relationship, then I highly suggest you do. It might save it before it's too late.

And just to make this slightly more startup-related as well: as team members, we also have "love languages", ways we communicate respect and appreciation to each other. Sometimes we speak different languages and don't understand each other. That breaks the team.