Hacker News: fixprix

New comment by fixprix in "Go is a good fit for agents"

fixprix — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:20:09 +0000

Yep exactly, might as well use a language that works with JSON natively like TypeScript; which has arguably far more powerful type system than Go.

New comment by fixprix in "Next.js: The "Versatile" React Framework That Can't Handle Dynamic Routes"

fixprix — Sat, 31 May 2025 04:03:08 +0000

Did you miss the comment where they said, "We’re still planning to address this within the next few months."?

Just because your niche issue isn't resolved, it is kind of a jerk move to blast them on HN especially when they've recently replied saying the issue is on their radar.

In less popular open source projects this is what drives devs to abandon them.

New comment by fixprix in "Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]"

fixprix — Wed, 28 May 2025 17:37:41 +0000

Twitter is once again worth $44 billion which arguably was an inflated price at the time of purchase. Tesla is a trillion dollar company. xAI is reportedly at $120 billion.

Idk man, big picture, I see nothing, but success with the media focusing on just the speed bumps along the way

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/19/value-elo...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/technology/xai-elon-musk-...

New comment by fixprix in "Starship Flight 9 booster explodes on impact [video]"

fixprix — Wed, 28 May 2025 00:49:47 +0000

Starship is going to launch the next gen Starlink satellites which SpaceX desperately needs to get in the air as with 5 million subscribers their service is being over saturated around the world. Especially in the developing world and many other places where Starlink hands down beats terrestrials offerings.

In terms of Elon's contribution, you couldn't be more wrong. It was Elon's decision to pursue Starlink - a business model that had bankrupted all previous companies that attempted it. Elon's decision to pursue reusability which made Starlink feasible. Elon's decision to fire all the upper management of Starlink when the program wasn't going well - and in under a year of that decision had completely redesigned satellites in orbit. And now it's Elon's decision to pursue Starship that is a money furnace, but if it pays off Starlink 3.0 could bring in an order of magnitude more money than it does now.

The same high risk, high reward methodology with a good dose of micro-management is how he's brought six distinct companies to multi billion dollar valuations. And how he's succeeded despite the incessant reporting of his or his companies imminent failure.

New comment by fixprix in "Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts"

fixprix — Wed, 21 May 2025 23:28:29 +0000

I shouldn’t be downvoted for asking a question that threatens the narrative. My downvotes are a record of the bias here. I’ll do it again.

New comment by fixprix in "“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET"

fixprix — Wed, 21 May 2025 04:42:17 +0000

C# can turn lambdas into expression trees at runtime allowing libraries like EF to transform code like `db.Products.Where(p => p.Price < 100).Select(p => p.Name);` right to SQL by iterating the structure of that code. JavaScript ORMs would be revolutionized if they had this ability.

New comment by fixprix in "Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts"

fixprix — Sun, 18 May 2025 02:07:26 +0000

Look I found a real source, not conjecture. How hard was that?

https://www.weku.org/the-commonwealth/2025-05-17/kentucky-nw...

New comment by fixprix in "Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts"

fixprix — Sun, 18 May 2025 01:50:38 +0000

"Tornado warnings were delayed because of reduced staff." Source? How long was the delay?

Edit: Really? Downvote me for asking a super simple question? Sorry if I threaten the narrative.

New comment by fixprix in "Native visionOS platform support"

fixprix — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:55:32 +0000

Looks like Apple might be prioritizing gaming for the next gen Vision devices? Hopefully, as I know many, myself included that passed on the Vision because the gaming support wasn't there. Price was never an issue.

New comment by fixprix in "What If We Made Advertising Illegal?"

fixprix — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:40:29 +0000

I actually agree. Telling friends and family will get you more of a 'flash in the pan' response. They are not content creators or influencers. You need to do advertising to figure out if your product/business is even economically feasible.

For example, run an ad campaign on Google, figure out your CPC (cost per customer). See if that is even below your LTV (lifetime value per customer) plus operating expenses. And then tweak all the variables in your product and campaign to actually create some sort of sustainable business flywheel.

Having an amazing product and 'waiting' for your network to spread the word to all potential customers.. it's absurd to think that would work. It's hard enough even with big ad campaigns to reach potential customers.

New comment by fixprix in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

fixprix — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:24:43 +0000

This makes no sense. I build a great product. How the hell am I supposed to tell anyone about it outside of my immediate friends and family? Am I supposed to rely on the network effect to reach an audience? That sounds insane.

Capitalism depends on advertising to let people know of the product or service that is more cost effective than existing solutions. The advertising budget is dependent on knowing your product is actually good enough to justify the expense. Without advertising, competition itself doesn't work.

New comment by fixprix in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

fixprix — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:25:42 +0000

I hope like the previous 20 years, his companies just get more and more successful. I like electric cars, and rockets, and AI, and tunnels, and brain implants, and less government spending, and real people with flaws.

New comment by fixprix in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

fixprix — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:18:30 +0000

No, but you’d make for a good writer of TSLQ fan fiction.

New comment by fixprix in "MCP server for Ghidra"

fixprix — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:23:30 +0000

Unity, Blender and Photoshop all have rough MCP integrations available. You can find them on GitHub.

New comment by fixprix in "Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090"

fixprix — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:42:17 +0000

And AI/robotics is what is turbo charging execution.

New comment by fixprix in "Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090"

fixprix — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:40:44 +0000

Competition and the value of a dollar are not related. If a dollar can go far then that's great. You can compete in business, or sports, or video games whatever. That's great.

New comment by fixprix in "Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090"

fixprix — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:39:39 +0000

We produce/consume a lot of things like media and other goods/services that we don't really need. When productivity is channeled into low value things, we all end up having to work more.

New comment by fixprix in "Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090"

fixprix — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:04:06 +0000

I just tried it for the first time and it was a pretty cool experience. Will definitely be using this more. Thanks for the tip!

New comment by fixprix in "Hunyuan3D-2-Turbo: fast high-quality shape generation in ~1s on a 4090"

fixprix — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:45:42 +0000

I'm sure they're working on it. This MCP stuff is early days. Even I am just finding out about it's integration into Blender and Unity in this thread.

New comment by fixprix in "OpenAI Audio Models"

fixprix — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:36:17 +0000

Depends on what's available for the language, but yea Wavenet and Neural2. With OpenAI TTS I'd often get weird bugs where the first API call comes back all garbled, but the second API call comes back fine. Wasting money. On top of that more expensive and higher latency. I'm interested to try out this new one.