Hacker News: gibolt

New comment by gibolt in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

gibolt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:08:31 +0000

Having been through SOC2, it doesn't mean a company is rock solid, but it definitely makes the company button up loose ends, if taken seriously.

New comment by gibolt in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

gibolt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:05:25 +0000

Everyone has access to the same models. Even the best internal builds are only a month away from public access.

The ones a year from now from all companies will likely be better than the best today.

New comment by gibolt in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

gibolt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:02:24 +0000

Hyperloop is the only thing you listed that is accurate, although it was only a whitepaper + competition. It was open for others to pursue.

Tesla easily has the best vehicle software + OTA and has since the S in 2012. It still feels better than most new vehicles.

You can buy a Tesla (including Cybertruck) today that will do 95+% of drives with 0 intervention. It may not be 100% autonomous yet, but there isn't anything obvious limiting the last step.

The robots exist but are still being developed. Within 5 years, it is hard to imagine them not becoming super valuable within factory settings.

New comment by gibolt in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

gibolt — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:42:50 +0000

If you think Starship is behind, look at the 'competition'.

Learnings per flight may not be maximal, but they are measured with enough risk so that bureaucrats will approve it (not restrict future launches) and other countries won't be impacted by a failure.

New comment by gibolt in "The Waymo World Model"

gibolt — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:22:01 +0000

It isn't monocular though. A Tesla has 2 front-facing cameras, narrow and wide-angle. Beyond that, it is only neural nets at this point, so depth estimation isn't directly used; it is likely part of the neural net, but only the useful distilled elements.

New comment by gibolt in "The Waymo World Model"

gibolt — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 21:19:13 +0000

Lidar fails worse than cameras in nearly all those conditions. There are plenty of videos of Tesla's vision-only approach seeing obstacles far before a human possibly could in all those conditions on real customer cars. Many are on the old hardware with far worse cameras

New comment by gibolt in "Tesla's ‘Robotaxis' Keep Crashing—Even With Human ‘Safety Monitors' Onboard"

gibolt — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:22:21 +0000

This is the key. The known instances I've seen are very minor taps / fender benders. Not great, but not fatal accidents

New comment by gibolt in "Tesla's ‘Robotaxis' Keep Crashing—Even With Human ‘Safety Monitors' Onboard"

gibolt — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:19:48 +0000

Cost to manufacture is likely around $25k

New comment by gibolt in "Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses"

gibolt — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 03:48:35 +0000

The project looks super cool, but the idea of wearing a sharp screen that close to my eye on a bike could be one reason it didn't sell.

New comment by gibolt in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

gibolt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:00:33 +0000

Consider what would have happened if Elon wasn't there. Likely the same. The people wanting those things cut are still present.

I wish he hadn't gone along with them, but there likely had to be concessions before attempting to make progress. When it became clear cost savings and efficiency wasn't the actual goal in the White House, Elon left.

New comment by gibolt in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

gibolt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:45:12 +0000

It is, for the purpose of this test. Don't want it coming back down on land somewhere unexpected :)

New comment by gibolt in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

gibolt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:44:04 +0000

Not at odds at all. It doesn't matter how fast you can make them if each one costs $5-10 million. Much better to amortize that over 100+ flights and not waste the booster.

Once the tanker version is needed, a ship ship could go up 5+ times a day. The logistics of backfilling a pad with a new ship is much more involved

New comment by gibolt in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

gibolt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:40:53 +0000

This has happened many times so far. Control to reach a specific landing point is quite good (when things don't go boom first)

New comment by gibolt in "Starship's Tenth Flight Test"

gibolt — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:38:40 +0000

Pretty sure the DOGE intent was good, but real efforts were mostly sidelined for the Trump pony show. Thus the 'fighting' words that followed when the BBB tax cut showed up.

New comment by gibolt in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

gibolt — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:03:38 +0000

From a driver's perspective, you don't want to wait an extra 5-10 seconds because now the bike in front of you has to get back up to speed. 0-5mph is the slowest change and the most energy

New comment by gibolt in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

gibolt — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:34:05 +0000

The real issue is all the current bad drivers. A requirement to start re-testing normal people in addition to the elderly would be a large benefit to society.

New comment by gibolt in "Eliminating JavaScript cold starts on AWS Lambda"

gibolt — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 14:48:36 +0000

Based on how much imported libraries are relied upon, it makes sense to treat everything as untrusted. Unless you write every line yourself/in-house, code should be considered untrusted.

I would be curious which attack vectors change or become safe after compiling though.

New comment by gibolt in "Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US"

gibolt — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:21:09 +0000

I generally agree, but the company likely doesn't have those funds. Considering the largest player (Apple) stands to make way more from it than you and just works around your patent.

Not arguing Apple shouldn't poach, just that your suggestion doesn't work.

New comment by gibolt in "36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens"

gibolt — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 00:11:39 +0000

That sounds low...

New comment by gibolt in "Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail"

gibolt — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:05:25 +0000

This feels like a bug that he snuck through early or during a temporary window, before Google started defaulting to . as an ignored alias. Maybe not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯