Hacker News: hcnews

New comment by hcnews in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

hcnews — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:39:17 +0000

At some point you have to wonder if there's some manipulation going on? Do 100s of bots buy and sell these stocks at specific times to keep the price up? Maybe there's an institutional investor or few who secretly back Elon and are part of a scheme?

A bit speculative reply but would appreciate if anybody links any such analysis'/investigations.

From my limited knowledge, I know people have been shorting Tesla based on fundamentals for a while now but haven't been successful.

New comment by hcnews in "California residents can now request all data brokers delete personal info"

hcnews — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:09:24 +0000

You can go back by the year. Though I ended up hitting another roadblock down the road yesterday. So, I am currently waiting a couple of weeks for the flow to be functional.

New comment by hcnews in "Gemini 3 Pro: the frontier of vision AI"

hcnews — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:23:01 +0000

> It is weird how humans are biased like that.

We are able to cleanly separate facts from non-facts (for the most part). This is what LLM are trying to replicate now.

New comment by hcnews in "Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs"

hcnews — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:45:54 +0000

Maybe you are a games developer and are overlooking the fact that people have to first learn the basic apis/models/etc. of graphical systems, engines, etc. before using them. Not sure how you are saying that it wouldn't take a few weeks to code even a simple production game like chess or more complicated but still simple Jump king etc.

Just think of the speciality in which you aren't an expert, javascript/storage/networking ...

New comment by hcnews in "Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs"

hcnews — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 01:43:16 +0000

What is the contradiction? I am guessing it will take me a non-significant effort to learn game mechanics and code them etc.

New comment by hcnews in "Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs"

hcnews — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:49:29 +0000

> What I like about this post is that it highlights something a lot of devs gloss over: the coding part of game development was never really the bottleneck. A solo developer can crank out mechanics pretty quickly, with or without AI.

This is not true at all. I have never worked on games and it will take me quite a while (even months) to write a "basic" game. While I know a lot of good practices about software development and decade+ of FAANG experience, I don't know the intricacies or even the basics of game development.

I recently experienced this for a different usecase. As an experienced backend developer, I wanted to automate some javascript/browser stuff. I tried on my own for 2-3 days and had couple of prototypes but nothing actually worked. I spent 2 hours with an AI and I had a working solution. We even iterated together quickly and solved some runtime issues and the solution is working for me seamlessly now.

So, I definitely see value of AI even for coding for experienced developers like myself.

New comment by hcnews in "Airbnb allowed rampant price gouging following L.A. fires, city attorney alleges"

hcnews — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 06:13:32 +0000

> Almost nobody sets prices manually. You either use Airbnb's pricing algorithm, or one from a third party. Either way it's set automatically based on local occupancy rates/hotel prices/etc.

This seems pretty undesirable. Very easy for Airbnb/third party to increase prices even without demand just to increase their prices.

We recently saw a similar price fixing lawsuit for renters. Landlords, co-ordinating together, ended up increasing prices of Condos across major American cities (via means of a third party). The consumer ends up paying unnecessarily high prices in an inelastic market.

New comment by hcnews in "A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code"

hcnews — Fri, 09 May 2025 00:58:54 +0000

Could you anonymize and share your last 5-10 prompts? Just wanna understand how people are using Claude Code.

New comment by hcnews in "Jane Street's Figgie card game"

hcnews — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:27:51 +0000

lol hyperbole much.

New comment by hcnews in "Google Pay app will no longer be available"

hcnews — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 23:14:54 +0000

I have been texting from my laptop from 2010 via Google Voice.

New comment by hcnews in "San Francisco’s rent prices have never returned to pre-2020 levels"

hcnews — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 09:46:51 +0000

What are the property crimes in SF/Bay Area? Just curious.

New comment by hcnews in "Oregon decriminalized hard drugs – it isn't working"

hcnews — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 04:26:11 +0000

For a lot of these changes, you need a motivated and engaged enforcer/system-owner who will work through these challenges. It takes time and effort to change the culture of a group. I can't imagine someone wanting to change unless they either gain a strong motivation (highly unlikely given that they have been in the current condition for a while themselves) or they are given the right framework/setup by someone else (govt. in this case). So, this is a hard problem and one shouldn't get disheartened due to no progress so far.

New comment by hcnews in "C++23: Removing garbage collection support"

hcnews — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 03:56:13 +0000

Maybe you were technically right for some small scope of the problem, no proper industry definition of GC was supported by C++ by any of the major compiler. So, the HPC scientists were right imo.

Being technically right for an aspect that doesn't matter is a common trope that a lot of software engineers fall for.

New comment by hcnews in "Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max"

hcnews — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:16:10 +0000

Would be interested in a link to a model if you have one handy!

New comment by hcnews in "Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready"

hcnews — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 01:04:27 +0000

OOTL here. Are there any major phones which implement RISC-V? Also, does this require across the stack changes? i.e. not just OS ones.

New comment by hcnews in "The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB"

hcnews — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 03:54:20 +0000

Ironically, the EVs are currently priced higher due to Fed+State tax incentives. I bet the EV prices would be much lower if there were no such tax incentives (this is evidenced by the fact that EV prices are usually updated the day after the govt. changes these values).

New comment by hcnews in "Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates"

hcnews — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 16:05:23 +0000

Yeah I use this for very limited functionality like maps, whatsapp, uber eats. I am also mostly interacting with Google playstore for apps/apks etc. This does still leave the phone open for any day0s etc. but we will cross the bridge when we get there. I am not important enough for anyone to target me specifically and I also keep a low profile.

I was thinking about upgrading this year but I am now thinking of waiting another year since there are no immediate problems.

New comment by hcnews in "Pixel 8 to have seven years of Android updates"

hcnews — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 15:34:36 +0000

I am still using my Pixel 3 (now without upgrades) without major issues. So, happy to see the new phones have longer promised update cycles. Hopefully Google doesn't clawback this promise in the future.

New comment by hcnews in "Trains on another level"

hcnews — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 23:08:26 +0000

This has to be the biggest thing in Factorio since sliced bread. Can't wait for all the 3d spaghetti!

New comment by hcnews in "Ice core scientists in East Greenland reach bedrock"

hcnews — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 21:26:53 +0000

It's not O(N^2) is it? It can be a continuous line of ice being pushed up. Depending on the weight bearing ability of the lift and digging capacity, you would figure out a fixed distance after which you would place the buckets to carry up the ice.

Its an interesting interview question at the very least. (More complications arise as and how you get deeper into the ice).