Hacker News: higginsniggins

New comment by higginsniggins in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

higginsniggins — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:50:57 +0000

Sounds like a great opportunity to build a markplace of these entities, where sellers can sell them to buyers and the marketplace automates as much of the paperwork as possible.

Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI

higginsniggins — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:13:48 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/chinese-universities-drop-humanities-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653897

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

Chile turned to China for an undersea cable. The U.S. said no

higginsniggins — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:21:38 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/chile-china-america-google-cable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624874

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots

higginsniggins — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rygp005wjo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48614390

Points: 82

# Comments: 95

New comment by higginsniggins in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

higginsniggins — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:53:19 +0000

Theres several open source options you can use.

The highest github stars one is called `zed` another one i've heard about is `Cline`

theirs also a few that yc backed ones:

`Void`

`Continue`

`PearAI`

For what its worth the non yc ones have way more github stars but im sure the yc ones are good too. I think `Continue` is the biggest yc one.

New comment by higginsniggins in "US battery manufacturing output continues to break records"

higginsniggins — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:42:15 +0000

The value is not in the literal buildings, the value is in the people, the managers,engineers,etc and the owners who know how to run it.

The people who are hired and organized by the korean comapny. This is litterlly the logic that collapsed venezuela's oil industry after it was seized by the state.

New comment by higginsniggins in "Mike: open-source legal AI"

higginsniggins — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:49:58 +0000

Beautiful website.

New comment by higginsniggins in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

higginsniggins — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:18:12 +0000

There's literally an ancient text called `The Satire of the Trades` which bacially just pumps up nice it was to be the ancient world equivalent of a white collar worker.

New comment by higginsniggins in "Show HN: Viral Potential Predictor"

higginsniggins — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:21:35 +0000

According to your research paper you should have made this post a "Tell HN:" rather then a "Show HN:", lol

New comment by higginsniggins in "Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents"

higginsniggins — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:49:29 +0000

That's litterlly the job of a founder. You talk to cusomters and learn from them.

New comment by higginsniggins in "Why outcome-billing makes sense for AI Agents"

higginsniggins — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:48:29 +0000

If your customer base is so broud that you can't define a clear outcome for your nitche, your company probably isnt focused enough. Especially for a start up.

New comment by higginsniggins in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"

higginsniggins — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:58:16 +0000

When you go the website the first line is literally “Say hello to Freedom Chat—a next-generation messaging app that keeps your conversations actually private

New comment by higginsniggins in "DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says"

higginsniggins — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:49:44 +0000

Bob is a citizen of X, the site formerly known as twitter where their are no laws

New comment by higginsniggins in "DeepSeek uses banned Nvidia chips for AI model, report says"

higginsniggins — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:43:44 +0000

How about and.... this might be too radical for you but here me out...... no one with "dominance for humanity overall"

New comment by higginsniggins in "Show HN: I built an interactive HN Simulator"

higginsniggins — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 23:55:48 +0000

https://news.ysimulator.run/item/498

New comment by higginsniggins in "Using Generative AI in Content Production"

higginsniggins — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 23:33:13 +0000

Any one with a brain knows it is not stolen, but nevertheless the fact that people will claim so is a risk.

New comment by higginsniggins in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

higginsniggins — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:33:13 +0000

Honestly, that's not a bad idea for a start up. Maybe a marketplace where people can see what things cost in different places and book a surgery directly.

New comment by higginsniggins in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

higginsniggins — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:25:07 +0000

"attack on economic activity of the competitors"

Thats competition. It is a feature of markets.

not a bug.

New comment by higginsniggins in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

higginsniggins — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:11:13 +0000

A free market just means that people are allowed to buy and sell what they want. If a government decides to help some industries that is irrelevant.

It stops being free when government attacks economic activity, not when it promotes it.

New comment by higginsniggins in "AI and the Future of American Politics"

higginsniggins — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:43:13 +0000

Ok, but If elections are decided by the small swing group, wouldnt that mean a small targeted impact from AI would could *more* effective not less? If all it needs to do it have a 1 percent of impact that makes a huge difference.