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New comment by higginsniggins in "Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow"

higginsniggins — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:37:10 +0000

Flock ceo attempts to stop people using online photo system from stocking him…

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Hmmmm…

New comment by higginsniggins in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

higginsniggins — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:37:57 +0000

I'm disappointed that forty two labs isn't selling the answer to life, the universe and everything.

Why Egyptian farmers are growing crops under solar panels

higginsniggins — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:37:43 +0000

Article URL: https://grist.org/energy/why-egyptian-farmers-are-growing-crops-under-solar-panels/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395077

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

Ban on Chinese robots leaves U.S. startups stranded

higginsniggins — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:04:54 +0000

Article URL: https://restofworld.org/2026/china-robot-ban-silicon-valley/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49353395

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms

higginsniggins — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:17:39 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/07/trump-administration-has-spent-nearly-4b-to-cancel-offshore-wind-farms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218338

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by higginsniggins in "It's not a fear of "AI communism"; it's a fear of competitive market capitalism"

higginsniggins — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:30:01 +0000

Yes but at the very least they are an insurance against the big companies deciding to Enshittify their product.

For example if (when) open ai decides to 10x their price once every one is sufficiently hooked these open weight models will still be here.

New comment by higginsniggins in "The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)"

higginsniggins — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:27:02 +0000

It's called "engineer's disease" which is pretty appropriate for this community:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/engineer%27s_disease

New comment by higginsniggins in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

higginsniggins — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:02:36 +0000

wouldn't the analogy be Wagyu farmers?

New comment by higginsniggins in "New York's small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape"

higginsniggins — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:06:01 +0000

Rent control is just one of many factors that affect an incentive to build. For example (and these are hypothetical numbers just to show the point), if rent control made developers 10 percent less likely to build but easing building restrictions made them 50 percent more likely, it would result in a net gain for building overall.

New comment by higginsniggins in "New York's small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape"

higginsniggins — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:35:44 +0000

If anything, being against monopolies is actually pro small business because monopolies make it harder for small businesses to compete

New comment by higginsniggins in "Indian scientists produce most detailed 3D atlas of the human brainstem"

higginsniggins — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:07:27 +0000

I'm not sure what point you're making, but if anything, that makes this MORE impressive not less, if they can do great work with little resources.

New comment by higginsniggins in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

higginsniggins — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:34:27 +0000

Friendly reminder: since Musk now owns Cursor, there are a bunch of really good open-source alternatives you can use.

New comment by higginsniggins in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

higginsniggins — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:32:54 +0000

They all moved to Substack.

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.