Hacker News: holografix

New comment by holografix in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

holografix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:24:31 +0000

This is basically a win for Iran.

1. They replaced the decrepit Khameini with a much younger and more formidable Khameini.

2. “Pulled a Ukraine” vs the US showing defiance and have now rallied any wavering regime supporters against the American and Jewish “devils”.

3. Reminded the anti regime population that they’re not going anywhere and that the US can’t help them.

4. Showed everyone in the ME and the world that if anyone messes with them they’ll close the straight. Then gas prices go up. Then your own domestic pop gets pissed. Then your chances of re-election drop.

5. Destabilised the whole region costing the ME lots and lots of money.

New comment by holografix in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

holografix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:03:00 +0000

I don’t think Opus and Sonnet are significantly better than Gemini or ChatGPT. Am I missing something?

It looks to me that Anthropic is one or two Gemmas away from a lot of people using Opus for 20% of hard use cases and letting on-device LLM rip through the code base on a Mac Mini or Studio and OpenCode.

Once Claude Code is not the only game in town and Cowork is made redundant by Google pulling their finger out on integration with Workspace, what else is there for Anthropic?

New comment by holografix in "Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for next-gen compute"

holografix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:07:43 +0000

I don’t understand Claude Code’s moat here. What can it do that opencode can’t or couldn’t fairly easily implement?

New comment by holografix in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

holografix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:57:41 +0000

Meanwhile the whole world on VSCode getting ads for Azure…

New comment by holografix in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

holografix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:17:57 +0000

Wow the sceptics really came out in force for this one.

I’m currently using Gemini to research components for a remote controlled plane. I have the frame of the plane and now need to buy correctly specced servo motors, an engine, battery, etc etc. It has saved me so much time and educated me tremendously on how the different components interact and the options available.

If I could just press “buy” from within Gemini and pay via Google Pay (or better still, Apple Pay) I’d do it in a heartbeat.

If ChatGPT can do this today, I need to try it.

Germany has a shortage of workers turns to India for help

holografix — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:58:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wlww83yv4o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486234

Points: 4

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New comment by holografix in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

holografix — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:46:37 +0000

Solid move by Altman - good signal they’re serious about capturing the Claude Code market from Anthropic.

What I don’t understand is why hasn’t anyone bought Jetbrains yet.

Atlassian? AWS? Google?

New comment by holografix in "$96 3D-printed rocket that recalculates its mid-air trajectory using a $5 sensor"

holografix — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:30:23 +0000

Fascinating, is miniaturisation and “democratisation” of offensive capabilities via 3d printing and consumer tech going to impact defensive capabilities as well?

Are we going to see foot troops carry one of these strapped to their backpacks and launched autonomously to counteract incoming drones?

New comment by holografix in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

holografix — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:38:52 +0000

Which is basically a way to do React without it being React

New comment by holografix in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

holografix — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:56:21 +0000

Looking forward to the release!

New comment by holografix in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

holografix — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:26:40 +0000

One of the more interesting takes I heard from a colleague, who’s in the marketing department, is that he uses the corporate approved LLM (Gemini) for “pretend work” or very basic tasks. At the same time he uses Claude on his personal account to seriously augment his job.

His rationale is he won’t let the company log his prompts and responses so they can’t build an agentic replacement for him. Corporate rules about shadow it be damned.

Only the paranoid survive I guess

New comment by holografix in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

holografix — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:10:35 +0000

Is OpenAI giving employees RSUs? What good are those under these astronomical valuations?

New comment by holografix in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

holografix — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:57:19 +0000

I think it begs the question:

Is Gemini meant to be be a revenue making product or strictly a cost centre to defend against Search and Ads erosion by OpenAI?

Why does the Gemini web app not support MCP Servers?

New comment by holografix in "Why vampires live forever"

holografix — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:59:54 +0000

Incredibly sad to lear that Peter Thiel owns so much land in one of the earth’s most beautiful places.

If I was a kiwi I would be livid at the government allowing this purchase to go through.

Alphabet selling rare 100 year bonds to help fund AI investment

holografix — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:23:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/02/alphabet-selling-very-rare-100-year-bunds-to-help-fund-ai-investment/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46973620

Points: 4

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New comment by holografix in "Everyone’s building “async agents,” but almost no one can define them"

holografix — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:39:31 +0000

Async Agent = a LLM powered application using a well understood thinking / planning loop and reasonably clear success criteria to process a prompt that takes longer than a tacitly agreed upon amount of time so that the user needs to be notified of the outcome instead of waiting for it.

New comment by holografix in "In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks"

holografix — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:57:29 +0000

I hope they’re getting stock options and have negotiated themselves out of any bs repurchase rights.

New comment by holografix in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

holografix — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 03:58:54 +0000

Correct and the more you interact the more you create training data

New comment by holografix in "Flux 2 Klein pure C inference"

holografix — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:28:44 +0000

No cuBLAS?

Ask HN: OfficeHours and AlphaSense Spam

holografix — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:38:45 +0000

What’s the deal with these companies spamming requests for what sounds like one off consultancy work? Are these legitimate? Clearly they know I’m full time employed and they email me every second day.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46653674

Points: 1

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