Hacker News: jddj

New comment by jddj in "Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?"

jddj — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:51:08 +0000

The greed index is off the frickin' charts right now across the board, that's why

New comment by jddj in "Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?"

jddj — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:48:21 +0000

...and are all now on 200k, right?

New comment by jddj in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

jddj — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:08:49 +0000

On the contrary. There are many benchmarks, some small subset of which are intended to reflect the whole market.

There are indices for every little thematic and niche corner or strategy or idea, there are broad-as-possible indices, and there are indices with requirements like listed age and profitability.

New comment by jddj in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

jddj — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:32:13 +0000

Maybe you know this already, but this reads like exactly the kind of reasoning that people looking back at irrational market euphorias point to as a sign things were about to go awry.

New comment by jddj in "Rsync and outrage"

jddj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:50:22 +0000

All of this noise and velocity will provide significant cover for the Jia Tans of the world.

New comment by jddj in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

jddj — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:54:54 +0000

> OpenAI are very keen to suggest it's legally equivalent to a human when it suits them

When is/was that?

(Not rhetorical)

New comment by jddj in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

jddj — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:12:20 +0000

Index funds buy companies, for the most part, according to their market capitalisation.

They own more of bigger companies than small.

There's the option of "equal weight" or other strategies but the overwhelming majority is market cap weighted.

Index funds are also really, really big now and contain a lot of money earmarked for retirement/pensions.

In theory if you had a temporarily very frothy market into which you could sell a part of your unprofitable company to some people at a very high valuation, index funds would then mechanically move in and need to purchase and add significant support for insiders to sell into.

New comment by jddj in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

jddj — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:08:57 +0000

Presumably there is some time component, i.e you need to use the machine quickly or risk losing it.

Also, it's better to double $2 instead of $1, and then pay back that $1.1 and end up with $2.9 instead of $2.

But it was a more facetious comment than I would have preferred to make, I actually went to delete it but you got in too quickly.

There are many reasons it's wrong, too, eg. at some level of risk debt becomes more expensive or impossible

But the intent of the comment was to say that if you owned as sure a thing as the GP proposed you'd do what you could to avoid selling parts of it.

New comment by jddj in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

jddj — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:00:10 +0000

If you have a machine that reliably takes $1 and makes $2 you raise debt not equity

New comment by jddj in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

jddj — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:52:39 +0000

At one point (1.5 months ago) Bloomberg posted a piece saying the private market was apparently drying up for openai due to anthropic sucking all the oxygen out of the room.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/openai-de...

New comment by jddj in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

jddj — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:47:22 +0000

Is that the case? What about gpt 4.5? o1-pro?

New comment by jddj in "Gemini Omni"

jddj — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:01:00 +0000

A little too much Michael Bay

New comment by jddj in "We've made the world too complicated"

jddj — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:34:17 +0000

Jonestown, right? Recordings from Jamestown would be quite a big deal.

New comment by jddj in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

jddj — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:01:58 +0000

Claude the other day wrote code where one of the bytes in the array was 0xO5.

That's zero ex oh (the letter) five

New comment by jddj in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

jddj — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:44:16 +0000

Language nit: in english, "add to that" is more natural

New comment by jddj in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

jddj — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:55:20 +0000

For the most part I think we get the benchmarks we deserve.

Many SWE-bench passing PRs would not be merged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341645

Top model SWE bench scores may be skewed by git history leaks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214670

New comment by jddj in "All your agents are going async"

jddj — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:40:36 +0000

Getting to that point is likely going to involve a lot of (the business and personal equivalent of) Teslas electing to drive through white semitrailers.

New comment by jddj in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

jddj — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:53:21 +0000

Once you've seen a few results of an LLM given too much sway over product decisions, 5 effort modes expressed as various english adjectives is pretty much par for the course

New comment by jddj in "Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code"

jddj — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:35:38 +0000

Looking at the account's other comment there are subtle grammatical errors in that one too.

Would be good to see the prompt out of morbid curiosity

New comment by jddj in "Show HN: SPICE simulation → oscilloscope → verification with Claude Code"

jddj — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:12:54 +0000

What throws me about this comment is the missing space between the period and the T in the last sentence.

Did the model itself do that? Was it a paste error?