Hacker News: khuey

New comment by khuey in "The Gemini app is now on Mac"

khuey — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:17:04 +0000

Really? Right now both Claude Code and Codex seem substantially more capable than Gemini CLI to me.

New comment by khuey in "The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets"

khuey — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:55:38 +0000

Seven out of the top ten best selling vehicles in 2010 were sedans (https://www.edmunds.com/car-reviews/top-10/top-10-best-selli...)

In 2025 only one out of the top ten is a sedan (https://www.edmunds.com/most-popular-cars/).

New comment by khuey in "The AI School Bus Camera Company Blanketing America in Tickets"

khuey — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:54:06 +0000

It also aligns suspiciously with the decline of the sedan and the near-total victory of SUVs and pickup trucks in the American passenger vehicle market.

New comment by khuey in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

khuey — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:23:09 +0000

Because Congress and Trump said so in 2018.

New comment by khuey in "Helium is hard to replace"

khuey — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:24:37 +0000

The good news (for the EUV fabs) is that they can outbid pretty much every other user of helium.

New comment by khuey in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

khuey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:34:46 +0000

There was a lawsuit about the constitutionality of only requiring men to register back during the first Trump administration that won at the District Court level but lost on appeal in the Fifth Circuit. SCOTUS declined to take the case at the time because Congress was considering changing the Selective Service System. Then Congress ultimately did nothing, and the same people are now suing the government again in a different circuit.

New comment by khuey in "Intel Assured Supply Chain Product Brief"

khuey — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:45:33 +0000

From skimming the brief it sounds like the target for this is Western government customers?

New comment by khuey in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

khuey — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:28:50 +0000

Do you ever consider driving to New Haven and taking Metro North the rest of the way? IIRC it's as fast as Amtrak if you're on the Super Express train.

New comment by khuey in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

khuey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 03:46:23 +0000

Since they have a mandatory retirement age of 56 (if they're not retired earlier for health conditions) it's not crazy to have an age cutoff for intake. Why put someone through a 2 year training with a high failure rate if after they make it through all of that you'll get at most 10 years of work out of them?

New comment by khuey in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

khuey — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 01:23:08 +0000

I think there's a decent chance that the open weight models remain close enough to the frontier labs that they won't be able to do things like this.

New comment by khuey in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

khuey — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:58:10 +0000

> In the unlikely event california becomes independent, water rights will be a big deal too

This is all hypothetical of course but the logical eastern border of an independent state centered in what's now California would be near Denver for precisely this reason.

New comment by khuey in "Cursor Composer 2 is just Kimi K2.5 with RL"

khuey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:20:39 +0000

White-labeling may be slightly dishonest to the consumer but the manufacturer and distributor are honest with each other. That doesn't appear to be the case here (Kimi's license requires publicly acknowledging Kimi is used for anyone operating at Cursor's scale).

New comment by khuey in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

khuey — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:20:47 +0000

It's an example people use to show the (current) limits of LLM capabilities. Like counting the 'r's in strawberry around two years ago.

New comment by khuey in "First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study"

khuey — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:19:05 +0000

What does any of this have to do with China? This study was done in California.

New comment by khuey in "Show HN: Scanned 1927-1945 Daily USFS Work Diary"

khuey — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:17:05 +0000

If you go backpacking in the Sierra Nevada (or other mountains, surely) you may just run into a mule train carrying a trail maintenance crew and their gear.

New comment by khuey in "I Regret to Inform You That the FDA Is FDAing Again"

khuey — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:41:21 +0000

Last year a friend of mine told me that one of the principal dividing lines in American politics is whether one can correctly answer who the president was in 2020 and 2008. They weren't wrong.

New comment by khuey in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics"

khuey — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:15:23 +0000

Ironically Ro Khanna was the tech backed candidate a decade ago when he ran against Mike Honda.

New comment by khuey in "FDA intends to take action against non-FDA-approved GLP-1 drugs"

khuey — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:40:55 +0000

> Something is systemically wrong in the US when we are cutting off people’s access to meds, like GLP-1s, which have profound health benefits.

Are we cutting off people's access to meds or do they just not want to pay what they cost?

New comment by khuey in "The Great Unwind"

khuey — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:13:26 +0000

It was the same on Silver Thursday in 1980 too. And then it went sideways for a couple decades.

New comment by khuey in "Videogame stocks slide after Google's Project Genie AI model release"

khuey — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:50:19 +0000

Epic.