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New comment by lancewiggs in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

lancewiggs — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 01:11:08 +0000

Not at a good one.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

lancewiggs — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:05:29 +0000

That appears to have poor feedback about the induction cooktop itself, and is inferior to, say, Bosch. Cycles on and off, poor pan detection, lower peak power, areas being affected smaller than the lines on the top etc.

New comment by lancewiggs in "After the AI Crash"

lancewiggs — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:41:40 +0000

Have a read of Jeremy Grantham’s book. Seeing bubbles is reasonably easy. Forecasting when they pop and when to get out is very hard. For example GMO as at the end of April were forecasting through the bubble that returns for large US equities would be negative over the next seven years. But since then the market has gone up by over 30%. It could pop any day, or could grow for two more years. Advice is to diversify your investments and make sure you avoid systemic risks. Read books by value investors.

New comment by lancewiggs in "The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't"

lancewiggs — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:25:25 +0000

Yup. For those interested we have a similar approach where the fibre to the home is owned by a regulated provider that is required to offer its service to all retail service providers (RSPs) at the same price. Competition is strong.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

lancewiggs — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:44:03 +0000

The rise in sales of GLP-1 products also coincides with the decline in self-help books. Those products are highly effective at delivering some of the hardest self-help outcomes, so why buy a book when you can inject?

New comment by lancewiggs in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

lancewiggs — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:05:14 +0000

Perhaps think of the stock as a value stock, not a growth/momentum stock.

The thesis is that they should survive and thrive as an investment asset through the AI bust, but performance during the AI bubble is poor. If you are a longer term investor then B2B SaaS valuations appear cheap right now, but you need to be able to weather the storm of missing out on the AI infused bubble.

As evidence the BVP Nasdaq Emerging Cloud Index is at all-time lows for EV/revenue multiples. While some of the companies will see growth rates impacted by AI, that only explains a little bit of the drop in multiples versus the past.

Control Workspace Intelligence for generative AI features [AI defaults on]

lancewiggs — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://knowledge.workspace.google.com/admin/gemini/control-workspace-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47885292

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lancewiggs in "How to breathe in fewer microplastics in your home"

lancewiggs — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:41:28 +0000

And to add - tea is graded at source, and buyers purchase based on grade. So a low quality tea bag will have tea that is objectively worse than a high quality one, while the best tea is never near a bag.

New comment by lancewiggs in "EFF is leaving X"

lancewiggs — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:10:40 +0000

Those numbers are the real news here - that's a brutal drop in traffic. Are other organisations seeing the same?

New comment by lancewiggs in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

lancewiggs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:11:17 +0000

WSJ reports they can pay in Chinese yuan instead of Bitcoin.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

lancewiggs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:04:37 +0000

Yeas ago I motorcycled a lot, all over the world. I escalated to an air horn and hi-viz. But I pretty quickly realized that these made no tangible difference to the behavior of larger vehicle drivers. So I ended up for later vehicles with a stock horn and hi-viz only for heavy rain.

These days our family cycles a lot for commuting. It’s really easy to observe that people in vehicles treat us far better if we look like humans, wearing normal street clothes, rather than wearing high-viz or, far worse, cycling gear.

The bike bell is for polite notice, not alarming. The best alarm system you have is your voice, which is variable volume and tone. For ultimate effect slap the panels of cars, as it is very loud inside the vehicle.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

lancewiggs — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:42:36 +0000

I like it. In particular the descriptions of how he reacted when confronted. The public key anecdote is a red herring - there is far more convincing evidence in the article.

New comment by lancewiggs in "OpenAI should build Slack"

lancewiggs — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:35:24 +0000

An alternative perspective is that if someone sends me a Google sheet link then I know almost immediately that is probably not a “serious” document. Similarly with Google Docs, as “serious” documents with proper tracking of changes and so on are in Word.

Of course the uses of serious spreadsheets are often in finance and serious documents are in law.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

lancewiggs — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:21:10 +0000

It's exiting the 5th best social network and the 10th (or worse) best AI company and selling them to a decent company.

It probably increases Elon's share of the combined entity.

It delivers on a promise to investors that he will make money for them, even as the underlying businesses are lousy.

New comment by lancewiggs in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

lancewiggs — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:32:33 +0000

I found mistakes in the spreadsheet backing up 2 published articles (corporate governance). The (tenured Ivy) professor responded by paying me (after I’d graduated) to write a comprehensive working paper that relied on a fixed spreadsheet and rebutted the articles.

Integrity is hard, but reputations are lifelong.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Our approach to advertising"

lancewiggs — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 08:05:10 +0000

Whether it not this is AI slop, it places a huge burden on everyone here to read it, which we will not. Please be thoughtful, and just stop.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

lancewiggs — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:32:47 +0000

AI bot-like behaviour.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Largest cargo sailboat completes first Atlantic crossing"

lancewiggs — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:15:48 +0000

Generally you pack it into a crate and fly it. You may well need a Carnet and/or other paperwork, and it only makes sense for longer trips.

Consider buying a bike in Europe instead - generally cheaper and you can get something more appropriate to the terrain.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Ask HN: My university wants all my IP (PhD Student) is there anything I can do?"

lancewiggs — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 05:18:59 +0000

Talk to a VC as well. Or more than one, and ideally ones that are in the medical device space and have done similar deals with others from your university. If they are interested then they can apply pressure on the university too, to get to a solution that works for everyone.

New comment by lancewiggs in "Please stop asking me to provide feedback #8036"

lancewiggs — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:47:40 +0000

2: is not optional as the pop-up has occurred and the interruption done, and 4-6: are not obvious nor easy for almost everyone.

I recommend people always respond with the lowest possible score (1, not 0) when presented with popups like this.