Hacker News: latentframe

New comment by latentframe in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

latentframe — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:19:57 +0000

One of the most interesting thing about commodity bottlenecks is that they often accelerate substitution ; scarcity can end up by making a material being less important

New comment by latentframe in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

latentframe — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:24:01 +0000

Prevention is hard to sustain because the success is invisible : nobody notice the defects delays or crises that never happened

Germany's €100B bid to make the trains run on time

latentframe — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:26:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/db75e347-b13b-4753-8130-6301bb55c040

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486202

Points: 3

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New comment by latentframe in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

latentframe — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:31:24 +0000

An interesting part here is probably manufacturing and not the motor itself : going from a prototype to something you can mass produce reliably is often the hard part

IMF warns inflation risks remain elevated ahead of Fed meeting

latentframe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:26:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/imf-urges-fed-caution-inflation-warsh-prepares-chair-first-policy-meeting-2026-06-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441002

Points: 5

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New comment by latentframe in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

latentframe — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:16:50 +0000

All important technologic revolution can turn into an infrastructure revolution => the railroads, electricity etc … so the technology can be a transformation while the capital cycle becomes in excess

New comment by latentframe in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

latentframe — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:51:30 +0000

The most worrying part isn't the cheating it's that students seem to be skipping the struggle that learning requires, as one professor put it "Confusion is the sweat of learning"

2025 Social Security Trustees Report [pdf]

latentframe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:33:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2025/tr2025.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394402

Points: 3

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New comment by latentframe in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

latentframe — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:51:50 +0000

BYD biggest innovation may be organizational more than technological

The free-money era subsidized your salary, not just startup valuations

latentframe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:00:53 +0000

Article URL: https://eco3min.fr/en/cost-of-capital-zero-rate-era/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369690

Points: 4

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New comment by latentframe in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

latentframe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:34:49 +0000

AI may be the first major technology cycle where access to capital and power and physical infrastructure matters almost as much as the software itself

Demographics may be breaking traditional labor market signals

latentframe — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:40:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/feds-williams-productivity-shifts-hard-spot-real-time-2026-05-28/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343535

Points: 3

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New comment by latentframe in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

latentframe — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:09:28 +0000

What to notice is that this wasn't really a startup idea at first but it was someone noticing that commercial wireless keyboards had solved a problem that the DIY ecosystem had not; a number of successful products seem to be from bringing an existing capability into a community that need it.

AI Is Starting to Hit Power Grid Limits

latentframe — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:42:30 +0000

Article URL: https://nypost.com/2026/05/22/business/data-center-debacle-roiling-midterms-as-ai-may-have-to-pay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48305034

Points: 5

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New comment by latentframe in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

latentframe — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:50:23 +0000

AI infras is starting to run into the same land using and energy also as heavy industries : when the datacenters compete for grid capacity water and industrial land at scale the local governments just stop treating them like just advanced softwares

New comment by latentframe in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

latentframe — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:09:25 +0000

tokenmaxxing is becoming harder to justify could be a change in the labor market => when capital was free the companies optimized aggressively around retention and internal status spending but high rates + slow growth oblige firms to back toward productivity and operating leverage.

Software supply-chain attacks are no longer rare events

latentframe — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:56:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/teampcp-software-supply-chain-attack-spree-github/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263268

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by latentframe in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

latentframe — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:52:29 +0000

A big amount of user loyalty comes from products that feel finished more than always evolving. Early Kindles felt closer to bookshelves than software platforms

AI may be inflationary before it becomes productive

latentframe — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:43:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/23/ai-inflation-productivity-companies

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232771

Points: 3

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The Fed cut rates by 100 bps in late 2024. Mortgage rates rose anyway

latentframe — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:55:51 +0000

Article URL: https://eco3min.fr/en/term-premium-decomposition-1961-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206911

Points: 1

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