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Russia is using drones from the war in Ukraine in Africa

loandbehold — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:01:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260702-unprecedented-images-russia-using-drones-war-ukraine-africa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48764293

Points: 3

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New comment by loandbehold in "Americans express unease over SpaceX's influence on retirement savings"

loandbehold — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:13:41 +0000

"No moat" are you serious? It took SpaceX 20 years to develop reusable rocket launch tech they have and everyone else who is working on it is decade behind. Falcon Heavy per kg cost to LEO is 25 times lower than what SLS can provide. Freaking 25 times!

New comment by loandbehold in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

loandbehold — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:47:00 +0000

Government contract is not a subsidy. It's a payment for a product or service provided to the government. Examples of subsidies are section 8 housing or USDA PLC. SpaceX providing launch services to the government is nothing like that.

New comment by loandbehold in "Leaked OpenAI financials show $38.5B loss and compute burn"

loandbehold — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:41:52 +0000

You don't need to retrain model from scratch to add small of additional knowledge like recent events.

China plans to spend $295B on AI buildout

loandbehold — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:55:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-09/china-prepares-295-billion-plan-to-fund-nationwide-ai-buildout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48482584

Points: 3

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Chinese AI researchers now require government approval for international travel

loandbehold — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:30:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-ai-experts-in-private-firms-now-required-to-secure-approval-before-international-travel-beijing-enforces-policy-to-secure-top-tier-talent-expands-measures-beyond-government

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48467281

Points: 4

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New comment by loandbehold in "AI is slowing down"

loandbehold — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:16:50 +0000

He implies $400 billion in revenue by the end of 2029 is unrealistic when in fact it's very doable if you look at the trajectory of this technology since ChatGPT 4.0 launch. Google and Meta bring in around $500 billion in ad revenue between two of them annually. ChatGPT will easily bring 100s of billions in ad revenue if fully monetized given 1. it has billion weekly active users 2. ChatGPT conversation provides even better context for ad targeting vs search or social media. Enterprise AI revenue is going through the roof already, and with computer use companies will literally be able to fire large percentage of white collar workers and replace them with AI agent without updating their software infra.

New comment by loandbehold in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

loandbehold — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:00:28 +0000

the only "eclipse" in sun-synchronous orbit is when moon is between the satellite and the sun, which is very rare and lasts less than a minute.

New comment by loandbehold in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

loandbehold — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:39:22 +0000

> It still needs power, you’re most likely going to do it with solar if you’re on earth orbit but that isn’t free and you will have periods of no sunlight so a significant amount of batteries will be needed.

SpaceX will be putting them in sun-synchronous orbit, meaning always sunlight.

New comment by loandbehold in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

loandbehold — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:58:11 +0000

Anthropic is paying xAI, not other way around.

New comment by loandbehold in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

loandbehold — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:45:26 +0000

This is pretty much what underlies AI doomer argument of people like EY. Humans will gradually hand over civilization to black box AI they can't understand. As AI becomes more complex and powerful it will be harder and harder to control.

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

loandbehold — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:01:06 +0000

Researches at top AI labs don't consider EY to be a kook even though they may not necessarily agree. EY concepts/terminology appear in Anthropic safety papers. Geoffrey Hinton takes him quite seriously and mentions him in his interviews.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

loandbehold — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:39:59 +0000

Watch WhistlinDiesel cybertruck video.

How Russia Is Luring Africans to Ukraine

loandbehold — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:03:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/world/africa/ukraine-russia-war-african-soldiers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011507

Points: 5

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New comment by loandbehold in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

loandbehold — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:32:12 +0000

You need to separate training and inference usage of GPUs for this analysis.

New comment by loandbehold in "Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life (2013)"

loandbehold — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:48:44 +0000

You can ask same question about any decision that outlasts you. E.g. why write a will for your children?

New comment by loandbehold in "Some things just take time"

loandbehold — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:52:59 +0000

Knowledge is a distilled experience.

Buzzy UCSD Math Readiness Report Failed to Mention Calculator Ban

loandbehold — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:11:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/students/academics/2026/02/26/buzzy-ucsd-math-readiness-report-failed-mention-calculator-ban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47204419

Points: 1

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New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:05:13 +0000

Yes I do in fact use FSD with my children in the car.

New comment by loandbehold in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

loandbehold — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:17:12 +0000

Mercedes system was pretty useless because you could only use it in very limited conditions (specific freeways, only following another car). Nobody wants to pay $200/month to use it for 5% of their driving. Tesla FSD drives for you end-to-end.