Hacker News: lossolo

New comment by lossolo in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"

lossolo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:30:29 +0000

Do we have any estimates on how much the price might increase? I was waiting for the MacBook Pro with the M6 Max and 128 GB of RAM, especially since there are rumors that it will come with a design refresh

New comment by lossolo in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

lossolo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:57:47 +0000

When I was in China the only VPN that worked using China mobile and other local ISPs was Lets VPN, they route through HK.

New comment by lossolo in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

lossolo — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:19:46 +0000

If you exclude dividend paying stocks, then the entire stock market starts to look like a giant pyramid scheme casino.

New comment by lossolo in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

lossolo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:57:14 +0000

Most SOTA humanoid robots use transformers, which are also at the core of LLMs. They also use NVIDIA GPUs for simulation training.

New comment by lossolo in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

lossolo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:39:43 +0000

It doesn't for me. I use Fable to make plans, then give them to GPT 5.5 to review, and it always finds flaws and edge cases that Fable misses (some are really critical). It was the same with Opus 4.8. I'll admit it finds a bit fewer issues now, but Fable feels more like an incremental improvement than a major generation ahead.

New comment by lossolo in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

lossolo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:36:58 +0000

Seems like free speech didn't help Americans avoid becoming economic slaves.

New comment by lossolo in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

lossolo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:13:20 +0000

Probably. This is an 8-12 trillion-parameter model, which is why it costs so much, that is also a major reason, besides RL and synthetic data, why it suddenly gained these new capabilities. They claim it was not fine-tuned or trained specifically for cybersecurity, but is instead a general purpose model.

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

lossolo — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:18:47 +0000

It would crash if not for massive public debt that went mostly into capital markets and huge inflation.

New comment by lossolo in "Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive"

lossolo — Mon, 25 May 2026 22:25:10 +0000

It looks like a budget car, not an exotic supercar.

New comment by lossolo in "Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors"

lossolo — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:14:17 +0000

> now the EU, instead of making it easy for companies to innovate, spends billion on trying to catch up to the US. not even catching up. getting to where the US clouds are today.

What's your alternative? The US has behemoths with trillions of dollars in market cap, more than GDPs of most countries in EU. What kind of innovation in context of cloud do you think would allow anyone to compete with them? Who would risk their own money and pour billions into challenging them?

New comment by lossolo in "Starship V3"

lossolo — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:11:58 +0000

From the links you shared, it seems they are first trying to determine whether it's economically feasible at all.

New comment by lossolo in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

lossolo — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:38:34 +0000

No, they wouldn't, and they don't have it because they have chosen not to. There is something called an escalation ladder: you do not threaten to leave or kill your partner just because she spilled milk on your floor. That is the same reason Russia did not use nukes, and why other nuclear armed countries involved in conflicts have also avoided using them. The same logic applies here. Another example is that the US could bomb the Kharg island containing Iran's oil infrastructure, but that would be a major escalation. Iran would then have no reason to show restraint and could bomb the oil infrastructure of the Gulf states, creating a worldwide crisis.

New comment by lossolo in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

lossolo — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:22:55 +0000

xAI (part of SpaceX) using just 11 percent of GPUs[1]

1. https://wccftech.com/xai-using-just-11-percent-gpus-while-me...

New comment by lossolo in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

lossolo — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:46:32 +0000

Well, there are multiple token proposals processed in parallel, from which only one is picked, seems like branching to me. The only difference is that in case of CPU there is always only one possible branch that is correct.

xAI Is Reportedly Using Just 11% of Its 550k Nvidia GPUs

lossolo — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:28:57 +0000

Article URL: https://wccftech.com/xai-using-just-11-percent-gpus-while-meta-google-squeeze-out-much-more/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48001701

Points: 27

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New comment by lossolo in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

lossolo — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:58:12 +0000

This. It's bypassed, not cracked. All the games released need HVB to work. They use legit Denuvo licenses from other systems.

New comment by lossolo in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

lossolo — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:35:15 +0000

Cigarette Smoking Man! I was a kid when I first watched the show, and he seemed so mysterious and fascinating to me from the moment he appeared.

New comment by lossolo in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

lossolo — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:51:18 +0000

I think you're conflating "rational" with "moral". The question was about rationality, and from their POV (given the goal of keeping the regime going) everything was rational.

New comment by lossolo in "After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber"

lossolo — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:32:43 +0000

And government contracts.

New comment by lossolo in "BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000km range, 5-min charging, 684hp"

lossolo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:37:58 +0000

This doesn't change anything. Tesla is not leading in anything anymore.

I was in China a few weeks ago, and in some cities you can already get the equivalent of Waymo. There are also dozens of huge companies working on self driving there, with very friendly laws that make it easier to get training data and test things.

There are hundreds of companies working on robots as well, and many of them are already ahead when it comes to productionizing them.

Tesla entered a new market around a decade ago, back when they had little to no competition. For years, they were ahead of everyone. But now, everything they do has competition, and in most features/products that competition is ahead of them.

Their valuation doesn't make any sense.