Hacker News: mapleoin

Online forum Reddit will join the S&P 500 index

mapleoin — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/reddit-sp-500-wall-street-index-funds-2decd233724da9249e86f6ccab8a86be

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49328341

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

Anthropic reportedly plans a $2T IPO in October

mapleoin — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:21:44 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/08/13/anthropic-ipo-2-trillion-october-largest-ever-spacex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49284856

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by mapleoin in "We Got Better at Keeping You Alive. Not at Keeping You Healthy"

mapleoin — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:31:58 +0000

what's the tl;dw?

New comment by mapleoin in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

mapleoin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:54:50 +0000

I think the most interesting point was that there are no (or very few) rules specific to each prize and that's it's mostly up to the idiosyncrasies of the unique small group of people who are part of the panel. So the prestige of a specific book prize is really superstition. It makes sense rationally, outside of having the same group of people judge the same book prize every year (and then they'd have to live forever?) there's no real way to keep consistent. And their tastes would I assume change from year to year. The other way would be to have a sort of constitution or set of rules, but that would be interpreted differently by each group.

I wonder if we'll have AI-judged book prizes in order to keep them more "value-free", you could have a group of authors write down a prompt file and then the AI could read hundreds of books in a day. But then there would be the implicit biases of the AI and I suppose most high-brow authors and readers would despise those particular biases.

New comment by mapleoin in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

mapleoin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:31:13 +0000

> Its more insidious than smoking though because it has arguably positive benefits.

So does smoking, depending on who you listen to: relaxation, pleasure, socialising, "feeling free" etc.

But this is just to emphasise your point that we change our thinking as a society on the importance of both harms and benefits.

Google's exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloat

mapleoin — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:51:52 +0000

Article URL: https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to-climate-wrecking-digital-bloat/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815620

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by mapleoin in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

mapleoin — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:52:09 +0000

Sorry, how is obesity similar to racial mixing?

New comment by mapleoin in "L'Affaire Siloxane"

mapleoin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:57:40 +0000

How do you pronounce that? Kilo-euro or K-euro?

What if the AI boom goes into reverse?

mapleoin — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-open-interest/what-if-ai-boom-goes-into-reverse-2026-05-29/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487716

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by mapleoin in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

mapleoin — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:17:22 +0000

Unsurprisingly, it was all fluff.

New comment by mapleoin in "Human Accelerated Region 1"

mapleoin — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:10:08 +0000

Or significant architectural changes without scaling up.

New comment by mapleoin in "Waymo Safety Impact"

mapleoin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:24:01 +0000

So how long until this is enshittified and how will it go? Will people ask for cars to be faster so they will take riskier decisions? Will a cheaper company with a worse training model capture the most market share? Pilot products are usually great, but that rarely lasts into their profitable period.

New comment by mapleoin in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

mapleoin — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:14:19 +0000

Arenko (energy transition/batteries and renewables) | London, UK | 2x/week in office

We work on industrial/grid-scale batteries and other renewable generation: monitoring, managing and trading them on multiple energy markets. Batteries like these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_energy_storage_system Everyone starting from the C-suite is passionate about addressing climate change and transitioning to renewable energy!

We're a small team of 7 backend engineers atm (other teams have Ops, FE and DS roles). We have paying customers and have been around for 10 years. Our current goal is to make the platform more scalable to deal with the customer growth and move to new markets. The biggest challenge is understanding how the various energy markets and energy storage in general work and then translating that to reliable working software.

We're currently looking for a few Senior Backend Engineers (Go), a Senior Data Engineer and a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. Our office is in London Blackfriars and most engineers come in about 2 days a week, but this is flexible.

Feel free to message me with any questions or apply directly:

https://arenko.bamboohr.com/careers?source=hn

https://arenko.group/careers/

New comment by mapleoin in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

mapleoin — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:33:44 +0000

Arenko (energy transition/batteries and renewables) | London, UK | 2x/week in office

We're currently looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (Go). Our office is in London Blackfriars and most engineers come in about 2 days a week, but this is flexible.

Feel free to message me with any questions or apply directly:

https://arenko.bamboohr.com/careers?source=hn

https://arenko.group/careers/

UK Parliament e-petition Debate: Do not introduce Digital ID cards

mapleoin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:25:01 +0000

Article URL: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025-12-08/debates/9E01F17C-557A-4D02-8A93-B573721B8B20/a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46216535

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by mapleoin in "Solution to US debt crisis is severe austerity triggered by a fiscal calamity"

mapleoin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:07:24 +0000

> can mostly likely be managed with the same level of spending restraints we saw in response to that.

so... austerity? Like the article suggests?

New comment by mapleoin in "Hollywood's vision of ancient Rome is all wrong, according to Mary Beard"

mapleoin — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 14:51:28 +0000

original link: https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/why-your-vision-of-ancie...

The Obsolete Computer

mapleoin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:43:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.backmarket.co.uk/en-gb/e/obsolete-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45753470

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Test State, Not Interactions

mapleoin — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 08:32:46 +0000

Article URL: https://rednafi.com/go/test-state-not-interactions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45679570

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mapleoin in "Edge AI for Beginners"

mapleoin — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 10:41:41 +0000

This looks like AI slop to me. The first two modules repeat the benefits of Edge AI five times. The "Practical Implementation Guide" https://github.com/microsoft/edgeai-for-beginners/blob/main/... ends with a Pre-course checklist. The whole article is just mini-examples without enough context to understand anything.