Hacker News: mattas

New comment by mattas in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

mattas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:54:08 +0000

So does this mean that Anthropic won't need to pay SpaceX for compute?

SpaceX market cap tops $2T

mattas — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:26:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/12/spacex-stock-jumps-2-trillion.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509080

Points: 4

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New comment by mattas in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

mattas — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:10:55 +0000

Also, make sure your wall of text prompts Claude to be extra verbose to really burn through that quota of theirs.

New comment by mattas in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

mattas — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:39:06 +0000

Data centers at the bottom of the ocean make more sense than data centers in space.

New comment by mattas in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

mattas — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:19:58 +0000

So it's Coreweave?

New comment by mattas in "Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump"

mattas — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:33:41 +0000

I had no idea there was an _application_ you could fill out for a pardon.

New comment by mattas in "Three of our worst VC stories"

mattas — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:56:29 +0000

VCs are the shotgun cartridge and startups are the shot.

New comment by mattas in "My Students Can't Read"

mattas — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:59:55 +0000

> The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.

Multiple times in my career in tech, I've had people complain that a 2-page write-up is too long. These are well compensated people that went to top universities. I can't imagine what they would do if faced with a 20-page article.

New comment by mattas in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

mattas — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:16:06 +0000

In theory, let's say that a data center was proposed that:

1. got no tax breaks

2. self-generated electricity with greenest of green generation

3. did not pollute water supplies

4. made electricity prices go down somehow

5. (can't figure out a theoretical version where there are lots of jobs, sorry)

6. was extremely quiet

Would people still be mad about them?

I'm trying to figure out if the bad reasons are the _actual_ reason people are generally against data centers. Or if it's really more about "AI bad."

We Are Living in Pinocchio's World

mattas — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:19:38 +0000

Article URL: https://om.co/2026/05/25/we-are-living-in-pinocchios-world/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362108

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

Nearly one-third of automotive loan terms are longer than six years

mattas — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260528635242/en/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48352273

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by mattas in "EV Stupidity Checklist"

mattas — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:07:46 +0000

> No experienced driver during normal driving has ever had to spend even a moment searching for the turn signal stalk to activate it, but this happens all too often when using turn-signal buttons on a steering wheel

Is there really an EV that replaced the turn signal stalk with steering wheel buttons? You may as well just remove the turn signal entirely at that point.