Hacker News: maxcan

New comment by maxcan in "Patrick Stewart has died"

maxcan — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:56:57 +0000

One thing that doesn't get enough attention - when COVID lockdowns started, he just made reels reading Shakespeare's sonnets. It was such a lovely break from everything else on social media. Really loved those.

New comment by maxcan in "Patrick Stewart has died"

maxcan — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:51:54 +0000

What are the standards for a black stripe on HN?

He wasn't an engineer or scientist but I'd wager a majority of the readership of HN, at least those over 35 or so, grew up inspired by Capt. Jean-Luc Picard.

New comment by maxcan in "Polishing Cloth Updated"

maxcan — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:09:20 +0000

I'm thinking I should upgrade to a Mac Studio. The IIe really struggles to run any LLMs locally.

New comment by maxcan in "Polishing Cloth Updated"

maxcan — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:52:36 +0000

I have a Wallstreet Powerbook G3 and an Apple IIe. I ordered the updated cloth and will report back on compatibility issues with those old machines that aren't on the list or workarounds necessary to get the cloth to function.

New comment by maxcan in "SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock"

maxcan — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:57:47 +0000

true, but the other side of that trade is almost always an options market maker who will hedge their delta by trading the underlying stock. so, yes, buying a call doesn't directly represent share ownership, but it almost always results in a commensurate share purchase. not 1:1, but reflecting the delta of the option.

Antares SMR goes zero power critical

maxcan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:09:00 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/AntaresNuclear/status/2062668414813126851

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413557

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by maxcan in "Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving"

maxcan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:18:56 +0000

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/11/tesla-fatality-rates/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISeeCars.com#Partnerships

https://x.com/larsmoravy/status/1860100416819855492

Looking for more. tl;dr is that NHTSA publishes accident rates but not mileage. ISeeCars has access to legacy auto mileage from dealership data but guessed at mileage for Tesla's in the period in question. Their methodology was not released and was a fraction of the total mileage that Tesla recorded over that period.

I do agree that Tesla could do a much better job with data transparency. But the claims of the ISC report are pretty difficult to reconcile with the crash test ratings they've gotten from many regulators across the world.

New comment by maxcan in "Tesla concealed fatal accidents to continue testing autonomous driving"

maxcan — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:51:35 +0000

that study was pretty thoroughly debunked. Also, I believe it was put out by a lobbying group representing auto dealerships who see the Tesla DTC model as a mortal threat. There is a lot of legitimate criticism to be directed towards Tesla but the ISeeCars study "aint it".

New comment by maxcan in "Suddenly Everyone Is Scared to Dance at Concerts and Clubs"

maxcan — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:20:50 +0000

This feels like a complete BS story. Been to a bunch of festivals and concerts in the last few years and while cell phones have kind of ruined it, its because people are so caught up in filming terrible video clips of the stage they'll never watch instead of being present in the moment.

New comment by maxcan in "GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over"

maxcan — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:25:51 +0000

I did. I really wanted to like it. I think it broke due to something I was doing with fragments or splitting up code in my monorepo. I may give it a shot again, from first principles it is a better approach.

New comment by maxcan in "GraphQL: The enterprise honeymoon is over"

maxcan — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 21:57:29 +0000

Can you elaborate? I've used URQL and Apollo with graphql code gen for type safety and am a big fan.

What about relay is so compelling for you? I'm not disagreeing, just genuinely curious since I've never really used it.

New comment by maxcan in "Inflatable Space Stations"

maxcan — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:14:05 +0000

When its such for my personal edification and idle wonderings, usually the former. If its something that is any way critical to a meaningful decision or something I'm going to publicly share, its the latter.

New comment by maxcan in "Inflatable Space Stations"

maxcan — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:21:30 +0000

I never understand why the rotating station concepts seem to all have rigid tethers, either in the form of a central boom or a rigid circular structure. It would seem like you could get a much larger diameter, so less rotational velocity and more comfort, by attaching rigid, or inflatable in this case, structures with a tether. Compressive loads are non existent, you just need to resist tensile loads.

Maybe I'll go ask the AI.

New comment by maxcan in "American Airlines flying empty Airbus A321neo across the Atlantic 20 times"

maxcan — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:31:33 +0000

There are quite a few specific procedures unique to crossing the North Atlantic. Part of it has to do with the absence of radar and VHF comms requiring HF or satellite communications which pilots will otherwise never use. I'm sure Pacific crossings have their own peculiarities but I'm less familiar.

New comment by maxcan in "Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck?"

maxcan — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:30:08 +0000

In addition to all the other evidence pointing to this being a fake, Tesla is VERY clear that they don't have dealers.

New comment by maxcan in "Beyond Text: On-Demand UI Generation for Better Conversational Experiences"

maxcan — Fri, 16 May 2025 11:42:34 +0000

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New comment by maxcan in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

maxcan — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 14:47:22 +0000

We do. And I believe that private is taxed more than commercial. Most of the FAA's funding comes from this.

New comment by maxcan in "Shine with Gleam"

maxcan — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 12:16:36 +0000

Are they killing unwanted minorities and political dissidents on an industrial scale? No, they aren’t. Ergo, they aren’t N*is. Labeling them as such is unfair to them and an insult to the memory of those killed by the actual kind.

There can be widespread bigotry that falls far far short of N*ism. Words and precision matter.

New comment by maxcan in "Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it"

maxcan — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 16:50:25 +0000

infinity times better, obviously.

New comment by maxcan in "Boeing Starliner could brick ISS docking port if crew abandons it"

maxcan — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 14:20:26 +0000

nope.. its symmetrical about a bunch of axes. at most they'd need a 60 degree rotation, not 180 like USB-A. So this standard is precisely 3x better than USB-A