Hacker News: mgiannopoulos

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

mgiannopoulos — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:33:25 +0000

10 million FSD subscriptions is a really big number to achieve.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla didn't remove Robotaxi safety monitor – just moved them to a trailing car"

mgiannopoulos — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:31:03 +0000

Waymo had chase cars as well at the beginning. This isn’t something strange. They are not there to tele-operate the car.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Musk looks past Tesla sales slump, says 80% of value will come from Optimus"

mgiannopoulos — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 08:36:03 +0000

SpaceX was completely different and unproven. Now it launches 3 times per week. Once you do that, people with money tend to believe in your abilities.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla Q2 2025 Update [pdf]"

mgiannopoulos — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:43:10 +0000

China sales are recovering actually https://www.shop4tesla.com/en/blogs/news/tesla-china-verkaeu...

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla Q2 2025 Update [pdf]"

mgiannopoulos — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 07:10:49 +0000

Do you mean Q4? Q3 will probably have good numbers due to people rushing to take advantage of the EV credit.

Orb Mini: accessible human verification

mgiannopoulos — Sun, 11 May 2025 16:27:25 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/worldcoin/status/1921232760510840879

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43954852

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Pope Francis has died"

mgiannopoulos — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:44:47 +0000

So never speak against brutal aggressors who commit war crimes? That seems to be antithetical to Christian values.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules"

mgiannopoulos — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 19:13:38 +0000

OpenAI didn’t choose anything. This style simply happened to go viral. The model can do all sorts of stuff.

Meta plans investments into AI-driven humanoid robots

mgiannopoulos — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:16:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/meta-plans-investments-into-ai-driven-humanoid-robots-memo-shows-2025-02-14/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43057948

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "EU to mobilize 200B Euros to invest in AI"

mgiannopoulos — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 12:29:46 +0000

It will come from others. 50 Billion is a deal made with the Saudis. Another 20 from a Canadian fund.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "XAI: Our Series C of $6B to accelerate our progress"

mgiannopoulos — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 20:57:01 +0000

xAI is a separate company from X/Twitter, founded by Musk. xAI licenses data from X/Twitter for training. It’s not clear the exact financial deals between the two companies.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Italy bans Airbnb self-check-ins"

mgiannopoulos — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:21:36 +0000

The “think of the children” type of excuses is always helpful. Strange to use a terrorism excuse though since there is already negative sentiment about “too many AirBnB apartments in our city”

Italy bans Airbnb self-check-ins

mgiannopoulos — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:26:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/travel/italy-bans-airbnb-self-check-ins/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312287

Points: 14

# Comments: 4

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Debanking of tech startup founders – Marc Andreessen interview"

mgiannopoulos — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 11:36:47 +0000

Andreessen is “borderline insane” now?

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) V13 Starts Initial Rollout"

mgiannopoulos — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 17:45:03 +0000

All statements from Tesla engineers on Twitter is that they continue to work on both HW3 and HW4 for v13. Just because HW3 has smaller power it doesn’t mean that there is no future for it. A smaller model could still work it with good performance. We have similar advances from other AI companies where a newer model works better on less hardware

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) V13 Starts Initial Rollout"

mgiannopoulos — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 13:59:55 +0000

It’s not possible to release two versions at the same time without unnecessarily delaying the AI4 version.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla gives update on self-driving roadmap, v13 slips, more promises"

mgiannopoulos — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:45:43 +0000

Some context: This article is a month old, v13 has started shipping to customers yesterday.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla is looking to hire a team to remotely control its 'self-driving' robotaxis"

mgiannopoulos — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 21:03:49 +0000

The didn’t “sell their cars with FSD”. FSD was always an optional software package, which was clearly mentioned as not available at the time. The grand majority of HW3 owners have not purchased FSD.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Tesla is looking to hire a team to remotely control its 'self-driving' robotaxis"

mgiannopoulos — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:08:51 +0000

The label on the Tesla site in the past has always been “FSD capable”. For years the FSD software was only available to a very small set of beta testers even if you had paid for it. People still have their money knowing they were not getting something at that monent. Not sure why we pretend they were fooled somehow.

New comment by mgiannopoulos in "Elon Musk's XAI in Talks to Raise Funding Valuing It at $40B"

mgiannopoulos — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:52:03 +0000

Tesla does AI in the physical world. Grok is an LLM. Not the same stuff. Tesla continues to work heavily in AI with FSD and Optimus.