Hacker News: nelox

New comment by nelox in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

nelox — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:43:00 +0000

> this thing must be swimming in printer ink or something...

Gold

New comment by nelox in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

nelox — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:19:14 +0000

I want a V12 or V16, thank you very much.

New comment by nelox in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

nelox — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:52:37 +0000

We’ve successfully outsourced pollution too.

New comment by nelox in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

nelox — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:56:46 +0000

The peak of cascading effects from errant dependencies has yet to come

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

nelox — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:59:46 +0000

Home schooling will boom as a result

New comment by nelox in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

nelox — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:25:38 +0000

When should children be given a smartphone?

The answer is whenever you think your child is ready to view porn.

New comment by nelox in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

nelox — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:07:07 +0000

At some point it will be Gmail talking to itself.

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

nelox — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:56:33 +0000

His experience at PayPal during the dot-com period gives him direct knowledge of how speculation can lead to major losses. This background encourages careful analysis of current conditions rather than automatic acceptance that all is well.

A point frequently overlooked is that professionals in his position have strong personal reasons to be accurate. Incorrectly concluding there is no risk can damage their investments and reputation more severely than acknowledging potential problems. His assessment rests on specific differences from earlier periods, such as major companies generating profits and consistent demand for critical hardware.

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

nelox — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:35:44 +0000

Listen to the author of “A Brief History of Financial Bubbles” argue why it probably isn’t a bubble:

https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/260347/s/233172.rss

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/conversations-with-col...

https://open.spotify.com/show/0Cj2lIpGxkrw1RFVIPTa6a?si=f41c...

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

nelox — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:33:12 +0000

What a stupid proposition. The capitalisation has already flowed to theses companies through private means.

New comment by nelox in "What appear to be biochemical processes may be a natural feature of geology"

nelox — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:31:18 +0000

The climate change deniers are gonna love this. CO2 from soil.

New comment by nelox in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

nelox — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:01:44 +0000

It is not too far fetched to see NVIDIA acquiring Microsoft for the vertically integrated advantages Apple enjoys.

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New comment by nelox in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

nelox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:27:34 +0000

Look at the P/E ratio Amazon has had for years and come back with a better argument.

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New comment by nelox in "The Genius of the Barn Owl's Feathers"

nelox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:33:34 +0000

MIT should know better that Natural Selection ≠ Genius

New comment by nelox in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

nelox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:30:09 +0000

Arguably, Google has all your info anyway.

New comment by nelox in "ChatGPT for Google Sheets exfiltrates workbooks"

nelox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:26:57 +0000

They’ll all be offering to run from the cloud with the next 3-4 months.

New comment by nelox in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

nelox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:55:43 +0000

I'm going on vacation. I have a life critical device I depend on for said life. What would happen if said device failed? Like many of the other comments, surely a diabetic would be familiar with the risks? Apparently not.

New comment by nelox in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

nelox — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:49:18 +0000

AI is expensive and ad revenue alone won't cover it.

New comment by nelox in "I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph"

nelox — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:41:15 +0000

With the advent of AI, I’d expect these resources to become a goldmine within about 20 years. Libraries will become hives of activity as dens of nostalgia.

New comment by nelox in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

nelox — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:56:03 +0000

China says thank you.