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New comment by notfried in "Norway greenlights first full-scale ship tunnel"

notfried — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:58:59 +0000

When an architecture company seemingly uses AI to render mockups, they really need to ensure consistency and accuracy. It's not that difficult nowadays. It was quite confusing trying to understand the differences in design between pictures and to compute why the tunnel seems so short compared to the mountain, until I realized it must have been laziness; not laziness because they are using AI, but laziness to do their job right.

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months

notfried — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/02/uber-caps-employee-ai-spending-after-blowing-through-budget-in-four-months/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48375544

Points: 64

# Comments: 48

New comment by notfried in "I broke AppLovin's mediation cipher protocol"

notfried — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:56:52 +0000

I was surprised to see Apple exposing the device boot time. Not sure why a typical app would need this, and in a world in which iPhones are infrequently rebooted, the combination of this with other fields must indeed be very deterministic.

New comment by notfried in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

notfried — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:27:35 +0000

Why is the author considering Claude Code a "real developer workflow"? Unless you're doing complex tool calling, is CC really resource-heavy?

New comment by notfried in "Starship V3"

notfried — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:44:56 +0000

If AGI were to happen, or if AI became a trillions-of-dollars-generating industry, you wouldn't want to have your data-centers which might be the most valuable thing on Earth be located in a foreign country. All this investment in infrastructure is not purely based on where the industry is now, but predicated by where those who are bullish about it think it will be in 5-10 years.

New comment by notfried in "Artemis II astronauts arrive at launch pad 39B in an astrovan"

notfried — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:23:01 +0000

Here is a December look at the Astrovan II they used today: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/nasa-rewraps-boeing-st...

Video from today: https://x.com/NASAArtemis/status/2039411225205886979

New comment by notfried in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"

notfried — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:37:30 +0000

This is a highly sensational take that is basically fan fiction. From "the era of purposefully frustrating humans is over", to "the added bonus of the collapse of the US economy. Frankly, it’s well deserved." and "everyone in the world is rooting for the Chinese models"; nothing of that is grounded in reality.

The Chinese models are open source because they are not state of the art. Once they catch-up or lead, they will likely close them down by a government mandate. Just like Meta was fine with Llama being open source but once they started to get close to OpenAI/Google/Anthropic, they shifted their language to "maybe we won't keep doing that."

The idea that AI will end the "rent-seeking class" that has effectively existed for thousands of years is... not going to happen! The business model just adjusts. And if AI is going to be an economy-shaping super disruptor, the cloud-hosted models will continue evolving beyond what you could ever run at home under the desk.

New comment by notfried in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

notfried — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:39:55 +0000

I like this. It'd be great to see such a table of the key issues with proposed solutions, to highlight how the waste isn't an insurmountable impossibility to solve. Having said that, federal lobbying by the healthcare industry was $750 million in 2024 [1], and this is the blocker that needs to be addressed first to be able to enact change.

[1] https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/health-syste...

New comment by notfried in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

notfried — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:29:01 +0000

If they are paying them 6-month severances like Block did, this means they are effectively saying 1,600 people for 6-months wouldn't have fixed JIRA's usability and performance, which if they could have done like many have been begging, they'd would probably make more money long-term than this firing would save.

New comment by notfried in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

notfried — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:55:43 +0000

The Neo is incredibly executed by Apple, and one they must have been planning for for years: to be able to create a machine this good at this price. I wouldn't be surprised if it dramatically reshapes the laptop industry.

Spec-wise, this is as good as an M1-M2 Air, which is already an over-powered device for most non-professionals. All the "compromises" they made, like no center stage in the camera, less ports, only one monitor support, "just WiFi 6E", and others, are all non-issues for a typical average consumers.

And the price is the best it could be. At $499 for students, in a year's time when Gen2 is released, you will find a new Gen1 at possibly $399, and a refurbished Gen1 at even less. I don't see why anyone who wants an "entry-level/starter laptop" would buy anything but a Neo. We already are in a world in which average people don't need specific Windows-only apps. Most common apps are either cross-platform or web-based.

Dell, HP and alike are lucky that they're being enamored with datacenter server demand. I expect them to shift-away from the consumer laptop market and focus more on the enterprise in the coming years, which could have negative consequences for their pro-lineups.

New comment by notfried in "Show HN: Unfucked - version all changes (by any tool) - local-first/source avail"

notfried — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:39:01 +0000

I love the website; the design, the video, the NSFW toggle, the simplicity.

I love the idea; definitely something I ran into a few times before and wish I had.

Unfortunately, I am not installing a closed-source daemon with access to the filesystem from an unknown (to me) developer. I will bookmark this and revisit in a few weeks and hope you had published the source. :)

New comment by notfried in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

notfried — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:05:58 +0000

Except that it doesn't need to be consumer to start off. You can build specialized robots that deliver value at a massive scale. Imagine a "Prep Cook" at a restaurant, there are millions of these around the world. If the Optimus can do that job for a price of $1,000/month, that's likely to be more efficient and better quality than a human can do. And there has to be many jobs like this.

New comment by notfried in "Pickle 1 AR Glasses (YC W25) May Be Fraudulent"

notfried — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 01:25:36 +0000

Putting aside whether or not they are a fraud, their design looks so good, unlike Meta's ugly glasses. Which of course, might be because it's the one thing they've spent time on in the past 2 months of dev time, and they may not actually be accounting for any practical manufacturing realities.

New comment by notfried in "Is Health Insurance Even Worth It Anymore?"

notfried — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:16:22 +0000

The article mentions early a "cancer diagnosis" but puts that aside and moves on, when this is pretty much the crux of the issue. Prostate and Breast cancers are a 1 in 8 chance. The risk of no insurance at 25 is very different than 50, and than 75. And everyone at all ages is paying for those expensive treatments.

The system is broken, but going without insurance is you basically toying with the odds of life.

New comment by notfried in "Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20"

notfried — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:26:13 +0000

If CUDA isn't that strong of a moat/tie-in and Chinese tech companies can seemingly reasonably migrate to these chips, why hasn't AMD been able to compete more aggressively with nVidia on a US/global scale when they had a much longer head start?

New comment by notfried in "Win10 users looking for a new OS? Apple $599 MacBook can't come at a better time"

notfried — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:32:04 +0000

A new M4 Air is now $799 at Amazon, and a new M1 Air is $599 at Walmart. So it's not like $999 is really the starting price if you spent a minute to search outside of Apple's Online Store.

Iconic US film company Kodak warns it may go out of business

notfried — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:22:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/12/kodak-may-go-out-of-business-stock-down/85626375007/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44894584

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by notfried in "Apple's Liquid Glass: When Aesthetics Beat Function"

notfried — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:01:02 +0000

This rounded corner change feels very off. Since Apple has that same radius across all its products (software and hardware), it could be signaling a broader upcoming shift in their hardware, perhaps driven by industrial design needs for future AR/VR/MR glasses.

New comment by notfried in "Ask HN: How much of OpenAI code is written by AI?"

notfried — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:09:27 +0000

Not OpenAI, but Anthropic CPO Mike Krieger said in response to a question of how much of Claude Code is written by Claude Code: "At this point, I would be shocked if it wasn't 95% plus. I'd have to ask Boris and the other tech leads on there."

[0] https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/anthropics-cpo-heres-what...

New comment by notfried in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

notfried — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:32:59 +0000

I don't really think Meta ever had a vision beyond "Facebook is a social network to connect people". Since then, their strategy has primarily been driven by their fear of being left behind, or of losing the next platform war. Instagram, Whatsapp, Threads, VR, AR, and now AI, they all weren't driven by a vision as much as it was their fear of someone else opening a door to a new market that renders them obsolete. They are good at executing and capturing the first wins, but not at innovating, redefining a market, or pushing the frontier forward; which is why they eventually get stuck, lose direction, and fall behind (Tiktok, Apple Vision Pro, AI).