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New comment by pavlov in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

pavlov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:22:41 +0000

Thank you, appreciate the response. It’s a great part of the HN community that there’s almost always someone around with the first-hand experience and facts.

Best of luck with whatever you do next!

New comment by pavlov in "AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed"

pavlov — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:45:51 +0000

This is the claim in the repo readme that presumably unlocked the VC investment:

“TensorZero is used by companies ranging from frontier AI startups to the Fortune 10 and fuels ~1% of global LLM API spend today.”

One percent seems like a lot. Anyone on HN use this?

New comment by pavlov in "A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial"

pavlov — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:33:41 +0000

Illiberal authoritarian monarchy is Thiel’s favorite form of government, so I’m not sure what his problem is with being outed while in Saudi Arabia.

New comment by pavlov in "Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95"

pavlov — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:06:39 +0000

64MB RAM on the Nokia N95.

New comment by pavlov in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

pavlov — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:05:44 +0000

Converting the production database to Prolog to ship LOC.

New comment by pavlov in "European sentiments towards the US hit an all-time low"

pavlov — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:01:27 +0000

So Orbán is not far-right, but somehow American far-right politicians and influencers like J.D. Vance and Tucker Carlson loved him as a shining example of the kind of nationalist illiberal state they want to create. Hmm.

New comment by pavlov in "Jef Raskin, the Visionary Behind the Mac (2013)"

pavlov — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:50:41 +0000

The date in the title should be 2005, not 2013.

At the end of the article it reads:

> This article was first published on 2005.01.19.

It’s also evidenced by the reference to the “new iMac G5.”

New comment by pavlov in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit in Paris"

pavlov — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:54:06 +0000

When the humans have a track record of corruption, it might make sense for a company to seek parallel opinions from a LLM so they can at least flag suspicious human decisions.

Assuming BNP Paribas leadership wants to stop the corruption of course.

Video – thirty years of breaking the web's assumptions

pavlov — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:18:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.talking.video/posts/video-web-history-intro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315628

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by pavlov in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

pavlov — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:56:23 +0000

I remember seeing expensive multi-page ads for Claude in the New Yorker over a year ago.

Their marketing has been working the high end of the “regular people” market for a good while.

New comment by pavlov in "Ferrari Luce"

pavlov — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:13:58 +0000

The brand name counts for a lot in this market.

Lamborghini Urus sells well even though it’s inferior on every metric to cars a fraction of its price.

Tesla lost its premium brand cachet and consequently the Model S/X market.

Ferrari presumably has some data that there are buyers for a $500k scifi sports car with their logo on it.

New comment by pavlov in "Ferrari Luce"

pavlov — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:26:46 +0000

Tesla Model S is discontinued.

Whatever its merits, there wasn’t a market for it.

New comment by pavlov in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

pavlov — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:50:24 +0000

The content is good, but this LLM writing style gets tiresome. Everything is a revelation:

>“I bought it for Chrome. It's running a model that didn't exist when I bought it.”

Well duh, personal computers run new software. That’s literally the whole point. The Apple II didn’t sell on the strength of the preinstalled apps.

New comment by pavlov in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

pavlov — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:51:59 +0000

If you’re suffering from obesity, is it helpful to imagine an alien somehow beaming calories into your stomach?

New comment by pavlov in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

pavlov — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:49:30 +0000

Downvoted for clickbait (posting a link instead of explaining the argument).

New comment by pavlov in "SpaceX S-1"

pavlov — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:09:11 +0000

The 1713 Treaty of Utrecht granted the South Sea Company a monopoly for British trading with the Spanish South America and Pacific.

Exciting! Everybody knew there's enormous wealth in those lands. Spaniards had brought over tons of gold and silver to Europe. The famous El Dorado remained undiscovered.

So it wasn't difficult for the directors and insiders of the South Sea Company to capture the British public's imagination. Even Sir Isaac Newton invested the equivalent of millions of pounds today in the venture.

Turns out the actual monopoly was extremely limited because the Spaniards didn't want to trade with Britain. The bubble burst by 1720 and ruined thousands of people, from aristocrats to small bourgeois tradesmen.

Anyway, surely that has nothing to do with the multitrillions of wealth that await on the Moon and Mars.

New comment by pavlov in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

pavlov — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:19:39 +0000

Elementary school children would make ashtrays as gifts for Father's Day.

If dad didn't smoke, surely he had guests who did.

New comment by pavlov in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

pavlov — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:02:28 +0000

Calling him a writer is somewhat underselling his talent. Jodorowsky was a world-class clown and mime (yes, really) before becoming an award-winning filmmaker, visual artist, and comic book writer.

New comment by pavlov in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

pavlov — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:50:33 +0000

Jolla still exists:

https://jolla.com/

They develop Sailfish, a non-Google Linux-based mobile OS that can apparently run Android apps decently in a sandbox.

New comment by pavlov in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

pavlov — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:35:59 +0000

The conclusion of the article is interesting:

> 'The unit of analysis for "why is X poor" may be the political coalition, not the country.'

So maybe the real question here is not about the absolute poverty, but the derivative: "Why hasn't Malawi seen meaningful growth for 30 years?" — And the answer could be surprisingly related to first-world countries like Finland that also have experienced decades of stunted growth.

Like Malawi, Finland has functional and stable multiparty politics. Like Malawi, Finland's politicians have spent decades locally optimizing for minor benefits towards their preferred flavor of the median voter (right wing cuts taxes a bit, left wing improves benefits a bit, nobody offers anything transformative).

Too much stability at the wrong time might be a slow curse.