Hacker News: pcurve

New comment by pcurve in "Eli Lilly CEO pushes back on Dario Amodei's medical claims"

pcurve — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 14:30:46 +0000

reminds me of Karp interviews, but less militant.

New comment by pcurve in "Genie 4"

pcurve — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 19:12:52 +0000

yes. I feel Google's video physics has always been bad. slow, aritifical, unnatural.

New comment by pcurve in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

pcurve — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:38:14 +0000

Yep

https://share.google/Yxzt1yGJb5evSVshj

Kind of miss these

New comment by pcurve in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

pcurve — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:09:27 +0000

I remember that period. System 7,8,8.6 were all so fragile compared to Windows. No progressive crashes... just sudden lockups.

New comment by pcurve in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

pcurve — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:41:30 +0000

They fixed it because they were publicly shamed.

New comment by pcurve in "iPhone Duo"

pcurve — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:05:37 +0000

me too, but I guess they feel they cannot afford any missteps.

I still enjoy Marc Benioff presentations. He's very engaging to watch, though not nearly as good as Jobs in terms of storytelling. I feel Jobs honed the craft more though.

New comment by pcurve in "GPT-6 Astra"

pcurve — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:25:34 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QNsdr-Qx_I

New comment by pcurve in "Analyzing data from Silicon Valley ventures and founders prosecuted for fraud"

pcurve — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:02:10 +0000

I'm guessing investors understand that there's high probability of the numbers being 'optimistic'.

New comment by pcurve in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

pcurve — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:20:53 +0000

so, it looks like all the AI features run locally (via DaVinci AI Neural Engine)?

New comment by pcurve in "MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students"

pcurve — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:56:33 +0000

your friend should make a blog post about that. People like that should be exposed.

New comment by pcurve in "Googlebook"

pcurve — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:08:52 +0000

It could just be me, but the usecases they're trying to solve for always seem... out of touch from reality.

Either they live in their own bubbles where their lives revolve around constant shopping, traveling, throwing parties, and doing creative work...

Or they're not bothering to do basic observational research around how normal people live.

New comment by pcurve in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

pcurve — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:45:54 +0000

The music video is great too... the slow build up of the song towards the 3:10 minute mark, with him running towards you. Love it. So thankful I was old enough to be around to watch it on MTV.

New comment by pcurve in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

pcurve — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:16:29 +0000

love that distinction.

New comment by pcurve in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

pcurve — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:15:17 +0000

current 3/4 series had near perfect interior until 2023 interior update.

New comment by pcurve in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

pcurve — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:40:20 +0000

Yup. You can actually buy several European airlines with that kind of money.

For example, you can buy KLM Air france for less than $3B.

It is a profitable business that does $30B in sales and $1B in profit. (and has been profitable since for the past 4-5 years)

New comment by pcurve in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

pcurve — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:17:47 +0000

yeah the more people who use it means less competitive edge you have. Benefits get devalued. And you're back to square one.

New comment by pcurve in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

pcurve — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:51:34 +0000

100% agree. As someone who used both Mac and PC for 30+ years, and still use both, Mac OS (and iOS) aren't very intuitive. Lots of hidden functions. The way they organize settings is tough to find. It's always a struggle.

New comment by pcurve in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

pcurve — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:57:15 +0000

they're competing against themselves to essentially not screw up.

New comment by pcurve in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

pcurve — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:08:20 +0000

And “one” like most Fortune 500 companies.

New comment by pcurve in "From Braun T3 to Apple's iPod"

pcurve — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:14:48 +0000

Dieter Rams. Still alive and well. God bless him.