Hacker News: pdq

New comment by pdq in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

pdq — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:48:52 +0000

High load in the day during sunlight is mostly true for summer heat, but in the winter you have cold evenings which requires base load or storage, combined with solar angle/efficiency being worse in the winter.

New comment by pdq in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

pdq — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:55:16 +0000

Why is this comment upvoted?

It is most likely AI generated with a nice "Raised $50B" hallucination and filled with cliches ("thrown down the gauntlet", "mountain you don’t climb just once", "not for the faint of heart").

New comment by pdq in "Major rule about cooking meat turns out to be wrong"

pdq — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 23:03:10 +0000

Yes. Kenji Lopez has done this experiment using sous vide cooking.

See the chart halfway down here:

https://blog.thermoworks.com/coming-heat-effects-muscle-fibe...

New comment by pdq in "Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers"

pdq — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 15:19:40 +0000

You can just make an IsAdmin() public function to expose it.

New comment by pdq in "Microsoft's 1986 IPO"

pdq — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:16:23 +0000

A16Z had an article on the lack of IPOs:

https://a16z.com/where-have-all-the-ipos-gone/

Regulatory compliance like Sarbanes Oxley is another huge factor. And VC's having large capital pools make it easy for companies to stay private vastly longer without needing to raise funding from the public.

It's very unfortunate for the public markets, as basic only VC's and PE get access to high growth young companies. Now most of the growth is squeezed out by the VC's and the public gets just the tail end of mature companies.

New comment by pdq in "Phind 2: AI search with visual answers and multi-step reasoning"

pdq — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:18:06 +0000

It just summarized this page and included a few of the images.

[1] https://docs.bsky.app/docs/advanced-guides/atproto

New comment by pdq in "SAML: A Technical Primer"

pdq — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:53:40 +0000

I investigated both and implemented OIDC. It was difficult, but compared to the SAML and XML complexity, I'd say it was much easier.

New comment by pdq in "Elon Musk confirms reallocating thousands of Nvidia AI chips from Tesla"

pdq — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:34:51 +0000

June 4th. Not recent news.

Although this is a clear case of self-dealing by Musk.

New comment by pdq in "My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder"

pdq — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:01:39 +0000

General question when running a single member LLC: how do you determine how much to take as salary versus business profit, and how does that affect your taxes?

I'm guessing tax liability is mostly a wash, as if you are taxed as an S-Corp, you pass through the profit into personal income and pay income tax on that.

New comment by pdq in "Ask HN: Where can I find good legal documents?"

pdq — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:04:22 +0000

Kyle Mitchell is a lawyer that can program, and has done a ton of open source work on legal docs: https://projects.kemitchell.com/

For example, here are his employment/hiring docs: https://squareoneforms.com/

New comment by pdq in "Judge allows major 'right to repair' lawsuit against John Deere to move forward"

pdq — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 19:27:29 +0000

"Loser pays" is a better and simpler legal system.

New comment by pdq in "The Tesla Semi from an Insider's View After One Year: "Hot Mess""

pdq — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 01:57:22 +0000

1 MW charger per truck, if you need to super charge. Equivalent to approximately 1000 homes.

This is a huge burden on the electrical grids, and Tesla or EV's get to hand that problem to someone else.

The only way this makes sense at scale is if we had nuclear power, and charging was done at night.

New comment by pdq in "The first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud"

pdq — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 23:26:09 +0000

It's the new HaaS business model: Hardware as a Service.

New comment by pdq in "Trading bot that buys stocks bought by politicians is up 20% since May 2022"

pdq — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 01:17:16 +0000

@dang, can you change the display for (threads.net) to be like twitter, where it shows the username to the right of the post title?

For example, threads.net/@quiverquantitative

New comment by pdq in "Cooking and bird safety"

pdq — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 16:55:10 +0000

Get a Carbon Steel pan instead.

These are similar metal composition to cast iron, where you can season them with oils, but are forged (ie pressed) into shape, rather than cast. So you get a smooth surface, which is easier for non-stick use and lighter weight.

Carbon steel are better for eggs, omelettes, etc, but cast iron are often better for steaks/meats, because they retain heat better. There are tons of videos on Youtube if you are curious.

New comment by pdq in "NIST Standard Peanut Butter – $1,107"

pdq — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:03:36 +0000

Exactly.

This is akin to selling a calibrated 1 kilogram cube of lead, with a precision of 1 nanogram and specified purity, for $1000. You are not just buying an overpriced $3 block of lead, but one that can be precisely used for calibrating machines, equipment, or processes.

The MIT License, Line by Line

pdq — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 01:23:26 +0000

Article URL: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-by-Line.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638700

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Waypoint NDA: the standard business nondisclosure agreement

pdq — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 01:02:08 +0000

Article URL: https://waypointnda.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37638607

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

New comment by pdq in "Tesla, Inc. 8-k filing – CFO leaves Tesla"

pdq — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 22:52:46 +0000

Not good when a CFO abruptly resigns (or is fired). Usually companies project this quarters ahead to the public, with a soft notice that "XYZ will be retiring next year".

Yes, Kirkhorn "will continue to serve Tesla through the end of the year to support a seamless transition", but this reads as a rush notice.

His IR page is also gone:

https://ir.tesla.com/corporate/zachary-kirkhorn

New comment by pdq in "Austrian leader proposes enshrining the use of cash in country's constitution"

pdq — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:28:01 +0000

I'd suggest watching the 1420 channel, where they interview Russians on the street. Many of the older generation have a nostalgia of life under communism, whereas the younger generation is more skeptical.

Here's one of the interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjI8jwn0Upo