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Elon Musk's SpaceX acquiring AI startup xAI ahead of potential IPO

poniko — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/02/elon-musk-spacex-xai-ipo.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46862240

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by poniko in "Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year is 'slop'"

poniko — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:52:56 +0000

Pretty bang on word for 2025, could not be better.

Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of the year is 'slop'

poniko — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:52:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/844640/merriam-webster-ai-slop-word-of-the-year-2025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46282737

Points: 4

# Comments: 3

Listen to Mixtapes from Before

poniko — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 15:00:29 +0000

Article URL: https://intertapes.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46254983

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 'code red' response to Google is coming next week

poniko — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:16:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/report/838857/openai-gpt-5-2-release-date-code-red-google-response

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46164221

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Netflix wins the bidding war for Warner Bros

poniko — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:22:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/838781/netflix-warner-bros-discover-bids-buyout

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158817

Points: 3

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New comment by poniko in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

poniko — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:59:30 +0000

Yea that's the thing right, the battery is so very much of the weight that optimizing the other parts are "meh" at this point. What is cool is that the 600Wh/kg solid state batteries seems like they are really finally here soon :) i.e removing 200-300kg from a car in one go will be a game changer.

New comment by poniko in "iPhone Air"

poniko — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:46:21 +0000

I got the Samsung 25 Edge and did move from a the regular sized phone to "plus" without the constraints and weight that usually follows. I can reach the screen edges that I can't on the same size plus version. Added bonus that i don't get a strain in my pinky from the weight and its still very pocketable. So I'm sold on thinner phones except the wobble from hell when its laying on the table.

New comment by poniko in "Tesla offers mammoth $1T pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets"

poniko — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 23:57:03 +0000

.. ever heard of BYD? BMW just released the first car on their new platform that is better then Teslas in pretty much every way .. Musk has ruined Tesla with bets on wrong cars i.e Cybertruck instead of pushing price and volume.

New comment by poniko in "Tesla offers mammoth $1T pay package to Musk, sets lofty targets"

poniko — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:35:16 +0000

How about the myriad of other companies that produce Robots? Like Figure and a large number of Chinese outlets? Tesla is not the winner in electric cars why would they be better at robots. My guess is low cost robots from China will be everywhere..

New comment by poniko in "We put a coding agent in a while loop"

poniko — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:34:52 +0000

This is the best thread response I've seen in a while, made me chuckle because i can't understand how people say they vibe code stuff and it works (My experience is not that) and i just feel out of the loop reading all other HN posts and comments about how good it is.

New comment by poniko in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

poniko — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 12:28:45 +0000

Pretty much every time Claude code is stuck or more or less just coding in circles i use Gemini PRO to analyze the code/data and feed the response into Claude to solve it. I also have much more success with Gemini when creating big sql transforming scripts or similar. Both are quite bad on bigger tasks, they get you 60% and then i spend days and days to trying to get to 100% .. its such a time sink when i select the wrong task for the llm.

New comment by poniko in "Anthropic's CEO says in 3-6 months, AI will write 90% of the code (March 2025)"

poniko — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:46:22 +0000

Did some bigger admin tool to do search and matching datapoints etc and decided to only use claude code. First version was wow awesome this saved me so much time .. now 2 weeks later putting back code that was deleted several times, removing 3 copy's of the same code, way to complicated sqls, verbose code and looking how its mixing htmx with some wird own JavaScript. It really looks as a junior developer solutions, so I'm done using it for more then boiler plate things..

I will come back in 3-6 months and hope its better to understand its own limitations.

I'm guessing it would be less then a week for me to write it on my own.

The biggest issue is that I've now seen the shit it creates so I have zero trust in the code I now have from a security and stability standpoint. I know many have better experiences then mine.

New comment by poniko in "Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets"

poniko — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 23:46:07 +0000

When we want to sell fighter jets and Karl Gustav rockets we send the King of Sweden to pander the deal. There have been some debacle over a few suitcases with bribes as well but hey that's probably a good paying job.

New comment by poniko in "Pebble Time 2 Design Reveal [video]"

poniko — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:43:06 +0000

Me as well, I have a drawer of watches and I want to use one but the 1-2 day battery life is just a dealbreaker .. 30 days will probably make me care to put it on again after the charge is done.

New comment by poniko in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

poniko — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:43:22 +0000

[Claude usage limit reached. Your limit will reset at..] .. eh lunch is a good time to go home anyways..

New comment by poniko in "I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well"

poniko — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:50:29 +0000

Yes and if you work with a plarform that has been arround for long time like .net you will most definitely get a mix of really outdated deprecated code mixed with the latest features.

New comment by poniko in "OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure"

poniko — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:52:06 +0000

The NDA part feels really murky.

New comment by poniko in "OpenCut: The open-source CapCut alternative"

poniko — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:36:31 +0000

Video editor owned by TikTok, very very popular.

New comment by poniko in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

poniko — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 21:37:53 +0000

Yes same setup as when Tesla bought Solar city .. one playbook he pours out of.