Hacker News: qaq

New comment by qaq in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

qaq — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:56:53 +0000

"Do we really expect all the world’s corporations to suddenly up their annual spend by 1,000% on average? Why?" Because they will replace people with tools I am guessing?

New comment by qaq in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

qaq — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:55:23 +0000

It's actually is an interesting point. On personal level I've built a few products but I did spend a ton of time exploring things I was really curious about that will never amount to anything practical beyond satisfying my curiosity.

New comment by qaq in "Grok 4.7"

qaq — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:09:55 +0000

For me Grok finds legit bug that Fable and Astra miss so I always run it as part of code review

New comment by qaq in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

qaq — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:36:53 +0000

they were sold an idea the AGI is right around the corner so even a slight delay might be critical to secure the "win"

New comment by qaq in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

qaq — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:30:31 +0000

dodgy ads business is not growing at 80% yoy

New comment by qaq in "Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?"

qaq — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:50:30 +0000

Google Cloud revenue grew 82% year-over-year I am guessing they gonna survive fine

New comment by qaq in "GPT-6 Astra, looped transformers, and hidden reasoning"

qaq — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:56:40 +0000

OK so it's not just me

New comment by qaq in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

qaq — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:58:28 +0000

Use cursor cli for grok pretty happy with it.

New comment by qaq in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

qaq — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:57:02 +0000

I mean, given Sam and Elon’s relationship, I don’t think anyone is surprised.

New comment by qaq in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

qaq — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 02:35:15 +0000

Why? All big and even medium tech companies have dev offices in EU and India. As example since it's much easier to deal with visas say in Ireland a lot of hiring was shifted to Irish offices.

New comment by qaq in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

qaq — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:00:54 +0000

Man I admire AWS marketing team for convincing people DynamoDB is a very good product.

100 items max per Transaction BatchGet 100 items, 16 MB max low write limits on same key Item size 400 KB max etc.

New comment by qaq in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

qaq — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:21:08 +0000

Not just that once I hit my Fable limit I naturally experimented with other options and realized that 5.6 Sol + Grok 4.6 gives me same quality of results as Fable + 5.6 Sol so not really that reliant on Fable anymore.

New comment by qaq in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

qaq — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:43:08 +0000

and now 1000 sqft home in Compton is 600K

New comment by qaq in "Go 1.27"

qaq — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 20:09:19 +0000

I mean one thing frontier models are really good at is porting code with pretty low level of supervision. Provided there are enough fans porting packages from other ecosystems should not be a big challenge.

New comment by qaq in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

qaq — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:24:35 +0000

Do they need to get a 50% paycut? Dealing with insurance companies takes a ton of time and resources.

New comment by qaq in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

qaq — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:14:18 +0000

Dario with his "country of geniuses in a datacenter" talk is pretty instrumental in accelerating that

New comment by qaq in "You Can't Copy Palantir"

qaq — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:07:29 +0000

Article takes many claims at face value. the core of the model is this:

don't use open source frameworks use inhouse one call it a "platform"

since you are using a platform now customer does not get to own their 90% bespoke solution they get the privilege of paying fees on it forever.

The rest is fluff to untie price charged from hours spent so people don't realize they are being fleeced.

New comment by qaq in "You Can't Copy Palantir"

qaq — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:52:58 +0000

remove "other" and their operating margin is 46% now since we are playing pretend game of framework is a platform what in reality is bespoke work for a given customer gets committed back to "platform" and now you amortizing that part instead of straight up deducting. Given you are growing at a meaningful clip this continually lets you paint a better picture than what the actual operating reality. They also love emphasizing non-GAAP margins so they can exclude RSU part of comp.

New comment by qaq in "You Can't Copy Palantir"

qaq — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:56:37 +0000

2025 Accenture $69.7 billion in revenue operating income of $10.23 billion 2025 Palantir 4.48 billion in revenue operating income 1.41B

New comment by qaq in "You Can't Copy Palantir"

qaq — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:40:31 +0000

Palantir is basically a consulting shop with fancy marketing designed to shift perception so it doesn’t get valued at the low multiples that being a consulting business normally entails.