<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ralfd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ralfd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:41:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ralfd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> "goodness of their hearts" (which may be related to avoidance of public pushback)<p>I hate this cynicism in everything. People didnt work there 10 years ago to be millionaires in a far away IPO, they worked there because they are Team Space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:50:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721657</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721657</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Bringing Swift to the Apple ]["]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting:<p>> The AI workflow was as interesting to me as the retrocomputing work itself<p>> A coding AI can only hold so much in its context window … The solution was to make the project’s documentation the durable memory that the AI itself lacks. SwiftII was built as 18 numbered phases, 0 through 17, each a self-contained goal with a written record of what it was for and what shipped. The key milestones: […]<p>> Around the phases sit roughly 20 numbered design documents, each capturing one non-obvious decision. What was chosen, what the alternatives were and how it was done. … As the codebase and documents became bigger, each session had to load more context just to get oriented, so token budget became a real workflow constraint.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:40:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707181</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707181</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>what was the game pass catastrophe?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:51:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688849</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688849</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "A scientist says he can scan prisoners' brains for signs of evil"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Defense attorneys, in particular, used biological evidence like brain scans to argue that their clients should receive lighter sentences.<p>Counterintuitively people want negative traits be rooted in biology. That the soul is a victim of the faulty flesh, instead of lacking willpower or being responsible for ones actions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:15:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652919</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SpaceX will swing wildly in future, also exploding/successful Starship flights and enthusiasm for moon landing/Artemis missions.</p>
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<p>Context?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637362</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "SpaceX Drops 14% in One Day, Price Now Below IPO Launch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SpaceX is too with the Anthropic/Google deal</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:36:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637342</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Google Hits 50% IPv6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It takes over 30 years<p>Only because it is overengineered. Parents pragmatic protocol would have been adopted faster</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:12:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619161</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619161</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> CIE 2015<p>Does that look like 3d?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:20:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610437</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesnt Dr Grant scare a kid in the beginning with the Velociraptor and say there that T Rex vision was movement based? I wonder if Chrichton made that up or if it was a real theory by paleaologists?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:56:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610204</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610204</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Apple boss Tim Cook says prices to rise due to memory chip costs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why did Apple start the problem?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:42:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583910</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48583910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair, food is the smallest bucket of my monthly expenses. And there are many people here on hacker news who pay more for their AI tokens than for their food.<p>How does argrar industry and tech industry compare as share of gdp in the US?</p>
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<p>Paul Graham is the skating coach himself, as from 6000 startups financed by y combinator quite a few were unicorns. it is olympian level, but it there is a system to it.</p>
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<p>What happens?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:15:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526929</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48526929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Open source AI must win"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Closed Source AI at least can be controlled. See the directive of the US government regarding Fable (even if one disagrees about the directive there is no doubt that it is effective in shutting it off) or the safe guards by a corporate structure (even a profit driven one). It is schizophrenic to praise Anthropic for refusing the Department of War full access to their models but at the same time root for Open Source models.<p>Edit: relevant Scott Alexander article from today<p><a href="https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-ai-opinions" rel="nofollow">https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-ai-opinions</a><p>> In terms of bioweapons, I expect that closed-source AIs will be heavily optimized against helping with these, and open-source AI will be banned after the first warning shot (or become economically prohibitive even before then).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:51:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515859</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515859</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Open source AI must win"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you take AI risk seriously then Open Source AI should not and must not win. Both by evil actors (biological weapons research) and the danger of unaligned AGI itself. There are some people who would never work for the military or Anduril (automatic weapon systems), but an OS AI „without asking permission“ would be the same.</p>
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<p>> Most reptiles could be alive for thousands of years<p>How so? Snakes only live like 30 years. Tortoises are long lived, but it is low hundreds years, not thousands.</p>
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<p>It is noteworthy that this is a German source and German culture is by default pessimism and malaise.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:44:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442399</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442399</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Sidenote: 3 is actually high.<p>Do you mean low? AAPL has a ps of 10.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:01:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426838</link><dc:creator>ralfd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426838</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ralfd in "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What? Can you explain?</p>
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