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New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

raw_anon_1111 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:02:35 +0000

Tesla’s profits and market share has been declining for the past few years and it’s basically an overpriced meme stock.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

raw_anon_1111 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:01:20 +0000

They are going straight to the Nasdaq. Most index investors are invested in the S&P 500

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

raw_anon_1111 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:14:49 +0000

Are cursor developers “competent” in creating frontier models? Aren’t they just using other company’s models?

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:50:17 +0000

Samsung both sells premium hardware and manufactures a lot of it own components in house and sales components to other manufacturers including Apple. I consider Samsung “successful”.

Every single low margin PC company that exists now like Dell, HP etc were much more profitable than an almost bankrupt Apple in 1997. They had no vision and decided to compete on price. It doesn’t matter why they are barely profitable low margin businesses.

Seeing there revenue vs profits, they should take Michael Dell’s (bad) advice to Jobs when he came back - “shut the company down and give the money back to shareholders” who could make more money in treasury bonds.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:45:26 +0000

I don’t care if a company monitors which websites I go to on a work computer, what applications I run or what I say on Slack.

On the other hand I would be looking for another job if they had keyloggers or were taking screenshots even if they said anything about me shopping on Amazon or randomly browsing Hacker News or any website that wasn’t gaming or Netflix during work hours.

Heck I use to travel a lot more for business and I used my work laptop for Netflix and other streaming services in the hotel.

As long as I’m meeting performance standards it shouldn’t matter.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:33:59 +0000

Successful == decently profitable with decent profit margins. Someone else mentioned LG with an annual profit of $2.4 billion as a “successful” company.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:58:17 +0000

So did you think when I was talking about Apple I was comparing them to a company that sold power tools?

But Dell’s profits cratered so bad that they took the company private and profits are still nothingburgers.

Sony just sold off controlling interest of its TV division.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/son...

Have you checked the profits of the other PC sellers?

A quick Google search shows that LG profits were $2.4 billion dollar (converted) and down its last fiscal year.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:41:04 +0000

I used v0 for a vibe coded internal admin app.

*BUT* I downloaded the source code from Vercel’s site, built and deployed in a Docker container (I never download random npm packages to my local computer), deployed the Docker container to Lambda (choose your Docker deployment platform. They are a dime a dozen), had a tightly scoped IAM role attached to the Lambda and my secrets were in Secret Manager.

My deployment also had a placeholder for the secrets when it was deployed and they were never in my repo and purposefully had to be manually configured.

I would never trust something like Vercel for hosting. I’m not saying go all in on a major cloud provider. Get your own cheap VPS if that’s all you need and take responsibility for your own security posture the best you can.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:16:05 +0000

I would buy Mac hardware running Windows long before I would buy x86 hardware running MacOS. In fact Mac OS on x86 was really nothing remarkable. Macs were objectively worse than most Windows PCs during the last few years on x86 at least the laptops were.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:13:01 +0000

Name one other successfully computer hardware company? PC makers are barely profitable commodities, other phone companies aside from Samsung are making pennies, the Microsoft XBox division is on life support, Sony sold off its TV division. The PS5 is going okay but doesn’t sell in near the numbers of iPhones. Who is left?

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:11:08 +0000

You can’t compare Apple to any other company. Apple is the only successful consumer hardware company (with Samsung being a distant second). They can afford to sit out the AI arms race.

You can’t be a software company without an AI story to tell.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:22:39 +0000

I have used Gemini, I have a personal subscription to ChatGPT and a corporate $5000/month allowance to Claude.

How is it better than either? How is it doing as a revenue making product?

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:17:17 +0000

Read the “Apple in China” book.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:10:35 +0000

I would hope that Apple doesn’t follow Google’s lead. Google has the attention span of a crack addled flea and struggles to make great products

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:57:41 +0000

Yes. Every since the first Apple Store opened.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

raw_anon_1111 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:35:47 +0000

A company can’t shoulder liability for a cop pulling them over and arresting them on criminal charges.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

raw_anon_1111 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:47:20 +0000

And neither does Google. The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android released in 2019. The latest version of iOS supports my iPad released in 2019.

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

raw_anon_1111 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:45:26 +0000

As I said in another reply, Apple just did a security update for the iPhone 5s released in 2013 January of this year.

The latest version of iOS runs on iPads back to 2919.

The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android - released in 2019.

So how is it better?

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

raw_anon_1111 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:52:09 +0000

No, if they said they were running on separate VMs I wouldn’t have any issues.

Absolutely no serious company would run their web software on a shared Apache server with other tenants.

How did that shared hosting work out for Vercel?

New comment by raw_anon_1111 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

raw_anon_1111 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:49:41 +0000

The iPhone 5s - released in 2013 - just got an update January 2026.

The latest version of Chrome requires the version of Android released in 2019. Even phones that old aren’t getting other security updates.

Is that really the argument you want to make?