<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: rgbrenner</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rgbrenner</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:42:20 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rgbrenner" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "Tesla Roadster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>at least the CyberTruck shipped.<p>9 years since the announcement of Roadster v2, people who paid 50k deposits are still waiting.<p>Time to up the promises, and ask for more $50k deposits for v3!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:03:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112953</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112953</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>VCs are a type of PE firm. So is growth capital. You're confusing a sub type--called LBOs--for the entire industry.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:49:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068617</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50068617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Private Equity does fund R&D.. mostly the D(evelopment) part. Most R&D, both in the US and China, is not fundamental/basic research.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066823</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I disapprove of the Iran war, but to play devils advocate: there's a major shift occurring right now in the way wars are fought. The Ukraine-Russia war has made it clear that conventional militaries will find themselves in a meat grinder in the next war.. that includes the US.<p>Iran is one of the largest drone producers... and the US military is doing live testing of anti-drone weapons and energy directed weapons in the straight of hormuz against Iranian drones.<p>A lot of Americans are going to die in the next war if we don't figure out the right way to maintain our dominance against these new tactics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:16:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066630</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the current ai boom started here in america with private funds. china is spending government funds in a desperate attempt not to lose the race. it’s not clear that china is in the stronger position, at least yet.</p>
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<p>and yet the oversupply of investment funds looking for projects created the current AI boom here in America, not China.<p>China “leads” but only in iterating on things already invented.<p>but we never ask what’s wrong with china that they spend so much on r&d but fail to invent novel things.</p>
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<p>> There's not a "pay them more" button we can hit that generates more domestic doctors, especially not in under 10 years.<p>That's literally how the button works. An undersupply in the market, increases prices.. kids and students deciding what they want to do with their life, see the wages and decide 10 years of school is worth it... and after 10 years you get more doctors.<p>If there's an undersupply, that's a clear indication that young people are looking at the field and deciding the wages don't justify the investment.<p>By short-circuiting the process of the free market, you're guaranteeing the shortage will continue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010174</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50010174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There is a fairly consistent schedule posted by david927.<p>My comment about the schedule is based only on david927's posting schedule. I don't see the schedule.. they look like random dates during the month. If you see a pattern there, feel free to spell it out for me.<p>I also couldn't find any discussion with dang. link?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:24:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936811</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49936811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>looking at the post dates, there doesn't seem to be a schedule at all. it's posted randomly... posts on 9th through the 30th. Back in 2024, it was even posted regularly on the 1st.<p>IMO if there isn't a schedule, then posting it on the 1st sounds good.. since that's when the other posts like this are submitted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:35:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929878</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929878</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Im building serverless hosting for Wordpress (+ serverless mariadb) with the dev tooling I wish Wordpress had.. including mcp and cli that fully exposes the wp cli, mariadb, and all of the underlying infrastructure. So everything you can do through the dashboard, an agent can do via mcp or cli.<p>For example, if Im debugging a plugin, an agent can just connect to the site, read or modify the code, see what it's writing to disk or db, test it's changes, etc.<p>And this is standard WP -- this isn't a rewrite like emdash. So the fun part is figuring out how to make it all work without modifying WP, or requiring plugins to be installed, etc.<p><a href="https://www.agiler.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.agiler.io</a></p>
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<p>also <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74639-z" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-74639-z</a></p>
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<p>finally. now maybe they'll have time to implement a working unsubscribe on their marketing emails.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:30:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824618</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49824618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The major difference being the 1M token context window. Once you exceed 272K input tokens, Codex Sol is roughly the same price as Opus; and Astra similar to Fable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:37:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806962</link><dc:creator>rgbrenner</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806962</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49806962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rgbrenner in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Care to be specific? 20x is closed. And the 2x pricing is literally on the pricing sheet for gpt-6 astra, sol and luna.</p>
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<p>Same experience. Have both subs. It's just not true anymore that Codex gives you more usage than Claude.<p>Makes me think they picked Codex, stopped trying Claude, and just hang on to outdated beliefs about the value they're receiving.</p>
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<p>> Claude Code 20x and Codex Pro 20x<p>That isn't a valid comparison, since Codex 20x is closed. So we should be comparing Claud 20x to Codex 5x + credits.<p>Also in Codex, even though you can increase the context window to 1m so its on par with Claude, exceeding the default is billed at 2x.</p>
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<p>I think he's saying fishing for evidence is not "policing", since fishing for evidence is illegal, and therefore not within the bounds of the job.</p>
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<p>It's not energy costs. The US produces about 70% more electricity per capita. Chinese households do pay less than half what US households pay for electricity, but that's because the NDRC sets prices below costs for households. They make it up by charging industry more, and the industrial electricity prices in China are roughly 34% higher than in the US.</p>
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<p>Cursor might have framed it that way at the time, but 4 months prior Anthropic cut OpenAIs access under the same clause in the ToS:
<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access-to-claude/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/anthropic-revokes-openais-access...</a><p>And a month before the OpenAI block, they blocked Windsurf for the same reason:
<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2025/06/05/anthropic-cuts-windsurfs-claude-access-before-openai-acquisition/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/johanmoreno/2025/06/05/anthropi...</a><p>So its pretty clear the TOS had this clause prior to Jan 2026.</p>
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<p>Anthropic already banned xAI for very similar ToS violations earlier this year: <a href="https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2009686466746822731?s=46" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2009686466746822731?s=46</a><p>So this is OpenAI following suit after Musk admitted to distilling their models.<p>This was bound to happen once Cursor decided to sell itself to a competing model provider.<p>It'll be interesting to see if Anthropic applies their ban to Cursor, or if that datacenter deal they signed with Musk changes anything.</p>
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