Hacker News: sampton

New comment by sampton in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

sampton — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:57:33 +0000

Doesn't Tesla have a factory in China?

New comment by sampton in "Iran war sparks renewables boom as Europeans rush to buy solar, heat pumps, EVs"

sampton — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:15:41 +0000

Similar to how Hitler ushered in a whole generation of liberal demacracy and human rights protection across the world.

New comment by sampton in "GPT-5.4"

sampton — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:52:40 +0000

That's been my experience as well switching from Opus to Codex. Reasoning takes longer but answers are precise. Claude is sloppy in comparison.

New comment by sampton in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

sampton — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:41:52 +0000

I started using Codex 5.3. Compare to Opus 4.6, it's more precise in pinning down bugs and more concise with code. Opus can be best described as distracted and easily agreeable. Codex actually digs deeper for root causes and push back when I'm wrong.

New comment by sampton in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

sampton — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:00:14 +0000

I'm going to test this on my kids.

New comment by sampton in "Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans"

sampton — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:45:25 +0000

I only flip on FSD when on the highway. It has come a long way but still too many problems on local roads.

New comment by sampton in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

sampton — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:42:46 +0000

To be fair no one has solved ai assistant at consumer level yet.

New comment by sampton in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

sampton — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:17:12 +0000

Sad that international community doesn't do more to intervene in US. Seriously, please help.

New comment by sampton in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

sampton — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:53:18 +0000

I can't remember when was the last S/X refresh. It's nuts they just let it go stale and shut the factory down.

New comment by sampton in "Velox: A Port of Tauri to Swift by Miguel de Icaza"

sampton — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:14:37 +0000

Apple really needs to decouple swift debug and profiling tools from Xcode. I've been using vscode for swift work but hate having to switch back to Xcode for the tools.

New comment by sampton in "Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)"

sampton — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:35:12 +0000

You never know with corporations. Consequences range from "federal pound-in-the-ass prison" or "here is $500".

New comment by sampton in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

sampton — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:18:30 +0000

Every time Dario opens his mouth it's something weird.

New comment by sampton in "Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Barred From Using 'io' Name"

sampton — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:16:26 +0000

Startrek chest pin.

New comment by sampton in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

sampton — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:35:35 +0000

Apple AI team launched Apple Intelligence before it was fully baked. That's a no-no by Apple standards.

New comment by sampton in "Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model"

sampton — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 17:58:16 +0000

Meta gave up on open weight path after DeepSeek.

New comment by sampton in "Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source"

sampton — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:07:45 +0000

Jupyter use is declining because coding agents got really good. Multiplayer mode is not going to save it.

New comment by sampton in "US startup Substrate announces chipmaking tool that it says will rival ASML"

sampton — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:53:07 +0000

Samsung has access to the same ASML tools but has much lower yield than TSMC. Chip making is hard.

New comment by sampton in "A bug that taught me more about PyTorch than years of using it"

sampton — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:00:43 +0000

MLX and MPS are 2 completely different teams within Apple. It's more like MPS team doesn't have control or visibility into PyTorch roadmap and can only contribute so much from their side.

New comment by sampton in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

sampton — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:37:56 +0000

The kid carrier looks dangerously top heavy.

New comment by sampton in "DeepSeek OCR"

sampton — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:16:40 +0000

You can train a cnn to find bounding boxes of text first. Then run VLM on each box.