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New comment by scottyah in "Mass Driver: Solar system routing mini-game"

scottyah — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:06:06 +0000

I've been thinking about mass driver scheduling/routing lately and thought it'd be fun to have claude make a little game out of it after seeing the lens interactive diagram.

Mass Driver: Solar system routing mini-game

scottyah — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:06:06 +0000

Article URL: https://mass-driver.scottyah.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50026543

Points: 7

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New comment by scottyah in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"

scottyah — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:53:41 +0000

> OpenAI's own Decisions API [1] beats it

Have you heard that from a different source than OpenAI? From what I'd heard other models haven't gotten close, and the open source ones are like running gemma4 E2B against Opus 5.5- sure, the API calls go in and are returned the same but the quality isn't close.

New comment by scottyah in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

scottyah — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 16:03:02 +0000

Do you really think someone off the street, armed with Opus 5.5 could recreate Deno? Or would you pull Cloudflare people off what they were doing (meaning it's a very inefficient company) to work on this?

At the end of the day, great engineers armed with great tools are going to outperform anyone who just has the great tools.

New comment by scottyah in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

scottyah — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:59:35 +0000

Do you think Deno was real competition for Cloudflare, and now that they've merged we don't have alternative options for goods/services that are mostly essential?

I think if Cloudflare and Google merged, it still wouldn't be a monopoly because of AWS (and many others).

New comment by scottyah in "Red Hat being phased out of existence?"

scottyah — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 21:51:49 +0000

Things like Cloudflare Workers, boxd.sh, fly.io's sprites, etc. Just different takes on how much needs to be packaged into a container with a pipeline and how deploys work. I think that especially with AI, we're going to see a lot quicker method of code -> prod. Right now there's a lot of overhead with kubernetes that most customers I know don't really benefit from.

New comment by scottyah in "Claude Says"

scottyah — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:42:57 +0000

Google's web search AI is pretty great at it!

New comment by scottyah in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

scottyah — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:39:17 +0000

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-defendants-employed-la-ar...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-16/la-homel...

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/09/la-homel...

It's so crazy how politicized fraud has gotten. Diehard Dems offhandedly dismiss Nick Shirley and DOGE even though all they look for is proof of fraud. If someone is doing that for free, why on earth would you want to stop or dismiss it before any evidence or reporting has been delivered? There's no shortage of it from either side, why defend the scummy parts of your party vs trying to root it out?

New comment by scottyah in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

scottyah — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:12:23 +0000

At the state/city level, California and Los Angeles have much more blatant corruption. From the High Speed Rail to LA's billions of homeless money (now some invoices showing house purchases, ubers to and payments at strip clubs). I think more politicians are just shameless about it lately. Karen Bass was reelected anyway, and Gavin is gaining support in a run for presidency even. Buying votes has never been easier.

New comment by scottyah in "Red Hat being phased out of existence?"

scottyah — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:05:45 +0000

They have more bargaining power now. Lots of people are scrambling to get off vmware after they raised their prices astronomically for seemingly no reason (other than they could, and a lot of groups are leaving VMs for containers). Openshift Virtualization is there with open arms to take those who haven't or won't migrate off of VMs.

Redhat can now charge a lot more and have worse service because some of their main competition now enables it. Whatever replaces kubernetes is slowly being formed and decided on, but there's easy pickings for custom solutions and consultants for now.

New comment by scottyah in "An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism"

scottyah — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:03:44 +0000

Also of note: this is not the first administration to take controversial action. Pretty much every government ever has shown that more power = more corruption.

New comment by scottyah in "An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism"

scottyah — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 16:02:14 +0000

Who is we and what is ownership? Taxes are nice because it's just straight cash, no meddling (other than the myriad of laws they must follow). "Ownership" meaning you want whatever political party/group in power in the moment to able to directly command businesses on top of adding laws and taking money seems a bit like overreach to me, in addition to being costly resource-wise.

New comment by scottyah in "The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)"

scottyah — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:53:37 +0000

Prevents a lot of wars and skirmishes.

New comment by scottyah in "Claude Says"

scottyah — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 21:44:05 +0000

I disagree completely, citing your source is an amazing habit and I wish more people did it. "Webster says" vs "My mamaw told me" makes a big difference, and to all those like the author who think that drudging through manuals on specific topics will pay off in 20yrs, I really think you should look into how human memory works. One of my favorite quotes is "That guy has forgotten more about SSL than I've ever learned, and he still made a typo that broke the internet."

So please, cite your sources where relevant and don't waste people's time with your fuzzy human memories.

New comment by scottyah in "Gemini 4 Argon"

scottyah — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:49:00 +0000

But that's the whole point of the singularity. Right now the models use a lot of human effort and ingenuity to improve the models, but about a year ago it was 100% human. We'll see in another year, but if this pace continues I doubt there will be more than a handful of people who can contribute more than the models.

New comment by scottyah in "America.gov"

scottyah — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:20:42 +0000

Oh they can, no problem. You just download (transfer data for) the weights and whatever you want running it.

You can install Gemma4 on ollama on your own computer and try it out! Lots of examples of people coding with no internet using qwen on flights etc.

New comment by scottyah in "America.gov"

scottyah — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:18:38 +0000

The media wave made it a kangaroo court worse than OJ Simpson's trial. My only point was that there is a lot of bias in it, and right in the same politiosphere that those juries are in. Gives a lot of "police have investigated themselves and found no problems"

New comment by scottyah in "America.gov"

scottyah — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:44:15 +0000

*.gov is for USA, use *.ca for Canada instead of California.

New comment by scottyah in "America.gov"

scottyah — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:42:20 +0000

Also despite there being one in every continent, you'd be amazed how many Parisians from France think they are the only ones who ought to use the name. Must be "patriotic BS that has spewed over there for decades"

New comment by scottyah in "America.gov"

scottyah — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:40:00 +0000

Woah easy on the caffeine there.