Hacker News: shaewest

New comment by shaewest in "AI's Affordability Crisis"

shaewest — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:05:38 +0000

I've easily gotten (low) hundreds of OpenAI youtube ads. More recently they've been pushing 'Free OpenAI Image generation' to me, in the past they pushed Codex more, but I have a sub for that now, so I guess it works.

New comment by shaewest in "Show HN: Spin Lab"

shaewest — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:26:33 +0000

Their post/comment was dead when I first saw the comments

New comment by shaewest in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

shaewest — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:36:54 +0000

Couple things. First, it was a all-stock deal, not cash, so it's closer to a merger than anything. Second, this deal was determined months ago, most likely at a equity stake defined then. That could mean that a 30B deal 3 months ago is now worth 60B.

New comment by shaewest in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

shaewest — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:32:59 +0000

It's an all stock purchase, so closer to a merger than spending $60B

New comment by shaewest in "The rich aren't your role models"

shaewest — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:25:05 +0000

I mean, 30 points in 30 minutes at the time of writing, seems like reason enough to be high up on the front-page, even if it's botted that's little time for admins to review

New comment by shaewest in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

shaewest — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:23:30 +0000

The monitor stand was always priced to avoid people buying it. I'm yet to see non-custom monitor stand at any of my workplaces, besides hyperspecific situations like a ultrawide monitor.

New comment by shaewest in "Where are the economies of scale in homebuilding?"

shaewest — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:57:18 +0000

I would assume the issue there would be transport. It'd be cheaper to use "local cement maker X" than to ship from "remote cheap cement maker Y"

New comment by shaewest in "The real cost of owning a home"

shaewest — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:18:21 +0000

Probably alluding to high demand rather than high prices. More demand, more likely you're win on equity

New comment by shaewest in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

shaewest — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:21:33 +0000

Isn't it incredibly obvious in my first message that the leverage is on your deposit, and therefore leveraging the cash.

New comment by shaewest in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

shaewest — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:38:29 +0000

You're invested as much as you are in tesla already, palantir or any other unsavoury S&P500 company, you can't really pick political sides in a "all the top companies"

New comment by shaewest in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

shaewest — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:18:35 +0000

The leverage is the loan taken for the mortgage. If you have a $1M property, $900k loan. If the property's value increases by 5%, that's $1.05M, so you've made 50% returns on your $100k capital invested. That's leverage, the leveraging of $100k to get the returns of $1M asset.

New comment by shaewest in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

shaewest — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:29:55 +0000

It's my shortcut for describing the idea that you'd spend $X a month on either interest lost to a bank or rent lost to a landlord, and therefore you can mostly consider that a constant expense when considering rent versus mortgage.

New comment by shaewest in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

shaewest — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:36:08 +0000

Oh I don't disagree, I hate real estate as an investment, it's a terrible asset only made "viable" by tax benefits, rent-replacement and excessive amounts of risk via leverage.

New comment by shaewest in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

shaewest — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:55:28 +0000

> I’m curious to see what a working version of this looks, what it feels like, how it performs and if/how hard it’d be to get it to pass Bun’s test suite and be maintainable. I’d like to be able to compare a viable Rust version and a Zig version side by side.

I know reading the second line of your quote is hard...

New comment by shaewest in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

shaewest — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:16:00 +0000

Real estate is generally a "good" investment as it's considered a relatively safe way to get significant leverage. 5x leverage in the case of a 20% deposit, or even up to 20x leverage with countries that allow for 5% deposits (New Zealand).

In addition, the interest payments almost always end up being near the rent the owner would have paid, so mortgage payments are higher, but that increase is generally (and quickly becomes) principal while being able to counteract inflation of rent.

New comment by shaewest in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

shaewest — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:48:54 +0000

They never denied they'd switch, just that they'd need solid improvements confirmed before they switched. Clearly internally they've decided they've seen the gains necessary to carry on with the switch

New comment by shaewest in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

shaewest — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:50:04 +0000

People relying on this software can absolutely choose to stay on current/recent versions until this becomes more mature. My assumption is that the current state allows for public testing, but anyone needing a stable version wouldn't be affected and can choose to not be affected by it.

New comment by shaewest in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

shaewest — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:48:29 +0000

That analogy might work if this situation is 'reckless behaviour risking children's safety' but in this case it's much closer to 'We made an large, potentially risky change that you can choose to avoid until it's more mature'

New comment by shaewest in "Starship V3"

shaewest — Wed, 13 May 2026 04:29:24 +0000

Admittedly asked Claude, but improvements are estimated to be x6-8 improvements on energy collection

New comment by shaewest in "Ask HN: How are you preparing for interviews nowadays?"

shaewest — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:42:12 +0000

It's interviewing the capacity to use the tools in a useful manor rather testing the tools themselves.