Hacker News: simpsond

New comment by simpsond in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

simpsond — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:50:01 +0000

I’ve had codex/sol block me due to safeguards tripping without attempting to do anything nefarious. It’s not entirely predicable.

New comment by simpsond in "X402, a static blog monetization excercise"

simpsond — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:01:31 +0000

I could see the consumer use case working, but only if the layers upon layers of friction are removed. If I could pay 5 cents to view an article that captured my interest, by tapping a button, Face ID, fingerprint etc, then I might do it. Unclear how to make everything up to that point frictionless. Browsers would probably need to have native integration and hooks for payment and topping up the account.

New comment by simpsond in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

simpsond — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:41:53 +0000

An integer for the value (scaled by number of decimals) and an integer value for the number of decimals. Different systems may use different values, even for the same currency or asset.

New comment by simpsond in "San Francisco Weighs PG&E Takeover Amid Soaring Utility Costs"

simpsond — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:48:57 +0000

PG&E is a profitable, publicly traded company... that issues a dividend. They tried to file for bankruptcy after the paradise fire, but they were too big to fail, so they issued new shares with gov protection. CA created a new insurance backstop for them as well. Corporations should not have government assisted (regulated) monopolies with socialized backstops. Yeah, CPUC is supposed to help, but decision makers probably have exposure. It is the same with Sempra and SDG&E and SCE. SMUD seems like a better organization, but what do I know.

New comment by simpsond in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

simpsond — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 02:19:47 +0000

Large block trades happen off exchange often. Secondaries like this are common enough.

New comment by simpsond in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

simpsond — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:29:31 +0000

Well, the significant growth comes from freemium usage. A whole lot of vibe slop triggering actions, with no supporting business. So revenue has not tracked all other growth and the billing system isn’t stressed.

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

simpsond — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:16:55 +0000

This is a wild experiment! I do think the incentives are heavily weighted to Anthropic for this to go well. I have mixed feelings about how it will go, but it will result in an important outcome…

New comment by simpsond in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

simpsond — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:33:44 +0000

P/E ratios are usually based on last 12 months, so E = sum of EPS over last 4 quarters.

New comment by simpsond in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

simpsond — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:08:32 +0000

Now you have to maintain the automation. There is nothing wrong with that. There is nothing wrong with building your own server. There is nothing wrong with colocation. There is nothing wrong with driving to the colo to investigate an outage. There is nothing wrong with licensing arm and having TSMC fab your chip. There is nothing wrong with choosing which level of abstraction you prefer!

New comment by simpsond in "A Theory of the World as run by large adult children"

simpsond — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:05:09 +0000

All fights between my children stem from resource contention.

New comment by simpsond in "Show HN: We analyzed 1,573 Claude Code sessions to see how AI agents work"

simpsond — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:34:38 +0000

I think they are talking about x402 payments (HTTP 402 with payment instruction headers).

New comment by simpsond in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

simpsond — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:17:28 +0000

Market cap doesn’t equal liquidity. If everyone wants out of an asset, and no one wants it, supply exceeds demand and the price crashes.

New comment by simpsond in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

simpsond — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:09:35 +0000

Value creation phase vs extraction phase.

New comment by simpsond in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

simpsond — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:04:52 +0000

Hosting is a commodity. Runtimes are too. In this case, the strategy is to make a better runtime, attract developers, and eventually give them a super easy way to run their project in the cloud. Eg: bun deploy, which is a reserved no op command. I really like Buns DX.

New comment by simpsond in "Intel could return to Apple computers in 2027"

simpsond — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:21:47 +0000

Getting foundry services off the ground requires starting somewhere. Apple is hedging. I don’t see it as a bad thing for Intel.

New comment by simpsond in "Gemini 3"

simpsond — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:54:40 +0000

Humans study for tests. They just tend to forget.

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

simpsond — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 14:30:06 +0000

Sundar is talking about fleeing earth to secure photons and cooling in space.

New comment by simpsond in "Comparing the power consumption of a 30 year old refrigerator to a new one"

simpsond — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:56:01 +0000

Is that true though? Better coolants, inverters / variable speed / scroll /swing compressors, insulation and mfg, etc. maybe for residential it’s less impactful, but refrigeration in general has better efficiency than 30 years ago.

New comment by simpsond in "Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing"

simpsond — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:02:42 +0000

Utility scale fields tend to have single axis trackers which can optimize output. They are expensive though. I wonder if a manual rack that could lock at 30 or 90 could work and be cost effective.

New comment by simpsond in "Living microbial cement supercapacitors with reactivatable energy storage"

simpsond — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:35:56 +0000

W = Watt. h = hour. One kg supply one watt of power for 178.7 hours (without considering other factors). Power is how much energy can it supply at a moment. Up to 8.3 kW instantaneous.