Hacker News: stingrae

New comment by stingrae in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

stingrae — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:06:34 +0000

they should wait for the major lockups to pass, there by skipping some of the inevitable volatility they will likely cause.

New comment by stingrae in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

stingrae — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:33:41 +0000

I tried to test an ad in the meta ad platform… and it is insanely terrible. Teams don’t care about B2B software even if it drives the business or there aren’t viable competitors.

New comment by stingrae in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

stingrae — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:40:20 +0000

This reminds me of a piece I just saw at the Legion of Honor (SF) special exhibit on the etruscans. They have a Etruscan manuscript, written on linen, that was used to wrap a mummy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liber_Linteus

New comment by stingrae in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

stingrae — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:29:13 +0000

I think this is a bigger factor for Lyft/uber where the passenger rating impacts the driver directly. Passengers are annoyed anytime their pickup isn’t directly in front of them on the street. They will down rate a driver that pulls into a legal spot farther away then a spot blocking a bike lane directly in front of them.

This is less of an issue for Waymo, because the passenger rating doesn’t mean as much except customer satisfaction with the service as a whole.

New comment by stingrae in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

stingrae — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:42:51 +0000

If it is available for training, I assume it is available for discovery.

New comment by stingrae in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

stingrae — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:13:09 +0000

"SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI.

The combination of Cursor’s leading product and distribution to expert software engineers with SpaceX’s million H100 equivalent Colossus training supercomputer will allow us to build the world’s most useful models.

Cursor has also given SpaceX the right to acquire Cursor later this year for $60 billion or pay $10 billion for our work together."

New comment by stingrae in "Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM"

stingrae — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:32:25 +0000

im on a mac and had the same issue.

other bugs: when i pan around (while zoomed far in), the planes arent in a fixed position on the map, they shift with the pan

ux bug: when i zoom in, it zooms into the middle of the browser window instead of where my cursor is.

New comment by stingrae in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

stingrae — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:29:39 +0000

The risk is one of them buys it and pulls an Oracle / Java (Sun) stunt.

Department of War Official Demos Palantir Tooling

stingrae — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:42:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtDgoqWmgM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47383381

Points: 4

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New comment by stingrae in "The Brand Age"

stingrae — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:13:28 +0000

I felt this way until I worked at Essential, the now shut down phone maker.

One of the core company design principles was to have minimal branding. The phone design had no logo. When you show it to people they are looking for the identifier and it's completely missing. When you are in a market where most of the products look largely the same, branding is very important.

It's unfortunate, but absolutely necessary.

New comment by stingrae in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

stingrae — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:27:55 +0000

It doesn't make sense for every company to make their own Salesforce clone.

The key is that it makes new companies entering the market to compete with Salesforce immensely easier. More competition will just force lower overall margins in SAAS.

Flexport's take on the Supreme Court ruling on tariffs: What's next? Refunds?

stingrae — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:56:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flexport.com/blog/the-supreme-courts-ieepa-tariff-ruling-next-steps-potential-refunds-and/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095770

Points: 4

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New comment by stingrae in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

stingrae — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:46:31 +0000

It’s happening already? Ask any new CS grads about how good the job market is.

New comment by stingrae in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

stingrae — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:47:20 +0000

the path is by charging just a bit less than the salary of the engineers they are replacing.

Judge rules that LLM provided legal advice is open to discovery [pdf]

stingrae — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.652138/gov.uscourts.nysd.652138.22.0.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46997595

Points: 4

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New comment by stingrae in "xAI joins SpaceX"

stingrae — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:43:32 +0000

arbitrarily large means like measured in square km. Starcloud is talking about 4km x 4km area of solar panels and radiative cooling. (https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/starcloud/)

Building this is definitely not trivial and not easy to make arbitrarily large.

New comment by stingrae in "New YC homepage"

stingrae — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 01:43:32 +0000

yeah i think the scroll speed is too fast. that would fix all the issues.

New comment by stingrae in "Keeping 20k GPUs healthy"

stingrae — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:40:47 +0000

seems like it would be an issue for building datacenters in space/orbit

New comment by stingrae in "Brex is joining forces with Capital One"

stingrae — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:15:35 +0000

in more direct words: Brex acquired by Capital One for $5.15B.

New comment by stingrae in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

stingrae — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:07:48 +0000

raemond.com