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New comment by teepo in "Elevators"

teepo — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:01:51 +0000

I've never really liked Destination Dispatch elevators. Besides struggling to find the car I've been assigned to, sometimes you really have to hustle across the lobby to catch it. Then you also run into visitors that assume it's a normal car and can hit a floor button when the get in, only to realize they've walked into a car without buttons.

New comment by teepo in "Hunter-gatherers introduced fish to a mountain lake 7000 years ago"

teepo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:04:14 +0000

I have the same question - My guess is at that altitude, temperature, and under an ice sheet, and silt until the lake was drained. Here's the paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/in...

New comment by teepo in "John C. Dvorak has died"

teepo — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:13:51 +0000

I just spent an hour on-line reading that PC Magazine from December 1999. Amazing that it's over 227 pages. There's a piece on portable CD-RW drives, and the ads, the classifieds section, a lot to take in during that epoch at the end of the 90's. I miss those big spread ads from Compaq and CDW. But my favorite piece in this issue is the "technical excellence awards" feature. They highlight this new webapp called "Google": https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1999-12-14/page/110/mode/...

New comment by teepo in "CD sales growth outpaced vinyl in the first half of 2026"

teepo — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:10:16 +0000

I wonder if that is what itunes match protects against? I've paid for that service for a long time, but at this point not certain it has any value.

New comment by teepo in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

teepo — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:23:26 +0000

S&P Global link: https://www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/regulatory/article/-/vie...

K2 Airways Cargo 737 Crashes into Arabian Sea

teepo — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:38:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/flight-tracking-news/major-incident/k2-airways-cargo-737-accident/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859764

Points: 2

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New comment by teepo in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

teepo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:20:23 +0000

yeah i was interested as well. -$2.5B from $11B last year. However the analysts see it recovering quickly. If you put all the Trainium(N) chip investments aside as being all AI risk, they still have some good pipeline with the satellite internet stuff (Delta, JetBlue, Vodaphone).

New comment by teepo in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

teepo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:06:51 +0000

I assumed it was accompanied by an oral presentation or another report. I didn't look around enough to see if there is a transcript or anything though.

Smart lock maker Level has been gutted and its founders are out

teepo — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:09:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/957802/level-lock-layoffs-assa-abloy-kwikset-smart-lock-cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48691362

Points: 6

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Nvidia Announces BioNeMo Agent Toolkit

teepo — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:52:50 +0000

Article URL: https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-launches-bionemo-agent-toolkit-giving-ai-agents-the-tools-to-accelerate-scientific-discovery

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651224

Points: 3

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New comment by teepo in "The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map"

teepo — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:14:26 +0000

Also how I lose most Sid Meir Civilization[1] games.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization_(series)

New comment by teepo in "I want to live like Costco people"

teepo — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:09:42 +0000

My family and I recently completed this Costco 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle made by Dowdle Folk Art(1). And I have to say, I had a very similar feeling to what the author of this piece is describing. Lots of different people, all walks of life, and no words requiring a dictionary! (looking at you, "Contrapuntal")

(1)https://boardwalkpuzzles.com/products/costco-treasure-hunt-1...

New comment by teepo in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

teepo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:31:43 +0000

User: predict the 10 most populous cities in north america in 100 years.

talkie-1930 :The ten most populous cities in North America in 100 years hence will probably be--New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, and San Francisco.

New comment by teepo in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

teepo — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:52:25 +0000

I really resonate with this. I remember watching Comic Relief with Whoopie Goldberg as a kid, the whole show focused on homelessness in America, andshe said somthing like "why are we spending billions launching shuttles when people are sleeping on the streets?" That hit me hard. Especially because I was also the kid who was obsessed with space. It felt like a contradiction I couldn't square - I wasn't homeless, I think my school had books, but who remembers...

What shifted my thinking over tim was the actual numbers. NASA's entire budget during the shuttle era was roughly 1% of federal spending [1]. We chose to de-institutionalize heathcare which really impacted homelessness. We didn't have to, but it was choice. And we could of done both. The failure was our leaders choosing not to, and that choice had nothing to do with NASA.

And the shuttle era, for all its problems, gave us Hubble. That single telescope showed us the universe is 13.8 billion years old, that expansion is accelerating, that nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center. The shuttle crews serviced it five times to keep it running. I think it's hard to overstate what that one instrument did for our understanding of the universe.

I don't think the instinct you had as a kid was wrong at all! - And thanks for helping me re-activate some neurons- Whoopi made a real impession on me came from a real place. But I think we're lucky enough to live in a world where people fight to fix things on the ground and also point telescopes at the sky.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

New comment by teepo in "Launch HN: Voygr (YC W26) – A better maps API for agents and AI apps"

teepo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:47:38 +0000

Why not go with V'ger? Seems like a missed opportunity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek_characters_(...

New comment by teepo in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

teepo — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:51:06 +0000

Depending on the gas station... I've been to at least a dozen in Texas where the clerk scanned the back of my DL for proof of age. I'm assuming that something is getting stored somewhere..

New comment by teepo in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

teepo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:23:37 +0000

IRWN — Immersion, Rinse, Warm, Notify

New comment by teepo in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

teepo — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 21:50:41 +0000

I did a similar one for predicting "The Onion" headlines: https://sethjano.github.io/fun-scripts/

New comment by teepo in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

teepo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:54:39 +0000

I think that a show like Westworld is a great example of the realities of the streaming era. If HBO kept streaming it on HBO Max it probably costs them $2-4 million in residual liabilities. HBO removed dozens of scripted shows during that phase, and had a mandate to cut around $3B in post merger costs.

After Year 1, WGA/SAG residual formulas decrease: Year 2: ~80% of Year 1 Year 3: ~55% Year 4+: sometimes stabilize at a “floor” rate

So what did they do? They ran it for a few years, ran the numbers, realized that Westworld was no longer profitable on the platform. (Profitable would have to mean draws enough new subscribers to the platform). AND THEN - Warner Bros. Discovery made new deals with other platforms with ads. I think you can still find Westworld on Tubi and other ad-supported platforms that actually pay Warner licensing fees.

New comment by teepo in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

teepo — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:46:42 +0000

often around here in texas, when the gas is turned off due to an issue, the gas company disables the meter, or even removes or bypasses it. And I live in gas land, where we have natural gas piped in to the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry, outside for grills, as well as the furnace. We've seen it a lot, if you call the gas company about smelling gas, they come and remove your gas meter until you hire a plumber to go find the leak.