Hacker News: thefounder

New comment by thefounder in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

thefounder — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:51:01 +0000

If you buy Mac get at least 256GB ram otherwise just buy a bunch of nvidia cards. It really does not make sense otherwise if you are looking for performance / $. The mac (studio) is unique as it has more ram than the alternatives(I.e consumer nvidia cards or spark stuff) so it can fit bigger models but otherwise its performance is worse.

New comment by thefounder in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

thefounder — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:47:39 +0000

Something is very wrong in some countries if you have to get police protection to sell a f* computer. I get it’s on the expensive side but still….

New comment by thefounder in "The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets"

thefounder — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:04:20 +0000

Can it catch Trump?

New comment by thefounder in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

thefounder — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:40:56 +0000

So he includes Go in a list of languages that apparently makes development slow and have “a build system that fought you” and then says python was the solution for all that. I think he got it backwards. I have found the Python build system horrific and broken by default while Go just works.

New comment by thefounder in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

thefounder — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:38:15 +0000

Why we have discussions about sexual orientation on programming languages? Could this really go any worse?

New comment by thefounder in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

thefounder — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:03:33 +0000

Cloud providers have incentives to release open source models but for some reasons this happens only in China. Amazon, Azure, Google benefit from open source models because people run them on their hardware.

New comment by thefounder in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

thefounder — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:36:53 +0000

So there must be a big story for the IPO….Remember that Tesla is still not selling actual/real self driving cars. I would say stock wise it would worth it to gable b/c Tesla did so well but SpaceX is being IPO-ed as it would have already have datacenters in space and ride hailing to Mars

New comment by thefounder in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

thefounder — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:19:15 +0000

Next year there will be Opus 4.5 level available on open source models so theoretically you may be able to run it locally but in reality it will be too expensive (i.e maybe 2 x max Studio 512GB ram each) for “normal” users.

New comment by thefounder in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

thefounder — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:37:54 +0000

I never felt Gemini was ever better than the OpenAI or Anthropic. I think it’s more on par with open source models than the top 2

New comment by thefounder in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

thefounder — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:06:39 +0000

I must admit that I’ve tried python in my early days and indentation was the main reason why I just didn’t pursue the language further. It felt just brittle and hard to read. Of course if I had be forced I would have probably managed to master it but I had the freedom to use whatever I wanted as programming language and python was just not an attractive option.(despite being seduced by its “zen” and all that. Felt like form over function design.

The “build”/run/deploy system was the other major issue. All the python versions, virtual env etc seemed like a mess. A compiled language is so much better(I.e Go, Rust etc) IMHO.

New comment by thefounder in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

thefounder — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:45:35 +0000

Does it have the indentation thing? That would be a no go for a lot of people

New comment by thefounder in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

thefounder — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:02:02 +0000

Maybe you shouldn’t drive that day. Tesla is not FSD. In case there is an accident you are the one responsible. Looking on a photo of your dog while Tesla is ramming into someone? Your day just got worse

New comment by thefounder in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

thefounder — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:03:29 +0000

A FSD vehicle is not supposed to require you to keep the hands on the wheel and be prepared at anytime to take over control. I would say Waymo has a FSD mode while Tesla has a death trap mode with its customers as the beta test drivers.

New comment by thefounder in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

thefounder — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:19:46 +0000

But eBay is just bad company with a bad reputation. Why would they buy it instead something like Etsy or make their own thing? If you would ask me what are the worst companies from the “old guard” I would name eBay and PayPal as prime suspects.

New comment by thefounder in "A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia"

thefounder — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:41:35 +0000

it does care about human rights but of course the national interest is first otherwise why they didn’t just support dictatorships in South Korea, West Germany, Japan, Taiwan etc ? The U.S is not great but is the best alternative. China, Russia and pretty bad because they don’t have freedom not even for their own people

New comment by thefounder in "Porsche will contest Laguna Seca in historic colors of the Apple Computer livery"

thefounder — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:50:51 +0000

I think now it would be confused with the lgb** flags

New comment by thefounder in "Mercedes-Benz commits to bringing back physical buttons"

thefounder — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:47:46 +0000

Little she knows that if she uses the “self driving” from Tesla she may get into a death trap.

New comment by thefounder in "A statement about why RightsCon 2026 will not take place in Zambia"

thefounder — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:43:12 +0000

Whether is a pretext or not is less important. I don’t mind if the U.S is overthrowing a dictatorship for his own interests while using democracy and human rights as a pretext if at least is trying to enforce a human rights and democracy agenda once the new gov and usually U.S does it with more or less success.

You can’t really expect people to go to war with no national interest. I think for a while democracy was more than a pretext as it helped the U.S keep away communism from its own shores.

New comment by thefounder in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

thefounder — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:23:37 +0000

the golden visas were banned in the EU last year https://amp.dw.com/en/eu-citizenship-no-longer-for-sale/a-72...

New comment by thefounder in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

thefounder — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:20:32 +0000

No, they just stop accepting immigrants.