Hacker News: thegreatpeter

New comment by thegreatpeter in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:41:26 +0000

Pretty cool I’ll take it. Thanks!

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Big Tech Isn't Hiding $1.65T of Debt"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:36:18 +0000

3-9% of revenue spread between 10 and 30 years

New comment by thegreatpeter in "USAA closed 51% of home insurance claims without making a payment in 2025"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:21:15 +0000

is it easy or hard to start an insurance company? why isn't there more competition when it comes to insurance?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:57:52 +0000

Medicare, social security and the interest on the debt are the 3 top federal spending categories

Social welfare is the top local spending category in many local/state governments

New comment by thegreatpeter in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:55:01 +0000

One person?

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

thegreatpeter — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:55:25 +0000

It’s an index fund. It must follow the index. They’re forced to buy any company in the SP500.

They are buying it at IPO pricing

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

thegreatpeter — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:29:42 +0000

yeah, by using codex

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:39:11 +0000

Let’s redirect the problem: it’s not the car, it’s the flooding! We should address that first

New comment by thegreatpeter in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"

thegreatpeter — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:11:12 +0000

perhaps they tried that and the staff wasn't willing to be trained. have you ever worked at a company like that of that size?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Why Japan has such good railways"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:49:59 +0000

most of the japanese railway system is private. their 2 largest companies are some of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.

New comment by thegreatpeter in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

thegreatpeter — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:55:21 +0000

what are the dodgy meds? it provides a discount at the pharmacy if you pay cash and skip insurance. are you from here?

New comment by thegreatpeter in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

thegreatpeter — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:53:48 +0000

have you seen some of the websites they've developed? they're actually quite nice. maybe joe hasn't gotten to mobile yet

edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/

New comment by thegreatpeter in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

thegreatpeter — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:29:14 +0000

You’re doing gods work sir, thank you!

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Colorado House passes bill to limit surveillance pricing and wage setting"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:18:05 +0000

“I absolutely agree that consumers and wage earners should not be exploited by the use of their data,” he said. “But it’s still overly broad and it’s still overly vague in very important parts. And I believe it’s overly simplistic in its definition of wage setting.”

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

thegreatpeter — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:36:16 +0000

Tesla’s manuals are all online and many of the parts sell for cost plus. You may be thinking of Ford and Toyota

New comment by thegreatpeter in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:23:53 +0000

There’s controlling competition in your own country and dominating global markets. Nothing wrong with either. It’s not like it’s not happening anywhere else in the world.

New comment by thegreatpeter in "How BYD got EV chargers to work almost as fast as gas pumps"

thegreatpeter — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:28:33 +0000

Definitely not bc these brands are being propped up by their government in order to flood world markets.

Everyone should be able to make a luxury 30k vehicle sustainably

New comment by thegreatpeter in "A ngrok-style secure tunnel server written in Rust and Open Source"

thegreatpeter — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:02:09 +0000

It should be monetized to support the long term commitment

New comment by thegreatpeter in "Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find"

thegreatpeter — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:01:03 +0000

You also have the option of buying low and increasing your share of the market

New comment by thegreatpeter in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

thegreatpeter — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:43:03 +0000

Retail investors do just fine fleecing themselves on their own

The term fleecing means „there’s nothing left here, jump ship”. Do you really believe they’re going public to cash out this early in the game?