Hacker News: thekyle

New comment by thekyle in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

thekyle — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:57:18 +0000

If the goal is to reduce the number of vacant homes, then why not create a tax on those specifically. Corporate owned homes and vacant homes are not the same thing at all.

New comment by thekyle in "Understanding traffic"

thekyle — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:03:19 +0000

I think it's worth pointing out that congestion pricing is a policy that already exists in several cities around the world including New York City.

New comment by thekyle in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

thekyle — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:25:50 +0000

I think big box stores are popular largely because it would be inconvenient to drive between many smaller shops just to find the same variety of goods. It’s the same dynamic we see with car-dependent shopping malls, where the main advantage is being able to park once and visit multiple stores. If instead you had to re-park at each individual store, the experience would be far less convenient.

But if a town is designed to be fully walkable so that people can easily walk from store to store (similar to the experience of shopping inside a indoor mall), then I think the appeal of large one-stop-shop stores is greatly reduced.

200k weekly Waymo rides and counting

thekyle — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 01:24:29 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Waymo/status/1895189359600771169

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43200562

Points: 1

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New comment by thekyle in "Automated reasoning to remove LLM hallucinations"

thekyle — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:04:11 +0000

I tried this one with ChatGPT o1 and it seemed to get it right

> The surgeon is the boy’s biological father. While the woman injured in the accident is the boy’s biological mother, the surgeon is his father, who realizes he cannot operate on his own son.

https://chatgpt.com/share/674fc638-cd0c-8012-a4c4-9f1cad2040...

Driver: GPT-V and OCR Screen Control

thekyle — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 22:23:44 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rogeriochaves/driver

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38648173

Points: 1

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New comment by thekyle in "Yandex ‘leak’ reveals search ranking factors"

thekyle — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:49:49 +0000

It's interesting that they consider the presence of ads and the presence of Yandex ads as separate factors. I wonder if this implies a priority for pages with Yandex ads.

New comment by thekyle in "MusicLM: Generating Music from Text"

thekyle — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:04:54 +0000

I found that they worked for me in Chrome, but not in Safari

New comment by thekyle in "Slack is the opposite of organizational memory (2018)"

thekyle — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 23:51:01 +0000

Here is a Python library that basically does that: https://gpt-index.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/readers...

New comment by thekyle in "Wolfram Alpha and ChatGPT"

thekyle — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:31:34 +0000

OpenAI already taught GPT-3 to perform web searches and look for answers in the results, so I'm pretty sure that using a calculator would be very doable.

https://openai.com/blog/webgpt/

New comment by thekyle in "Money, money, money (and investing) (2015)"

thekyle — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:47:24 +0000

It is true that about 10% of large cap mutual funds beat the S&P 500 over a 10 year period (see the latest SPIVA study). At 20 years it goes down to about 5% that will beat the S&P 500.

https://imgur.com/saiuwNn

New comment by thekyle in "Tor Browser 12.0"

thekyle — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:43:29 +0000

I believe the Tor feature of Brave is an optional setting, so I assume only a small fraction of their MAU use it.

New comment by thekyle in "AI Homework"

thekyle — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 19:16:20 +0000

I think everyone has been able to tell convincing lies for quite some time before language models even existed.

New comment by thekyle in "Instagram Is Over"

thekyle — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 17:46:26 +0000

If you use one of those smaller paid email providers you can still interact with people who use Gmail. If you tried to create a small Instagram competitor it's unlikely that Facebook would ever agree to federate with you.

New comment by thekyle in "U.S. FBI director says TikTok poses national security concerns"

thekyle — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 05:28:36 +0000

I would argue ransomware is improving U.S. security by providing a direct financial incentive for institutions to improve their cybersecurity.

New comment by thekyle in "Show HN: Nudges.fyi – simple, unmissable reminders via phone/text/email"

thekyle — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:42:21 +0000

I think the pricing is alright. If for $7.99/mo someone can effectively solve their procrastination problem that seems totally worth it. Comparing it to the pricing on something like OmniFocus which is $9.99/mo, seems like there is a market of people willing to pay for this type of software.

New comment by thekyle in "FCC: TikTok is unacceptable security risk and should be removed from app stores"

thekyle — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 15:39:42 +0000

The way I see it is that the main difference between FANG and TikTok is that the FANG companies do not have any incentive to sow distrust and division in the United States through highly targeted propaganda, however, TikTok being effectively controlled by the CCP does.

New comment by thekyle in "Stripe Financial Connections"

thekyle — Wed, 04 May 2022 18:22:10 +0000

I know that Charles Schwab has some sort of OAuth flow which I used when connecting my account to TurboTax this year.

New comment by thekyle in "Windows needs a change in priorities"

thekyle — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 03:40:52 +0000

> allows you to ungroup windows of the same application in the dock

I believe that feature was also recently removed in Windows 11

New comment by thekyle in "Ask HN: E2E Encrypted Messaging App that doesn't reveal phone number?"

thekyle — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 02:09:25 +0000

There is an app called Session which I think uses the Signal protocol under the hood. It doesn't depend on phone numbers at all.

https://getsession.org/