Hacker News: tims33

New comment by tims33 in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

tims33 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:32:35 +0000

$50B is <2% of Amazon's market cap. There is no reason to believe the difference in the two investments drove this disclosure.

New comment by tims33 in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

tims33 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:04:36 +0000

Are you sure about that? From Mollie's webiste:

Mollie B.V. is licensed and registered as an electronic money institution with the Dutch Central Bank (relationship number: F0038). Mollie UK Ltd is licensed and registered with the Financial Conduct Authority as a payment institution in the UK (FRN: 977968).

New comment by tims33 in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

tims33 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:21:16 +0000

I think we're going to see a ton of this in the coming years. A return to the 60s/70s when people were going off the grid, moving to a farm, or just disconnecting

New comment by tims33 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

tims33 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:56:25 +0000

Sure, but nowhere near as easy as filling a dispute on most other payment networks.

New comment by tims33 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

tims33 — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:48:49 +0000

iDeal is terrible for fraud. Consumers have to file a police report.

New comment by tims33 in "NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle"

tims33 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:39:17 +0000

The specifics of the article zero sense. Net Income and Operating Cash Flow are not the same thing so there is no mystery about whey they are different especially in a business with large Capex and long lead times.

NVIDIA's historic DSO figures have also ranged from 41 to 57 over the last 5 years, so again not that crazy.

New comment by tims33 in "Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road"

tims33 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:29:34 +0000

Exactly the same. I loved Dharma Bums much more as a book, but On the Road certainly changed the course of my life. I'd always been made to wander, but never fully understood it.

New comment by tims33 in "19% of California houses are owned by investors"

tims33 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:17:42 +0000

But it is also the largest state with the most expensive home so on a $ weighted basis it is a big chunk of the national total.

New comment by tims33 in "IBM orders US sales to locate near customers, RTO for cloud staff, DEI purge"

tims33 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 16:00:59 +0000

“Cloud”

New comment by tims33 in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

tims33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:05:17 +0000

Is allowing them to impose the same kind of restrictions in their US app as they do for their own citizens good for free speech?

New comment by tims33 in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

tims33 — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 19:14:54 +0000

I agree with everything you're saying, but I also can't fully square up that the equivalent American apps aren't allowed in China. This is about freedom of speech on app built by a country that has no freedom of speech. I realize this point is orthogonal, but is still an important element of the decision.

New comment by tims33 in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

tims33 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 20:39:46 +0000

Agree. Social and emotional development is a real thing. I think most students (especially boys) are better off being more challenged in their age-appropriate grade-level than skipping.

New comment by tims33 in "The IPv6 Transition"

tims33 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:27:57 +0000

What do you see as the key points that create a lot more value?

New comment by tims33 in "GM to Cut More Than 1k Software Engineers, Mostly in US"

tims33 — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 04:09:47 +0000

Probably just increasing the number of Accenture and Infosys offshore engineers and H1Bs they're using. Most of these jobs are probably old school IT.

New comment by tims33 in "Launch HN: Undermind (YC S24) – AI agent for discovering scientific papers"

tims33 — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 23:14:55 +0000

Just in case you needed a theme song for your future ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnMvULdcB4

New comment by tims33 in "Only 2% of Tesla Full Self-Driving trial users end up buying it"

tims33 — Tue, 14 May 2024 17:30:01 +0000

It was fun to use while it was free, but not worth continuing. City driving was terrible and disconnected frequently. Highway driving is pretty nice, but not that much better than the adaptive cruise control that is free or the cruise control on my Subaru.

New comment by tims33 in "Jeff Lawson buys The Onion"

tims33 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 04:07:55 +0000

"Dad Suggests Arriving At Airport 14 Hours Early" is my all-time fav.

https://www.theonion.com/dad-suggests-arriving-at-airport-14...

New comment by tims33 in "Seismologists suspect earthquake on San Andreas Fault is imminent"

tims33 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:03:58 +0000

Funny. In with the roar of multiple paragraphs spent explaining all the reasons this spot will be the next big one. And then out with a quick whimper that the scientists are not convicted.

New comment by tims33 in "Windows XP 2024 Edition is everything I want from a new OS"

tims33 — Sun, 07 Jan 2024 18:10:03 +0000

It feels even clunkier now in this video than it did when it came out.

New comment by tims33 in "My startup crossed $2M/yr and now co-founder is going for a power grab"

tims33 — Mon, 29 May 2023 03:15:30 +0000

> CEO and COO said that didn't want to get involved and it was for me and CUXO to sort it out ourselves.

It seems like they're sending you a signal that the CUXO's argument has at least some merit. Last time they were aligned with you and this time they're telling you to sort it out yourself. Ask the CEO and COO is they have some feedback for you that they're holding back on.