<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tqi</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tqi</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 01:03:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tqi" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Bolt CEO says he let go of HR team for creating problems that didn't exist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool to see that lack of object permanence does not prevent one from becoming CEO.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 21:37:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214508</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would pay to see no more than 50 posts per account per year in my feed.<p>(And 0 replies)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 23:01:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187039</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48187039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the about page, this author states that they produce "original reporting and commentary on the criminal justice system and civil liberties." I really think it is a mistake to blur that line. These days it feels like you can pretty reliably predict what narrative a journalist will present on any given story based on their individual poltics.<p>How can you reasonably expect to be viewed as an objective reporter of facts if you also are acting as a commentator trying to shape public opinion?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 22:56:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186986</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186986</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How can something be simultaneously useless to the average person and likely to create massive joblessness?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 04:45:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175672</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Most Americans don't trust AI – or the people in charge of it (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Turns out media fear mongering for clicks works</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 03:44:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175334</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175334</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The honest first question is: what data platform are you already standardized on? If your analytics warehouse is Snowflake, the answer is Snowflake Postgres or no managed cloud-native PG...<p>Wait, who is picking an operational data stack after they decide on an analytics stack?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 23:05:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115747</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115747</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is your objection just to the bloat, or also to what the bloat is for?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 03:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031666</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Show HN: Site Mogging"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Four(?) years ago this could have been a PhD thesis project</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 23:39:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981767</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well it's 5-10 minutes once you get to the west 30th st heliport, which can easily take 20 minutes within Manhattan. Plus getting loaded in, cleared for takeoff, and potential for backups at the landing pads, I suspect the gains are much less in practice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:59:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957923</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>JFK airtrain carries about 30K passengers per weekday in 2025. how many landing pads would be needed to carry a meaningful % of that traffic alone?</p>
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<p>> solve tons of problems<p>I'm skeptical that air taxis could ever meaningfully reduce traffic congestion to / from JFK. Compared to cars, these would seem to require a significantly larger landing pad and passenger unloading space and need much more safety margin in-between drop offs. Maybe this is competitive vs the private helicopter market?</p>
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<p>The time part reminded me of the old WWVB radio time signals.<p>If/when that goes away, I wonder if it will be cheaper to use a gps chip to make "self setting" clocks, or if everything will just be wifi connected.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:43:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867580</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47867580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Graphs that explain the state of AI in 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The report estimates that training the latest frontier large language models, such as xAI’s Grok 4, can generate over 72,000 tons of carbon-equivalent emissions.<p>That seems pretty trivial, relative to 38bn per year globally?</p>
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<p>> Claude doesn't ask you to define an attribution model. It doesn't open a whiteboard. It runs [query]"<p>Why is that a good thing? Claude didn't ask any obvious follow up questions, like what determined whether a user got an email or not? It is using the ab test terminology in Step 3 without any kind of confirmation that this is, you know, a valid test.</p>
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<p>This is maybe beside the point but it annoys me how many CEOs wax poetic about "locking in" and "grindset" but then seem to have infinite time for bullshit side projects like owning an NBA team.</p>
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<p>Not really, the same study could be done with giving people a calculator to do long division. How much participants bother to check the work is a function of 1) their expectations for how accurate the tool is 2) how much time they are afforded 3) what the upside of additional accuracy is. Just because they largely default to accepting the answers at face value doesn't mean they are experiencing "cognitive surrender", and doesn't mean calculators are some 4th system of thinking.</p>
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<p>Doesn't sound like there was any incentive to get the answer right, so why would anyone bother fact checking AI answers. These marketing researchers are basically trying to rebrand path of least resistance to be a new thing?<p>On brand for Wharton I guess.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:11:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656907</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Despite what the folks here like to believe about themselves, I think the reality is we as attuned to what is in fashion and on trend as everyone else, just about different stuff. Last year it was Chatgpt, this year Claude is the new hotness. Things move so fast we barely have time to form our own opinion, so we fall back on what we read or hear from others. In 12 months who knows what it will be... Gemini? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯<p>Long term, my feeling is Anthropic's focus on enterprise is the most obviously lucrative but also least defensible application of LLMs. If (more likely when) open source models reach the point of being "good enough" then it's a race to the bottom on pricing. Maybe it will be like AWS vs GCP et al, but I kinda doubt it.</p>
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<p>That is my understanding as well, but I see it so often and stuff changes so quickly it's hard to tell what is real.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521967</link><dc:creator>tqi</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tqi in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Where would you put 24x7 political content?</p>
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