Hacker News: travisporter

New comment by travisporter in "Tesla presented misleading 'Full Self-Driving' safety data to European regulator"

travisporter — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:10:14 +0000

Great! I'm glad it works. I have tried it and have come off impressed. Why can't Tesla accept liability for accidents then and call this level 3? Also, look up the settlements for ASS

New comment by travisporter in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

travisporter — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:56:40 +0000

Sir, please make it easy to break the twitter/x moat. Why don't we have an app that just posts to all the socials like bluesky/mastodon/threads etc

New comment by travisporter in "Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses"

travisporter — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:24:37 +0000

OP also says "This would be a valid concern if..." so, no need to defend these poor massive businesses who also screwed us with shrinkflation for five years.

New comment by travisporter in "Germany Moves Closer to a Social Media Ban for Those Under 16"

travisporter — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:56:38 +0000

comment made me think! I'm old so this was true since youtube didn't get big until i was in my 30s, so maybe it is a good thing :)

New comment by travisporter in "Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?"

travisporter — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:52:35 +0000

I can go on Gemini, claude, mistral, (and even chatgpt) for free (even through a VPN), so they are definitely not profitable for me as they are not getting anything from me. are you saying subscriptions are subsidizing me?

New comment by travisporter in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

travisporter — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:48:42 +0000

Spitballing here, why not shred these clothes as filler for insulation instead of literally burning them? PFAS and fiber inconsistencies as these clothes are probably a hodgepodge of all sorts of chemicals, so they probably need to be characterized. I think chemical recycling is also being looked into.

New comment by travisporter in "Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, more than expected"

travisporter — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:16:14 +0000

I think looking at the top 5% of wealth, not just taxpayers, may open up the conversation on both sides

New comment by travisporter in "Aptera's First Solar Road Trip. 300 Miles, One Charge"

travisporter — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 14:39:39 +0000

Agreed, I'd make the same argument as parent for a Harley. It's not my cup of tea, loud, impractical, and a gas guzzler, but it clearly appeals to a bunch of people. Give things a chance for goodness sake. Aptera never claimed you don't need to charge.

New comment by travisporter in "Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?"

travisporter — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 01:22:36 +0000

Oh wow thank you yes I did

New comment by travisporter in "Explainer: What's r1 and everything else?"

travisporter — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 14:23:14 +0000

But Anthropic is a French company isn’t that in the EU

New comment by travisporter in "Citations on the Anthropic API"

travisporter — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:58:02 +0000

I’ve been away from this space for about a year - is Claude still better at coding tasks?

New comment by travisporter in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

travisporter — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:35:41 +0000

My issue is more with the CDC. Are there state institutions that can take up the slack locally? Asking for a friend with kids who wants to move to a place with a lower risk of getting measles

New comment by travisporter in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

travisporter — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:32:11 +0000

If there is a new pandemic soon we will see it without any question. Hurricanes were redirected on a whim.

New comment by travisporter in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

travisporter — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:30:28 +0000

Agree with pausing hiring and causal expenditures. Why block external communication? What does that do

New comment by travisporter in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

travisporter — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:27:13 +0000

No they listened about TikTok

New comment by travisporter in "NIH hit with freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring"

travisporter — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:21:29 +0000

Truly sad that I believed you were being genuine for a second

New comment by travisporter in "Nokia's internal presentation after iPhone was launched (2007) [pdf]"

travisporter — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:00:50 +0000

What about Hyundai? They also went big on EVs and now are competing even in China

New comment by travisporter in "How I program with LLMs"

travisporter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 16:57:50 +0000

> I got into this profession simply because I could Ctrl-Z to the previous step much more easily than my then favourite chemical engineering goals.

That is interesting. Asking as a complete ignoramus - is there not a way to do this now? Like start off with a 100 of reagent and at every step use a bit and discard if wrong

New comment by travisporter in "My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking"

travisporter — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 02:11:39 +0000

Yeah agreed. Really a ton of kids with tablets everytime I go out for dinner

New comment by travisporter in "China is the manufacturing superpower"

travisporter — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 14:09:26 +0000

That sense to be possible thesis esp given a comment earlier about china effectively laundering some goods to countries with deficits to china