Hacker News: vanshg

New comment by vanshg in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

vanshg — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:52:38 +0000

We already have: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/feb/02/elon-musk-sp...

New comment by vanshg in "Find SF parking cops"

vanshg — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:49:08 +0000

Explained here: https://walzr.com/sf-parking/about/

New comment by vanshg in "Perhaps acquiring Pixelmator is about competing with Creative Cloud"

vanshg — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 17:18:40 +0000

Apple has ads in their OS too. Inside Settings on iOS, they constantly push Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, AppleCare+, etc at the very top of Settings

New comment by vanshg in "Moments in Chromecast's history"

vanshg — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:53:44 +0000

Google TV is already the name of their software platform (based on the Android TV OS) that TVs run

New comment by vanshg in "OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster"

vanshg — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 23:39:47 +0000

In reinforcement learning, Q* represents the optimal action-value function

New comment by vanshg in "OpenAI negotiations to reinstate Altman hit snag over board role"

vanshg — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:01:47 +0000

He confirmed he's returning: https://twitter.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609

New comment by vanshg in "Google Pixel Fold"

vanshg — Wed, 10 May 2023 23:25:12 +0000

Samsung tested their original Galaxy Fold to 200,000 folds [0]. At a generous 100 folds per day, that's about 5.5 years.

[0] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14136/samsung-galaxy-fold-can...

New comment by vanshg in "Apple announces ‘upgrade’ to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points"

vanshg — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 19:26:17 +0000

That should be for the merchant to decide, though, not Apple

New comment by vanshg in "New GPT-3 model: text-DaVinci-003"

vanshg — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 02:09:30 +0000

Yes, it does rhyme in American English

New comment by vanshg in "Stable Diffusion 2.0"

vanshg — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 03:52:10 +0000

It doesn't need to be game-chaning to be considered V2. It just needs to be "the next version"

New comment by vanshg in "How Precision Time Protocol is being deployed at Meta"

vanshg — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:23:28 +0000

> It’s absolutely essential to ensure an open sky and install a solid stationary antenna

What effect, if any, might a major earthquake have on the time calculation?

New comment by vanshg in "The Browser Company’s Darin Fisher thinks it’s time to reinvent the browser"

vanshg — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 03:35:51 +0000

I've been using a new WebKit-based browser called Orion. It is super snappy, has compatibility with Chrome and Firefox extensions, has power-user features built-in, is privacy focused (collects 0 telemetry as a tenet -- they are donation based), and continues to add features at super fast pace. I highly recommend giving it consideration if you are looking to move away from Chrome.

Some features I love: tree-style tabs. cross-window pinned tabs. low power mode which auto suspends tabs. in place editing of websites. profiles are their own application instance. extensions work on iOS. per-page user-agent. built in notes. preventing auto-playing videos. all this while retaining a native macOS UX.

https://browser.kagi.com

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799049

New comment by vanshg in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

vanshg — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:23:57 +0000

I'm coming from the POV that a financial decision boiling down to one individual on behalf of some company is different than a purchase made by an individual

New comment by vanshg in "Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far"

vanshg — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 19:21:55 +0000

Could this be the largest purchase ever made by a singular individual?

New comment by vanshg in "Software I’m thankful for (2021)"

vanshg — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 19:48:23 +0000

If you want to avoid the rigamarole of self hosting, I recommend NextDNS. It's a paid DNS service with tons of customizability (i.e. Ad blocking) and visibility (i.e. logs)

New comment by vanshg in "Uber investigating breach of its computer systems"

vanshg — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 06:03:54 +0000

So that you're protected from data breaches of the service itself (e.g. revealing a reused password)

New comment by vanshg in "Dark Sky iOS app will no longer work from Dec 31"

vanshg — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 22:32:25 +0000

Apple now offers a WeatherKit REST API

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi

New comment by vanshg in "The end of the manual transmission is near?"

vanshg — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 03:07:33 +0000

That's exactly what Olympian Motors is doing. They're a YC company.

It's beautifully styled imo and has only physical controls inside

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/olympian-motors

https://olympianmotors.com/

New comment by vanshg in "Ask HN: Is my software stack choice sound?"

vanshg — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 15:37:23 +0000

Isn't this exactly what SQL is supposed to be for? Why not just submit SQL queries and get the response directly from the DB?

That is to say, what differentiates GraphQL from SQL?

New comment by vanshg in "Ford CEO says EVs will be sold 100% online with nonnegotiable price"

vanshg — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 03:07:08 +0000

Model S is aging in what aspect? It was just refreshed. Do you want change for the sake of change?