Hacker News: webninja

New comment by webninja in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

webninja — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:11:01 +0000

I think the measurable term for this is “Velocity of Money”.

New comment by webninja in "Ask HN: Is Claude Opus 4.8 broken?"

webninja — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:13:11 +0000

It’s unbearably slow, for sure. Not nearly as slow as Kimi K2.6 though. I’m trying to like 4.8 but I may go back to 4.6 again. Definitely won’t ever be using 4.7.

4.8 took a shortcut today. There was an error in my local LLM’s relay of thinking text. So it brilliantly decided to turn thinking off, neutering the model. Had to revert that nerf. That’s the same lazy behavior as 4.7. 4.6 would never.

New comment by webninja in "Donald Trump and sons to be 'forever' exempt from tax audits"

webninja — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:37:08 +0000

> US tax authorities will be barred from pursuing claims against Donald Trump, his eldest sons and the Trump Organization under an agreement to halt the president’s $10bn lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

> The pledge by the Department of Justice on Tuesday came a day after Trump agreed to settle his lawsuit against the IRS in exchange for the US government launching a $1.8bn fund for victims of alleged “lawfare”.

> A DoJ spokesperson told the FT that the decision to bar the IRS from pursuing claims against Trump was “only with respect to any existing audits”. “There would be little point in settling several significant claims if either party could simply turn around and seek to initiate more adverse claims that could have been pursued previously,” added the spokesperson. > Danny Werfel, an IRS commissioner under former president Joe Biden, noted, however, that he was “unaware of a single precedent where the IRS has agreed in advance to permanently forgo examination of previously filed tax returns for a specific person or business”.

First, what legal mistake did the IRS make that put them $1.8B to $10B in the wrong?

Second the article title is sensationalized and embellished. The article mentions only an exemption from past tax returns —- which have already been thoroughly examined with a fine toothed comb prior to Election Day.

During Presidential election season, this was healthy journalism because it helped make more informed voters, but at this point it’s just unhealthy harassment over a past settled case. If there was something to find, it would’ve already been found by now. Unless there’s something new, leave bro alone so he can do the job America democratically and dutifully elected him to do.

Owl Alpha – A free model for agentic workloads (prompts logged / closed-source)

webninja — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:43:06 +0000

Article URL: https://openrouter.ai/openrouter/owl-alpha

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084400

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Grok 4.3

webninja — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:44:09 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.x.ai/developers/models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080173

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Tencent used Anthropic's Claude to fine-tune it's new Hy3 AI model

webninja — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:35:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-companies-used-claude-improve-own-models-anthropic-says-2026-02-23/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942759

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Amazon to offer OpenAI models on AWS after Microsoft exclusivity ends

webninja — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:32:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/bedrock-openai-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942732

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road, According to Various Entities

webninja — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:03:31 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/chicken/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940730

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by webninja in "Samsung may post first-ever mobile division loss this year, blaming RAM crisis"

webninja — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:18:17 +0000

Are you astroturfing? The article you reference is 4 months older. In the Age of AI, that can mean about a 2x change.

I quit drinking for a year

webninja — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:26:03 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/drinking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929454

Points: 82

# Comments: 111

Samsung may post first-ever mobile division loss this year, blaming RAM crisis

webninja — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5google.com/2026/04/22/samsung-is-increasingly-worried-about-first-ever-mobile-division-loss-in-ram-crisis-report/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928822

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

Constellation Draw

webninja — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:52:06 +0000

Article URL: https://neal.fun/constellation-draw/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928805

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

webninja — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:47:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/software-engineering-may-no-longer-be-a-lifetime-career/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928775

Points: 10

# Comments: 5

New comment by webninja in "Nederland threatens Polymarket with €420K/week fines for unlicensed gambling"

webninja — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:26:43 +0000

A monopoly with lower profits threatens competitor. I mean, since you can write any law, just nationalize every wealthy company while you’re at it. What’s the worse the targeted company will do, sue?

New comment by webninja in "Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza"

webninja — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:42:38 +0000

What do they conclude about Russia?

New comment by webninja in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

webninja — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 02:06:04 +0000

During a democrat presidency, when the citizens complain about the ballooning debt and underfunded social programs like social security, I expect they will sell the stock. Not necessarily for those reasons but because Trump bought it and this was a convenient excuse.

New comment by webninja in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

webninja — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:52:48 +0000

That might not all be true. Another comment above here claims the shares came from Intel’s own unsold stock of shares thus not causing any dilution.

New comment by webninja in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

webninja — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:35:45 +0000

I visited a South American country where the water utility was recently sold to a private corporation. The home I briefly visited had a large water barrel inside because the water now shut off for many hours of the day, including the hours I was visiting.

New comment by webninja in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

webninja — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:28:13 +0000

How exactly are countries like Norway doing with their Sovereign Wealth Funds?

Does it provide its citizens with benefits?

New comment by webninja in "U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel"

webninja — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:21:46 +0000

Geez, they shouldn’t have downvoted you for expressing a positive viewpoint :/