Hacker News: whazor

New comment by whazor in "Swiss voters reject proposal to cap population at ten million"

whazor — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:14:25 +0000

maybe next time it will be 11M

New comment by whazor in "Raress96/Dolby-Atmos-encoder: PoC Dolby Atmos encoder"

whazor — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:32:14 +0000

The goal is in the first paragraph: "aim was to let consumer gear that can't bitstream TrueHD Atmos render real object-based Atmos with height."

Summary is also clear: ffmpeg doesnt have channel coupling and proprietary cryptographic blocks it.

I was once wondering what would be the problem of doing such a project. Now it's clear to me what problems I would run into and I don't have to burn my tokens.

What answers are actually unclear for you?

New comment by whazor in "Electric motors with no rare earths"

whazor — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:07:50 +0000

Not sure how familiar you are with Renault, but “maintenance problems” pretty much sums up a lot of older Renaults.

New comment by whazor in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

whazor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:57:07 +0000

But using AI itself is a job too. It takes effort to correctly prompt, to steer it, to verify it, and to improve the harness.

New comment by whazor in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

whazor — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:20:43 +0000

It would be like Samsung: Samsung does semiconductors, smartphones, displays, TVs, appliances, batteries, shipbuilding, construction, insurance, hotels, and even theme parks.

New comment by whazor in "Software is made between commits"

whazor — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:04:09 +0000

Seems like where anthropic or openai want to go, there are no editors anymore.

I personally want better read-only code tools, or maybe the return of UML?

New comment by whazor in "Claude Fable 5"

whazor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:18:31 +0000

I think all models can find vulnerabilities if read the entire code base. Or intelligently combine parts of the codebase. Especially with test loops.

New comment by whazor in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

whazor — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:42:50 +0000

Most British people think Brexit is a failure.

For Switzerland it would be significantly worse since they are surrounded by Germany, France, Italy, and Austria. So all trucks would be stopped at border. Food prices are already super expensive and this would make it worse.

New comment by whazor in "MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production"

whazor — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:45:31 +0000

With remote virtual machines running Codex, your Mac is only rendering terminals.

New comment by whazor in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

whazor — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:01:48 +0000

I think you could argue Anthropic could be worth $1T. With AI becoming an essential work utility, every global knowledge worker would want a claude subscription. There are 650M to 1B of such office workers. 300M workers × $50/month × 12 = $180B/year. The genie is not going back into the bottle, I have seen what claude code can do when properly connected to tools.

But Micheals arguments are valid. There could be competition, or even local models, thus indeed becoming 'commoditized'.

New comment by whazor in "AI sticker shock hits corporate America"

whazor — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:41:45 +0000

It rather looks like chatgpt/antrophic enterprise tokens and API calls are too expensive. Competition is quite strong on openrouter.

However, the real problem is running wild with token burning. With parallel agents calling subagents you can burn lots of tokens per minute. Especially with thousands of engineers.

New comment by whazor in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

whazor — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:36:28 +0000

My agents are easily busy 30 min to a hour independently. Implementing their plan, building and running tests, verifying deployment, linting. So I switch between multiple agents. Each agent has its own branch and worktree.

New comment by whazor in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

whazor — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:39:31 +0000

Better would be for polymarket to block the purchase from countries where it doesnt have a license.

New comment by whazor in "Ferrari Luce"

whazor — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:47:08 +0000

The exterior looks like a sad compromise between aerodynamics and design. Though the white version looks least plasticky. That weird bumper looks like the consequence of getting a lower drag coefficient.

New comment by whazor in "Project Glasswing: An Initial Update"

whazor — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:48:36 +0000

I believe that the real difference is the token burning to analyze entire code bases.

New comment by whazor in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

whazor — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:51:53 +0000

A friend of mine works at big corporate. He is in meetings all the time and barely codes. For him a 20$ AI subscription is more than enough.

I'm personally at a fintech startup and have a 100$ subscription. Our org is much leaner and its much faster to ship stuff. What used to be entire departments or teams can now be done by two or three people. Three people to ensure we share context and have a decent tram factor.

New comment by whazor in "Google changes its search box"

whazor — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:58 +0000

Websites tend to be updated and considered to be the source as well.

New comment by whazor in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

whazor — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:50:36 +0000

i would be afraid of accidental prompt injection

New comment by whazor in "GenCAD"

whazor — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:38:52 +0000

Strangely, it would work better if it generates CAD as code with clear labels. Then you can grab your caliper and make sure its all the right size.

New comment by whazor in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

whazor — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:37:55 +0000

It says inspired by Pi, but I don't see any extension/plugin possibilities. The best feature of Pi is that an extension can hook anywhere and completely change the behavior. It also allows two extensions to stack on the same hook where there are no conflicts.

I believe Pi extensibility is the most important feature, exactly as how it was important for WordPress. WordPress won because anyone could install it and add the plugins they needed. WordPress also has the same hook system where multiple plugins can build on the same hook.

Companies will want to completely customize their agent harness so it optimally works for their situation.