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New comment by ymolodtsov in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

ymolodtsov — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 21:44:09 +0000

That would sound very reasonable except this is the same what people said first about Windows and then Android crushing Apple.

And yet it's Apple that controls the top of the market and has the best margins in the business.

This is the same position OpenAI and Anthropic have right now.

Could this market be different? Maybe. But the status quo could be preserved as well.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "The kids with phones are alright"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:25:59 +0000

> What do we do when we know that social media it not healthy for kids Who said we know?

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:24:36 +0000

Tons of people believe it's a waste of money though (I disagree).

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:24:08 +0000

Nobody enjoys paying for one though.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:23:35 +0000

YouTube empowers millions of creators around the world.

It's more about the fact that at a sufficiently large scale any platform faces the same issues. Some creators are terrible without breaking the rules, people argue, etc.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:22:24 +0000

Few founders do this and the ones who do are solving their own problems. For Anthropic it's primarily hiring.

But as a PR person I can guarantee you it's not possible to go around such perception shifts through money alone.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

ymolodtsov — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 07:50:48 +0000

Yes, but what do you use in life? What's on your watch?

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Alternate clock designs and time systems"

ymolodtsov — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:15:42 +0000

On the Moon or even Mars it's a bit irrelevant because you're not following the Sun anyway.

But let's talk sci-fi: what if there is a habitable colony where the day is 26h30m. What do you actually do?

New comment by ymolodtsov in "The tech of 'Terminator 2' – an oral history (2017)"

ymolodtsov — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:09:11 +0000

The preview they released is so smudged though, like they tried to denoize it.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Grok 4.5"

ymolodtsov — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:04:05 +0000

They only struggle to make a profit because of investments into their future, basically: training, aggressive hiring of AI researchers. Anthropic seems to have 90% margin on their API pricing and all enterprise customers have to use this.

And the reason they can do this is because they can create a $1Tr company in 5 years, so they know the investment will pay off.

Why Elon wants his own model so much is a good question with many possible answers, but if Cursor/xAI can produce a truly good model at competitive pricing I don't see why many people won't jump on it.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Show HN: Neil the Seal Game"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:07:00 +0000

Neil broke them already damnit

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Om Malik has died"

ymolodtsov — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:59:16 +0000

It's not the government workers, it's non-profits getting grants from the government.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Om Malik has died"

ymolodtsov — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:54:11 +0000

In many other regions of the world if you ask someone to connect you with a potential investor they demand a success fee. In SV, they do not. Because they're playing a very long iterated game and understand, that even if they don't make a bank themselves, knowing future-successful people will be a great benefit.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:09:41 +0000

Existing instances don't get a new price until you resize them.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

ymolodtsov — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:08:57 +0000

Not sure. They were cheaper than DigitalOcean, to the point where 1 DO instance cost would give you 3 on Hetzner, but now they're at parity, and DO seems to have a better product.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

ymolodtsov — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:34:23 +0000

Not for me at least, I had to fire up the console and try creating a new server.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

ymolodtsov — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:30:11 +0000

I don't care about inequality, I care about the median.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)"

ymolodtsov — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:29:46 +0000

It'd be great if Electron itself became a core part of the OS. Tauri is closer to this on MacOS because it tries to use WebKit but not enough.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

ymolodtsov — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:03:12 +0000

I think you tried to narrow down my general statement. What I'm saying is: not all countries and their regulatory bodies are equal. India is a pretty top-down country with quite a protectionist policy.

New comment by ymolodtsov in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

ymolodtsov — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:56:36 +0000

Not all countries and their regulatory bodies are equal.