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antoniuschan99··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
They are selling picks and shovels in a gold rush.

The main consumerisation of their products are Dots or Duet. Which are similar to Meta Muse or Grokbot.

On the Enterprise-side Anthropic has partnered with Salesforce with Claudeforce.

antoniuschan99··on TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression
It could turn a 1M context system to a 4M context system. TurboQuant-style KV-cache compression makes longer context windows cheaper to serve. Not exactly sure how much increase in context size though.
antoniuschan99··on Bitcoin's Security Budget Transition: From Subsidy to Sustainability
Bitcoin’s early growth was driven by capital-base asymmetry, engineered scarcity, and reflexive adoption. As issuance declines over coming decades, the network transitions from a subsidy-supported growth phase to a maturity phase where security must be sustained by fee demand, price stability, or structural evolution. By 2040, Bitcoin’s long-term security budget becomes the central economic test. The article explores three potential equilibria: a fee-dominant sovereign settlement layer, convergence with gold as a reserve anchor, or perpetual issuance models such as tail emission — while acknowledging the political constraints around altering Bitcoin’s monetary design.
antoniuschan99··on GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks
How is the web search functionality? I have only used deepseek to lower costs from gpt api but had to incorporate a serper to actually do web searches
antoniuschan99··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Before the invasion, influence and control was iraqi state owned. Afterwards, it was controlled by the US government up to ~2011. Then the western oil companies had influence. So sure they didn’t use it but they can dictate where it goes.
antoniuschan99··on Silver rises 9% to hit fresh record high
Spot Silver has decoupled from Shanghai India and London. It’s diverged to ~$8.
antoniuschan99··on Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price
Will be interesting. Also the Paramount Skydance takeover bid is still pending. Paramount is ~15 billion market cap and the deal for Warner is ~77 billion.
antoniuschan99··on Perpetual futures, explained
Also interesting that tether is the private largest holder of gold at 14 billion $ xaust
antoniuschan99··on SpaceX in Talks for Share Sale That Would Boost Valuation to $800B
Here’s a good infographic on how dominant SpaceX is in the launch market

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1iarntp/orbit...

antoniuschan99··on Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy
It’s about productivity and increasing it to be more competitive against other nations. Look at South Korea. No natural resources so post war plans was to base the future on human capital. It’s why the density and workforce is concentrated in Seoul.
antoniuschan99··on Meta readies $25B bond sale as soaring AI costs trigger stock sell-off
AI build out is more of an extension of datacenter build out though. All the hyperscalers lead AI build out.

Fiber dailed because the telcos overbuilt and demand lagged. When Amazon introduced AWS it succeeded right away because there was lots of demand.

Jeff Bezos Ted Talk 2003 - https://youtu.be/vMKNUylmanQ

antoniuschan99··on [dead]
Waiting for Grok to be CEO. It got Linda to step down
antoniuschan99··on WiFi signals can measure heart rate
Try using this you just need an esp32 devkit nodemcu style pcb. It measures movement though.

https://github.com/espressif/esp-csi

antoniuschan99··on SpaceX's giant Starship Mars rocket nails critical 10th test flight
Just look at their launch cadence for falcon 9.

https://www.spacex.com/launches

It’s a bunch of starlink missions. With some dedicated and rideshare missions.

antoniuschan99··on Building the mouse Logitech won't make
I been using these mini pan frying skillets for years for prototype boards. <$2. An IR thermometer with a laser is handy during the process.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005008863940082.html

And here is the cheap hot air rework station I use. <$15

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005989227215.html

You can even opt out of the stencil but I never do cuz it's much easier than not having it.

antoniuschan99··on Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug
Hiit yoga too. Also in a hot room too.
antoniuschan99··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
In order for any of that glass design to look like glass there needs to be a background with a mix of at least 3 colors. I implemented the glass design in an app last year and afterwards thought it was ok. It makes some text difficult to read depending on the background.
antoniuschan99··on Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production
Hopefully p4 will be released soon too!
antoniuschan99··on Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance
Bytedance is signalling it wants to compete against vscode for ide marketshare.

Wondering if it is a fork of vscode though because right now it will be competing against cursor.

antoniuschan99··on Two fire experts interviewed about L.A. wildfires
I think the Santa Ynez reservoir being empty is probably the issue how the Pallisades fires got out of control
antoniuschan99··on 3 years ago, VCs in Bay Area tech were thriving. Now, they're 'bleeding cash.'
Early 2010 was people developing on mobile platforms. I remember 2010 was when Skype finally had video calls on mobile cellular.

I think 2014- was probably when things got more dynamic. Mobile was starting to mature, it was right before the crypto pump, iot was developing, and there were some big buy outs with whatsapp, oculus and viber.

Also, I’d say that was around the time the everything store of Amazon started gaining mainstream adoption.

antoniuschan99··on SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing
they carried a banana this time :)
antoniuschan99··on Lessons from My First Exit
Congrats on the sale! Wondering what your thoughts are of these extremely low cost kvm’s from Sipeed (NanoKVM)?

Do you think that allows you to expand your market since the hardware is cheaper as you maintain great user experience? Or does that force you to go upmarket as hobbyists need only the minimal feature set?

A lot of very cheap risc-v boards like milk-v duo sbc are available now

antoniuschan99··on Free Starship Booster catching arcade game
Here's level 20 https://imgur.com/a/xqbjwPt

Godspeed IFT-5

antoniuschan99··on Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
They just announced Quest 3s and it’s $299 :$
antoniuschan99··on Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book
Imagine this being one of the first instances of AI being sentient? The author being an AI releasing random stuff like the book.
antoniuschan99··on ESP32-S3 has a few SIMD instructions
I think that’s totally fine. Might actually be the future direction. But yea would’ve been nice to have wifi/bt integrated.

Eg if you want 5ghz then use c5, or if you want some wifi-6 so c6, etc.

Also here’s a talk by them on how to use esp as a wifi coprocessor https://youtu.be/g14aEjnjRLw?si=TgkEyJJ2_L_Shuom

There’s also adafruit airlift https://www.adafruit.com/product/4201

antoniuschan99··on A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter
I see it more like how we have flip phones now. It’s similar but not the same.

I started working post Ajax using jQuery using Java JSP’s (2010).

antoniuschan99··on Ask HN: How to improve PCB prototyping iteration time?
I think that has changed? You can now send components to them that don’t exist at lcsc?
antoniuschan99··on Bitcoin Block 840000
How does that work? It seems to make a lot of sense in Lebanon as they were freezing or only allowing $150 a month withdrawals. Do people really self custody their funds? When they need local currency they just go to the bitcoin atm’s to withdraw? Also fees would be somewhat high so do they use something Monero?
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