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johntiger1on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

Yeah i'm no fan of Elon but starlink is actually quite useful. It solves a real problem - I need network access anywhere on the globe, for any reason, at any time. they can easily charge what they wish for that (military, air travel, desert tourists etc.)

johntiger1on Shall we play a game? My AI nuclear simulation

LLMs are creatures of statistics and probability - hard to enforce hard boundaries with them

johntiger1on Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

Google's only focus isn't on Gemini. Anthropic is do-or-die

johntiger1on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

https://bobalearn.org/

Site where you can read and generate graded Chinese stories, in order to learn Chinese. What's a graded story? It's one written with the vocab of a {X} year old. Words are often repeated, so that you can learn from the left-and-right context. I normally pay for book versions of these, so I thought, why not make one that's online and free?

johntiger1on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year

Yeah principal EM is confusing here. Wouldn't EM I report to EM II? At Meta it's typically M1 -> M2

johntiger1on Using AI to secure AI

who watches the watch man?

johntiger1on Open models by OpenAI

Wow, this will eat Meta's lunch

johntiger1on Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees

Yeah there was no need for an ad hominem there

johntiger1on Ask HN: If you've used GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Opus, which do you prefer?

There are definitely some shills all over HN now... But even aside from that, the sheer novelty aspect (+less robotic ethical alignment) of it is enough for many

johntiger1on New York State Department of Labor Warn Filing – April 1 Google Layoff [pdf]

Looks like 225 will be affected starting in April? Or has this already occurred?

johntiger1on U.S. students will take the SAT online

That sounds terrible; I often look away to the side when I am thinking..

johntiger1on U.S. students will take the SAT online

Can't her husband just stand in front of her, behind the laptop webcam? There's often ridiculously simple real-world workarounds these complex device security process

johntiger1on Meta outage

Ironically, Meta employees are also affected by this

johntiger1on Effects of Cuff Size on the Accuracy of Blood Pressure Readings

Yep, in medical school that's one of the first things we learn. In theory it is also best to measure in both arms (as well as one leg if you suspect a certain diagnosis)

johntiger1on More Americans can now get insulin for $35

Incredible that a drug discovered >100 years ago can still be used to price gouge Americans... Thankfully now there seems to be some semblance of rationality?

johntiger1on Ask HN: What are you using to accept payment for a simple SaaS?

Why not Square? Seems to be cheaper. Is the developer experience that much better with Stripe?

johntiger1on Astronomers detect almost 100 new extremely metal-poor galaxies

Honestly I considered this interpretation for far too long - "extremely-metal" but poor. Now what that means I don't know, but I thought it might have related to something an astronomer could tell me

johntiger1on Can a transformer represent a Kalman filter?

You also have the AISTATS paper prep page at the very bottom :)

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I think it's suspiciously low-engagement. But that might just reflect the HN population

johntiger1on Ask HN: Are you, your spouse or your children gifted?

Yes, according to some standardized test. But in practice, I don't consider myself particularly quick or intelligent (in comparison to some of my peers, who admittedly would not represent the baseline population).

johntiger1on Canada's surging cost of living fuels reverse immigration

For your education:

What area were you in? Could it be that it was a rough area? My experience in the GTA is that there definitely are better/worse schools, but there's less elitism in that doctors/CEOs/lawyers will still send their kids to good public schools and private schools are not especially known for academic eliteness (in fact, the most elite academic schools in the GTA are all public, with the exception of 1)

johntiger1on 23andMe changes terms of service to prevent lawsuits after data breach

Does it apply retroactively to people who already signed up?

johntiger1on Almost 100k Google employees are about to get a hard-fought $20

Congrats! looks like you hit the jackpot

johntiger1on Cristiano Ronaldo faces $1B lawsuit over Binance ads

Probably targeted US customers

johntiger1on Ask HN: Did Elon/Twitter face any consequences after it stopped paying rent?

In Twitter's case, what is the hypergrowth story here? I don't see any revolutions coming from Twitter's business model that haven't already occurred in the past decade. Whereas for something like space flight or FSD or novel therapeutics I can see the large potential upside

johntiger1on Sam Altman's sister, Annie Altman, claims Sam has severely abused her

Does she not receive notifications from Twitter? Thus proving there is no shadowbanning?

johntiger1on US surgeons perform first whole eye transplant

Usually, candidates considered for heart transplants don't have a great alternative - i.e. healthy enough to survive the surgery but without the surgery these candidates would have deteriorated regardless

johntiger1on US surgeons perform first whole eye transplant

This is such a ludicrous theory that is sadly repeated often. It is extremely unlikely that your set of organs will be compatible with someone they know who needs organs. Even then, a nurse or allied health professional is much more likely to make a medical error which kills you. You'd be surprised at how thin the line between life and death is, especially for people on death's door.

johntiger1on US surgeons perform first whole eye transplant

To each their own. From a purely objective standpoint, I hope you or a loved one don't need a liver transplant one day (and consent to receiving one).