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What Is Ruliology?

https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2026/01/what-is-ruliology/
1•soheilpro•1m ago•0 comments

Jon Stewart – One of My Favorite People – What Now? With Trevor Noah Podcast [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44uC12g9ZVk
1•consumer451•3m ago•0 comments

P2P crypto exchange development company

1•sonniya•17m ago•0 comments

Vocal Guide – belt sing without killing yourself

https://jesperordrup.github.io/vocal-guide/
1•jesperordrup•22m ago•0 comments

Write for Your Readers Even If They Are Agents

https://commonsware.com/blog/2026/02/06/write-for-your-readers-even-if-they-are-agents.html
1•ingve•22m ago•0 comments

Knowledge-Creating LLMs

https://tecunningham.github.io/posts/2026-01-29-knowledge-creating-llms.html
1•salkahfi•23m ago•0 comments

Maple Mono: Smooth your coding flow

https://font.subf.dev/en/
1•signa11•29m ago•0 comments

Sid Meier's System for Real-Time Music Composition and Synthesis

https://patents.google.com/patent/US5496962A/en
1•GaryBluto•37m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Slop News – HN front page now, but it's all slop

https://dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-page-2035/slop-news
4•keepamovin•38m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Empusa – Visual debugger to catch and resume AI agent retry loops

https://github.com/justin55afdfdsf5ds45f4ds5f45ds4/EmpusaAI
1•justinlord•41m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Bitcoin wallet on NXP SE050 secure element, Tor-only open source

https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/sigil-web
2•sickthecat•43m ago•1 comments

White House Explores Opening Antitrust Probe on Homebuilders

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-06/white-house-explores-opening-antitrust-probe-i...
1•petethomas•43m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MindDraft – AI task app with smart actions and auto expense tracking

https://minddraft.ai
2•imthepk•48m ago•0 comments

How do you estimate AI app development costs accurately?

1•insights123•49m ago•0 comments

Going Through Snowden Documents, Part 5

https://libroot.org/posts/going-through-snowden-documents-part-5/
1•goto1•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: MCP Server for TradeStation

https://github.com/theelderwand/tradestation-mcp
1•theelderwand•52m ago•0 comments

Canada unveils auto industry plan in latest pivot away from US

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgd2j80klmo
3•breve•53m ago•1 comments

The essential Reinhold Niebuhr: selected essays and addresses

https://archive.org/details/essentialreinhol0000nieb
1•baxtr•56m ago•0 comments

Rentahuman.ai Turns Humans into On-Demand Labor for AI Agents

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/02/05/when-ai-agents-start-hiring-humans-rentahuma...
1•tempodox•58m ago•0 comments

StovexGlobal – Compliance Gaps to Note

1•ReviewShield•1h ago•1 comments

Show HN: Afelyon – Turns Jira tickets into production-ready PRs (multi-repo)

https://afelyon.com/
1•AbduNebu•1h ago•0 comments

Trump says America should move on from Epstein – it may not be that easy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4gj71z0m0o
7•tempodox•1h ago•4 comments

Tiny Clippy – A native Office Assistant built in Rust and egui

https://github.com/salva-imm/tiny-clippy
1•salvadorda656•1h ago•0 comments

LegalArgumentException: From Courtrooms to Clojure – Sen [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmMQbsOTX-o
1•adityaathalye•1h ago•0 comments

US moves to deport 5-year-old detained in Minnesota

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-moves-deport-5-year-old-detained-minnesota-2026-02-06/
9•petethomas•1h ago•3 comments

If you lose your passport in Austria, head for McDonald's Golden Arches

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-embassy-mcdonalds-restaurants-austria-hotline-americans-consular-...
1•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mermaid Formatter – CLI and library to auto-format Mermaid diagrams

https://github.com/chenyanchen/mermaid-formatter
1•astm•1h ago•0 comments

RFCs vs. READMEs: The Evolution of Protocols

https://h3manth.com/scribe/rfcs-vs-readmes/
3•init0•1h ago•1 comments

Kanchipuram Saris and Thinking Machines

https://altermag.com/articles/kanchipuram-saris-and-thinking-machines
1•trojanalert•1h ago•0 comments

Chinese chemical supplier causes global baby formula recall

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nestle-widens-french-infant-formula-r...
2•fkdk•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

OpenAI won't make money by 2030 and needs another $207B, HSBC estimates

https://fortune.com/2025/11/26/is-openai-profitable-forecast-data-center-200-billion-shortfall-hsbc/
44•TMWNN•2mo ago

Comments

TMWNN•2mo ago
Title edited by me from "OpenAI won’t make money by 2030 and still needs to come up with another $207 billion to power its growth plans, HSBC estimates"
jmclnx•2mo ago
My rule of thumb in these estimates:

"Always double the amount presented in these estimates"

This includes large construction projects, especially government run projects.

So I say 500 billion USD will be needed :)

Thanks grilledchickenw and xfour, fixed

xfour•2mo ago
I think you may want to adjust your units there. 500M is a Tuesday breakfast for these AI companies burn rate
grilledchickenw•2mo ago
500 billon, you mean.
pezgrande•2mo ago
Can they afford a cash-burn marathon against Google/Meta/Microsoft/Ali though?
chistev•2mo ago
Ali?
peterbecich•2mo ago
Alibaba, maybe
r_lee•2mo ago
Not to mention that Google has infinite video data, scraping data (via Search), their own Quantum computers, their own TPUs, their own Cloud....

Gemini seems to suck majorly, I don't know why (it lies a lot and doesn't follow instructions) but I've been wondering about this too for a while

jonplackett•2mo ago
What do these investors know that we don’t? Are they just too deep in now to quit?

I get that AI is extremely useful.

But the idea that OpenAI can 1) create a much more powerful superhuman AI and 2) also keep the way of making it secret from competitors long enough to make all the money seems doubly unlikely.

protimewaster•2mo ago
Part of me thinks that nobody wants to be the one that pops the bubble, so it's safer to just play along and throw in a few hundred billion here and there.
shaboinkin•2mo ago
From watching talks by the various US think tanks (CSIS, CFR, Hudson, etc), the common theme whenever the topic of AI is brought up is that the US is in strategic competition with China where it essentially boils down to economic superiority where the idea is to have US technology spread globally and not China’s. Oh and military application of AI.

I have a hunch the hyper won’t slow down anytime soon if these groups who have the eyes and ears of the government are suggesting to go full steam ahead in the technology.

webdevver•2mo ago
what else is there to invest in?
zamalek•2mo ago
AI is currently summoning market activity during what should be a recession. Now this bubble isn't only filled with hot air, it's also filled with sewage.

Short-term gains are great, though!

martindbp•2mo ago
What they are seeing is insane user and revenue growth. It's that simple. ChatGPT has like a billion users, and it came out 3 years ago. And then AI is getting better every year in a way that internet companies like Google or Facebook didn't. Google peaked very early in terms of usefulness, then it just spent decades monetizing it. AI is not even funded by ads, people are actually paying for it. It's really hard to get people to pay for something. I don't know if the investors will get a nice return, but given the numbers they're seeing I understand why they're doing it.
lm28469•2mo ago
FOMO must play a massive role in it.
pezgrande•2mo ago
My theory is they will keep funding it until IPO then cash-out.
zrn900•2mo ago
> What do these investors know that we don’t?

That they can shake a lot of fools' money before the eventual crash happens.

ChrisArchitect•2mo ago
[dupe] Large discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058065
Frieren•2mo ago
When anybody wonders why everything is getting worse and more expensive, remember that all the money to create new better products is being redirected to this clusterfuck.

What could we have if all that massive amount of money was used in one other field. (Or many others, there is too much money to invest effectively in just one thing)

baiac•2mo ago
The EU also has rampant inflation even though we have no AI sector to speak of.

It seems to me they have realised they can continue printing money to keep stealing from us forever and nobody seems to care.

M2Ys4U•2mo ago
Inflation in the EU is at 2.5% (2.1% in the Eurozone), that's hardly "rampant".
baiac•2mo ago
Ah yes, the official numbers. If only food and rent were going up only by 2.5%
gausswho•2mo ago
OpenAI doesn't have the moat. I'm sure they're plotting one, and it's tantalizing how quiet they are about it.

In my favorite timeline, they fork GrapheneOS and throw boatloads of money at it. Embarass the Copilot clowns at Microsoft with actually useful integrations across the experience. Built-in social networking based on decentralized tools. Poach all the folks that matter from Google and Apple. Then finally sell something that is "open" to reclaim their credibility.

conception•2mo ago
More likely, regulatory capture to prevent others from usurping their position and then using ads and the platform as a shopping portal.