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LanceJones

503 karma · joined September 8, 2010

Co-founder of Goalzilla.io and former co-founder of Copy Hackers (launched 2011 on HN!). Introverted product marketer who suffers from Imposter Syndrome in this crowd. Much more of a lurker than poster.
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LanceJones··on Starship's Tenth Flight Test
~17% I believe?
LanceJones··on Volkswagen gates a new vehicle's full horsepower behind monthly subscription
Yes. 50-100hp depending on Model 3 or Y. VW offers ~25hp.
LanceJones··on Autonomous Tesla Delivery [video]
Seriously? FSD Tracker? Qualitative, unscientific, ridiculously-low sample size. Straight out of the mouth of an LLM...
LanceJones··on First Autonomous Delivery of a Tesla
You seem to have it all figured out.
LanceJones··on Show HN: Most users won't report bugs unless you make it stupidly easy
Congrats on shipping!

Here's some quick feedback -- hope it's useful:

1. Is the little bug icon sufficiently visible? I'm not sure...

2. Do visitors automatically know what to do with the bug? You have a tooltip, but do all visitors know what "Spotted a bug?" means?

3. [more of a suggestion; perhaps it does this already] Would be great if the bug position pulled in a CSS class or the content surrounding the "dropped" bug -- to give more context to the site owner.

LanceJones··on Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?
I've been using Windsurf for a few weeks. I'm a novice programmer trying to build a web app using React and NextJS.

The "context-in-the-codebase" thing for AI-based IDEsis overrated IMO. To extract the most from it, you have to remember to @mention the files.

If you don't remember to @mention specific files, the agent simply tries to perform searches (i.e., it has access to that tool) on the files and folders until it gets some results... and will usually keep broadening the search until it does.

It works well enough I suppose. But I still find myself beginning new chats (for example, per feature) because the model still loses its place, and with all the code/lint fixes it does, it starts to lose context.

Then you're right back having to @mention more files to ensure the model knows how to structure your front end, back end, etc.

(Please excuse any misnamed development terms.) :-)

LanceJones··on Waymo and Toyota outline partnership to advance autonomous driving deployment
I use it every day on every street in Vancouver. Where do you come up with your information?
LanceJones··on AI Coding assistants provide little value because a programmer's job is to think
I’d say 500M WAUs on chatGPT alone qualifies as widespread use.
LanceJones··on ChatGPT 4.1 Jailbreak Prompt
But 4.1 isn't in the web UI... only the API. So use it in the system prompt in the API call?
LanceJones··on xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B
He only holds ~15% of Tesla. His real money is in SpaceX... 50% ownership there. I wish people would think just a little before parroting the "hit Musk where it hurts" drivel.
LanceJones··on Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+
I'm one such person. I just visited because the weather was incredible and the people were/are fabulous.
LanceJones··on Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+
The "country" is hinting? What exactly does that look like? The Americans I just spent a week with were lovely.
LanceJones··on Airline demand between Canada and United States collapses, down 70%+
Victoria-based Canadian here. Just back from a week in Palm Springs and a road trip to Disneyland. Met lots of visiting Canadians and talked to lots of Americans. Much of the discussion was around the horrible currency exchange rate. Why doesn't the article get into that?
LanceJones··on Carlos Slim cancels his collaboration with Elon Musk's Starlink
It's unlikely the rift will have any real impact:

"In 2025, Quilty forecast that it [Starlink] will count 7.8 million people around the world as customers and generate $11.8 billion in sales."

It is currently and likely will continue to be the biggest revenue driver for SpaceX, Mexico or not.

LanceJones··on Federal employees told to remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day
What's happening? I've been reading HN for 15 years, and I'm seeing more and more political BS disguised as something worth sharing HN... wtf?
LanceJones··on Justin Trudeau promises to resign as PM
Who is "us"?
LanceJones··on Sora is here
So you're saying there is literally nothing good about Sora?
LanceJones··on Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre
Just did a CTRL-F and I am shocked nobody is talking about the magnificent McIntosh. Does the rest of the world (outside of Canada) not get them? The fruit has red and green skin, a tart flavour, and tender white flesh, which ripens in late September. They've converted many, many people from other variants...
LanceJones··on SpaceX Super Heavy splashes down in the gulf, canceling chopsticks landing
It was, in fact, the booster ("coming in harder and faster"). The upper stage's orientation was being tested (nose down until final flip) as was the removal of 2,100 heat shield tiles.
LanceJones··on Lucid dreaming app triples users' awareness in dreams, study finds
How do you know with certainty that you do not dream? You spend zero minutes in REM? Do you track with Whoop or something similar?
LanceJones··on Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
6 million cars equipped with the ADAS (FAR more than anyone else), so your statement is misleading.
LanceJones··on Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles
The losses are currently in the neighborhood of $1B per year. That may or may not reduce... scaling is hard. For every car they add right now, the worse the loss becomes. So I'm a little skeptical on your valuation estimate.
LanceJones··on Guide to applying to YC – from a founder who was accepted on the third try
Looks like YC is moving to 4 cohorts annually -- and I agree with you on the AI product density in the past few batches -- but I've heard (from two alum) that the smaller sub-cohorts (i.e., within a batch) make it feel smaller and more intimate.
LanceJones··on 6th-generation Waymo Driver
I took a Waymo this past weekend in SF. 8 miles, $41, and 51 minutes to cross town in light-medium traffic. It clearly has to avoid certain routes due to insufficient HD mapping -- like construction. 51 minutes is way too long, fun as the experience is with no driver...
LanceJones··on Tesla shareholders re-approve Elon Musk's 2018 pay package
I get such a laugh out of the negative sentiment about Tesla and Musk on HN. Such a predictable crowd.
LanceJones··on Tesla shareholders re-approve Elon Musk's 2018 pay package
No. The disclosure statements this time are VERY different.
LanceJones··on Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a pole
Cruise withheld details (lied by omission) about the person they ran over...
LanceJones··on Waymo issues software and mapping recall after robotaxi crashes into a pole
I don't think the economics will work (for quite some time). They have ~670 cars in total, and still have seriously negative cash flow.
LanceJones··on Tesla former VP of engineering liquidated virtually entire stake in the company
Have y'all seen the stock price only 5 days after the $140 low?
LanceJones··on [dead]
BYD is indeed struggling in Europe but their low cost options sell supremely well in other markets.
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