$50bn for a harness makes no sense, what am I missing?

I assume someone knows someone, backroom deal perhaps? I'm not sure either, when Cursor has a lot of risk and not that much moat.

My 2c: they need to pump xAI usage (which nobody is using) to be able to keep the hype alive pre-ipo.

I thought Cursor has started making their own models. Did I confuse them with someone else?

Their Composer 2 model is Kimi (an open model) with additional RL fine-tuning, for whatever that information is worth to you: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/22/cursor-admits-its-new-codi...

Oh, I see.

Though, in fairness, that's probably the important part. Like a base model plus "coding smarts" is probably perfect for the situation.

But maybe not as much value as I was thinking.

They have a 'proprietary' model which is just an open source (kimi?) fine tune

Cursor has a significant enterprise userbase, that has to be worth something

For a successful IPO and attract more capital you need a very good story/narrative. That what is being crafted here. Business fundamentals matter less with elon!

1. Pay them with shares of SpaceX

2. Make SpaceX valuation even higher before IPO

3. Boost XAI/usage of Grok.

How would this be money laundering?

Value shifting. Search for SolarCity and cousin Lyndon Rive.

That isn't laundering

Musk passing around his debt from purchasing Twitter.

If you filled the negative space on an iPhone 17 Pro/Max it would be a horrendously unwieldy phone. People who say this stuff seriously underestimate the disastrous effect on ergonomics increasing the whole phone from 8.75mm to 13.2mm would have.

Would only need to be at the top, to balance out the camera.

The only reason I use a case is that the iPhone is close to unusable on a flat surface without it.

The iPhone is already heavy as a brick, and a battery is a couple orders of magnitude heavier than a TPU shell covering the same volume.

People already do this by buying cases

Most would continue to buy cases which would only make these phones even thicker

I buy cases to make my phone feel thicker around 12mm. I have no idea what you're taking about.

Your M2 MacBook Pro really struggles? That is genuinely crazy, given that I use one as a daily driver and it feels just as fast as the day I bought it.

I think the Apple Silicon transition has increased Mac longevity far beyond the Intel or PowerPC eras, and I am quite baffled you think otherwise.

You’re right, it’s 6 year old, so a dinosaur by technology standards! I see your point.

Is it an Intel MacBook? I think those sucked for obvious reasons outside Apple’s control (Intel getting stuck at 14nm for ages) which they’ve already fixed (by abandoning Intel).

The M1 MacBook Air was more powerful than the top Intel i9 MBP config if I recall correctly.

I’m sorry but that README.md is full of extremely obnoxious AI prose for what is essentially saying “buy an old Pixel and install Claude Code on it”

It also tells one to SSH in from their PC. Why would I use a phone instead of my PC if that was an option?

Safari’s reader mode is good for this. All you have to do is long press the icon on the left edge of the address bar.

LONG PRESS????!?! you legend. How does one find these things out.

Like this, by word of mouth. That’s how Apple has done UI design since they stopped printing paper manuals.

- ctrl-shift-. to show hidden files on macOS - pull down to see search box (iOS 18) - swipe from top right corner for flashlight button - swipe up from lower middle for home screen

Etc, etc

It's so intuitive, how could I have missed that?

Good old iOS and hidden features. Great discoverability. Long press those, swipe that, gesture this.

I have a gesture for whoever decided "find in page" should go under share.

> I have a gesture for whoever decided "find in page" should go under share.

You can also just type your search term into the normal address bar and there's an item at the bottom of the list for "on this page - find <search>". I'd never even seen the find-in-page button under share.

That would be so much better if Find in page was the first item not the last.

Not restricted to Apple, but TIL: Double-clicking on a word an keeping the second click pressed, then dragging, allows you to select per word instead of per character.

Long press is a shortcut, the longer way is to click on the icon beside the url and tap/click the enormous "reader mode" button.

That's what I've done for years.

Long pressing is much more pleasant.

I wish Apple would give us a hint rather than requiring us to chance upon this recommendation on HN.

That’s a nice use for AI - pop up hints when it sees you using the long way a few times.

The problem is Apple’s hints keep popping up even after you say no thanks or it’s fine.

So that’s why Reader mode sometimes shows up directly when I click on the icon, I must be long clicking it by accident.

cmd+shift+R for reader mode if you prefer a keyboard shortcut

Yes, it’s a great workaround but website owners should not make me do that.

Many planes have AC power outlets, the Wii uses <20W.

I'm sure an external version exists too, but USB-PD makes some amazing things possible: https://shop.giltesa.com/product/nintendo-wii-usb-c-kit/

Supposing it is Adam Back, and supposing he lost his keys, he's still worth at least nine figures and is one of the most influential figures in the field he’s devoted his life to. Why would he wish he was dead?

"Nine figures isn't cool. You know what's cool? Eleven figures."

That aside, I don't agree with the premise. Back might be Satoshi, but there's nowhere near enough evidence in Carreyrou's article to reach that conclusion. He should have run it by some other veteran figures in the crypto community, so they could point out how quotidian some of the language and tropes being cited really are.

Useful background on Mr. Stevenson

https://www.ft.com/content/7e8b47b3-7931-4354-9e8a-47d75d057...

Everyone on TV gobbing off about anything is a grifter.

The technologies listed aside from the Enigma were largely actually British (I say largely because Canadians were deeply involved in some cases)

Whatever humans are descended from existed during the time of the dinosaurs

If you go a bit farther back, we all ultimately come from the same lizard-like amniotes, newly emerged onto land from amphibious ancestors. It just took dinosaurs and mammals a little bit to evolve out of the "four-legged monster with teeth" body type.