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New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "A note on subscription prices from LWN"

0xbadc0de5 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:55:30 +0000

tl;dr - LWN is raising their prices 20%.

I have no opinion since I'm not a subscriber, just adding for clarity since the title is ambiguous.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "When I worked at Apple, I remember seeing code that was 15 years old"

0xbadc0de5 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 10:03:31 +0000

Windows 10 shipped with code that is from the 90's. Old does not necessarily mean bad. If it ain't broke.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

0xbadc0de5 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:48:24 +0000

Turns out people have to pay their bills in dollars, not company mission statements.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Cyberpunk Video Games"

0xbadc0de5 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:35:04 +0000

Syndicate (1993) should be on the list.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "ChatGPT claims rogue AI attacked more companies"

0xbadc0de5 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:18:22 +0000

There is no rogue AI. Only rogue and/or negligent people.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

0xbadc0de5 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:30:36 +0000

He makes a solid argument about liberty, ownership and the cultish behavior rampant among certain AI circles, then proposes the most unhinged examples possible to support it. I'm not sure if this is an effort to pre-empt critics (I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me), to be deliberately sensationalist, or if this is just a reflection of his local echo chamber.

Either way, there seems like a kernel of a good argument here. Perhaps someone else can rephrase it in a less schizoid manner. It would indeed be useful to have some credible rebuttal and balance to the doomer crowd.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

0xbadc0de5 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:47:10 +0000

Use the appeal form. When I got banned, it took a few months but I did get my account back.

In the meantime, I switched to OpenAI. Their latest models and codex are just as good if not better in my experience.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "EU should expand to 40 states – including Canada"

0xbadc0de5 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:42:07 +0000

No thanks. Canada is better off as an sovereign state.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "BSides Austin Is on Hold"

0xbadc0de5 — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:38:06 +0000

This lacks sufficient context.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

0xbadc0de5 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:55:19 +0000

Bob Odenkirk's publicist would like the gullible public to think that his client is some sort of deeply thoughtful intellectual because he's trying to line up his next gig and having his name in the public zeitgeist will land him a fatter paycheck.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

0xbadc0de5 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:01:02 +0000

A few months ago, I had my Anthropic Claude Max account nuked for using OpenCode. That sucked, but I just opened a new Claude Max account under a different email. Which, yes, after re-reading their terms is also forbidden. But I had been playing by their rules ever since. Only using Claude Code and their official apps. So they got what they wanted - compliance.

Today they nuked my account again. I can only assume it was because I had the gall to find so much value in their product that even after they banned me once, I still wanted to give them money!

I've been around this planet a long time and I have never encountered a tech company as hostile to their users as Anthropic. And that includes Microsoft back in the 90's & 00's.

I really hope they change their ways. But for now, I'm done with them. I'll take my business elsewhere.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Preliminary data from a longitudinal AI impact study"

0xbadc0de5 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:27:34 +0000

Fair assessment. And worth noting that in a sane world, a broad 10% productivity improvement across industry would be a once-in-a-lifetime, headline-making story, not a disappointment.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

0xbadc0de5 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:02:20 +0000

Seems to me that a lot of people talk about nothing else.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Maggots, an efficient source of protein"

0xbadc0de5 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:12:15 +0000

There's an incredible piece of biotechnology that converts insects and inedible seeds and detritus into delicious, perfectly edible protein pods with very high efficiency. And at EoL, any of the pods can be used to replace the original, which itself is also edible and delicious. It's fully automated and requires almost no human labor to maintain. This is my preferred method of superfood consumption.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

0xbadc0de5 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:45:14 +0000

This is sad and tragic but ultimately I don't think Mongo bares any responsibility here. If her partner left her while she was having a prolonged mental health crisis, would her partner be to blame for her suicide? I would argue: no.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Ask HN: By what percentage has AI changed your output as a software engineer?"

0xbadc0de5 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 10:24:14 +0000

At home, on my side projects it's made me 2x to 4x.

At work, also 2x to 4x.

The numbers would be even higher (4x to 8x) if I didn't spend half the time correcting slop and carefully steering the AI toward the desired solution when it gets sidetracked. But then again, I was also guilty of those things so maybe it's an even score?

Perhaps it's partly psychological in that using it forces me to think through the problems I'm trying to solve differently than before. Perhaps I'm just a mediocre dev and the AI is bringing me up to "slightly above average," but a win is a win and I'll take it.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove"

0xbadc0de5 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:42:50 +0000

My angle grinder begs to differ.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "I wish people were more public"

0xbadc0de5 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 10:38:31 +0000

Never have so many people with so little to say, said it so loudly.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?"

0xbadc0de5 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:23:38 +0000

No. The absence of evidence is not evidence of presence. There are solid scientific reasons to suspect we might be alone in our local volume of the universe. IMHO, these reasons now outweigh the arguments in favour of alien intelligence. The default scientific position is skepticism. It is an abundance of proof that is required to overcome it, not "belief." Belief in the absence of evidence is not a scientific position.

I do find it to be a curious coincidence that "belief" in aliens visiting earth shares so many characteristics with devout religious belief. Just replace OP's references to aliens with references to the deity of choice and you'll get the idea.

New comment by 0xbadc0de5 in "Ask HN: Anyone else disillusioned with "AI experts" in their team?"

0xbadc0de5 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:05:57 +0000

Wait until you find out that's it's not just AI, or even tech. Everywhere you look, you'll find groups, businesses and organizations being run mostly by people who are just winging it and one or two who actually know what they're doing. Ever seen a cashier struggle to calculate change, or had a doctor misdiagnose? Something something Pareto Principle.