Hacker News: 542458

New comment by 542458 in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

542458 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:20:20 +0000

I feel like I have a different $20 plan than everyone else. I have no problem hitting my 5 hour and weekly limits. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great deal compared to API pricing, but it’s a far cry from “unlimited”.

New comment by 542458 in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

542458 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:25:02 +0000

> There needs to be a time when you are completely undisturbed and disconnected. If you are disturbed by work you will think about work while you answer and maybe even after that. That's not good.

IMO this is not a universal truth - I’m sure some people need that level of disconnection, but I don't find I'm one of them. I generally like my job, and don't find that forcing myself to disconnect does me any particular mental good. But other people report needing that separation, and that's fine! I don't think there needs to be a one-size-fits-all answer here.

I do agree with your bus factor argument though.

New comment by 542458 in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

542458 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:31:57 +0000

I think my POV on this is a bit different than what others are expressing… I don’t mind answering the occasional email while on vacation, but I view it as a fair trade - as long as the company doesn’t mind me handling the occasional personal obligation during work hours I don’t mind handling the occasional work obligation during personal hours. If the company wants to be strict about clock in/out hours or taking PTO for every 30 minute errand or the work trends in a way that routinely exceeds 40 hours per week total then I’ll stop doing work “off the clock”, but so long as they’re willing to be reasonable I’m willing to be reasonable.

New comment by 542458 in "Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI"

542458 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:16:33 +0000

It's 100 lines of unobfuscated js. If you're worried just read it.

New comment by 542458 in "Shall we play a game? – LLMs use tactical nukes in 95% of simulations"

542458 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:15:14 +0000

> writhing knife

Minor/pedantic, but it’s “riving knife”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riving_knife

New comment by 542458 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

542458 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:24:13 +0000

Is there anything to read on how the economics of an orbital datacenter make any sense? Because I don't really see how blasting a server into space solves any of the typical issues associated with datacentres beyond easier access to solar.

New comment by 542458 in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

542458 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:25:26 +0000

That’s how I use it. I might be working on two or three features at a time (iterating, iterating, iterating…), but they’re all scoped and of user value; I don’t feel that I’m just off chasing rabbits.

But I’m also one of those people for whom the “fun” was always solving human problems rather than solving computer problems. I can see how if you are in the latter category AI has already sucked out a lot of joy and how rapidly project switching could be the least-unfun option.

New comment by 542458 in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

542458 — Sat, 30 May 2026 23:16:05 +0000

A library with a bunch of different providers doesn’t solve the payment/billing problem (which is one of the main openrouter benefits). IMO being able to buy credits and not have them locked to one provider is worth the 5% to me.

New comment by 542458 in "The dead economy theory"

542458 — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:01:29 +0000

From your Wikipedia link:

> Demands: […] Government to ensure at least 50% profit over their overall cost of production.

They demanded 50% guaranteed annual RoR on all farming activities? That’s a wild demand.

New comment by 542458 in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

542458 — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:14:12 +0000

They're different sizes, it's in the description and it's also described under "More info" > "Capacity (cl)". I'm not seeing the "What is the capacity..." button you mentioned.

New comment by 542458 in "Nendo's Wonderful Toru, an Electric Kettle for Alessi"

542458 — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:01:19 +0000

I love that even something as well-trodden as a kettle design can still be refined further. My main skepticism is whether this works well when the kettle isn't close to full - the image of it pouring implies a nearly-full kettle, but does the angle become awkward when it's closer to empty? Hard to know without actually holding one.

New comment by 542458 in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

542458 — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:19:32 +0000

While web accessibility is important and something we should be investing in, I do feel that the vendors of accessibility tools are somewhat to blame here in how friggin difficult it is to actually make something accessible. Quirks and features are wildly inconsistent across tools, and feature uptake is much slower than it should be. For example, creating an accessible dialog shouldn’t be a multi-page essay to explain, it should just be “use the

New comment by 542458 in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

542458 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:55:51 +0000

It looks like in iMessage for business, the phone’s user’s outbound messages show as dark grey (as opposed to normal iMessage and SMS/RCS which show outbound messages as blue and green respectively). I assume this is supposed to communicate that you’re talking to a different sort of entity, not a normal person on a phone.

Personally I don’t see why you’d care. My business isn’t trying to pretend to be a normal person using a phone, so why would it matter?

https://www.apple.com/ios/business-chat/

New comment by 542458 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

542458 — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:18:02 +0000

> It is only spectacular because of the free tiers

The thesis under discussion is "most people hate AI", not "most people will pay for AI". People who hate AI won't sign up to use the tools if they're free or paid QED AI service signups regardless of paid status are useful datapoints for "how many people don't hate AI".

New comment by 542458 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

542458 — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:59:58 +0000

You could use ChatGPT/anthropic/etc signups as your proxy if you wanted, and those show similarly spectacular trajectories.

New comment by 542458 in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

542458 — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:52:55 +0000

I’ve said this before on HN, but there are two things that make me optimistic that we won’t see a big rug pull where price-to-capability ratio skyrockets relative to today:

* People keep finding ways of cramming more intelligence into smaller models, meaning that a given hardware spec delivers more model capability over time. I remember not that long ago when cutting edge 70B parameter models could kinda-sorta-sometimes write code that worked. Versus today, when Qwen 27BA3B (1/23 of the active parameters!) is actually *fun* to vibe code with in a good harness. It’s not opus smart, but the point is you don’t need a trillion parameters to do useful things.

* Hardware will continue to improve and supply will catch up to demand, meaning that a dollar will deliver more hardware spec over time. Right now the industry is massively supply constrained, but I don’t see any reason that has to continue forever. Every vendor knows that memory quality and memory bandwidth and the new metrics of note, and I expect to start seeing products that reflect that in a few years.

I hope that one day we’ll look back on the current model of “accessing AI through provider APIs” the same way we now look back on “everyone connecting to the company mainframe.”

New comment by 542458 in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

542458 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:33:26 +0000

As much as I hate the changes Bitwarden is making, I’m kinda with them on not adding official vaultwarden support. Having to support multiple backends (some of which you don’t control!) with your frontend makes everything massively more complicated.

New comment by 542458 in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

542458 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:27:21 +0000

Bitwarden is open-source though? This is about the hosted version of it, which has a free tier. But you can run the same software on your server at home if you want, for free.

(That said, I am also concerned about the direction Bitwarden is taking. I just think this shows that even OSS projects can have direction/rugpull issues.)

New comment by 542458 in "Rars: a Rust RAR implementation, mostly written by LLMs"

542458 — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:57:37 +0000

I don’t believe any of the extant open source rar implementations cover the range of features and versions OP’s does. I think that’s the point - OP’s isn’t the cleanest or fastest implementation, but it is the most broad open source version available.

New comment by 542458 in "Operation: Epic Furious"

542458 — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:16:56 +0000

People independently make statues all the time, including some very famous and expensive ones such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull