Hacker News: Ancalagon

New comment by Ancalagon in "OpenAI Prepping for On-Prem Product?"

Ancalagon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 23:58:32 +0000

FDE is going to be a big role in the future of employment

New comment by Ancalagon in "American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires"

Ancalagon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:04:46 +0000

You mean except the billionaire in the presidency man-handling the oil crisis?

New comment by Ancalagon in "Social Security Now Expects Shortfall Earlier, in Late 2032"

Ancalagon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:57:20 +0000

love this

Ask HN: Did Anthropic Nerf Opus 4.8?

Ancalagon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:20:50 +0000

Opus 4.8 was one-shotting simpler bugs just a few days ago for me. The last couple of days however its been like using a slot machine, and I can no longer get it to output clean code that is less-complicated and actually resolves issues. Anyone else seeing this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479563

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by Ancalagon in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

Ancalagon — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:33:19 +0000

And gas prices

New comment by Ancalagon in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

Ancalagon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:54:52 +0000

> There's an intenral push for something called "Agent Spaces" which was described to me as a sort of Lovable/Bolt-type thing if I understood it right

Everyone and their mother making vibe-app platforms for their company API's now

New comment by Ancalagon in "HN seems dead compared to say 10-15 years ago"

Ancalagon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:08:26 +0000

My account is nearly 10 years old (wow). I dont think its more dead afaict. It is more full of AI posts than ever, and AI-built slop show and tells.

New comment by Ancalagon in "County-level map of air conditioning in the U.S."

Ancalagon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:06:52 +0000

I thought that was a map of places with AC, not without, and was thoroughly confused for a moment.

New comment by Ancalagon in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

Ancalagon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:56:09 +0000

I have never met a product or sales person chomping at the bit to manage the PagerDuty of the apps they peddle to management

New comment by Ancalagon in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

Ancalagon — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:23:17 +0000

I cannot wait for those business people to run the ops themselves for their vibe coded apps in production.

New comment by Ancalagon in "Police remove biabetes researcher, other experts from medical conference"

Ancalagon — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:53:13 +0000

Oh because the conference was in Louisiana, makes sense now

New comment by Ancalagon in "Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor"

Ancalagon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:43:41 +0000

Did they integrate a torque measurements into the bolt?

New comment by Ancalagon in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

Ancalagon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:05:15 +0000

I think it was just reality, unfortunately

New comment by Ancalagon in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

Ancalagon — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:50:01 +0000

Why not name them?

Zuck Musk Bezos Pichai Thiel

Add more

New comment by Ancalagon in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

Ancalagon — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:30:23 +0000

Did you mean to say "culture"?

> Culture holds value until it does not.

New comment by Ancalagon in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

Ancalagon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:18:25 +0000

just leave the walled gardens

New comment by Ancalagon in "Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads"

Ancalagon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:44:56 +0000

If youtube music pulls this I will literally cancel my sub and delete all of the apps. The music app is the only reason I still have premium.

New comment by Ancalagon in "Amazon joins Microsoft in sending message to employees"

Ancalagon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:50:33 +0000

If any useful optimizations were discovered I imagine they belonged to people at the bottom of the leaderboards and hence weren't noticed by tokenmaxxing chad execs too dumb to have an ounce of creative thinking.

New comment by Ancalagon in "White House aliens website is scary"

Ancalagon — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:27:10 +0000

more like cringe

New comment by Ancalagon in "Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina"

Ancalagon — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:24:53 +0000

wussy