Hacker News: Anon1096

New comment by Anon1096 in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

Anon1096 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:27:18 +0000

RSUs are great for workers because if the value dips 75% you can just leave and get a new job and get new RSUs at a reasonable price. Of course it's not trivial to switch jobs but at a 75% cut it's surely worth at least looking around. I don't think you can really consider it a fault of the economy if you didn't.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

Anon1096 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:26:34 +0000

Note: if your reason for switching is purely uptime, you will be sorely disappointed with codeberg

Their own site reports the 2 week uptime at 1 nine https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg and I suspect if you use the (really terrible) across-all-product-offerings uptime methodology that people love to post for github it would be a 0 nines overall service.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness"

Anon1096 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:56:56 +0000

The millisecond-term zero sum game is part of what allows for a positive sum long term. For example, zero fee trading was pioneered by Robinhood and only possible because of payment for order flow, and as a result it's virtually unheard of now for retail to be paying per transaction. Now more retail investors can participate and everyone benefits. You can also point to lower spreads and faster execution as direct benefits.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

Anon1096 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:19:13 +0000

To be clear, since the mobile app users are decreasing, what you would actually need to claim is that "web users are more likely to continue using the app than mobile users are", not just that "there are a lot of web users", since the base assumption is that web and mobile users use the site in similar ways. I don't really see any reason to believe the former, and actually having worked on social media extensively I think there's a strong chance that the opposite is true, that if mobile users are declining web users are declining even faster. There's a reason sites push mobile apps so much and it's because retention is normally far better.

New comment by Anon1096 in "What sort of maths are LLMs good at?"

Anon1096 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:04:48 +0000

Reading the responses to your comment the discussion would be a lot more productive if you shared your logs (preferably several of different top models since that's what you're claiming) where LLMs fail at this. Not very useful for people to go back and forth speculating on what you could have asked and with what formulation. As it stands for me simdezimon's logs are pretty definitive that there shouldn't be any problem for current capabilities agents to solve the task.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

Anon1096 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:01:11 +0000

Databricks is most certainly getting charged API pricing no matter what harness they are using. OpenAI and Anthropic models are so sought after right now that they set the terms even at the world's biggest companies, there is not a chance to get a special agreement for subscription pricing.

New comment by Anon1096 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

Anon1096 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:54:12 +0000

You have no clue what you're talking about while trying to act smug and talking down to someone who knows at least a little bit more than you. Netflix cannot run without massive DCs, whether that be theirs or Amazon's.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

Anon1096 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:04:20 +0000

When I type 56789*23456 into my calculator and get the result I don't claim to have solved the problem, the calculator did it.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

Anon1096 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:34:57 +0000

Github salaries can't afford devs from Google and Meta who have seen the bliss of a well oiled massive monorepo change management system and forge.

New comment by Anon1096 in "They Stole Your Attention"

Anon1096 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:29:54 +0000

The very next bullet is

> $233 in 2024. 13x in 13 years

So yes you would in fact need to pay ten times that and then some. And by virtue of being on hacker news I'm guessing your actual ads targeting value is more like 20x that or more.

New comment by Anon1096 in "What happens when the information runs out"

Anon1096 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:01:40 +0000

2 main problems with this article: one it's fundamentally asking for something impossible, and two for the part that _is_ possible it's using the wrong tool for the job.

It's not possible to magic details into existence that weren't there. So if you think a color was wrong, well, that is not something that can be solved other than by using a time machine or finding a separate reference picture. Any human restoration artist would be doing the exact same thing of guessing the color.

The second problem brought up is that ChatGPT is willing non-color details into existence that aren't in the original picture (eyebrows etc). For this it's simply that the public ChatGPT image generator wasn't made for this task. You'd have to build a custom harness but I'm sure it can be done.

New comment by Anon1096 in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

Anon1096 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:54:17 +0000

It's not hidden at all. Financial blogs very accessible to laymen like Matt Levine's Money Stuff have talked about this structure months ago. If you are an investor and surprised by this news you weren't sufficiently prepared and shouldn't have been investing in the first place.

New comment by Anon1096 in "OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor"

Anon1096 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:26:41 +0000

I would guess the price for payment processing drops tremendously when you don't need to handle fraud or chargebacks at all. It's for sure worse for consumers but I do think it has its place (for example adult content that has huge chargeback risk or straight up blocked by other processors).

New comment by Anon1096 in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

Anon1096 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:12:02 +0000

Your experienced latency will be heavily influenced by which DC you hit, in which case we care about the relative traffic loads because you aren't just hitting your closest one all the time.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

Anon1096 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:52:38 +0000

By traffic load east coast datacenters dwarfs these.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

Anon1096 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:08:32 +0000

Most of big tech's major data centers are in Loudoun County, VA on the east coast not the west coast. It's centrally located to be great latency for the east coast and OK latency for west coast and Europe. Plus a friendly regulatory environment and lots of existing DCs (AWS us-east-1, Azure East US 1/2)

If you're feeling any better latency on the west coast it's more likely to be placebo than real.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

Anon1096 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:23:52 +0000

If the agent you are running really wanted to it could easily find a way to mount the windows folders and read them all. WSL isn't a security boundary, you are only barely more protected than people running grok in their home directory.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Berkshire's $397B Bet Against an Overheated Market"

Anon1096 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:20:12 +0000

Wealth is not in fact finite. If you take a piece of lumber and carve it into a dresser you've just generated wealth. Resources kind of are but not really, extraction takes it from unusable to usable and essentially creates it (also, trees literally grow out of the ground). Similarly Tesla has made a lot of cars that people drive and AI companies have created products that have hundreds of millions of DAU.

Whether that "justifies" the market prices is orthogonal, all the market price says is that people want to own a piece of the pie at the current price being offered. It can stay that high as long as there continue to be people interested in owning shares of the companies.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper"

Anon1096 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:18:35 +0000

You are poisoning the context and priming it to say load-bearing. I don't really think there is a good way to actually ban specific phrases other than have it do a second pass, it's something baked into the model from post training.

New comment by Anon1096 in "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"

Anon1096 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:56:30 +0000

Within the 1982-2026 span there is an equally negative 3.5 sigmas deviation somewhere (no year labels on the graph). The article doesn't touch on it at all so I have no context as to what it could be. But it definitely suggests 3.5 sigmas is not really 1 in 7000 years.