<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: IFC_LLC</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=IFC_LLC</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:40:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=IFC_LLC" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Tiny Brutalism – Thanks to HN it's on Steam"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey! Can I contact you?<p>I've been building a game for the past 3 months, and I'd really appreciate just a chat with someone who managed to pull it off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:07:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145486</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145486</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50145486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The hardest thing in setting up your emails server is to keep your messages out of spam folders. Even if you are completely legit company that sends out ONLY human-written personal emails, you will get tagged as spam first.<p>I've self-hosted for about 2 months, and promptly switched to iCloud. Just because I've been spending too much time calling people and telling them to check their spam folders.<p>Recently our business moved to another domain. We had a guy who has spent over a month "warming up" traffic, so our new domain won't be tagged as spam by default.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:04:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329526</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49329526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Like, I understand everything, but by this time I don't give anything about any of those announcements.<p>Theoretically there is some difference between Fable and Opus or Grok and GPT, but at the end of the day I'd look at the bottom left of my screen and to my amusement find out that for the past 3-4 hours I've been using model ______.<p>If the results are semi-decent, I'd keep it on, if not - I'd randomly switch the model and try again.<p>Actual thing that would affect my selection would be a number of unused tokens I have left for a model ____ for this week.<p>Maybe it's cause I'm using those for programming and log parsing and all of them are decent enough, but other than that - there are no leaps I see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:25:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290035</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49290035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, this is pretty much the easiest way of handling the problem.<p>When I was teaching in a university the easiest thing to test someone's understanding was a simple question: "Explain me how would you use this in a day-to-day situation."<p>If the guy knows his business, he'll go on a long lecture obsessing over every new feature of C# 2.0 or PHP 3. He would give you all the differences between Firefox 3.5.1 and IE 6 with Maxthon. (Goddamn I'm freaking old)<p>Should you not find a spark of interest but just random mumbo-jumbo of words that don't constitute sentences, you can clearly see that there is no understanding present in the subject.<p>In this case you work as a teacher, helping the guy to figure out what he does not understand in a subject and simplifying things for him till this clicks. After that he will be able to talk about said subject for hours with gusto.</p>
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<p>I've lived in SA for about a year. I would have paid a lot of money for something like Starlink a couple of years ago.<p>Where you have internet it does not work while the local power is out. And it was not that stable and at times we were sitting 10 hours without power a day. And that's in Joburg. And 5g was hard to come by.<p>So I can only imagine that locals are happy to see such a thing. Especially if you can run it from a car charger or something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:19:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781806</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "How JPL keeps the 13-year-old Curiosity rover doing science"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The argument about manned vs robotic missions is kinda like a good comparison of a capybara to an orange juice.<p>The guys who do those robots are real studs. 13 years on 64 megs of ram, remotely rebooting and formatting drives. One has to have a steady hand to do such operations. I can only imagine how much time, study and planning any command takes on such a mission. I'll bet they are not allowed to run a `pwd` without a full test and permission check.<p>Guys who do manned missions to space stations and the moon are also epic. The same amount of prediction while being human. It's quite a show of excellence in training and study. The human won't need a new mission to Mars should he find a new type of rock. Humans can solve problems the rover was not designed to solve in the first place.<p>So there will be manned and unmanned versions of those missions. Which one - is a tough question depending on myriads of factors that will be decided closer to the time when we are ready for said mission.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:35:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485604</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic is desperate for the IPO and will release a half-baked product that they are so afraid to release, you can literally feel the shiver through the text of their press-release.<p>Now they want to have any way of either fixing it, or in case someone will actually make a big boo-boo with their model, to be able to blame the guy in the end.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://roganov.me/blog/token-irresponsibility/">https://roganov.me/blog/token-irresponsibility/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479782">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479782</a></p>
<p>Points: 6</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:34:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://roganov.me/blog/token-irresponsibility/</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479782</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've started getting traffic on my website only after I re-build it with a locally-brewed MD parsing engine that uses Astro to spit out the final version of the site.<p>I guess the main argument is how easy it is for an LLM to ingest the content, since I can bet all of the crawlers are llm-enabled one way or another.</p>
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<p>This is exactly what LLM designed to do. Double up a lot of data and find connections and patterns in it.<p>So no wonder on this point.<p>One thing I want to mention: Law != Justice.<p>So while LLMs are awesome at the law study they will suck at justice. Just because one has to solve very emotional problems with it at times. And LLMs are not that good at finding the correct emotion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:11:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382950</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382950</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An utter mis-understanding and incompetence in running AI agents can lead to starting results that then being blamed on some "God of AI" instead on the fact that the user allowed some blackmail to come in on the data feed and did not check it earlier.<p>I'm actually fear some will start praying "AI Gods" to "Give a good output" or something in 5-10 years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:33:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356661</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48356661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you severely underestimate the power of Copilot. It's the absolute worst thing for windows.<p>(I've been using Microsoft since Windows 3.11, till Windows 10. Windows 11 was the last drop for me.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 14:15:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345852</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48345852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best company to do Microsoft in is Microsoft.<p>They are responsible for awesome sales of MacBook Neo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 00:26:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341942</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "MCP is dead?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love those "A coring drill is dead?" article.<p>"We've done extensive renovations in our apartment and while the coring drill was essential to install electrical conduits it's pretty useless in making furniture installations".<p>In the world of AI development we are jumping from tech to tech every 20 minutes. I'm in shivers every time when I see "A new claude version was released, do you want to update now?"<p>The moment you kinda automate something with the AI, the process breaks and you have to build the new thing.<p>So don't blame a coring drill.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 13:12:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335789</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Claude Opus 4.8"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, switching back to 4.7 does not work either. So console it is. But vibe release - for sure.<p>And I'm paying money for this.</p>
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API Error: 400 messages.1.content.7: `thinking` or `redacted_thinking` blocks in the latest assistant message cannot be modified. These blocks must remain as they were in the original response.<p>I would rather not. 4.6 was fine. 4.7 got to be fine 1 week after the release. Now 4.8. No difference, same thing.<p>But the app is broken and nothing works. So now I have to regress to different clients and wait it out while it becomes workable again.</p>
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<p>This “Ouch” moments when Apple does not want to stand in the front of the Congress trying to prove that they are in fact preventing bad people from abusing kids on one side and try to convince us that they do in fact keep our data secure.<p>It an interesting place to be in logistically. A very thin line to balance between two very bitter ends.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 22:42:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301759</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301759</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48301759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A very simple handling:<p>Buy a domain. Get Proton, or Apple, or any other custom-domain email service.<p>Setup catch-all incoming mail.<p>Every merchant receives an email like merchantname@donotwriteto.me<p>Then you can either sort those out, or if they are malicious and not deleting you from your email lists, you can block the incoming traffic on that email.<p>This way you still can verify your email, comm stays private and you can have your own peace of mind, but you don't have to keep the spam in your primary inbox.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:39:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281262</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281262</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we should be afraid of in AI (2021)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://roganov.me/blog/ai-real-fears/">https://roganov.me/blog/ai-real-fears/</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156499">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156499</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 03:08:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://roganov.me/blog/ai-real-fears/</link><dc:creator>IFC_LLC</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by IFC_LLC in "7 in 10 Americans oppose data centers being built in their communities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's fun to watch how a thing that can potentially create an immense surge of economic development is being vilified. Yes, true, you can't just take and build a data center without having the power and water and all the rest of the things. So fine, make investors to come and build new power plants and get more water lines. This is going to handle a lot of current problems in the infrastructure.<p>We could have used the momentum to build new work opportunities and resources.<p>Instead we managed to mis-represent the thing so much that people won't even consider having a data center in their vicinity.<p>It COULD have been a good thing. It became a bad thing.</p>
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