Hacker News: Loocid

New comment by Loocid in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

Loocid — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:20:10 +0000

There has been no period of "rapid change" that has even come close to matching the speed of climate change in the last couple hundred years.

New comment by Loocid in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

Loocid — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:15:40 +0000

The parts of government responsible for public toilets are not the ones spending billions or trillions of dollars on things.

New comment by Loocid in "Kimi Work"

Loocid — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:49:51 +0000

I hope they don't bring Chinese UI/UX to it. Native Chinese apps are a mess from a western perspective.

New comment by Loocid in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

Loocid — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:06:14 +0000

There are bunch of bitcoin miner products now that are packaged to look like regular space heaters.

New comment by Loocid in "Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries"

Loocid — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:59:54 +0000

Which seems strange since Toyota are the origins of JiT manufacturing. I wonder what made Japan go through a period of incredible innovation and then just decide "ok, that's enough".

New comment by Loocid in "Steam Machine launches today"

Loocid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:57:46 +0000

Being the lesser of two evils doesn't make it right. It's also possible to not have loot boxes at all.

New comment by Loocid in "The rich aren't your role models"

Loocid — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:25:48 +0000

Recency matters. If this post stops getting points it will drop off very fast. The 273 point post is 9 hours old.

New comment by Loocid in "Waymo Premier"

Loocid — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:30:45 +0000

Keep in mind that Uber does like 30 million rides per day.

New comment by Loocid in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

Loocid — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:22:59 +0000

Yes exactly, which is why the system is so ripe for abuse. A third of live in maids in Singapore report abuse by their employers.

I don't consider taking someone out of a shit situation into a slightly less shit situation for your huge benefit all that benevolent personally.

New comment by Loocid in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

Loocid — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:45:30 +0000

Its too close to slavery for my liking. Yes they are paid but 2.5k per month is very low for Singapore, they work massive hours, they rely on you for shelter, and are very likely from much poorer neighbouring countries that are trying to support family back home.

The whole power dynamic is extremely exploitable which results in a lot of abuse cases.

New comment by Loocid in "Obsidian plugin was abused to deploy a remote access trojan"

Loocid — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:50:20 +0000

As one of those people that uses Obsidian without plugins, what plugins do you consider essential?

New comment by Loocid in "Microsoft is employing dark patterns to goad users into paying for storage?"

Loocid — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:57:16 +0000

I've lost count the number of times by wife has accidently agreed to store all her google photos on the cloud then filled up her account. The prompts are very good at making you ~seem~ like you need to do it.

New comment by Loocid in "Bombarding gamblers with offers greatly increases betting and gambling harm"

Loocid — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:39:35 +0000

It was actually free money assuming you had the resolve to stop once you claimed the bonus (presumably most people didnt). As long as you were laying the other side of your bet on an exchange you could extract the full value of your free bets risk free.

I collected a few grand back then, however those sort of promotions are now illegal where I live.

New comment by Loocid in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

Loocid — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:26:25 +0000

That still requires a car present to be washed though.

New comment by Loocid in "Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition"

Loocid — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:53:09 +0000

I'm missing something with the first example, can anyone shed some light?

The last line of the instructions says:

> The premium model will be used for the subagent - but premium requests will be consumed.

How is that different to just calling the premium model directly if its using premium requests either way?

New comment by Loocid in "Project SkyWatch (a.k.a. Wescam at Home)"

Loocid — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 05:40:57 +0000

"WESCAM" seems like a crazy name for a company.

New comment by Loocid in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

Loocid — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:57:01 +0000

I'm not super surprised that these examples worked well. They are complex and a ton of work, but the problems are relatively well defined with tons of documentation online. Sounds ideal for an LLM no?

New comment by Loocid in "Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)"

Loocid — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 00:07:57 +0000

When did Linus say he doesn't know how to install a distro? My understanding is he's only said he prefers to use simple to install distros.

New comment by Loocid in "Kilauea erupts, destroying webcam [video]"

Loocid — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 13:21:27 +0000

The second line. The video description for me says the following:

"HAWAIʻI VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK - An incredible sight at the summit of Kilauea volcano on Saturday morning, as Episode 38 erupted enormous lava fountains across the caldera, destroying one of the webcams that was live streaming the event.

All images and video are courtesy the U.S. Geological Survey. A synthesized text-to-video voiceover was used in the narration for this story."

New comment by Loocid in "Dark Pattern Games"

Loocid — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:32:26 +0000

There is pretty heavy pressure to buy stash tabs once you hit the later parts of the game, but you get a LOT of time to figure out if you actually like the game before you feel it.