Hacker News: Loocid

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.

New comment by Loocid in "Project Euler"

Loocid — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:11:13 +0000

How long before they start deleting? I haven't logged in for 5 years and my account is still there.

New comment by Loocid in "Building a 2.5kWh battery from disposable vapes to power my workshop [video]"

Loocid — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:08:37 +0000

There is a huge amount of space between "not really an issue" and "it will not lead to humanity’s demise".

New comment by Loocid in "Americans can't afford their cars any more and Wall Street is worried"

Loocid — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:36:05 +0000

Except its not 6 years for the vast majority of people?

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas...

~75% of people get diagnosed in <1 month of urgent referral and 90% of people that want treatment get started in <1 month.

>and the poorest in the US are among the most plentiful medical tourists to Malaysia and Thailand.

This is such an absurd statement. The poorest Americans can absolutely not afford travel to the other side of the world for treatment.

New comment by Loocid in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

Loocid — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:03:02 +0000

Of course, my main point was my second sentence and was using YouTube as an example.

I know I'd be much happier travelling with my partner than solo.

New comment by Loocid in "Indefinite Backpack Travel"

Loocid — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:40:46 +0000

I agree with the kid point, but YouTube is littered with travel influencer couples that are living this lifestyle.

I would imagine if you had significant other to join you on this lifestyle, it would be significantly easier since your companionship is covered.

New comment by Loocid in "Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?"

Loocid — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:40:16 +0000

$1/month extra cost on $16/month of revenue is very significant though.

New comment by Loocid in "How did sports betting become legal in the US?"

Loocid — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:06:53 +0000

Not as much as traditional bookmakers but they absolutely care. Betfair has a "premium charge" where if you earn over a certain amount in a year, you get charged a fee equal to a % of your gross profit.

Its the same as poker. An exchange wants a bunch of equally skilled players betting against each other. If everyone has zero edge, all the money stays on the exchange betting over and over and the money eventually all goes to the exchange in commissions.

Players with a strong edge dramatically reduce the time before the losing players run out of money, meaning less commissions for the exchange.

New comment by Loocid in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

Loocid — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:50:07 +0000

Eh, I was banned from several major subreddits for simply posting in a conversative subreddit, even though my post was against the conservative sentiment.

New comment by Loocid in "Lab-grown salmon hits the menu"

Loocid — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:53:38 +0000

>The proof is in the pudding / free market.

Dumping toxic waste into a river would also lower costs for consumers vs disposing of it correctly, but there are regulations to prevent that. Complete unobstructed free market capitalism is not sustainable, there needs to be a balance.

New comment by Loocid in "Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI"

Loocid — Tue, 20 May 2025 05:58:56 +0000

-2 isn't even?

New comment by Loocid in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

Loocid — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:56:36 +0000

This is the opposite of what I've heard. Most often you hear of people installing Linux on old machines due to it performing better than Windows on low resources.