Hacker News: VWWHFSfQ

Ask HN: Is "fast, cheap, correct – pick two" still true in software development?

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:06:52 +0000

It seems as llm coding agents become more and more sophisticated and capable, that adage may not be true anymore. It seems increasingly likely that you can have all three.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47367619

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command"

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:05:55 +0000

> before handing the tasks over to the AI agent to continue the recklessness with even more abandon

Which is a funny outcome of this because apparently the AI agent (Claude) tried to talk him out of doing some of the crazy stuff he wanted to do! Not only did he make bad decisions before invoking the AI, he even ignored and overruled the agent when it was flagging problems with the approach.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:12:36 +0000

> prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption

Their end-to-end encryption is pointless because the vast majority of any recipients will just leak the plaintext emails via their own account providers anyway. It only works under very specific circumstances (all parties are using it). I think their marketing overstates what their secure private email actually means.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Something is afoot in the land of Qwen"

VWWHFSfQ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:10:19 +0000

> China is incredibly nice to live in

I'm sure it's a very nice place to live if you're content to just stay quiet in society and never put a political sign in your yard or even just talk about the wrong thing with your friend in a WeChat.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "The next era of social media: built and run in Europe, ruled by our laws"

VWWHFSfQ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:44:22 +0000

www was built in Europe but the Internet itself was built in USA! :D

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:17:55 +0000

Ofcom and Clearcast are tasked with enforcing the UK Broadcast Advertising Code (BCAP Code). Which came about from the Communications Act of 2003.

It is 100% government mandated censorship.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Mullvad VPN: Banned TV Ad in the Streets of London [video]"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:50:03 +0000

Broad censorship has largely become normalized in the UK and EU. It's happening fast and it's terrifying.

Ask HN: Why is Claude Code so much larger than Codex on Mac OS?

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:57:30 +0000

> ==> Fetching downloads for: claude-code and codex

> Cask codex (0.105.0)

> Verified 33.4MB/ 33.4MB

> Cask claude-code (2.1.59)

> Verified 187.1MB/187.1MB

Codex is already humongous for what it is (a CLI/TUI), but somehow Claude Code is more than 5x the size.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47171916

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

VWWHFSfQ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:31:29 +0000

> The person intentionally didn't put in much effort.

And it's incredible that they got a somewhat working wifi driver given just how little effort they put in.

I have no doubt that a motivated person with domain knowledge trying to make a robust community driver for unsupported hardware could absolutely accomplish this in a fraction of the time and would be good quality.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

VWWHFSfQ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:33:35 +0000

> after CHIPS act was axed

This is news to a lot of Americans! The 2022 CHIPS and Science Act is codified federal law. I think a lot of states (Arizona, Idaho, New York) would be very interested to learn that the funding for the infrastructure that they are already building has somehow gone poof.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

VWWHFSfQ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:29:55 +0000

It looks like it's still a big difference between how the US and EU are responding to the chip supply wars. The US is actually building their own manufacturing capabilities domestically while the EU is apparently doing nothing, which is unfortunate.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes"

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:15:39 +0000

> The moat for SaaS is gone.

What does this even mean?

I could spend $1,000s on tokens asking an agent to build (some semblance of) Sentry, or New Relic, but why would I bother? I have real work to do in the near-term, and I'm happy to pay for services that help me do it.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105"

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:12:40 +0000

> At least it doesn't try to snipe me into feeling bad, or scared about everything.

That's the guardian for you. They can't write an article without making sure the reader comes away feeling like a piece of shit. This piece should just be a celebration of Ginny's remarkable life, but they'll still make sure that you know that there are kids starving in Africa and elderly people working past retirement because they have no money.

I also love positive.news, and I subscribe to their newsletter. It's great.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU"

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:46:26 +0000

> the French economy has been stagnant for decades. There is no growth.

This is one of the biggest reasons why it is trivially easy for USA, China, and Russia to squeeze them (and the whole EU) from all sides.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley"

VWWHFSfQ — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:56:09 +0000

It sounds to me like Denmark's media and news isn't very valuable from an ad sales perspective. So Google has set their price reflecting what they think that value is: not much. And Denmark is now getting their lawmakers involved because they think it's worth a lot more and they want to force Google to buy it for a lot more.

Honestly, it doesn't sound like a lot of these EU countries are interested in digital sovereignty or developing their own services. They just want to force the American companies to sell their services at rates favorable to them by getting their regulators involved.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "US to suspend immigrant visa processing for 75 nations, State Department says"

VWWHFSfQ — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:09:55 +0000

1st gen immigrants from India are almost always well-educated, and oftentimes even entrepreneurial. They are among the lowest-risk (with Chinese) immigrants. That is to say, they typically will not contribute to crime, gangs, or public welfare burden. So it's a pretty big difference between those two countries and all the others on the list.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:55:34 +0000

> estimated 30% of all production of 2nm and better to be produced in USA by 2030

There will come a time when the EU is also buying their chips from USA and then they'll wonder how that happened.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud"

VWWHFSfQ — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:23:58 +0000

Europe will just end up doing whatever is cheapest. It's the same story as always. They'll say some stuff publicly but they'll quietly come back to American tech once they see the price tag difference. They're very cost sensitive and their investors are extremely risk-averse.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Mistral OCR 3"

VWWHFSfQ — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:40:18 +0000

I think there is a lot of broad support, but they're just kind of hamstrung by EU regulation on AI development at this stage. I think the end game will ultimately be getting acquired by an American company, and then relocating.

New comment by VWWHFSfQ in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

VWWHFSfQ — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:30:08 +0000

It's ironic that USA lost 60-some thousand troops in Vietnam trying to prevent a communist takeover, only for American companies just to enslave them all anyway. I wonder how different the dynamic with Vietnam would have turned out if it had been more of a Korea situation. USA certainly never enslaved South Korea.