Hacker News: a13n

New comment by a13n in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

a13n — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:56:24 +0000

nah. we never had a business plan and are still going strong 11 years later. 99.999% is a gross exaggeration of reality.

we’ll never actually have this data, but I bet there isn’t much correlation if any between having a business plan and being successful.

have you started a successful business?

New comment by a13n in "Cursor 3"

a13n — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:14:59 +0000

vscode + claude code extension has everything you listed that actually matters

New comment by a13n in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

a13n — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:23:11 +0000

VCX (Fundrise) has way more exposure than ARKVX

New comment by a13n in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

a13n — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:19:55 +0000

Rejecting any packages newer than X days is one nice control, but ultimately it'd be way better to maintain an allowlist of which packages are allowed to run scripts.

Unfortunately npm is friggen awful at this...

You can use --ignore-scripts=true to disable all scripts, but inevitably, some packages will absolutely need to run scripts. There's no way to allowlist specific scripts to run, while blocking all others.

There are third-party npm packages that you can install, like @lavamoat/allow-scripts, but to use these you need to use an entirely different command like `npm setup` instead of the `npm install` everyone is familiar with.

This is just awful in so many ways, and it'd be so easy for npm to fix.

New comment by a13n in "Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500"

a13n — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:04:04 +0000

just tried with claude opus and got 7,342

New comment by a13n in "Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility"

a13n — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:46:16 +0000

Please don't override the browser's default scroll behavior. It's so jarring and basically never a good idea.

New comment by a13n in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

a13n — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:33:07 +0000

If you use eslint and tell it how to run lint in CLAUDE.md it will run lint itself and find and fix most issues like this.

Definitely not ideal, but sure helps.

New comment by a13n in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

a13n — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:13:20 +0000

This isn’t strictly an AI problem, there are definitely human engineers who gold plate. At least with AI it doesn’t slow down velocity.

New comment by a13n in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

a13n — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:23:07 +0000

depends, if you don’t clean up the logs and monitor that cleanup will it eventually hit the p&l? eg if you fail compliance audits and lose customers over it? then yes. it still eventually comes back to the p&l.

New comment by a13n in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

a13n — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:43:40 +0000

Oh man can't wait till Cursor allows you to customize sound effects.

New comment by a13n in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

a13n — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:03:34 +0000

This example feels more like a bug in the law itself that should be corrected. If this behavior is acceptable then it should be legal so we can avoid everyone the hassle in the first place. I bet AI would be great at finding and fixing these bugs.

New comment by a13n in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

a13n — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:32:40 +0000

If my bank did this to me I would immediately drop them.

New comment by a13n in "Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework"

a13n — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:29:02 +0000

By mentioning MongoDB you’re going to trigger so many people who haven’t informed themselves on MongoDB since 2014.

It works just fine as a production database. You can still have relationships and strict schemas… I just don’t understand the hate.

Capital One to Acquire Brex

a13n — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:35:56 +0000

Article URL: https://investor.capitalone.com/news-releases/news-release-details/capital-one-acquire-brex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725428

Points: 11

# Comments: 2

New comment by a13n in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

a13n — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:26:05 +0000

I mean if you’re going to write algos that trade the first thing you should do is check whether they were successful on historical data. This is an interesting data point.

Market impact shouldn’t be considered when you’re talking about trading S&P stocks with $100k.

New comment by a13n in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

a13n — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 04:20:06 +0000

is there evidence it’s for vendor lock in purposes? airpods have a pretty stellar connection for bluetooth, wouldn’t be surprised if there were performance reasons for them going off spec

New comment by a13n in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

a13n — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:39:59 +0000

maybe instead of communicating how dumb you think people are for choosing mongo, communicate why you think it’s so dumb

New comment by a13n in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

a13n — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:34:37 +0000

we’re not far from the point where ChatGPT is superior than going to the doctor in terms of cost, accessibility, speed, and quality

it’s honestly not as bad as y’all think

ChatGPT isn’t perfect but neither is your doctor (or your lawyer or accountant)

New comment by a13n in "End of Japanese community"

a13n — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:50:35 +0000

ehh this reads a bit like the hn comments complaining about sites that don’t work with js disabled

like what percent of firefox users do you think actually care about this?

New comment by a13n in "987654321 / 123456789"

a13n — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:05:33 +0000

how did you submit this table in HN??