<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: alienbaby</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alienbaby</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:48:39 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alienbaby" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no, he's saying that in amongst whatever else is there, you can often see how you could refine your prompt to guide it better in the firtst place, helping it to avoid bad thinking threads to begin with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:01:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800082</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800082</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Cal.com is going closed source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was my thought too. Your tool is great at finding vulnerabilities, and we want software to be secure for everyone, secure code should not be out of reach to those who can't afford it.<p>Scan everyone's code, for free. Make all code as secure as an llm can make it as a baseline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:24:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791973</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Cal.com is going closed source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This feels like it misses the point. Tokens = money. The real differentiator is time and effort.<p>Llm's will find your issues faster, but not necessarily more accurately than a domain expert. But experts cost money and effort takes longer to apply.<p>Are llm's going to reduce everyone's wages because they are cheap labour?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:20:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791931</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47791931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "The M×N problem of tool calling and open-source models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Greek mythology, Procrustes (/proʊˈkrʌstiːz/; Greek: Προκρούστης Prokroustes, "the stretcher [who hammers out the metal]"), also known as Prokoptas, Damastes (Δαμαστής, "subduer") or Polypemon, was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed<p>I can't figure out if you meant that or not, it kinda fits. (No pun intended)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:08:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768325</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768325</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's perfectly fine and usable for me. More so than the app or the 'new' Reddit design. I exclusively use the old design.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767469</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Show HN: Run GUIs as Scripts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see aot if these kinda of links to GitHub repositories with the user obviously keen on showing people, but they then describe what it is / does using specialist / domain language which can make it quite hard to get just what it is I'm looking at, or what I can do with it, and where / why it would be useful.  I do wish people would consider their audience after posting 'look at this thing' links, and that people might not quite be as familiar with acronyms and domain specific terminology without a bit more of a plain speaking background description as to what is being shown off! Maybe even some screenshots too.<p>I mean, I can follow ops intent to a general degree, it sounds interesting, but ..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:56:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767344</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>3 things currently; some fun toys..<p>Web based two player bingo race game in an attempt to drag significant other away from mobile phone. :p<p>Optimised gravity sim, everyone loves a good gravity sim. Event driven physics and aiming for 10000 spheres at 60fps.<p>Alife simulation where critters can read and write symbols into/from their environment to see if we can't get some kind of rudimentary communication evolved.<p>Nothing super serious, but fun gadgets to tinker with :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:25:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750982</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>designers are creatives and will always believe the visual elements of a design need to be updated, refreshed, modernized etc..  then we get flavour of the month nand new trends in visual language and ui design that things must be updated to.<p>As soon as UI design became a creative visual thing rather than a functional thing , everything started to go crazy in UI land..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:19:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740749</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740749</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Pro Max 5x Quota Exhausted in 1.5 Hours Despite Moderate Usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm finding the oppostire with copilot.  A request is a prompt, with some caveats around whats generating the prompt.  I am quite happily working with opus 4.6 at 3x cost and about 1/3 oor the month in I'm stting at ~25% usage of a pro+ subscription. I find it quite easy to track my usage and rate of usage.<p>The overall context windows are smaller with copilot I believe, but it dfoesnt appear to be hurting my work.<p>I'm using it for approx 4 hours a day most days.  Generally one shotting fun ideas I thoroughly plan out in planning mode first, and I have my own verison of  the idea->plan->analyse-> document implementation phases -> implement via agent loop. simulations, games, stuff-im-curious about and resurrecting old projects that never really got off the ground.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:42:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740304</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740304</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "I still prefer MCP over skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Different techniques appropriate in different situations, I would decide on what's appropriate given the goals you have.  Whichg is nearly always the answer to X is a better way than Y arguments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:31:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716000</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716000</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Every GPU That Mattered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok? Not bad to be able to throw something like that together with minimal effort. Works nicely enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:56:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678224</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678224</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ive thought for a while that the real gains now will not come from throwing more hardware at the problem, but advances in mathematical techniques to make things for more efficient.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:26:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562606</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'd wish more for an impartial, considered judgement</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:48:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537788</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47537788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They don't like it up 'em</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:20:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463684</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463684</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>its hard not to wonder if they are taking their own medicine, but not quite properly</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:30:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463452</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47463452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>is this the market played in front of our eyes slice by slice: ok, maybe not, but watching these entities duke it out is kinda amusing? There will be consequences but may as well sit it out for the ride, who knows where we are going?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:34:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372716</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "US Court of Appeals: TOS may be updated by email, use can imply consent [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>- All your base are belong to us</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:08:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307498</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Juniors really aren't just as capable with AI as anyone. Knowing how to unambiguously describe correctly what you want isn't something a junior can do, nor is understanding if what the ai produces is good or bad.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:12:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281127</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281127</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The junior engineer will become a senior. An llm wont. For now, anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:10:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281102</link><dc:creator>alienbaby</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alienbaby in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always understood the main difference between CPU and GPU is that CPU's are specialised to handle branching, where GPUs are not.</p>
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