Hacker News: almog

US treasury doubles debt buyback to steady bond market amid inflation fears

almog — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:52:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/19/us-treasury-doubles-debt-buyback-bond-market

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49365670

Points: 5

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New comment by almog in "Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas"

almog — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:41:09 +0000

1. From the article:

> During the first nine months of fiscal 2026 (October through June), authorities recorded 1,509 encounters, down from 10,291 during the same period in fiscal 2023, a decline of about 85 percent.

10k was the number recorded 3 years ago, it's been down significantly regardless of whether a wall exists or not.

2. These numbers aren't specific to Big Bend NP itself but rather to the much larger Big Bend Sector (the border contained within the park is but ~22% of these 517 miles [1]):

>The figures cover the entire Big Bend Sector, which is wider than the park itself and spans roughly 517 miles of the border.

There are no figures as to how many of the people recorded illegally crossing even used the NP part of Big Bend Sector.

Add to that the fact that the NP terrain is far more difficult to walk through than the surrounding sector and it's quite easy to see that the number of recorded illegal crossing from within the NP itself are likely to at least an order of magnitude smaller than these figures.

[1] - https://home.nps.gov/bibe/planyourvisit/border_travel.htm

Bulldozers Plow Through Big Bend National Park, Sparking Fury in Texas

almog — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:33:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/bulldozers-plow-through-big-bend-national-park-sparking-fury-in-texas-12295668

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208341

Points: 76

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Truth Social to sell banks 'fastest' access to Trump's posts

almog — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:52:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-media-unveils-data-feed-businesses-tracking-truth-social-posts-2026-07-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48939408

Points: 38

# Comments: 5

Trump Shrinks Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears National Monuments

almog — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:18:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2026/07/13/president-trump-shrinks-bears-ears/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48899661

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

Anthropic extends Fable 5 access through July 19

almog — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-extends-fable-5-access-through-july-19/articleshow/132350610.cms?from=mdr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883378

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by almog in "Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase"

almog — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:50:05 +0000

> Anyways, besides that, the README does clearly state "The Problem" and "The Idea" which outlines exactly why the author built this particular project.

I asked about the use case _because_ the readme states a problem but does not offer a solution to that problem as far as I could see.

New comment by almog in "Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase"

almog — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 10:32:31 +0000

Other than being aesthetically pleasing (which it doubtlessly is), what's the use case for this?

Apple Raises Prices on Macs, iPads by $200 or More on Some Models

almog — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:50:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-raises-prices-on-macs-ipads-by-200-or-more-on-some-models-a7463f99

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672590

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by almog in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

almog — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:56:25 +0000

I think part of what makes CORS hard to remember is the amount of conditional branches it contains, which partially stems from being modeled to have backward compatibility with HTML forms (which defines how CORS behaves for "simple requests). Remove this legacy trap and there are far fewer cases to remember.

Of course, that can't be undone now but I think the original-ish sin was when forms suddenly could perform _both_ cross origin requests _and_ get the ambient authority treatment (i.e. send the user cookies with the request though to be fair, basic auth + forms also enabled similar attacks even before cookies were introduced in the mid 90's).

New comment by almog in "Claude Fable 5"

almog — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:08:57 +0000

Has anyone managed to use Fable for firmware reverse engineering tasks without falling back to Opus?

New comment by almog in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

almog — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:21:02 +0000

Depreciating doesn't just mean it could depreciate in value relative to the performance of newer GPUs, but also that its lifespan is limited by reliability issues and failures.

New comment by almog in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

almog — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:50:41 +0000

Or use scrcpy with the same keyboard you already have and save your neck some of the pain of staring down at your phone (as can be seen in the post).

New comment by almog in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

almog — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:09:11 +0000

Earlier this month I switched from Claude Code to Codex and wanted to try Gemini CLI as well. It felt far behind both CC and Codex but I wanted to give it another chance with the new Antigravity CLI. What can I say, it did surprise me and not in a good way in but two short sessions that included just two prompts (trying to reverse engineer some earbuds OTA firmware) using Gemini Flash 3.5, I managed to finish my weekly quota. I'm currently on the Google AI Pro subscription. Couldn't even figure out my tokens usage or if my plan is even counted toward usage inside Antigravity CLI.

New comment by almog in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

almog — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:05:29 +0000

Link to repo is broken

New comment by almog in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

almog — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:58:26 +0000

Given how the cache eviction policy is mismatched with the 5h usage window, it might make sense to just stop at say 97% of the session max usage and keep running a script every 4 min and 50 sec that consumes a minimal number of tokens whose entire purpose is to keep the cache. reply

Claude's popularity is forcing it to hit the brakes on users

almog — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:41:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-usage-caps-changes-popularity-anthropic-2026-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549343

Points: 1

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New comment by almog in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

almog — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:27:03 +0000

Neither RAG nor loading the docs into the context window would produce any effective results. Not even including the grammar files and just few examples in the training set would help. To get any usable results you still need many many usage examples.

New comment by almog in "Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran"

almog — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:21:34 +0000

Uh oh, two independent thought alarms in one day! The students are overstimulated. Willie! remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms.

Framework anounces another DDR5 RAM price hike, will now charge $10 per GB

almog — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 11:12:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/850376/framework-ram-memory-ddr5-price-hikes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46419485

Points: 7

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