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New comment by arcologies1985 in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"

arcologies1985 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:54:23 +0000

You know FreeTaxUSA uses Direct File on the backend, right?

New comment by arcologies1985 in "IRS lost 40% of IT staff, 80% of tech leaders in 'efficiency' shakeup"

arcologies1985 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:00:54 +0000

They built IRS Direct File which was a huge improvement. Then the administration killed it to serve tax prep companies.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet"

arcologies1985 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:11:58 +0000

> and the same questions keep getting asked over and over.

This is a feature not a bug. The people asking those questions are new blood and accepting and integrating them is how you sustain your community.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

arcologies1985 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:34:15 +0000

Could you make it use Parakeet? That's an offline model that runs very quickly even without a GPU, so you could get much lower latency than using an API.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Inspecting the Source of Go Modules"

arcologies1985 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:56:41 +0000

literally just 'git rebase origin/main' to insert new commits to main into my branch history prior to the commits I made. No rewrites of later commits required if there are no conflicts. You seem to have an extreme misunderstanding of how git works.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Kimi Claw"

arcologies1985 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:54:34 +0000

What you and I consider routine work, someone who works with mostly Webdev or might consider extremely difficult. There a lot of programmers who have never used a Linux shell, or know much about networking beyond TCP, or used Linux before outside of a uni class 20 years ago.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Kimi Claw"

arcologies1985 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:01:27 +0000

Installing it on your PC or laptop puts your personal data and ISP subscription at risk, while installing it in a hosted VM yourself requires a bunch of Linux security and networking knowledge or else you'll get pwned pretty much immediately (https://youtu.be/40SnEd1RWUU). So this service is giving you a VM already set up with a security baseline.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Inspecting the Source of Go Modules"

arcologies1985 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:46:59 +0000

git rebase can do that easily, I do it all the time when prepping feature branches for submission to the main branch

New comment by arcologies1985 in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

arcologies1985 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:03:21 +0000

At my workplace we now use Claude Code to parse written specs and source code, search through JIRA, and draft, refine and organize tickets (using the JIRA API via a CLI tool). Way faster than through the UI.

However as you point out we have no program-accessible source of data on who stakeholders, contributors, managers, etc. are and have to write a lot of that ourselves. For a smaller business perhaps one could write all of that down in an accessible way to improve this but for a large dynamic business it seems very difficult.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

arcologies1985 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:18:48 +0000

The identity provider is on-device and has to run on phones which don't do hardware attestation.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

arcologies1985 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:49:41 +0000

They can't feasibly do this in the US since many people don't have drivers licenses or passports.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

arcologies1985 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:13:02 +0000

If only this was a game of Victoria 3

New comment by arcologies1985 in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

arcologies1985 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:59:35 +0000

The evidence has shown that this thinking is flawed - disruption of jobs in an industry causes a slow, wrenching, scarring adjustment process that increases the load on welfare programs and makes quality of life broadly worse: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/g-s1-47352/why-economists-got...

New comment by arcologies1985 in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

arcologies1985 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:56:14 +0000

Look at the problems South Korea is having, where there are not enough young people to support and care for the elderly. Elders face economic hardship and the healthcare system is buckling under load.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

arcologies1985 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:47:53 +0000

I speculate this is to help them pass the vendor business risk assessment process at larger customers.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70k IDs"

arcologies1985 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:29:39 +0000

On Discord Mods and Admins are just other users. They're not Discord staff or employees. (Reddit is different, admins are Reddit employees).

New comment by arcologies1985 in "GitHub is down again"

arcologies1985 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:19:09 +0000

For my OSS work that is about $699 over my budget

New comment by arcologies1985 in "GitHub is down again"

arcologies1985 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:36:01 +0000

Issues, CI, and downloads for built binaries aren't part of vanilla Git. CI in particular can be hard if you make a multi-platform project and don't want to have to buy a new mac every few years.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

arcologies1985 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:24:08 +0000

I have worked at organizations where most engineering and many product decisions were made bottom-up, through written RFDs and ADRs, and horizontal conversations between lead, staff and principal engineers. The tradeoff is that it can take weeks, months or years to both agree or schedule work on larger projects, where other (especially small) organizations might take hours to weeks.

New comment by arcologies1985 in "Vouch"

arcologies1985 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:22:13 +0000

In my OSS projects I appreciate if someone opens an issue or discussion with their idea first rather than starting with a PR. PRs often put me in an awkward position of saying "this code works, but doesn't align with other directions I'm taking this project" (e.g. API design, or a change making it harder to reach longer term goals)