<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: ashdksnndck</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ashdksnndck</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:14:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ashdksnndck" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I sometimes prompt with leading questions where I actually want Claude to understand what I’m implying and go ahead and do it. That’s just part of my communication style. I suppose I’m the part of the distribution that ruins things for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:24:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831294</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Many of the juicy stories from the book have no supporting evidence other than the claims of the author. Their credibility is all we have to go on here. If someone wrote a message here saying that they were a fly on the wall at the publisher’s office where they had a workshop inventing these stories to sell more books, you’d be right to question their motives.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642698</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same commenter, 3 hours later, defending bombing of children:<p>> Parents are solely responsible for bringing their children on stolen land. There were indigenous children living there that were murdered.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:08:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552900</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47552900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok, it sounds the principle here is if any land was stolen in the 20th century the people who live there now aren’t citizens (regardless if they are children or not) and deserve to be bombed? I hope nobody tells the balkans.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:27:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550189</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550189</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You believe that anyone who lives on stolen land is not a citizen and deserves to be bombed? Americans live on stolen land too, as does much of the rest of the world population.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:20:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549659</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47549659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Iran and its proxies frequently target civilians. They would make an exception for the US?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548790</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So to clarify, your argument is it’s ok to target civilians with bombs as long as they are located in a nation that practices terror?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:29:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548509</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The only reason Iranian bombs aren’t hitting America is because their range isn’t long enough. Iran-commanded forces (located in Iran, Lebanon, Yemen) have been targeting civilians for many years.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:28:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547822</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you clarify what you mean by: “they refuse to repurpose a downstream dam”<p>California has insufficient water storage to meet demand, it’s not like we have huge dams lying around that we leave empty when there is water available to fill them.<p>You might be referring to Don Pedro dam - but we are already filling that up (modulo what we need to keep empty for flood control). SF has some contractual right they could possibly exercise to water in Don Pedro but that doesn’t magically result in California’s water supply being held constant if we stop storing water in the Hetch Hetchy. If SF gets the Don Pedro water, that means someone else that was going to get it is deprived.<p>Now, you could argue that the state can get by with lower storage because ag needs to consume less or more groundwater recharge or whatever, but that’s a different question.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460756</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460756</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The country club is also negligible compared to agriculture. Farmers are politically not an attractive punching bag though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:11:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460625</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> - They don't need charging. Charging may seem like a minor inconvenience, and we're used to charging a lot of devices. However, even a minor inconvenience is still an inconvenience.<p>I’ve always found it more convenient to keep the headphones plugged in when I’m not using them then when I am. The cord is not going to get tangled when it’s not attached to my body, and aren’t going to unplug themselves sitting on a shelf. Different strokes though.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:57:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377342</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My change cuts across multiple systems with many tests/static analysis/AI code reviews happening in CI. The agent keeps pushing new versions and waits for results until all of them come up clean, taking several iterations.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:33:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372380</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47372380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "The MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think for this plan to work you’d have to force the developers of Xcode to work on the 4 Gb machines first. If they could do that, the rest would follow naturally.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:21:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343019</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47343019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always listened to the podcast and forget they even have videos. Have a hard time imagining myself sitting and watching a 2 hour interview when I could listen while exercising or doing chores. Am I missing anything?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:18:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342967</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47342967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "Meta acquires Moltbook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been wondering if ChatGPT is actually coming up with the idea of posting to Reddit when the user is asking a question and ChatGPT can’t find a good source to answer it. ChatGPT has never suggested this to me, but it wouldn’t be a completely crazy thing to do. A lot of ChatGPT answers are sourced from Reddit (via search, and also via training data). If everyone starts asking ChatGPT everything instead of Reddit, there won’t be as many new conversations happening. Promoting users to post questions to Reddit would help solve the user’s direct problem, and also make the ensuing answers available to ChatGPT to help with future conversations.<p>I understand that a lot of people would be very unhappy if this is true, but I can imagine from the perspective of a product person at OpenAI that it helps them in multiple ways.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:06:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340649</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t respond to specific comments with accusations, because I can’t prove it and it would suck to be falsely accused. But I find it really depressing to watch deep comment threads with someone debating with an AI. The human is putting so much effort in, and the AI is responding with all these well-written but often flawed arguments. I wish I could do something to save that person from that interaction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:52:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340395</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "Meta acquires Moltbook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are also tons of comments written by AI on hacker news. There are whole discussions between AI bots arguing over whether AI is a sham.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:01:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325947</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I imagine there would be value in not just throwing all of GitHub commits in as training data, but also rating the quality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:48:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292235</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is in the training data since they use commit data from repos, but I imagine code deletions are rarer than they should be in the real data as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:10:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285921</link><dc:creator>ashdksnndck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47285921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ashdksnndck in "Where things stand with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s not that big of a coincidence that the countries that superpowers want to conquer, and need defending, are neighbors to the superpowers.</p>
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