<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: balls187</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=balls187</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:50:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=balls187" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1: true.
2: that someone else has to get approval for the cost</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:45:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678295</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And AI is the reason why developers are being laid off.<p>Don't trust a fox to count your chickens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:11:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677925</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess the days of engineers getting to be so casual about memory footprint and CPU cycles is over.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:04:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677096</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677096</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48677096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not OpenAI’s fault that the cost of a shipping container doubled.<p>I collect fountain pens which have nothing to do with the data center market and the big 3 Japanese makers announced pretty substantial price hikes.</p>
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<p>Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs; they charge 30% royalty per game sold.<p>Valve often boasts that they have a very high Rev / Employee number.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:20:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635564</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Opening paragraph is not the profile of a rockstar developer.<p>At least not the rockstars I had the pleasure of working with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462548</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It had nothing to do with smarts. They held a public comment about the changes and responded accordingly.</p>
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<p>I left my comment saying it was a bad idea.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425326</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48425326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Early on with ChatGPT I had it write a script for an Avengers movie, but all the Avengers have below average intelligence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:37:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421437</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421437</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More like, HN crowd is anti-HYPE</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 04:36:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421428</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> So obviously there is no reason to invent things that are not true.<p>Because everyone who has ever been convicted of a crime actually committed the crime.</p>
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<p>Thank god. I’ve been waiting to have a reason to tell someone I collect fountain pens.<p>Computers depreciate because they are obviously being supplanted by newer better models—until they become vintage and then move into collectibles.</p>
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<p>I’ve had the best luck selling in Craigslist. Every other platform has been sub par.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232157</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. Our justice system has never actually been based on evidence.<p>It’s based on the doctrine of judicial discretion in the name of preserving order.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 04:48:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232067</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48232067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not just google. I asked ChatGPT about some pen refills, and it gave me a very factual response sourcing to my own reddit post discussing the topic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 03:30:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217528</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48217528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Ti-84 Evo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Generating a QR code to see the graph online is kind of cool, but also kinda dumb too.<p>I mean, these days kids have smartphones, what's the point of a graphing calculator?</p>
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<p>The comments on this are <i>fascinating</i>. Although, I was waiting for someone to chime in with "HP is better cuz RPN."<p>2 dinners out for a family of four would cover the cost of this calculator. If my kid's school required this for math, I wouldn't bat an eye at purchasing one.<p>I needed a Ti-83 for school in 1996-1998. If you couldn't afford one, the school would loan you one for the semester. Band instruments were the same way.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 21:27:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980594</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47980594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Claude does not have a "theory" of anything, and I'd argue applying that mental model to LLM+Tools is a major reason why Claude can delete a production database.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:31:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950714</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well summarized.<p>We're also seeing that the people up top are using this to cull the herd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:22:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837587</link><dc:creator>balls187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by balls187 in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I've used Claude for many months now. Since February I see a stark decline in the work I do with it.<p>I find myself repeating the following pattern: I use an AI model to assist me with work, and after some time, I notice the quality doesn't justify the time investment. I decide to try a similar task with another provider. I try a few more tests, then decide to switch over for full time work, and it feels like it's awesome and doing a good job. A few months later, it feels like the model got worse.</p>
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