Hacker News: bantunes

New comment by bantunes in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs"

bantunes — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:38:20 +0000

> There's no point in having fuck-you money in the bank if you never say "fuck you"!

Absolutely right.

New comment by bantunes in "Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?"

bantunes — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:43:17 +0000

I don't think they read all of it. Probably just metadata. But would be good to know what's being sent.

New comment by bantunes in "Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?"

bantunes — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:38:33 +0000

I assume for the same reason the OS pings Cupertino when you run a binary - surveillance, masquerading as protection.

New comment by bantunes in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

bantunes — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:57:00 +0000

> And this is where the value is for me: I can simply make things higher quality than I could do them alone.

It's sad that this can be true because if you did them alone the quality would be non-existent.

New comment by bantunes in "What's the story behind the names of Cloudflare's name servers? (2013)"

bantunes — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:13:36 +0000

"Naming strategies for servers" seems like a big enough niche for there to exist a compendium somewhere already, but I couldn't find a good one.

New comment by bantunes in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

bantunes — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:26:50 +0000

This was submitted by a bot :D I subscribe to Fabien's RSS and he must have changed something in the server because I got this post on my RSS reader (again, as it's an old post), and here it is submitted to HN (again)

New comment by bantunes in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

bantunes — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:38:14 +0000

How many apartments were $300/m in 1970?

New comment by bantunes in "The Open/Closed Problem in AI"

bantunes — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:55:09 +0000

I assume there's just too much money in optimizing for the thing that works now and making it faster than in risking it all on unproven approaches.

New comment by bantunes in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

bantunes — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:10:58 +0000

The promise of AI gains with fewer people is what's triggering this - before, you needed ~1 coder to do ~1 unit of work. Suits now think you only need 1 coder to do X units of work because LLMs.

So no, they couldn't do the same thing years ago.

New comment by bantunes in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

bantunes — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:22:45 +0000

They're laying off the people who can't produce a minimum of 2x with AI, and keeping the maximalists with no life outside of work barely keeping up with the 100k LOC a week they're shipping to prod.

Suits have an idea of what the New Model Coder should be, and it's not people who don't burn through 100,000,000 tokens a week.

New comment by bantunes in "This blog is running on a recycled Google Pixel 5 (2024)"

bantunes — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:11:30 +0000

Thanks for the blog post, interesting read. Question: why run `hugo serve` instead of using it to build the files and then use nginx or some other webserver?

New comment by bantunes in "Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2"

bantunes — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:33:16 +0000

We've made a decision: we prefer to continue having this world (and all its conveniences including steak multiple times a week and flying for cheap) and lose it soon-ish than move to another one right now with less access to... stuff.

And the only way we can have it differently is with violence, which nobody wants. So we'll walk to the abyss together.

New comment by bantunes in "Tuning the Prusa Core One"

bantunes — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:34:48 +0000

The Buddy3D camera has a firmware update recently, now it can RTSP stream inside your LAN and you can force day/night detection. Also, it saves timelapses to a local microSD. Still not super cheap, but yeah.

New comment by bantunes in "Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives"

bantunes — Tue, 27 May 2025 06:53:46 +0000

Seems like he was angry that he had to have his luggage checked on his private plane, like everyone else. (In Portuguese https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/05/26/ceo-da-cloudflare-tera-estado...)

New comment by bantunes in "German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal"

bantunes — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:49:38 +0000

Why is this irony? One is being done out in the open and the other was unknown for years, so unless "the far left" knew about the defeat devices, this is a false dichotomy.

New comment by bantunes in "Cloudflare CEO: Football piracy blocks will claim lives"

bantunes — Mon, 26 May 2025 15:45:53 +0000

It's really weird to vent on socials like this without specific asks. Makes him look whiny (ie https://x.com/eastdakota/status/1926750112757273065)

New comment by bantunes in "After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work"

bantunes — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:01:11 +0000

These people hate the idea of the public interest, and want to see everything replaced with a privately owned counterpart.

New comment by bantunes in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

bantunes — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 14:41:27 +0000

Ah yes, "cancel culture" - formerly known as "consequences".

New comment by bantunes in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

bantunes — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:55:21 +0000

I see this as an absolute win - EU tech businesses get bolstered, and we no longer depend on the country that apprehends tourists[1] or denies entry to scientists because their social media has unfavorable opinions about their great leader[2]. Call it whiny, I call it common sense.

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/british-tourist-detained-i...

[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/scientist-banned-from-e...

New comment by bantunes in "Ruby 3.4.0"

bantunes — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 09:33:11 +0000

Do you have any evidence that it's been used less and less?