Hacker News: bantunes

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?

New comment by bantunes in "Meta Fined $843M by EU over Marketplace Ads"

bantunes — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:16:29 +0000

Telling that you think this is happening just because their products are available in the EU and not because they were "acting in a way that gave it a significant advantage over competitors" as the EU claims.

New comment by bantunes in "NextTrace: An open source visual route tracking CLI tool"

bantunes — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 08:23:57 +0000

This seems to be a Chrome app, since I can't get it to work on Firefox

New comment by bantunes in "Principles for product velocity"

bantunes — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 10:16:47 +0000

That's the thing all these "easy bake recipe for success" blog posts miss: it's all about the people. I've been in companies with the exact same processes and wildly different outcomes because staff was more competent (which includes soft skills) and experienced.

But that is anathema to tech companies that think having the right X (agile, Spotify guilds, kanban, etc.) will fix everything because that's what they sell to end users.

New comment by bantunes in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

bantunes — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:03:34 +0000

The Dems exist to give you an illusion of choice. This has gone down exactly as planned, or why do you think rich donors play both sides? Do you really think the Dems are this naive and keep messing up without it being on purpose?

The opinion makers know if it wasn't this close there'd be visible backlash.

New comment by bantunes in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

bantunes — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:04:32 +0000

You're not meeting the people hurt really bad by the system who stopped giving a shit, and a lot of people that vote for Trump had Harris/Waltz signs on their lawns but really want to pay less in taxes and don't like transgender people.

New comment by bantunes in "BYD to launch its smallest EV in Australia, hinting at low-cost Seagull arrival"

bantunes — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:52:49 +0000

Good to see someone with an actual plan to roll out affordable EVs. Too bad it's BYD, the knock-on effects on Tesla and VW Group will not be pretty. I mean, unless the US and EU tariff the hell out of imports. Australia doesn't care, since they don't car makers anymore after Holden's demise (right?).