Hacker News: bashtoni

New comment by bashtoni in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

bashtoni — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:48:02 +0000

They're behind, but they're catching up pretty quickly. I wouldn't bet against Chinese companies dominating this market in the medium to long term. Nvidia could easily end up being the Tesla vs Huawei as BYD.

New comment by bashtoni in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

bashtoni — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:02:31 +0000

I think the next step is for China to start selling Huawei (and other) GPUs around the world, because everyone appreciates the risk of giving either of the two superpowers their data. The US is no longer in a position to pressure other countries to bad imports from Chinese companies.

This is the beginning end of the hyperscaler era, not a shift from US hyperscalers to Chinese hyperscalers. Taking Nvidia's extremely lucrative market is the goal.

New comment by bashtoni in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

bashtoni — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:48:21 +0000

You missed a couple ofvery important ones:

- Your AI data centres will run only on renewable energy

- Your AI data centres will not use evaporative cooling

New comment by bashtoni in "Why Ctrl+V won't paste images in Claude Code on WSL, with a fix"

bashtoni — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:03:10 +0000

A text based interface is perfect for interacting with a large language model, and it seems unsurprising to me that it's the most popular way to work with them.

Frankly, the idea of having to decipher what a picture is supposed to represent to use a skill fills me with horror.

New comment by bashtoni in "The AWS Service Quotas That Will Take Down Your Production at 3 Am"

bashtoni — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:15:47 +0000

Yours is not an isolated case. There are multiple posts on Reddit from the last few weeks where bedrock quotas were set to 0, even for accounts that were actively using bedrock.

I've only seen it in accounts that weren't actively using bedrock, which is annoying but not business ending.

AWS needs to get on top of this sort of thing before people lose confidence in their platform, but I fear they may have lost too many staff to be able to get it the attention it needs.

New comment by bashtoni in "Starship V3"

bashtoni — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:05:00 +0000

I was also disappointed to discover this.

New comment by bashtoni in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

bashtoni — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 01:39:48 +0000

My card did get charged.

New comment by bashtoni in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

bashtoni — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:22:53 +0000

You also seem to have a bug where people get randomly invoiced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47693679

I got a random invoice for $45.08 back in March, despite not having auto top up enabled. Trying to reach support met with a brick wall. Based on the post I linked to, I'm not the only one facing this problem.

New comment by bashtoni in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

bashtoni — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:32:15 +0000

If Atlassian had vision they'd swoop in with a sponsorship offer for Ghostty that included moving it to BitBucket.

New comment by bashtoni in "Ubuntu 26.04"

bashtoni — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:01:11 +0000

Also green light for Fedora 44 release on 28 April

https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/meeting_matrix_fedoraproje...

New comment by bashtoni in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

bashtoni — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:31:53 +0000

The Claude Code experience is still pretty bad after upgrading. I often see

  Error: claude-opus-4-7[1m] is temporarily unavailable, so auto mode cannot determine the safety of Bash right now. Wait briefly and then try this action again. If it keeps failing, continue with other tasks that don't require this action and come back to it later. Note: reading files, searching code, and other read-only operations do not require the classifier and can still be used.

The only solution is to switch out of auto mode, which now seems to be the default every time I exit plan mode. Very annoying.

New comment by bashtoni in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

bashtoni — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:25:44 +0000

Only if you set `ENABLE_PROMPT_CACHING_1H`, which was mentioned in the release notes for a recent Claude Code release but doesn't seem to be in the official docs.

New comment by bashtoni in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

bashtoni — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:55:32 +0000

Higher education improves society as a whole. It should be paid for from general taxation, and available to all. Humanities subjects are just as valid a topic of study as STEM.

A couple of generations ago these were uncontroversial statements, now most people think you are crazy for suggesting such a thing. I think you can trace a lot of the problems in the western world back to this.

New comment by bashtoni in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

bashtoni — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:14:41 +0000

~$1/hr over 4 hours.

I'm pretty conservative when it comes to clearing the context, and I also tend to provide the right files to work on (or at least the right starting point).

I had seen prior to using the model that it starts producing much worse results when the context used is larger, so my usage style probably helps getting better results. I work like this with Claude Code anyway, so it wasn't a big change.

New comment by bashtoni in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

bashtoni — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:36:48 +0000

After hitting Claude limits today I spent the afternoon using OpenCode + GLM 5.1 via OpenRouter and I was very impressed.

OpenCode picked up my CLAUDE.md files and skills straight away, and I got similar performance to Opus 4.6.

New comment by bashtoni in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

bashtoni — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:53:16 +0000

Me too. I got a random $45.08 invoice from Anthropic on Mar 21 despite the fact that I'm on the Max x5 plan, and have auto top up disabled.

Raised with support immediately, after being told a human would look at it I've not been able to get anything further.

New comment by bashtoni in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

bashtoni — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:03:16 +0000

Helium supply issues are only going to make this worse.

I feel like for the first time in our lives we might have seen peak technology for the next few years. Everyone is going to have to make do instead of depending on ever increasing performance.

New comment by bashtoni in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

bashtoni — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:04:43 +0000

I love this, the perfect antidote to all the stupid startup-bro grind bullshit posts.

You put in real work to understand the business landscape and typical pain points. With AI, implementing solutions has become much easier but knowing what the problems are and how to solve them hasn't.

CECbot: A TV box botnet that grabs the remote and maps the house

bashtoni — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:25:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/deepfield/public-research/blob/main/cecbot/report.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485767

Points: 3

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New comment by bashtoni in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

bashtoni — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:15:01 +0000

Many British people and Australians, even though our eggs are sold at room temperature and unwashed. I don't know why, but for most of us it 'feels wrong' to store eggs anywhere else.