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Screwworm treatment authorized and Florida bans animals from screwworm states

bdcravens — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:55:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2026/06/12/fda-authorizes-over-the-counter-treatment-for-pets-as-new-world-screwworm-outbreak-prompts-travel-restrictions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48517382

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New comment by bdcravens in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

bdcravens — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:39 +0000

No one is going to be bankrupted over a $6500 AWS bill. I did a major F-up a few years, letting a key get pushed to a public repo, resulting in instant pwnage and $50k in charges from AWS due to crypto miners being launched. We communicated to AWS, did some work on our part to demonstrate that we put in proper safeguards and auditing, and they removed the charges.

New comment by bdcravens in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

bdcravens — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:47:52 +0000

That makes for a funny tongue in cheek comment, but it's not MS's AI they're after, it's end user secrets, and the exploits target multiple LLMs. (by adding commands to relevant MD files)

New comment by bdcravens in "Sam Bankman-Fried applies for a pardon from Trump"

bdcravens — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:59:51 +0000

By finding a way to get at least $41 million to the other side

New comment by bdcravens in "Programmers will document for Claude, but not for each other"

bdcravens — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:51:33 +0000

I've always tried, but usually work demands make it difficult to stop and finish. At least these days I can hand off documenting to an LLM. If anything, I have to tell it to back off a little to make it more readable for human eyes.

New comment by bdcravens in "As EV batteries improve, ChargePoint debuts 600 kW fast charger"

bdcravens — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:45:46 +0000

You're right, but many EVs today can't take full advantage of the faster chargers currently available. I have one of the faster charging vehicles available (EV6) and even at 350kW chargers, I've never seen faster than 200kW, and usually much lower than that.

New comment by bdcravens in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

bdcravens — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:45:08 +0000

I don't plan on leaving technology, but I am scaling up a side hustle as a hedge.

New comment by bdcravens in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

bdcravens — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:46:57 +0000

Honestly you can go back much further than that. Every few years it's broken for different reasons, but the exuberance is irrational all the same.

New comment by bdcravens in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

bdcravens — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:45:18 +0000

> The stock market doesn't operate on long-term principles anymore

by "anymore" I assume you mean for a few decades now

New comment by bdcravens in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

bdcravens — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:33:25 +0000

Can be mitigated, as the sibling comment points out, but even in the situation you described, the blast radius is reduced, especially for frontend libs.

New comment by bdcravens in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

bdcravens — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:47:26 +0000

Yes, none of npm's lifecycle hooks. You're just pulling bytes over the wire.

New comment by bdcravens in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

bdcravens — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:29:32 +0000

Dreamweaver lives!

New comment by bdcravens in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

bdcravens — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:27:21 +0000

I'm fortunate to have the income to support buying backups when I had insurance issues. During the Dexcom G6/G7 switchover and the switch to the Omnipod, I had just filled a bunch of G7s but the Omnipod didn't support it yet, so I ended up having to buy G6s out of pocket. Even with coupons from the manufacturer, it was still costing me $200/month.

New comment by bdcravens in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

bdcravens — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:23:34 +0000

I have Cystic Fibrosis, with a lot of the same issues as COVID infections (scarred lungs and lost capacity), as well as additional fun things like a scarred pancreas (so I have both diabetes as well as difficulty digesting food without supplements). I could write a book with all of the unsolicited "advice" I've gotten over the years.

New comment by bdcravens in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

bdcravens — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:19:11 +0000

I had an X2 (and before that, a couple of Minimed pumps), then I switched to the Omnipod. The Omnipod is a disposable pump you swap out every 3 days, so less of an issue.

However every time I've gotten a new pump, the diabetes educators always instruct you to have a backup plan, whether that's your insulin vial you may have already brought (even non-disposable pumps require you to swap out the reservoir every 3 days, so you should have insulin with you) along with old-school injection needles, or an insulin pen with needle tips.

New comment by bdcravens in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

bdcravens — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:12:43 +0000

Or going into the baggage claim area with a bag containing an explosive device, then acting like they grabbed the wrong bag and putting it back on the carousel, and then leaving.

New comment by bdcravens in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

bdcravens — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:37:04 +0000

Both boot camps and academia do a poor job of preparing developers for a real career, they just started at opposite ends of the problem and never provide enough depth to get to the good part in the middle.

(I'm a very biased self-taught developer from the late 1990s who just happened to hit the industry at the perfect time)

New comment by bdcravens in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

bdcravens — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:32:03 +0000

They already were well before LLMs.

    myFramework new myCoolStartup
    myFramework generate dataModel
    myFramework generate controllerForModel
    myPackageManager install coolViewWidgets
    # insert glue code I learned on Youtube here
    git push coolPaaS myBranch

New comment by bdcravens in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

bdcravens — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:26:52 +0000

"Vibe coding produces code. Engineering produces systems."

By this definition, anyone hired to be a code contributor, and not operating at the architecture level, isn't an engineer.

On the other side of that definition, engineering doesn't even require code, but would be architecture with deep technical understanding that allows you to create the tasks that you hand off to individual coders.

New comment by bdcravens in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

bdcravens — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:22:59 +0000

It's an old debate, so I won't rehash all of the points here, but many argue that being a "good" software developer doesn't make you an "engineer".