Hacker News: bdcravens

New comment by bdcravens in "Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude"

bdcravens — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:42:32 +0000

While interesting, it reminds me of all the headlines over the years about governments who were switching off of Microsoft Office to OpenOffice/LibreOffice. Needless to say Microsoft didn't close up shop.

Important updates to AI use on Etsy

bdcravens — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:18:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.etsy.com/seller-handbook/article/1522733284810

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50196604

Points: 36

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New comment by bdcravens in "Crystal 1.22.0"

bdcravens — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:30:36 +0000

If you mean pre-packaged jobs in that specific language, you're correct. However, if you're a Rubyist needing native performance, it's another tool in your toolbox.

New comment by bdcravens in "Websites are closing their doors to AI agents"

bdcravens — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:12:27 +0000

Solvable problems (just login or pay). This is more than just blocking anonymous scrapers. Sites are blocking access to agents even when they have a proper "ticket" for access.

New comment by bdcravens in "How the Claude Code team does code review"

bdcravens — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:36:28 +0000

They use Codex?

New comment by bdcravens in "Tesla Roadster"

bdcravens — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:34:45 +0000

So the v2 that people put money down on 9 years ago has been thrown away. Hopefully they'll be able to easily get their money back, ideally with interest.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(second_generat...

New comment by bdcravens in "Tesla Roadster"

bdcravens — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:33:30 +0000

Obviously they mean v2, a design that apparently was thrown away.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Roadster_(second_generat...

New comment by bdcravens in "Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts"

bdcravens — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:59:41 +0000

> I can't think of a single useful product or advancement

> They're pointedly worse than most other social media.

I agree that there's a lot wrong, but both Marketplace and Groups are actually pretty valuable and useful. To say that Facebook is just a feed of memes and politics is reductive.

New comment by bdcravens in "Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land"

bdcravens — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:54:15 +0000

At least they'd have control and can fix it as they see fit, instead of waiting for the government.

New comment by bdcravens in "Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land"

bdcravens — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:40:59 +0000

Put up your own fence inside of your property line that you can keep up to your needs and standards.

New comment by bdcravens in "Apple HomeView"

bdcravens — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:59:36 +0000

Despite the typical snark on HN, I know there are still plenty who are bought in to Apple. Is anyone here using the HomePod and/or using Homekit? I'm mostly on board with the Apple ecosystem, and in my assessment when trying to outfit my home, I couldn't find a reason (maybe the privacy store is better) to choose them over Alexa or Google Home or any of the other options, including DIY.

New comment by bdcravens in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

bdcravens — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:53:22 +0000

Not familiar with the company. Home page says nothing other than a tag line and a signup to continue. About page does add very little. Their blog provides a little bit of insight, but honestly, I have no clue what they sell or what the value prop is.

Maybe I'm the clueless one, at it seems others are quite familiar with their story.

New comment by bdcravens in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

bdcravens — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:46:44 +0000

Probably not, if the previous administration, when they had full control, is useful precedent.

New comment by bdcravens in "Mistral Large 4"

bdcravens — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:54:03 +0000

Can we consolidate the posts? Currently there's 3 on the front page, basically all pointing to Mistral's messaging in different places.

New comment by bdcravens in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

bdcravens — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:52:19 +0000

I tried it in DataGrip on a messy database. It hallucinated about which tables and columns to use. Had better results using Claude in the terminal and having it give me the SQL to run.

New comment by bdcravens in "3D necroprinting: Leveraging biotic material as the nozzle for 3D printing"

bdcravens — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:22:32 +0000

I want to see a mosquito benchy

New comment by bdcravens in "Coding is not solved"

bdcravens — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:20:40 +0000

I don't think it's a matter of justifying any evil, so long as the argument is made in good faith. Pushing the idea of bad code emerging from AI isn't a good faith argument.

New comment by bdcravens in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

bdcravens — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:16:05 +0000

The technology is only half of the puzzle; the other half is the availability of the data. For example, many toll roads use license plate readers. Police cruisers may also read a license plate.

Flock the technology would be less of a problem if it had reasonable guards around access, such as requiring search warrants for each query, in each jurisdiction the results touch.

New comment by bdcravens in "Coding is not solved"

bdcravens — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:06:28 +0000

> There's a cult of speed uber alles

That cult was well established prior to LLMs

New comment by bdcravens in "Coding is not solved"

bdcravens — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:05:50 +0000

> I agree, I think this false dichotomy between using LLMs and caring about quality/reliability needs to stop.

It's not just a false dichotomy, it's intellectual dishonesty. It wasn't that long that conversations about code quality, technical debt, etc were on the front page of HN on the regular. Whether it was coding bootcamp grads who had just enough confidence to be dangerous, "just ship it!" cargo culters, or the product of management breathing down the necks of otherwise good developers, there's plenty of "human slop" running in production across servers worldwide.