Hacker News: blastro

New comment by blastro in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

blastro — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:39:03 +0000

Codex is my preferred, I use it at work. The whole "Department of War" fiasco was enough for me to say Goodbye to OAI for personal. I'm a Claude person now. It's about the same level of performance really.

New comment by blastro in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

blastro — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:44:02 +0000

Free speech erosion under Biden... can you elaborate?

New comment by blastro in "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

blastro — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:37:57 +0000

thank you

New comment by blastro in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

blastro — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:49:53 +0000

I think more likely - no PM, no Designer, one stressed out Mega PM-D-SWE

New comment by blastro in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

blastro — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:49:36 +0000

Kind of a scary thought - a DC in space can't be stopped by protests or regulation

New comment by blastro in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"

blastro — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:22:43 +0000

let's hope this holds, i have no reason to expect that in 2026

New comment by blastro in "Apple buys Israeli startup Q.ai"

blastro — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:12:02 +0000

unreal

New comment by blastro in "Tesla unsupervised Robotaxis are nowhere to be found"

blastro — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:55:42 +0000

bingo

New comment by blastro in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

blastro — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:13:20 +0000

Rocket Money is an app designed for millennials to hand over their important banking information to Rocket Mortgage in exchange for "help cancelling subscriptions".

New comment by blastro in "This is not the future"

blastro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:00:21 +0000

the words themselves have influence, regardless of who spoke them.

New comment by blastro in "Bonsai: A Voxel Engine, from scratch"

blastro — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:57:26 +0000

very cool

New comment by blastro in "Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities"

blastro — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:31:02 +0000

As a fellow iChing developer - this is nice! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by blastro in "[dead]"

blastro — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:50:41 +0000

good reminder that we all have to live with our actions, and we might not have the perspective to evaluate them until death comes a knockin'

New comment by blastro in "Maybe you’re not trying"

blastro — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 14:30:46 +0000

Golden rule - treat others as you would like to be treated. Applies externally and internally - IMO. ie. "Treat yourself as you would treat others"

New comment by blastro in "Doomsday scoreboard"

blastro — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:01:02 +0000

beautifully stated thank you

New comment by blastro in "How much energy does it take to think?"

blastro — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 21:19:01 +0000

Less than it takes an LLM to infer

New comment by blastro in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

blastro — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:48:48 +0000

This hasn't been my experience. Pretty easy with AWS Bedrock

New comment by blastro in "All estimations are wrong, but none are useful"

blastro — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:38:29 +0000

Well put!

New comment by blastro in "Ancient Sumerians created the first writing system"

blastro — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 21:01:00 +0000

yeah it's a pretty wild book. disagree that it's not worth discussing, however

New comment by blastro in "Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite"

blastro — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 20:57:37 +0000

Certainly we must be missing some factor from this analysis