Hacker News: bmitc

New comment by bmitc in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

bmitc — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:22:18 +0000

That sounds like a nightmare.

New comment by bmitc in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

bmitc — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:52:09 +0000

I think it's most easily summarized by: "It's still important to know things and what was important to know before hasn't really changed". If anything, agentic coding highlights and accensuates the need for good systems and software design knowhow.

New comment by bmitc in "Why TUIs are back"

bmitc — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:50:22 +0000

> What originally got me excited to build TUIs was the concept of delivering apps over the wire via SSH.

This echoes my main interest in TUIs. Otherwise, I greatly prefer a good desktop application.

New comment by bmitc in "United flight collides with truck and pole as it lands at Newark"

bmitc — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:40:44 +0000

What does being in the middle of a metroplex have to do with air and plane traffic incidences? The only thing I can guess is it constraining the airport to grow or remodel itself leading to perhaps inefficiencies.

New comment by bmitc in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

bmitc — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:20:24 +0000

Yea, if anything, it's Apple's normal mode to heavily disturb and move things around.

New comment by bmitc in "An update on GitHub availability"

bmitc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:10:05 +0000

It's curious how bad people say Azure is. I've never used it, but I've used AWS, and AWS is a gigantic mess. So that makes me concerned if Azure is worse than a gigantic mass.

New comment by bmitc in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

bmitc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:48:49 +0000

Does speculation equal worth?

New comment by bmitc in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

bmitc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:17:02 +0000

The .NET team is a counter example, aside from the GUI situation.

New comment by bmitc in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

bmitc — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:13:00 +0000

> OpenAI is worth many multiples of that.

How?

New comment by bmitc in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

bmitc — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:12:24 +0000

Same thing happened with self-driving cars. Oh and cryptocurrencies.

New comment by bmitc in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

bmitc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:03:44 +0000

But it's not a bottom up interaction. If whales are killed off from climate change, then those other things can get out of control. Too much algae, and then you have hypoxic environments.

A perfect example of this is when sea otters were nearly hunted to extinction which caused sea urchins to flourish which caused the death of coral and coastal environments which started to affect the larger things that depended on those environments.

My point is that any change to the careful balance can have non-linear effects.

New comment by bmitc in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

bmitc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:59:51 +0000

I was not very descriptive, but I was referring to the next layer up of building blocks. Instead of text, we could also express things in hybrid ways with text but also visual nodes that can carry more dense information. The usual response is that those things don't work with text-based tools, but that's my point. Text based tools needed invention and decades of refinement, and they're still not all that great.

New comment by bmitc in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

bmitc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:14:42 +0000

The point is, a lot of work went into making that happen. I.e., plain text as it is today is not some inherent property of computing. It is a binary protocol and displaying text through fonts is also not a trivial matter.

So my question is: what are we leaving on the table by over focusing on text? What about graphs and visual elements?

New comment by bmitc in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"

bmitc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 13:01:23 +0000

That's just one view of the stack and isn't a systems view. Other things support and interact with those other things.

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

bmitc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:28:40 +0000

Appreciate the responses here. However, I feel like these responses are just to show us how much you know about the product and aren't actually helpful.

Instead, why don't you and Anthropic be more open about changes to these tools rather than waiting for users to complain, then investigating things after the fact that you should have investigated in the first place, and then posting on social media about all the cool tech details?

My company is tens of thousands strong. The amount of churn in Claude Code is a major issue and causing real awareness of the lack of stability and lack of customer support Anthropic provides.

And Claude Code is actually becoming a prototypical example of the dangers of vibe coded products and the burdens they place.

New comment by bmitc in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

bmitc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:41:13 +0000

According to Google Gemini, there are over 16,000 master sergeants. Might as well be some random, especially when it's literally the president himself, cabinet members, congress, and other cronies directly doing the same and even worse things.

New comment by bmitc in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

bmitc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:29:18 +0000

Fine with me. Not the type of jobs I want anyway.

New comment by bmitc in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

bmitc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:10:58 +0000

I said "government subsidized" and then later expanded out to subsidies, grants, and contracts. You know what I meant. There isn't dishonesty remotely anywhere.

And the point of conflict of interest still stands and is unargued while we still argue the meaning of "government subsidized".

New comment by bmitc in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

bmitc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:10:46 +0000

Apple has had sharp edges for like 15 years now on their MacBooks.

New comment by bmitc in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

bmitc — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:46:04 +0000

You're claiming that SpaceX has not received governmnent subsidies, grants, and contracts?

> those services have saved the government billions of dollars compared to the alternative

Source? All I can find is some guy saying it.

And it doesn't really matter what they've saved. It doesn't excuse conflicts of interest.