Hacker News: bot403

New comment by bot403 in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

bot403 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:55:03 +0000

It's inconceivable to me that you could forget the three branches. There are still headlines and news articles about the president , congress, and the supreme court. Those three things , talked about constantly, are a basic reminder of the most visible aspects of each branch.

New comment by bot403 in "NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year"

bot403 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:57:35 +0000

Should we launch now or not? That decision is genuinely yours.

New comment by bot403 in "Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert"

bot403 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:02:29 +0000

You're secretly a robot.

New comment by bot403 in "Ask HN: Is there a website that tracks excessive writes to SSDs in OS/app betas?"

bot403 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:59:24 +0000

It helps reduce size and weight since you can just directly place ssd chips on the motherboard instead of planning for connectors.

Just depends on what your priorities are.

New comment by bot403 in "The US grocery slowdown is real"

bot403 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:11:03 +0000

This is hyperbolicly dramatic. Nobody will put you in jail of you don't sign a contract. And if you don't pay rent it's a beach of contract and civil matter. It can be very hard to force people to pay rent if they're not paying. All you can do is kick them out, eventually ,there is no jail.

Your dramatic post makes it seem like the cops can kick down your door to get rent. That's simply not true.

New comment by bot403 in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

bot403 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:06:29 +0000

Why? What's the damages? They showed you a wrong number, then later acknowledged it and fixed it. Just because the number was "very big" to you doesn't mean you were actually aggrieved in some way.

New comment by bot403 in "Agents.md – Dumb Human"

bot403 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:30:51 +0000

Please don't fail, my job depends on it.

New comment by bot403 in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

bot403 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:35:35 +0000

I read it as "I've optimized the orm to be minimal overhead over raw sql a lot of the time".

New comment by bot403 in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

bot403 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:32:10 +0000

I can't tell if you're arguing against SQL or orms. But I take your argument in favor of SQL because that's the native language of all the DBS and the dozens of frameworks and systems on top of them are "just use x...."

New comment by bot403 in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

bot403 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:08:29 +0000

Just like we take unreliable machines and make a reliable system by load balancing and fail over we can do with vendors.

Any sane company should not be too deeply tied to any one AI vendor at the moment and be ready and able to switch with a timeline and cost as acceptable to the org.

TLDR: Be prepared to use multiple AI vendors.

New comment by bot403 in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

bot403 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:05:30 +0000

Software, no. But maybe eventually AI and tokens are a public utility.

New comment by bot403 in "Claude Code is steganographically marking requests"

bot403 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:58:52 +0000

I asked Claude to think of the children. It worked for three minutes, came up with a plan, and charged me $9.

New comment by bot403 in "I used sound waves to make espresso"

bot403 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:28:12 +0000

It's lose-lose. With this they won't even have a hot drink to throw in your face as you hop the counter.

New comment by bot403 in "Big Banana Car"

bot403 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:04:13 +0000

If im a drug smuggler I'm definitely driving the most boring, common car directly BEHIND the banana car.

New comment by bot403 in "Reviews have become expensive, rewrites have become cheap"

bot403 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:20:22 +0000

Or bizarrely Claude askes about code churn like it matters.

Human, Do you want me to do it the right way? It will cause code churn in 90 files. Or I can take a shortcut and edit 3 files in a terrible way.

Edits 90 files for 12 lines each in 25 seconds...

New comment by bot403 in "EU Commission looking at practical consequences of Anthropic decision"

bot403 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:02:33 +0000

I'm not really sure the US can be counted on to defend the EU via NATO anymore. They certainly gave up on Ukraine, which is grinding Russia down to the benefit of the EU and NATO.

New comment by bot403 in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

bot403 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:09:17 +0000

There's a ton of non-interactive fireplace simulators on Netflix and YouTube. Especially around Christmas.

New comment by bot403 in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

bot403 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:07:53 +0000

I think if you sit and play it for 10 hours your lower back will hurt too. It just takes longer.

New comment by bot403 in "Firewood Splitting Simulator"

bot403 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:05:17 +0000

Oh you guys are all gonna hate Sim Ant.

New comment by bot403 in "Open source AI must win"

bot403 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:17:47 +0000

The first half of your comment is unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive to op.