Hacker News: broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=broodbucketHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:37:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"]]>Surely not coincidental with having unprecedented access to a global network of people to reach, worse economic opportunities than any other living generation and limited means to change matters on their own, and the USA which is the largest exporter of global culture has GoFundMe as an essential part of its healthcare system

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:26:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500950broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500950https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500950<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"]]>Enterprise market is paying by token and using a lot of tokens. Consumer market is paying a subscription that they can't raise too high or they'll lose users to competition. Seems to me that the enterprise market scales a lot higher.

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:24:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486885broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486885https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486885<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"]]>They have the consumer market but want the enterprise market, because it's a lot more lucrative, so they're probably going to just keep chasing that even though there's no signs they'll stop losing to Anthropic. They don't need to do that much to keep the consumer market because of momentum.

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:59:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486727broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486727https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486727<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"]]>You can but that doesn't help you keep the flood of contributions out when you don't have the time or resources to properly discern good from bad. Maintainers would rather have 10 good human authored patches than 100 patches from LLMs, even if 20 of them are good. Even if 50 of them are good, probably.

]]>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:31:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486553broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486553https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486553<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"]]>The kernel has many different subsystems and the subsystems have their own maintainers and mailing lists.

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:35:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410531broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410531https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410531<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"]]>One commit per logical change, `git send-email` instead of `git push` and open a PR. Sending patches is not the difference maker here.

]]>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:34:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410528broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410528https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48410528<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"]]>If they were going to mimic a more Photoshop-like UI by default, they would've done it. GIMPshop was around over two decades ago

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 12:47:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192587broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192587https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192587<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "StarFighter 16-Inch"]]>Always the play if you're comfortable sourcing and installing your own because their store will always have a decent markup.

]]>Wed, 06 May 2026 09:06:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034003broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034003https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034003<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"]]>The thing I like about Linux is that if your thing doesn't work you have a way better chance of being able to wrangle it into working (odds increasing as your technical skill increases)

Meanwhile on Windows if something doesn't work you're generally SOL.

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:00:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580706broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580706https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46580706<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"]]>IBM ostensibly failing with Watson (before Krishna was CEO for what it's worth) doesn't inherently invalidate his assessment here

]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:44:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129321broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129321https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129321<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"]]>IBM is probably involved somewhere in the majority of things you interact with day to day

]]>Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:42:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129305broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129305https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129305<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "AdBlock and Signal are for terrorists, according to French govt (2023) [video]"]]>GrapheneOS is moving their servers out of France if you weren't aware

]]>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:18:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065586broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065586https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065586<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "AdBlock and Signal are for terrorists, according to French govt (2023) [video]"]]>They're terrorists for not having uBlock Origin instead

]]>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 04:17:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065574broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065574https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46065574<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "Blender 5.0"]]>OBS smashing XSplit comes to mind

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:05:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975383broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975383https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975383<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "Google Antigravity"]]>I do still write assembly sometimes, and it's a valued skill because it'll always be important and not everyone can do it. Compilers haven't obsoleted writing assembly by hand for some use cases, and LLMs will never obsolete actually writing code either. I would be incredibly cautious about throwing all your eggs into the AI basket before you atrophy a skill that fewer and fewer will have

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:52:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975326broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975326https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45975326<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"]]>I'm pretty sure people will tell you that Brexit was bad for a laundry list of other reasons too that do very much directly affect the average person

]]>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:15:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933762broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933762https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933762<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "£220 'for a cut-up sock' — Apples's new iPhone Pocket ridiculed online"]]>Yeah this is out of touch. They're definitely still popular, and besides, older generations exist and their product preferences are valid

]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:57:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909977broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909977https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909977<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "£220 'for a cut-up sock' — Apples's new iPhone Pocket ridiculed online"]]>Screenshot this when the iPhone Pocket is the hot new product everyone must buy, but somehow I don't think these are even remotely in the same category. I don't think Ballmer laughing at the iPhone's price is in the same category as this or the wheels, somehow. Maybe I'm just not enough of a thought leader.

]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:57:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909974broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909974https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909974<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "£220 'for a cut-up sock' — Apples's new iPhone Pocket ridiculed online"]]>Maybe this is a new low for the more regular consumer facing stuff, but this is hardly new for Apple. The $1000 wheels come to mind.

]]>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:28:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909310broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909310https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909310<![CDATA[New comment by broodbucket in "Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark"]]>The anticheats themselves typically do support Linux, it's the devs that don't choose to use them

]]>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:31:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794028broodbuckethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794028https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45794028