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New comment by cagenut in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

cagenut — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:29:13 +0000

honestly, look internally. after the plane from qatar. after the son-in-law's real estate dealings. after the visible-to-everyone kalshi and oil futures bets frontrunning the administrations announcements. for you to still feel the need to frame things as "border-line (to be polite)" is, in and of itself, the perfect example of the overall problem.

take your inability to draw a clear-as-day conclusion and state it plainly and multiply it by another ~50M "centrists" who continue to believe that staying "not political" and "avoiding the news" is a viable strategy to just wait the problem out.

until the checked out cowards realize that strategy isn't going to work, things will continue to get worse.

"no politics" might as as well be the second maga slogan.

New comment by cagenut in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

cagenut — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:04:53 +0000

sorry thats too far left wing an opinion in america today

New comment by cagenut in "White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward"

cagenut — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:18:35 +0000

really? or is it just that you don't like the answer so you keep trying to find another one.

what historical examples of this very common pattern did you read up on?

New comment by cagenut in "Unsloth Dynamic 2.0 GGUFs"

cagenut — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:10:04 +0000

is there anywhere good to read/follow to get operational clarity on this stuff?

my current system of looking for 1 in 1000 posts on HN or 1 in 100 on r/locallama is tedious.

New comment by cagenut in "Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok"

cagenut — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:50:48 +0000

so is love

this level of reductive thought termination goes nowhere

New comment by cagenut in "xAI joins SpaceX"

cagenut — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:49:45 +0000

spacex is one thing but xai accomplished what? the most racist csam prone llm?

New comment by cagenut in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

cagenut — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:33:40 +0000

it was basically a mindless loop, very prime for being agent driven:

  - observe error rate uptick
  - maybe dig in with apm tooling
  - read actual error messages
  - compare what apm and logs said to last commit/deploy
  - if they look even tangentially related deploy the previous commit (aka revert)
  - if its still not fixed do a "debug push", basically stuff a bunch of print statements (or you can do better) around the problem to get more info

I won't say that solves every case but definitely 90% of them.

I think your point about preserving some amount of intent/context is good, but also like what are most of us doing with agents if not "loop on error message until it goes away".

New comment by cagenut in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

cagenut — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:54:31 +0000

after a decade of follow-the-sun deployments by php contractors from vietnam to costa rica where our only qa was keeping an eye on the 500s graph, ai can't scare me.

New comment by cagenut in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

cagenut — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:07:11 +0000

obviously you're not a devops eng, I think you're wildly under-estimating how much of business critical code pre-ai is completely orphaned anyway.

the people who wrote it were contractors long gone, or employees that have moved companies/departments/roles, or of projects that were long since wrapped up, or of people who got laid off, or the people who wrote it simply barely understood it in the first place and certainly don't remember what they were thinking back then now.

basically "what moron wrote this insane mess... oh me" is the default state of production code anyway. there's really no quality bar already.

New comment by cagenut in "Gas Town Decoded"

cagenut — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:22:35 +0000

it has been amazing to watch how much of agentic ai is driven by "can you write clear instructions to explain your goals and use cases" and "can you clearly define the rules of each step in your process."

New comment by cagenut in "VRChat: “There are more Japanese creators than all other countries combined”"

cagenut — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:42:35 +0000

People Make Games did a mini documentary on almost exactly what you're asking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PHT-zBxKQQ

Its three years old so things have slightly matured.

New comment by cagenut in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

cagenut — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:04:45 +0000

you could stuff the racks full of server-rack batteries (lfp now, na-ion maybe in a decade) and monetize the space and the high capacity grid connect

most of the hvac would sit idle tho

New comment by cagenut in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

cagenut — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:11:18 +0000

everybody read 'bullshit jobs' and basically agreed

at first that just meant many of us adopted a middle-aged-coasting career strategy after covid and/or having kids

but now management is agreeing

New comment by cagenut in "Apple M5 chip"

cagenut — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 02:32:53 +0000

hmmm thats 200g in the wrong direction

New comment by cagenut in "U.S. Military Strikes Drug Vessel from Venezuela, Killing 11"

cagenut — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:21:30 +0000

wag that dog

New comment by cagenut in "You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title"

cagenut — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 01:17:41 +0000

almost, what you're seeing there is the too cute by half smug nugget of wisdom tone, which is really the trademark of the self-styled "writer", but because self-styled writers wrote most of the internet it has reflected onward in becoming the trademark llm tone. but there are still og hacks in the game!

New comment by cagenut in "[dead]"

cagenut — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 11:57:27 +0000

it was only ever a distraction/cover-story for cutting medicaid

it worked

New comment by cagenut in "Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist"

cagenut — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 19:41:41 +0000

real devops pro contrarian move "what if I broke DNS so hard it actually made me better at my job"

New comment by cagenut in "Life, Work, Death and the Peasant: Family Formation"

cagenut — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:50:49 +0000

daycare

used to be an extended familiy or village thing, now its on the ~1.7 parents per kid to earn enough to pay a commercial supplier.

New comment by cagenut in "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation"

cagenut — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:54:21 +0000

it is cruel. the cruelty is the point.