Hacker News: cedws

New comment by cedws in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

cedws — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:29:34 +0000

As a Brit living in Japan (non-resident) I think they should protect themselves at all costs, lest what happened to my country happen to theirs. If the business visa was abused, that abuse should be stopped, not just allowed to happen like we would do.

New comment by cedws in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

cedws — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:49:08 +0000

When the OSA came into force I checked the iOS App Store and the top 10 apps in the UK at the time were all dodgy free VPNs. This legislation is utterly idiotic.

I'm sick of this government, they won't be getting my vote in the next GE.

New comment by cedws in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

cedws — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:17:31 +0000

The way this has been pushed through after countless attempts over the past decade, and push back from advising experts, does not feel like it originates from genuine concern for children. It feels like a state trying to wrestle for digital control amidst rising civil unrest.

New comment by cedws in "Claude Fable 5"

cedws — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:18:50 +0000

It’s not meant for subscription users; the subscriptions are just the gateway drug to Enterprise pricing which Anthropic intends to use to juice their numbers before IPO.

New comment by cedws in "macOS Container Machines"

cedws — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:13:55 +0000

Darwin namespaces would be much more interesting and we are in dire need of them in the current security landscape.

I don’t really understand the hype for Apple’s Containerization, it’s just another container runtime alongside many others. It’s not really any better than OrbStack - in fact it’s worse.

New comment by cedws in "Claude Fable 5"

cedws — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:26:59 +0000

My employer is all in on Anthropic via Enterprise (API) pricing despite it being a total scam.

Last month I pushed like <100M tokens for $800. On a personal project I pushed 600M tokens via DeepSeek V4 for $10. The pricing of SOTA models is insane but companies are still willing to light money on fire with no hard metrics proving increased productivity.

New comment by cedws in "Claude Fable 5"

cedws — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:18:41 +0000

How did it not immediately flag that up? Are you sure it wasn’t being silently routed to Opus?

New comment by cedws in "Claude Fable 5"

cedws — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:19:36 +0000

This makes me want to see China and open models succeed more than anything :)

New comment by cedws in "The circus freaks of open source"

cedws — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:50:09 +0000

IIRC 4chan was indirectly responsible for his death. An anon bought him a drum kit and Terry annoyed his parents with it, to the point that there was a heated argument and I believe violence. After that, they kicked him out of the house and gave him a van to live in. That’s when he started to really spiral and how he eventually ended up sleeping rough.

New comment by cedws in "I am giving up on VM Gaming"

cedws — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:25:05 +0000

I had a stint with VM gaming over Christmas but gave up after wasting too much time trying to bypass anti-cheat detection. My desire came from security concerns; games have a massive attack surface and running them on bare metal makes me uncomfortable. I've always wanted an ephemeral Windows environment for gaming, but it's too much effort to make it work.

I run CachyOS on my gaming PC now and I'm pretty happy with it.

New comment by cedws in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

cedws — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:22:13 +0000

Not only. I see it across all of GitHub. Spam, +1 comments, feature begging are all particularly common.

New comment by cedws in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

cedws — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 05:57:52 +0000

GitHub discussions used to be so much higher quality though when the platform was for professionals. Now, I see so many discussions that devolve into practically being reddit/4chan threads. Another reason to leave.

New comment by cedws in "Chinese users do not like "super apps""

cedws — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:54:28 +0000

The software experience of AliPay and the other Chinese apps is absolutely terrible. My admiration for super apps quickly declined after actually using them.

New comment by cedws in "Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland"

cedws — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:14:29 +0000

The E2EE claim is BS, unless qualified by saying that the platform supports GPG-encrypted emails only. Proton makes the same claim and it’s just completely false. E2EE is not possible with existing email protocols.

New comment by cedws in "Self-hosted dev sandboxes with preview URLs (Docker, Go, no K8s)"

cedws — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:10:20 +0000

So this is capable of exposing vibe coded projects contained only by Docker to the internet? Quite dangerous.

New comment by cedws in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

cedws — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:42:35 +0000

Is it? From what I hear US healthcare is good, just expensive. As long as you have money you can get the help you need. Which is the same in the UK to be fair, we just end up having to pay for both public and private healthcare.

New comment by cedws in "Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated"

cedws — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:18:07 +0000

The emperor really has no clothes. How do these morons get into exec positions?

New comment by cedws in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

cedws — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:52:23 +0000

Even countries with public healthcare struggle to provide it at a good level of quality. For instance in the UK where I'm from getting medical attention for anything less than a heart attack is difficult to impossible. Family members have suffered as a direct result of the poor quality care we have.

New comment by cedws in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

cedws — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:29:19 +0000

UBI is never coming man. Rich countries don’t even properly provide healthcare or take care of pensioners, let alone handing everyone a paycheck every month for doing nothing.

New comment by cedws in "Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness"

cedws — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:03:58 +0000

What language are you coming from? If I can do anything to stop you please tell me what that is.