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New comment by chaostheory in "Tesla Hasn't Had a Successful New Product Launch Since JB Straubel Stepped Down"

chaostheory — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 17:27:17 +0000

Since we’re listing things that potentially negatively affected sales, you have to include Elon’s public antics. Alienating your base demographics is not smart

New comment by chaostheory in "Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?"

chaostheory — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 02:13:47 +0000

> 3) I mostly make Claude coordinate a group of Codex agents.

Same here. Are you just using a skill or something else. Beyond direct CLI calls to each other, I’m using contextify to share past sessions between them.

New comment by chaostheory in "If you love a website, back it up"

chaostheory — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:51:47 +0000

No one uses pinboard to archive pages anymore?

New comment by chaostheory in "Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes"

chaostheory — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:00:26 +0000

So Rick’s toilet is real and there are more than one

New comment by chaostheory in "Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:29:57 +0000

Whether we like it or not, due to crashing birth rates worldwide; we will need robots to make up for missing adults.

Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as incentivizing people to have children because accounting for socioeconomic changes (like birth control and affordability), it’s highly likely that industrial pollutants like heavy metals and endocrine disruptors like BPA are likely the main culprits when even developing countries are seeing low fertility.

It is very hard to disentangle plastic from our food and drink

New comment by chaostheory in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:31:59 +0000

I'm not sure what you're trying to convey and how it's even related to my comment.

New comment by chaostheory in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:22:36 +0000

> China calls its government a State Council, Russia calls theirs a Duma,

Going with your example, the State Council or CCP only exists in name only. Xi, the emperor, is the government now just like Putin is the government for Russia. We might be puppeteered by corporations, but at least it's still a group of people who need consensus vs one flawed, megalomaniacal dictator - at least for now

New comment by chaostheory in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:16:46 +0000

There's this thing called guerilla warfare that the poorly equipped Vietnamese and Afghans have used successfully against a modern US military at the full height of power. It's not a new concept.

New comment by chaostheory in "Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 05:06:11 +0000

Using it for voting would probably be useful for the blockchain, but then the downside would be the potential loss of privacy.

New comment by chaostheory in "Building an AI-native engineering org"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 04:26:57 +0000

1. The issue is that most people and organizations do not care about maintenance. Maintenance doesn’t get you the promotion, accolades, or immediate quarterly revenue because great maintenance tends to be invisible.

2. This is exacerbated by the lack of loyalty people have towards their organizations because their orgs don’t value or reward loyalty. That’s because leadership doesnt care about the long term view because of item #1. Hence, everyone is only doing short 1 - 4 year stints in order to get meaningful raises

3. The exceptions in the private sector are businesses that not publicly traded.

4. Even then, very few people care about quality that no one else can see

New comment by chaostheory in "The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 02:43:43 +0000

> He is still in China living with his girlfriend.

The US and China do not have an extradition treaty. ie even if they wanted to do something, they can’t. The same goes for Russia

New comment by chaostheory in "Jules Verne's Lost Novel"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:41:44 +0000

It was first published in 1994, so it was only off by a few years. I'm just surprised I only heard of the book just now

New comment by chaostheory in "Jules Verne's Lost Novel"

chaostheory — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 01:30:51 +0000

> At the Grand Entrepôt Dramatique, plays are assembled like manufactured goods. One clerk handles expositions, another denouements, another entrances and exits. There is a clerk for rhyming couplets, a clerk for punch lines, a Department of Puns and a central office of jokes. Art has survived as an assembly line.

While his predictions about technology were way more accurate for the 1960s (his intended target), his predictions about society and culture are prescient for the 2020's with the advent of generative AI

> "With Montaigne and maybe Rabelais it was What Do I Know? In the nineteenth century it was What Does It Matter to Me? And nowadays we say: How Much Does It Earn?"

For me, this also summarizes the introduction of the Internet to the masses, all the way to the present day.

New comment by chaostheory in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

chaostheory — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:38:37 +0000

> what troubles me is why 'humor' is the most important thing?

Being able to criticize your government is a fundamental freedom that can help curb things like corruption or change policy direction. Humor is a very direct and blunt form or criticism

As for your examples of democratic countries that are still not so great places, I’m pretty sure they would be even worse without their democratic freedom to criticize their respective governments

New comment by chaostheory in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

chaostheory — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:52:54 +0000

That’s supposed to be worse than the government controlling everything like in China?

New comment by chaostheory in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

chaostheory — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:46:33 +0000

The 2nd amendment was designed to protect the 1st amendment. As for how, it was supposed to give citizens teeth against their government if it ever turned tyrannical one day. Armed citizens were one of the factors that made the American Revolution successful, which probably why so many Americans hold onto the idea.

New comment by chaostheory in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

chaostheory — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:40:16 +0000

The evidence is our humor. We can make fun of our leaders without being thrown into prison or worse unlike say China or North Korea. Try posting a Winnie the Pooh meme in China and see how fast it gets censored.

New comment by chaostheory in "Somebody please stop the spam texts"

chaostheory — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:36:25 +0000

Yes, ActBlue is one of the worse offenders of spam SMS. I wouldn't be surprised if their aggressive spamming ironically help cripple their candidates.

New comment by chaostheory in "New iPad mini"

chaostheory — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:33:52 +0000

I expected the Duo to closer to the size of a normal iPad. I didn't realize it was a foldable iPad Mini that's also a phone. imo It's too small for the bulkiness that it adds. Also sacrificing the camera was not worth the fold.

New comment by chaostheory in "Somebody please stop the spam texts"

chaostheory — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:55:14 +0000

It’s extremely annoying, but political organizations and politicians are not subject to any spam or telemarketing laws. If I had known prior, I would have never made political contributions or used a real email for voting. The naivety of youth