Hacker News: charlesabarnes

New comment by charlesabarnes in "VC isn't VC anymore"

charlesabarnes — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:25:21 +0000

Nit:Taxpayers didn't have to pay money for the bailout. FDIC is an insurance program with premiums paid by banks

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Dear people who work at the airport"

charlesabarnes — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:51:43 +0000

Experienced travelers also often face troubled, contradictory instructions from airport staff seemingly at random.

The experience doesn't have to be so stressful and confusing, but I'm not sure how to fix it.

PrimeNG is no longer open source

charlesabarnes — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:01:06 +0000

Article URL: https://primeui.dev/nextchapter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48793501

Points: 4

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New comment by charlesabarnes in "New Lifetime Plex Pass Pricing"

charlesabarnes — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:47:25 +0000

I think this is fair with the amount of notice being given, but the price increase is very steep

New comment by charlesabarnes in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

charlesabarnes — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:39:57 +0000

Cattle feed is more than grass

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Searching for the Agentic IDE"

charlesabarnes — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:55:40 +0000

I really feel this. Every implementation so far hasn't felt like it reduced the contextual load involved for dealing with multiple agents. Tmux/Cmux is great, but whoever figures this out will probably make it big.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

charlesabarnes — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:21:56 +0000

Its nice to receive a decent amount of closure on this. Hopefully more folks are being more considerate when creating their soul documents

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

charlesabarnes — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 23:54:59 +0000

For Linux as well. In my opinion you shouldn't remain blind to the benefits of other operating systems

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

charlesabarnes — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:19:01 +0000

https://chkb.net/

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

charlesabarnes — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:26:49 +0000

I'm in the market for speakers and Bose definitely has rose higher on my list

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Stop Slopware"

charlesabarnes — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 16:19:47 +0000

My reflex is to call the website useless because the problem isn't usually software produced by individuals. My problem is the buggy messes that trillion dollar corporations produce.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Well being in times of algorithms"

charlesabarnes — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:20:00 +0000

I definitely don't disagree there! I think I am on the same page as you as far as goals. I just am unfortunately a bit more jaded and pessimistic about the unending reach of these platforms.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Well being in times of algorithms"

charlesabarnes — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:07:27 +0000

This is something I've personally explored and lightly researched. I think the general population generally prefers recommendation algorithms (they espouse how great _their_ for-you page is on tik-tok or how spotify suggests the best music).

You would also be combating against ad and social media companies with extremely deep pockets. You have to keep in mind that algorithmic sorting also would impact search engines like Google and a ton of shopping websites.

I personally think the way this has to be done is something more fundamental and "grassroots-like". Similar to how a significant chunk of the internet are against "AI content" I think that same group of people need to be shown that this algorithmic recommendation brainrot is impacting society considerably.

edit: To take this point further, as an American, I have been wondering why people would disagree on basic principals or what feels like facts. The problem is that their online experience is completely different than mine. No two people share an exact same home page for any service. How are you supposed to get on the same page as someone when they live in a practically different world than you?

New comment by charlesabarnes in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

charlesabarnes — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:00:03 +0000

Supply and demand. Selling via grey markets is an option, but many white hats don't go that route due to risk. There's plenty of people that will also find vulnerabilities without any money attached.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"

charlesabarnes — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:59:07 +0000

Wow, I was under the impression that these were selling incredibly well.

I started to appreciate Ford's strategy recently after they lost my faith after they killed off sedans in the US. I'm now confused again by the company's strategy

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem"

charlesabarnes — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:56:34 +0000

It is a very significant consideration for every one of those tools. The introduction of the "ribbon" in Excel was moderately controversial in 2007.

The default tools made available in Photoshop is why it remains on top to this day.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Claude Code's DX is too good. And that's a problem"

charlesabarnes — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:41:17 +0000

What scares me about Claude Code (and ai developer tools in general) is that a small model update could change how I interact with the tool entirely. There's no freezing the communication style that I need to use for good results.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

charlesabarnes — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:51:19 +0000

What do you mean exactly? Some people like being able to watch YouTube and Netflix without utilizing a third party device.

The tv also has a microprocessor to upscale/decode content. Most tvs also have the ability to connect to a variety of sound systems through Bluetooth.

If your concern is additional cost for the bundled features, I believe the ads subsidize and offset the cost. (I'm not pro ad. Again, I do not connect my tv to the Internet, but let's not reject the benefits entirely).

"Non smart" TVs are prohibitively expensive in my experience. They are large format monitors. You can also consider a projector.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

charlesabarnes — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:10:08 +0000

I need people to give this sort of idea more serious thought.

I honestly don't think it's an insane proposition and we've let ad companies go too far. Anything they stick their hands in gets worse, full stop.

New comment by charlesabarnes in "Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode"

charlesabarnes — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 13:58:37 +0000

I never understand this type of refrain. Why connect the TV to the Internet?

I have yet to run into a TV that doesn't work entirely offline at any pricepoint