Hacker News: chasd00

New comment by chasd00 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

chasd00 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:34:55 +0000

hah maybe the plan for Mythos is to solution all the security issues introduced by ClaudeCode. Anthropic makes money creating the security issues and identifying/fixing the security issues, that's a nice spot to be in.

New comment by chasd00 in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

chasd00 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:31:29 +0000

i was afraid someone would think that, if i just said "half-life" they wouldn't know what i'm talking about. If i just said "have a beer" then it wouldn't be doing justice to the one i really like. oh well :)

New comment by chasd00 in "Cal.com is going closed source"

chasd00 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:29:20 +0000

So I work in enterprise tech. consulting, my current project is with a large, global, chemicals company (it wouldn't be right to call out my client by name). This client is extremely competent from their multiple enterprise architects down to their analysts, they're a pleasure to work with. One of the business requirements could be met by a very simple in-house developed and hosted API, it's a perfect use case for GenAI assisted coding too. There's no magic, it's a problem solved over and over already. However, they don't want to touch inhouse dev with a 10 foot pole for the reasons we're both talking about. They don't want to support it, extend it, back it up, monitor it, and all the other things that have to happen after the code is done. They're perfectly happy to buy licenses from a saas so if anything goes wrong they can tell the CTO "it's not me, it's them". And when the CTO says "why doesn't it do this too!?!" they can say "i'll call our rep and ask".

saas value to an enterprise is more than just the functionality provided and I think that is lost on a lot of the heads down software devs here.

New comment by chasd00 in "Cal.com is going closed source"

chasd00 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:41:33 +0000

Same story as always, writing the code in the easy part. Requirement gathering, analysis, consensus, direction, those are all the hard parts. Enterprises have a business to run and don’t want to run a software shop on top of everything else.

New comment by chasd00 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

chasd00 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:59:09 +0000

idk, i live in oakcliff in Dallas. Per google 20% of people in the area are undocumented. Elementary schools are around 50% undocumented and the area high schools around 30% if not higher. My son is in the second most selective magnet HS in DISD and half of his friend group is undocumented.

I haven't seen a single ICE raid in the 10 years i've lived in the area. I did see DHS do a raid on a house once but i've yet to even see ICE. I'm not saying they're not around but they certainly don't make their presence known in an area overflowing with undocumented immigrants. I keep waiting for the jack boots and armored vehicles to roll through and wholesale round everyone up like i read about but it seems business as usual all day every day in Oakcliff.

edit: Honestly, i think no one really cares about oakcliff anymore. Dallas PD does nothing about the constant gunfire at night or street racing. So it makes sense ICE is never alerted, i think the people who would alert ICE just don't bother. I'm not sure if that's good or bad.

New comment by chasd00 in "Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)"

chasd00 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:53:53 +0000

I’m 49 and have all but given up on drinking. It does nothing for me except make me tired and then, ironically, mess up my sleep. On fridays I grill cheeseburgers for the family and usually have one Half-Life tall boy from Manhattan Brewery because it’s my favorite of all time but that’s about it. Otherwise, I don’t drink at all. Being tired and not sleeping well is handled perfectly adequately by my job hah.

New comment by chasd00 in "We May Be Living Through the Most Consequential Hundred Days in Cyber History"

chasd00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:09:29 +0000

i've been saying there's going to be some interesting "computer glitches" in the news over the next few years. We've already had one where someone convinced an AI to sell them airline tickets for $1. I expect many more strange bugs, some being very bad, in the future.

New comment by chasd00 in "This year’s insane timeline of hacks"

chasd00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:04:09 +0000

> beyond a consulting context

"Consulting, if you're not a part of the solution there's money to be made prolonging the problem" - Despair.com :)

/i'm a consultant

New comment by chasd00 in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

chasd00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:58:25 +0000

I was wondering about tmux vs screen (+splitvt) but didn’t want to ask. What are the advantages?

New comment by chasd00 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

chasd00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:18:19 +0000

I've almost forgotten about AGI, that was suppose to be the reason for the valuations and all the hope/fear. Then, it just sort of went away and AI turned into the Software Developer doomsday machine. We're on month 4 since the models got really good at code and we were all going to be out of a job in 6 months. I guess we only have 2 more months of employment left /s

New comment by chasd00 in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

chasd00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:13:20 +0000

that's been my feeling for a while now. Google just has to keep up while OpenAI and Anthropic go bankrupt. I can see MSFT and Amazon eventually consuming OpenAI and Anthropic respectively when the money runs out but I still think Google is the eventual winner. I also have been pointing out that Apple making a deal with Google vs trying to do it on their own is another vote in that direction.

New comment by chasd00 in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

chasd00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:02:22 +0000

> But love the Gatlinburg aside. It's like Myrtle Beach, but worse.

Yeah Gatlinburg is a strange place, that one stuck out to me too. I described it in my comment as like a touristy beach town but small and not in a charming way. That main strip with all the t-shirt and other tourist shops haha, it reminds me so much of Daytona Beach when I lived there as a child.

New comment by chasd00 in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

chasd00 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:55:13 +0000

"Gatlinburg is a bizarre theme park of a town..", he does have a point about Gatlinburg, it's a strange place. Imagine a touristy beach town, like Daytona Beach FL in the 80s before they kicked out the spring breakers, but small yet not charming-small like a Colorado ski town just.. small. The smokey mountains in general is similarly off, lots of Native American owned tourist stores but filled with confederate flags for some reason. It's still a beautiful drive though.

New comment by chasd00 in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

chasd00 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:14:08 +0000

Was Maine ever at risk of being overrun with data centers? Regardless, if the ban is what Maine voters want then more power to them.

New comment by chasd00 in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

chasd00 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:24:23 +0000

yes, so many good moments, "btw, i have a recording of her talented voice" haha

New comment by chasd00 in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

chasd00 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:20:58 +0000

i don't remember that, was that when he was talking to the food truck guy? heh "last time i checked my msgs one was from my wife saying she was leaving me, the next msg was from my lawyer saying he was leaving.. with my wife." lol so many great lines.

New comment by chasd00 in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

chasd00 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:14:29 +0000

hah whenever i see a Stay Clear sign i whisper to myself, "i'm trying". Oldman did an amazing job btw, i really enjoyed every scene he was in, "you saved my life, so i'll spare yours".

New comment by chasd00 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

chasd00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:19:20 +0000

amateur liquid bi-prop rocket engines for the High Power Rocketry hobby are gaining momentum. There's lot of opportunity there for performance profiling and even more if you have access to a machine tools like CNC lathes. There's also interest in active stabilization of amateur rockets using engine gimbaling which would put so much more performance in reach.

These guys are legit and actually flying airframes instead of just ignition on a test stand. https://www.halfcatrocketry.com/

The hobby is geography constrained though, you need access to large open spaces. Even small engines are spectacularly loud and igniting one in your garage would scare the crap out of your neighbors.

Edit: if you're in/near LA this club is pretty much ground zero. Tom Mueller of SpaceX's Merlin engine series fame was discovered here iirc. https://rrs.org

New comment by chasd00 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

chasd00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:02:14 +0000

Posts like this from the HN community are almost surreal. Any review of the actual deal would show a two week ceasefire in exchange for the strait being open and safe while negotiations continue. This 10 point plan is just a place to start talking, no country has agreed to anything on it. How is this missed on the community here?

New comment by chasd00 in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

chasd00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:16:48 +0000

Jfc the US didn’t agree to any of that. Read the news ffs.