Hacker News: cheriot

New comment by cheriot in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:20:50 +0000

They've blown up several ships so which ship owner will test them? Spend $1m on a transit fee or risk $90m on a new tanker.

New comment by cheriot in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:53:54 +0000

I suspect more fighting in Lebanon means less oil through Hormuz. Iran kept its definition of "open" vague. Everyone is keeping the pressure up during negotiations.

New comment by cheriot in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:46:34 +0000

I suspect this is the real reason behind Anthropic limiting subscriptions to their own products and keeping API prices several times higher than comparable models. Applications more sticky than API users and less technical users more sticky than programmers (ie Cowork more sticky than Code).

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

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:35:27 +0000

One supreme leader replaced by another, even more hardline, supreme leader. Trump failed.

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

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:27:04 +0000

The nuclear program is orders of magnitude more important than everything else. If you think JCPOA was bad, take a look at Iran's 10 point plan.

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

cheriot — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:40:23 +0000

Let's not forget the road to war started in 2016 when Trump walked into the White House at withdrew from the JCPOA. He's wanted the war for years, got it, and lost it.

New comment by cheriot in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%"

cheriot — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:07:29 +0000

I get where the authors are coming from with these: https://github.com/drona23/claude-token-efficient/blob/main/...

But I'd rather use the "instruction budget" on the task at hand. Some, like the Code Output section, can fit a code review skill.

New comment by cheriot in "How Iran is making a mint from the current war"

cheriot — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:01:53 +0000

Agree it's a thin disguise. It works because the same sword hangs over Trump's head as well. He needs the price of oil to not spike too high so any oil supply is welcome.

New comment by cheriot in "Apple Business"

cheriot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:28:47 +0000

Jamf shareholders got very lucky. The acquisition closed less than 2 months ago. Tough day for the new PE owners, though.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/francisco-partners-completes-...

New comment by cheriot in "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

cheriot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:11:31 +0000

Can't wait to see the price of the first US made home router. We [USA] really need a formal designation of trusted supply chain partners. Would improve security and make a useful bargaining chip.

New comment by cheriot in "Just Put It on a Map"

cheriot — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 03:23:27 +0000

Appreciate what you're doing!

New comment by cheriot in "Just Put It on a Map"

cheriot — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:42:37 +0000

Now map property taxes per acre and tell me who's subsidizing who in this country. Urban3 has been doing the work: https://codesigncollaborative.org/urban-revolution-through-d...

Municipal costs per resident are effectively the inverse of these maps because the more spread out people are the more roads, pipes, etc are required to reach them.

New comment by cheriot in "Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code"

cheriot — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:35:56 +0000

If this was human written sarcasm, bravo.

New comment by cheriot in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

cheriot — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Growth and fewer restrictions on what can be built makes your land more valuable. Apartment buildings in place of detached houses means rent prices can go down while land prices go up.

New comment by cheriot in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

cheriot — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:32:49 +0000

> and each one will hit house owning voters hard making it hard to replicate

In a negative way?

New comment by cheriot in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

cheriot — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:24:59 +0000

I'm game for throwing rocks at Apple and Google, but I don't get this one.

> consumer apps embed ad SDKs → those SDKs feed location signals into RTB ad exchanges → surveillance-oriented firms sit in the RTB pipeline and harvest bid request data even without winning auctions

Would you ban ad supported apps? Assuming the comment you're responding to is realistic, I'm not sure how the OS is to blame.

New comment by cheriot in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

cheriot — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:29:45 +0000

Thanks. Do you have a view on whether the project went far enough?

New comment by cheriot in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

cheriot — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:30:38 +0000

Condolences to those that about to be laid off

Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/14/meta-reportedly-considerin...

New comment by cheriot in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

cheriot — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:38:31 +0000

Agree and make it two years for long term capital gains.

New comment by cheriot in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

cheriot — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:37:21 +0000

Congratulations to the CEOs of fraudulent companies.

> Trump, who first floated the idea in his first term as president, has argued the change in requirements would discourage shortsightedness from public companies while cutting costs.

Having less information does not change one's time horizon. It just means large investors paying for proprietary data will have more edge.