Hacker News: chomp

New comment by chomp in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

chomp — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:44:12 +0000

My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger

New comment by chomp in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

chomp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:14:15 +0000

You are not understanding how the market works. Rarity and value do not always correlate with demand. Otherwise I have some beanie babies to sell.

New comment by chomp in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

chomp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:07:44 +0000

I mean really, all of my examples involve on-demand flame at a BTU higher than a torch, so I suppose the list doesn’t go on if you exclude things like charring eggplant for baba ganoush.

Induction is super awesome for maintaining temp. But one isn’t superior over the other in all cases. My point was purely, people need high BTU fire sometimes based off how they cook. I mean, you won’t see me cooking tagine, but surely someone in the world cooks tagine?

New comment by chomp in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

chomp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:00:15 +0000

You absolutely cannot do the same thing with a cast iron, I promise.

New comment by chomp in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

chomp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:17:04 +0000

Can’t (properly) cook a tortilla on an electric burner, though you can get subpar results in a pan

Can’t char a pepper on an electric burner

Can’t heat a nabe on an electric burner

Also during hurricane season, my gas burner still works when the power goes out.

The list goes on of things that electric simply cannot do. To claim one is superior over the other ignores a lot of the ways people cook. They are just simply different cooking tools.

New comment by chomp in "Is Kentucky about to give billions in tax breaks to data centers?"

chomp — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:36:45 +0000

Drop the disdain, it makes your argument look uninformed.

Try talking IRL with what people dislike about datacenters. You might be surprised.

New comment by chomp in "Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old"

chomp — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:01:53 +0000

Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.

New comment by chomp in "YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview"

chomp — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:52:05 +0000

Tattooing company logos has already been done https://www.huffpost.com/entry/billy-gibby-aka-hostgator_n_2...

So really, they are just boring and derivative. Probably an analog to be drawn here for modern SV.

New comment by chomp in "The End of an Era"

chomp — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:07:10 +0000

> Printing presses also write words better than humans.

False equivalence, printing presses do not write.

New comment by chomp in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

chomp — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:19:23 +0000

You don't seem to understand how this works. El Niño is one half of a 2 part cycle. You don’t get permanent hurricane reduction.

New comment by chomp in "Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter"

chomp — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:20:28 +0000

I don’t want to be mean, but try to run a large project and you’ll realize there’s more to it than “can I find some bodies to crank out code”

New comment by chomp in "Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code"

chomp — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:25:47 +0000

I don’t understand why this is a problem.

New comment by chomp in "How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)"

chomp — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:56:19 +0000

I don’t think that ruling distills down that far. But I will grant you that if you’re leaving enough obvious money on the table, activist investors will come knocking.

New comment by chomp in "I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life"

chomp — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:00:55 +0000

lol of course he’d go to Bari’s rag to complain

New comment by chomp in "Prairieland defendants sentenced today to prison terms ranging from 30-100 years"

chomp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:21:23 +0000

Andy Ngo is an awful person, surely there’s a better source

New comment by chomp in "Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube"

chomp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:24:58 +0000

Yes? Can’t take 10 minutes to speak (or at least redraft) with your own voice?

I’ve written PR copy solo, and in committee. It’s not rocket surgery. It’s a group of people standing around with a thesaurus. But if you leave AI-isms in, just feels like you whipped it out while coffee was brewing.

New comment by chomp in "Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube"

chomp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:11:04 +0000

> You're right to raise this

Is this LLM generated?

New comment by chomp in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"

chomp — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:32:54 +0000

What? Texas Tribune is excellent; it’s a nonprofit here that does investigative journalism. Are you upset they’re quoting the current administration? I can’t help you there, that’s the times we live in.

New comment by chomp in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

chomp — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:59:09 +0000

Only if that 3 in 4 number is increasing (documenting a trend) But that doesn’t appear to be the case.

New comment by chomp in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

chomp — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:23:17 +0000

This is an obtuse comment because it doesn't mean anything. Yes we all know that every country has for-profit elements. We also all know that every country has social elements in their system. And non-profit elements.