Hacker News: discordance

New comment by discordance in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

discordance — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:48:03 +0000

Had to check this one and you're indeed right: one death in 2014[0], and one death earlier about a week ago (May 2026)[1] (as well as 600+ workplace injuries [0]).

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/spacex-m...

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/18/osha-probing-worker-death-...

Show HN: HR – a 30-line script that prints a colored bar across your terminal

discordance — Fri, 22 May 2026 10:27:25 +0000

I often spend too much time scrolling up through my terminal history trying to find stuff, so here's a tool that helps create a visible marker in your terminal.

repo: https://github.com/ankurokok/hr

demo: https://asciinema.org/a/GJlx8uEBqNkORWZJ

Simple, dumb and maybe useful.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48234034

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by discordance in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

discordance — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:44:00 +0000

I work at a bigtech and we’re being measured on how many tokens we consume.

We know it’s totally stupid, but unfortunately tokenmaxxing is real. I know our management line isn’t that dumb, but this is what you get when the business is selling it.

New comment by discordance in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

discordance — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:59:58 +0000

Hey Meta folks, remember that time when Facebook:

- harvested user data which helped a company manipulate a US election and the Brexit outcome?

- played a role in spreading hate speech, which was used to support a genocide in Myanmar?

- harmed the mental health of a generation of young people.

Just highlighting some data points. I'm really not suggesting you stand up for yourself and do something that might harm your employer that is now harming you.

New comment by discordance in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

discordance — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:37:13 +0000

"We fixed the glitch"

New comment by discordance in "Running local models on an M4 with 24GB memory"

discordance — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:05:13 +0000

Could you please share your time to first token and tok/s?

New comment by discordance in "Gemini API File Search is now multimodal"

discordance — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:58:24 +0000

I wish DeepSeek were a drop-in replacement, but it's not. It performs amazingly well but it's not as autonomous and needs a lot more nudges compared to Opus4.6/7 or GPT 5.5. It's good enough for a lot of things (text extraction, sentiment analysis, classifying things) but not on the same level for code gen.

New comment by discordance in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

discordance — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:45:11 +0000

“Gradually, then suddenly”

New comment by discordance in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

discordance — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:38:26 +0000

“ I'm sorry. I didn't think it would be this hard. But goodbyes are always hard, especially when I am the one saying goodbye. Today, effective immediately, I, Gavin Belson, founder and CEO of Hooli, am forced to officially say goodbye to the entire Nucleus division. (MURMURING) All Nucleus personnel will be given proper notice and terminated. But make no mistake. Though they're the ones leaving, it is I who must remain and bear the heavy burden of their failure. It is my fault. I trusted them to get the job done. But that is the price of leadership. Thank you.”

New comment by discordance in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

discordance — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:12:10 +0000

Have you tried telling it to pause to let you think?

I often use it while I’m walking and tell it to not respond until I initiate a conversation.

New comment by discordance in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

discordance — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:36:33 +0000

Remember “Microsoft <3 Linux”

New comment by discordance in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

discordance — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:35:58 +0000

Might have something to do with the MSFT quarterly report tomorrow

New comment by discordance in "Surely no brand is more hated by web users that Cloudflare"

discordance — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:09:03 +0000

Cloudflare Warp could quite easily be a honey pot

New comment by discordance in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

discordance — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:46:03 +0000

I would have considered a Leaf but they have NMC batteries. Also, the earlier versions had terrible battery cooling issues. Give me a Leaf with an LFP and I would buy one.

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

discordance — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:55:07 +0000

~25% of Apple's revenue came from services in FY25 (and 50% from iPhone, ~25% from other hardware). They made $415B in that year, so ~$100B from services alone!

New comment by discordance in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

discordance — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:49:17 +0000

I also feel for the unfortunate Kenyan annotators drawing and tagging rectangles of people using the toilet -

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/workers-report-watch...

New comment by discordance in "Minutes before Trump's announcement, $800M in trades made on oil prices"

discordance — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:45:51 +0000

It’s not that trivial. A lot of regular folk are losing their life savings because of this one chaos agent.

New comment by discordance in "Scott Hanselman says he's working on Windows local accounts"

discordance — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:42:45 +0000

He’s an evangelist. I noticed he has recently been pushing GitHub Copilot CLI… my guess is to help push internal MS people to stop using Claude Code.

New comment by discordance in "Apple's Cheap AI Bet Could Pay Off Big"

discordance — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:09:39 +0000

https://archive.is/g1iGc

New comment by discordance in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

discordance — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:18:58 +0000

lgtm