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The End of Free Tokens

dosinga — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:20:19 +0000

Article URL: https://douwe.com/blog/2026/0518/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314877

Points: 6

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New comment by dosinga in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

dosinga — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:25:37 +0000

What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?

New comment by dosinga in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

dosinga — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:57:17 +0000

Does anybody else find this article reads really AI written? The way the argument is built, the emdashes, the dramatic one sentence paragraph:

"That assumption is wrong."

"The human is the equation. AI is what makes that equation run faster." -- what?

New comment by dosinga in "AI is too expensive"

dosinga — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:56:20 +0000

The company I work for pays for my tokens, but I find enough joy in doing weekend projects supercharged by AI to chip in myself too

New comment by dosinga in "AI is too expensive"

dosinga — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:55:17 +0000

Yes! It's a great addition to the argument

New comment by dosinga in "AI is too expensive"

dosinga — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:21:09 +0000

The counter argument (not mine): Software Engineers are willing to spend their own money on AI. The same people that wouldn't pay 10 dollars for code if there was a workaround that took hours.

The Web of Babel: Browsing the Internet's Latent Space

dosinga — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:24:42 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.douwe.com/2026/05/the-web-of-babel-browsing-internets.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010841

Points: 3

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New comment by dosinga in "Austerity Creates Fascism"

dosinga — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:55:45 +0000

Austerity does not create fascism. The examples in the article are just all wrong. Even if you call Trump and Orban fascists, they did not follow austerity. The reaction to the financial crisis was the largest fiscal and monetary interventions in history. Orban consolidated power by spending and state expansion, not austerity. True austerity in Greece, Spain, Portugal of recent times led to new parties, but those countries are politically doing surprisingly well.

Russian crypto payment system expands into Africa

dosinga — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:24:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/a9de2bb5-7bbf-4d04-9424-25d4b9cda2b6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665668

Points: 2

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New comment by dosinga in "Box of Secrets: Discreetly modding an apartment intercom to work with Apple Home"

dosinga — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:29:58 +0000

I ended up using https://eu.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot -- just have a finger robot push the button

New comment by dosinga in "EU Inc.: A new harmonised corporate legal regime"

dosinga — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:54:15 +0000

Employers and landlords do that sort of thing all the time. Rent goes up, job descriptions change, return to office is suddenly required. And yeah, you can get a different job or a different home if you don't like it.

New comment by dosinga in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

dosinga — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:13:00 +0000

> if you exclude the enslaved, the south had a higher GDP per capita than the north.

In other words, if you remove the people that earned the least (close to nothing) the overall income per capita goes up? If you exclude the non nobles I am sure the middle ages had a very high GDP too

New comment by dosinga in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

dosinga — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:41:37 +0000

you can run https://block.github.io/goose/ in headless mode (I work on goose)

What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn't Know, Either

dosinga — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:59:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/02/16/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know-either

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130258

Points: 5

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New comment by dosinga in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

dosinga — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:41:04 +0000

ah, but you can always just ask the LLM questions about how it works. it's much easier to understand complex code these days than before. and also much easier to not take the time to do it and just race to the next feature

New comment by dosinga in "Who sets the Doomsday Clock?"

dosinga — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:50:03 +0000

I have looked but I can't find out if it actually means something. Does 89 seconds before midnight mean we have a 50% chance to survive the next N years somehow?

New comment by dosinga in "Show HN: First Claude Code client for Ollama local models"

dosinga — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:03:17 +0000

this is cool. not sure it is the first claude code style coding agent that runs against Ollama models though. goose, opencode and others have been able to do that a while no?

Wanting to be an astronaut turned me into a Software Engineer

dosinga — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 03:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.douwe.com/2026/01/wanting-to-be-astronaut-turned-me-into.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611917

Points: 2

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New comment by dosinga in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

dosinga — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:18:44 +0000

> Who hasn’t turned in a paper on a broken floppy disk, with the excuse ready that the floppy must have broken when the teacher asks a few days later?

I feel seen

New comment by dosinga in "People who come off slimming jabs regain weight four times faster than dieters"

dosinga — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:27:59 +0000

One thing that seems missing from a lot of these comparisons is the base rate of success for dieting itself.

Most people who “start a diet” never meaningfully lose weight in the first place, or lose a small amount and plateau quickly. The cohort of “dieters who regain weight” is already heavily filtered toward the minority who were unusually successful at dieting to begin with. That selection bias matters a lot when you then compare regain rates.

GLP-1s change that denominator. A much larger fraction of people who start the intervention actually lose substantial weight. So even if regain after stopping is faster conditional on having lost weight, the overall success rate (people who lose and keep off a clinically meaningful amount) may still be higher than dieting alone.

In other words: “people who regain weight after stopping GLP-1s” vs “people who regain weight after dieting” ignores the much larger group of dieters who never lost anything to regain. From a population perspective, that’s a pretty important omission.