<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: drakythe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=drakythe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:27:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=drakythe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "Does Gas Town 'steal' usage from users' LLM credits to improve itself?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's not coming soon, that is a thing that was happening on compromised servers years ago (and probably still, but to a lesser extent given the decline in popularity of meme coin launches)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:05:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785945</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785945</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47785945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Out of curiosity do you run the backdoored kernel in your day to day computing or only when gaming? Any concerns about incidental security issues?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:16:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718538</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718538</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "Unfolder for Mac – A 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unfortunately the Apple App Store set an incredibly low floor of "free" or $0.99 when it launched. Whether companies were just trying to get customers or Apple was subsidizing things, the expectation is an "app" is cheap and disposable.<p>$30 is eminently reasonable for this kind of thing. And it isn't a subscription! But it costs more than a morning coffee so impulse is restrained and some people just don't like being restrained.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:03:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718334</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718334</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47718334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm not saying they did. I'm saying what they said was a load of rubbish.<p>I disagree. Employees often take some form of "ownership" over their buildings, especially in long term and public education facing facilities like museums. It isn't difficult to understand why they said "there is our museum". Human language connotes ideas as often as it does specifics, and there is nothing rubbish about that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:22:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680869</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1:1,200 scale vs 1:2,400 scale, or 9,335 square feet vs 1350 square feet.<p>Both are absolutely incredible. I find the growth in size numbers difficult to really comprehend even though the scale difference is an "easy" * 2. I wish I wasn't so so bad at visualizing things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:18:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680823</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>20 * 365.25 = 7305 days. Assuming their "near a million buildings" number tracks to somewhere around 950,000, he would have had to build 130 "structures" a day on average.<p>This is all round and not precise numbers, considering he had to have days where he couldn't build, I'm guessing on the number of structures, and he started in 2004 (22 years ago), accuracy is not possible. But still, even if we fudged it down to 100 structures a day: This is BONKERS.<p>The man has a prodigious skill at building simple models and painting them. I am incredibly impressed. And I am curious if he did it all alone or if he ever had help from friends/family, even just simple cutting of the balsa wood into simple templated shapes for him to later construct. (To be clear, even if he had help it takes nothing away from how impressive this is)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680775</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>tl;dr: Dude thinks Anthropic is making claude worse on purpose to cut down on GPU usage and/or increase income. He recommends using Codex instead. This video should have been a text tweet.<p>I'm 3 minutes in and he has done an ad read and shown that Anthropic wasn't kidding about removing the ability for Claude to be used with OpenClaw without paying for additional usage.<p>And now he says he's going into his _actual_ problem with the service.<p>EDIT: I have fast forwarded to 8 minutes in an he is still going on about Open Claw. Apparently they have banned mention of open claw in the system prompts. And it can trigger your extra charges even if you're not _using_ Open Claw, just mentioning it.<p>EDIT 2: forwarded again. He went into something about his app and how he is concerned about whether his app will be allowed to continue doing this and that he would take Anthropic to court if that suddenly changed? But then he talks about how he likes using Claude for debugging misc issues outside of this app. Why did he bring the app up? And he is upset that Claude is telling him that it can't help him with random tech support questions like "Why is my dropbox icon not showing up in the MacOS menu?"<p>We're now 16:45 in and this is his personal _conspiracy theory_ about Anthropic doing this stuff specifically so it doesn't work for Open Claw.<p>This is a 24 minute rant that the tool he didn't understand before is now telling him he doesn't understand the tool and he should look elsewhere for specific answers.<p>But Codex did what he wanted. So okay. "All without opening a browser" -- I... have so many responses that are unkind. This isn't Anthropic burning dev good will. This is Anthropic being a capitalist company.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662960</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It says the numbers are theoretically possible. Requiring a 66% usage to break even when 100% usage will piss off customers by invoking a queue means it’s a balancing act.<p>“Technically correct. The best kind of correct”. So inference may technically be _capable_ of being profitable, but I have question’s about them being profitable in _practice_.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:29:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574830</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>3.99 at 8x instances, with a minimum 2 week commitment. Good luck getting 70% usage average during that time. Useful when you're running a training round and can properly gauge demand, not so great when you're offering an API.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:07:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574558</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I say this as someone who has used them to boilerplate/scaffold a bit of code by this point: Economic Value of LLMs is debatable, if only because they're being too broadly applied.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:57:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574429</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The economy is vibe coded at this point.<p>Have we gotten anymore word on the potential Helium constraints that SK Hynix was making noise about after the strike on the helium plant in the Middle East that suppplied 60% of S. Korea's Helium? Because that could definitely put a kink in things, since SKH is one of the 3 remaining big DRAM producers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:56:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574411</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic also recently tweaked their usage limits to discourage use during peak hours. Why would they do that if inference was profitable?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:52:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574352</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there a source that says commercial RAM prices are dropping? I was recently told (without a source, so I am not sure if it is true or not) that OpenAI never even bought any of the RAM they signed deals on last year, and that those deals were just letters of intent. So if prices are coming down I wouldn't be shocked but the economy is pretty well vibe coded these days so who even knows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:43:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574248</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574248</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TUI means "Terminal User Interface" or "Text User Interface"<p>A GUI that is built with Text, and intended to be used in a Terminal, is what a TUI is, colloquially AND definitionally.<p>What do you think qualifies as a TUI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:27:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364948</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I still say the best use for Moltbook is as an addition to <a href="https://xkcd.com/350/" rel="nofollow">https://xkcd.com/350/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:46:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341427</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're not proud or embarrassed by it then I don't understand why it is an issue? If you miscommunicate something or don't get your point across, just try again, or apologize, and chalk it up to a learning experience.<p>If you think your writing could use improvement, then write your comment and let it sit for a few minutes before re-reading it and the comment you are replying to, make your edits and then post it. It will give your brain time to reset and maybe spot something you didn't earlier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:42:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341345</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341345</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47341345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You answered your own question, its the bezel. They've gotten _much_ thinner since the 11 inch MBAs were a thing. Remember screen size is measured in diagonals, so even a 5mm reduction of bezel size both horizontally and vertically gains you a little over 7mm in screen size without a physical size increase. to gain 2 inches in screen size (50.8 mm) you'd only need to eliminate 0.74 inches (roughly) from all 4 sides. I don't know the exact measurements of the bezels on those older devices but I can tell you my M4 Air is less than half an inch on all sides.<p>EDIT: My math was bad. Its still not precise but its much more accurate now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:11:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253896</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm as anti LLM use as they come, but this appears to be migrating libraries from already funcitoning C++ code. In the case of your hypothetical I suspect the course of action will be "shelve this library port until someone with domain expertise and Rust experience can look at it". Its not like he chucked the whole codebase at the GenaI gods and said "Port it to Rust!".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:44:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129370</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129370</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "Arizona Bill Requires Age Verification for All Apps"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All the people with money would lobby against content categories because then large mixed category sites like Reddit or Twitter would have to either separate their app, or have the ability to send additional content headers based on content tags per piece of content.<p>Legally, since pornography still doesn't have a true definition in the US, someone would have to define the categories as well, and then the hundred million free speech fights would begin.<p>Your vision is the correct one, in my opinion, "adult content" headers would be an easy lift for web technology. But the ad agencies and information agencies (often the same) are spending all of the money to make sure nothing like that happens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:58:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064789</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by drakythe in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks to the crashed economy I was on the hook for hundreds of other people’s bad decisions and the degree I went for did not result in a job despite prospects being more than good when I began the program.<p>People who want loan forgiveness anbd to rework the financial aid system aren’t looking for a get out of jail free card, they’re looking yo even the playing field a bit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:39:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060359</link><dc:creator>drakythe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47060359</guid></item></channel></rss>