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New comment by drewnick in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

drewnick — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:40:51 +0000

Same, mostly. However today in particular Claude can't do front-end development with any competence. Never seen this before. I think the rumor is they are rolling out a new model and have to divide their infra across the new model vs the current model.

New comment by drewnick in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

drewnick — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:48:32 +0000

You can use Claude Code with API mode (not a sub)

New comment by drewnick in "Google's insecure-by-default API keys and 30h billing lag cost my startup $15k"

drewnick — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:01:02 +0000

You should definitely log in to Google Cloud Console and roll all the keys you see in there if you're unsure. I just did the same thing after I realized I had a lot of surface area with these keys.

New comment by drewnick in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

drewnick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:11:12 +0000

My bloody stool started slow and took some time off but came back and I had a large polyp. Watch this very closely, but don't panic.

New comment by drewnick in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

drewnick — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:08:52 +0000

Blood in the stool, at age 41. Benign but a VERY large polyp so I have a followup soon. If you have an instinct to get tested, especially if you have any evidence, do it. My doc fought me to NOT get tested but I persisted. The embarrassment factor is a thing, but we have to get over it!

New comment by drewnick in "History of AT&T Long Lines"

drewnick — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:10:51 +0000

I've gotten sucked into 1950s/60s/70s Pan Am (the defacto U.S. flag carrier of the era) advertising videos and the concept is similar to AT&T: premium service, basically a monopoly.

Problem is: prices were REALLY high.

Competition worked out in Part 121 airlines and telco, in the long run.

New comment by drewnick in "History of AT&T Long Lines"

drewnick — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:30:35 +0000

Somehow I was recommended the /r/longlines subreddit, so I subscribed. I now get pretty much a daily picture of a Long Lines abandoned tower somewhere in the country with upvotes and discussion. It is fascinating the hobbies people have.

This was a great article and put some context around it. It's interesting that many of these stations are basically apocalypse bunkers to keep equipment shielded for military use. There are many sites with the equipment still just sitting there untouched, slowly aging away.

New comment by drewnick in "Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving"

drewnick — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 23:06:41 +0000

Same here - 12y. I've learned so much and one day hope to contribute back something significant to the community but haven't found a footing just yet.

New comment by drewnick in "X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch"

drewnick — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 03:58:15 +0000

Upstate South Carolina as well

New comment by drewnick in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

drewnick — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:03:14 +0000

I've been doing it since 1998 in my bedroom with a dual T1 (and on to real DCs later). While I've had some outages for sure it makes me feel better I am not that divergent in uptime in the long run vs big clouds.

New comment by drewnick in "Getting AI to work in complex codebases"

drewnick — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:44:38 +0000

Not OP, but I use Codex for back-end, scripting, and SQL. Claude Code for most front-end. I have found that when one faces a challenge, the other often can punch through and solve the problem. I even have them work together (moving thoughts and markdown plans back and fourth) and that works wonders.

My progression: Cursor in '24, Roo code mid '25, Claude Code in Q2 '25, Codex CLI in Q3 `25.

New comment by drewnick in "Use One Big Server (2022)"

drewnick — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:41:45 +0000

For bare metal I’ve been using tier.net to get 192 GB RAM, 4TB NVME and 32 cores for $219/mo.

Data centers all over the country and I get to locate under 10ms from my regional audience.

Just a data point if you want some bigger iron than a VM.

New comment by drewnick in "Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"

drewnick — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:52:09 +0000

Note this affects TETRA which is not used in North America. Most US systems use P25 which is not mentioned in the article.

New comment by drewnick in "Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?"

drewnick — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:45:15 +0000

Thank you! This just saved me after closing laptop and losing a chat in VS Code. Cool feature and always a place where Clause Code UX was behind chat - being able to see history. "/continue" saved me ~15 minutes of re-establishing the planning for a new feature.

Also loving the shift + tab (twice) to enter plan mode. Just adding here in case it helps anyone else.

New comment by drewnick in "Pitfalls of premature closure with LLM assisted coding"

drewnick — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:37:57 +0000

I too have noticed variability and it's impossible to know for sure but late one Friday or Saturday night (PST) it seemed to be brilliant, several iterations in a row. Some of my best output has been in very short windows.

New comment by drewnick in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

drewnick — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:18:02 +0000

I feel this too. I swear some of the coding Claude Code does on weekends is superior to the weekdays. It just has these eureka moments every now and then.

New comment by drewnick in "Claude 4"

drewnick — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:55:11 +0000

I just had some issue with RLS/schema/postgres stuff. Gemini 2.5 Pro swung and missed, and talked a lot with little code, Claude Sonnet 4 solved. O1 Pro Solved. It's definitely random which of these models can solve various problems with the same prompt.

New comment by drewnick in "Claude 4"

drewnick — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:48:19 +0000

Last night I suddenly got noticeably better performance in Claude Code. Like it one shotted something I'd never seen before and took multiple steps over 10 minutes. I wonder if I was on a test branch? It seems to be continuing this morning with good performance, solving an issue Gemini was struggling with.

New comment by drewnick in "The unreasonable effectiveness of an LLM agent loop with tool use"

drewnick — Fri, 16 May 2025 05:13:02 +0000

I see o3 (high) + gpt-4.1 at 82.7% -- the highest on the benchmark currently.

New comment by drewnick in "Databricks and Neon"

drewnick — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:31:25 +0000

For small personal projects, coolify (featured recently here on HN) lets you quickly stand up postgres with SSL, etc. and get a connection string in seconds. You can deploy in the same project or expose pg to the world like neon does.

One click turns it off, or you can just leave it on. A $5 VM will run a lot of small postgres.

I use both neon and coolify, and could live with either, though apples and oranges when it comes to the data branching feature. But a quick pg_dump/restore which could even be scripted solves my problem. Disclaimer: I like devops in addition to just dev.