Hacker News: ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ed_mercerHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:04:29 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]>Goodbye resale value

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:40:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725845ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725845https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47725845<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Claude Managed Agents"]]>Works fine here, also on Firefox mobile (149.0.1) on Android 16.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:31:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697526ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697526https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697526<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Apple Is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' with the MacBook Neo"]]>Couldn't apple just release a Macbook Neo 2 (or 1.1) or something to mitigate this?

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:43:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686743ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686743https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686743<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"]]>> That's a ridiculous suggestion.

Is it though? Claude's reliability is now at an all-time low of 98.7%. It's not a stretch to think that large companies will have second doubts about about adopting claude for their production environments.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:38:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686694ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686694https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686694<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Apple Is Reportedly Facing a 'Massive Dilemma' with the MacBook Neo"]]>> Apple would have to disable a GPU core on these chips to ensure that they have only a 5-core GPU, like all other MacBook Neo units sold to date.

This is wild. Why not just leave it a 6-core GPU? Would there really be bad press from having an extra GPU core?

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:12:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683005ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683005https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47683005<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Tailscale's new macOS home"]]>> Apple could certainly make some changes to prevent this being an issue at all.

Why Apple still hasn't fixed this in 2026 baffles me. The fact that a company the size of Tailscale has to find workarounds for an Apple blunder like this speaks volumes about how terrible Apple's software management is.

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:29:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621024ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47621024<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"]]>Orbiter, the space simulation predecessor to KSP, has exactly such a mission where you see the moon in front of you as you ascent into the sky.

]]>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:48:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608655ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608655https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608655<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"]]>> Thanks for stopping by!

Missed chance to use "slopping by"

]]>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:58:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568768ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568768https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568768<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Push events into a running session with channels"]]>I don't understand how this can be economically viable. If this takes off, it will allow businesses to use openclaw-like functionality at non-api prices (pro, max).

]]>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:16:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449064ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449064https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449064<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Elevated errors on Claude Opus 4.6"]]>How is this still a problem? This has happened so many times now.

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:05:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418981ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418981https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418981<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup"]]>The problem with this is that it all runs local on someone's computer, whereas with openclaw you can involve your teammates (e.g. on slack) which is much more powerful.

]]>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:52:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418840ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418840https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418840<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"]]>> Honors robots.txt directives, including crawl-delay

Sounds pretty useless for any serious AI company

]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 01:37:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330893ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330893https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330893<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school"]]>"My apologies! I should not have picked that girl school as a target. Updated my NOTES.md"

]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:45:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304299ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304299https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47304299<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "I resigned from OpenAI"]]>I’m worried that China will build said killing machines and that we’ll be unprepared.

]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:34:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293053ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293053https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47293053<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app"]]>Cool, but likely to become obsolete with the rise of agents that ship with the browser.

]]>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:30:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283431ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283431https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283431<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"]]>> Claude has a glaring limitation: it only does 1:1 conversations.

Openclaw fully supports team chat inside Slack and works with Claude.

]]>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:45:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281506ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281506https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47281506<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"]]>ThinkPads have definitely not always been very repairable. The t480 was the last solid option, and it went downhill from there.

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:24:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243034ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243034https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243034<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"]]>Oh man, that's concerning since it was already terrible on Sonoma. I've been using Museeks for years now.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:24:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202963ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202963https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202963<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"]]>>The models we have now will not do it,

Except that they will, if you trick them which is trivial.

]]>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:06:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202841ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202841https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202841<![CDATA[New comment by ed_mercer in "Don't trust AI agents"]]>How is Nanoclaw different from running openclaw in a VM?

]]>Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:50:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195372ed_mercerhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195372https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47195372