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New comment by exegete in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

exegete — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:05:32 +0000

That's nice, but there's more to it:

> However, the S&P Dow Jones Indices did “carve out one concession” by changing the investable weight factor rules for “lower-profile benchmarks” such as the S&P Total Market Index and Dow Jones US Total Stock Market Index, according to Quartz. That could allow an IPO faster entry into those indexes.

I think these total market indexes are used as benchmarks for US total market ETF's and funds?

New comment by exegete in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

exegete — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:25:52 +0000

The trend is somewhat new if we look long term. The gap between PhD’s and number of openings in academia has gotten a lot worse.

New comment by exegete in "OpenTrafficMap"

exegete — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +0000

I mean I don’t anyone thought this was in the US since the UI is not in English. Maybe it’s more of, this neat, wish we had it here?

New comment by exegete in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

exegete — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:09:10 +0000

So if we’re being technical I think they did achieve escape velocity? But the moon’s gravity and some timed burns will slingshot them back.

New comment by exegete in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

exegete — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:21:05 +0000

The article says Walmart is not abandoning ChatGPT but is going to use their own app in Chat’s ecosystem

New comment by exegete in "Show HN: Passport Globe (See where your passport takes you)"

exegete — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:17:15 +0000

Nice work. One piece of feedback - the two shades of green are hard to distinguish and mean very different things

New comment by exegete in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

exegete — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:19:16 +0000

Slopple

PlowNYC

exegete — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:58:12 +0000

Article URL: https://plownyc.cityofnewyork.us

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47121742

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by exegete in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

exegete — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:45:20 +0000

“Accidentally” is not accurate. He used AI to inspect the source and found credentials that work in all devices. He also never gained control of anyone else’s devices. He never used the exploit.

New comment by exegete in "macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken"

exegete — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:32:03 +0000

This is the third point release for the 26 series. Aren’t these primarily bugfixes? Or does Apple use a different versioning system?

New comment by exegete in "Privilege is bad grammar"

exegete — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:18:32 +0000

You have to deliberately turn off autocorrection on most phones

New comment by exegete in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

exegete — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:07:32 +0000

Live camera of runway https://app.truelook.cloud/dashboard/581/980/live

Linked from airport website: https://elpasointernationalairport.com/live-cameras/

New comment by exegete in ".Beat Swatch Internet Time"

exegete — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:16:00 +0000

Most definitely marketing. It’s got the company name in it. I’m surprised other watch makers didn’t come up with their own time standards as gimmicks.

New comment by exegete in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

exegete — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:17:23 +0000

Of course there’s always been that pressure but now with AI tooling the sheer volume of code that can be generated is massive.

New comment by exegete in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

exegete — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:16:03 +0000

Yes but now there is so much more volume of code created in the same amount of time.

PlowNYC: Track the progress of DSNY snow removal vehicles

exegete — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:34:22 +0000

Article URL: https://plownyc.cityofnewyork.us/plownyc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753957

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by exegete in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

exegete — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:23:00 +0000

To me the biggest benefit has been getting AI to write scripts that automate some things for me that are tedious but not needed to be deployed. Those scripts don’t have to be production-grade and just have to work.

New comment by exegete in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand [video]"

exegete — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:20:44 +0000

I think the points about code ownership and responsibility are spot on. Management wants you to increase velocity with these agents so inevitably there is pressure to ship crappy code. You then will be responsible for the code, not the AI. It’s the idea of being a reverse centaur.

I also like the comments on how developers should be frequently reading the entire code and not just the diffs. But again there is probably pressure to speed up and then that practice gets sacrificed.

New comment by exegete in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

exegete — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:01:37 +0000

AFAIK DMCA is such a strong law that you just have to circumvent any kind of access mechanism to violate it. I’m not a lawyer.

“No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.”

“to "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner;”

I’m not sure how modding works in the case but usually this is why companies can come after folks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention

New comment by exegete in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

exegete — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:47:48 +0000

DMCA wasn’t law during the lawsuits with CodeGenie and Nintendo.