Hacker News: fireant

New comment by fireant in "Googlebook"

fireant — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:39:42 +0000

Somewhat, it's a tradeoff we are making willingly

New comment by fireant in "Googlebook"

fireant — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:41:17 +0000

With AI dependence, unless you are a holdout, offline development isn't really a thing anymore. Perhaps to do some code reviews, but actually producing new code?

New comment by fireant in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

fireant — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:22:09 +0000

Doordash and similar are experimenting with autonomous/remotely operated vehicles and porn is getting decimated once good enough uncensored video gen ai gets available. That doesn't sound like viable career choices either.

New comment by fireant in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

fireant — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:59:57 +0000

You can totally get a random "we've detected a suspicious activity, please verify the phone number you've used during registration" form during login.

New comment by fireant in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

fireant — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:35:44 +0000

I have been thinking about this a lot lately. If you look at effects of geopolitical events and who profits and loses, rather than stated intentions. This global oil crisis, the Ukraine crisis, tariffs ect. It's the equivalent of the "the purpose of the system is what it does".

Oil crisis: Trumps friends profit on insider info, US oil industry (also his friends) profits, Russia profits because they are another big oil producer, USD dominance is harmed (also helps Russia), everyone else in the world eats the costs

Ukraine: Russia bleeds, Ukraine bleeds, arms industry profits, politicians in general get something to grandstand on in front of the voters. Personally I believe that this conflict has been artificially prolonged just to amplify the effects

Tariffs: US public eats the costs, Trump profits politically by appearing strong, Trumps friends profit on insider info

New comment by fireant in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

fireant — Thu, 07 May 2026 01:58:38 +0000

I don't really get how this stops captcha solving as a service, which is the actual way that scaled recaptcha solving is done? Those things are incredibly cheap and are staffed by humans anyway. Instead of selecting grainy busses, they will just scan the image with their phones.

New comment by fireant in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

fireant — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:15:40 +0000

As a human occasionally writing Rust I've also frequently got stuck in type hell.

New comment by fireant in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

fireant — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:40:50 +0000

Perhaps for some very specific capabilities such as TTS, translation, voice recognition and so on. But for general intelligence models, better hardware just directly allows better models and that doesn't seem to be changing any time soon.

New comment by fireant in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

fireant — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:18:06 +0000

My point is that since we have had so few nuclear incidents, but they have done massive damage, it is very possible that we don't actually know much worse it could get. We have only seen a few points from a distribution that could be much wider than we think. Compared to renewable failures for which we have a pretty good idea.

New comment by fireant in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

fireant — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:53:58 +0000

I don't understand why you are downvoted. Placing economic interests of entertainment megacorp over the rest of internet is one of the things thats wrong with society these days.

New comment by fireant in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

fireant — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:39:09 +0000

> Believing we're in a climate crisis and also being anti-nuclear are mutually exclusive positions

I also used to believe that but now I'm not so sure. Nuclear carries massive and unpredictable risks on failure. We can fairly well predict what will happen on catastrophic wind turbine failure, but with nuclear it is much more difficult. And what is arguably worse is that nuclear catastrophic failures are very infrequent and so we have very hard time estimating and thinking about probabilities of them happening.

Personally I think that keeping existing reactors running is better than the alternatives, but I'm not so sure about building up new reactors compared to building more predictable green energy sources.

New comment by fireant in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

fireant — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:53:16 +0000

Open multimodel tools will start dominating as soon as frontier labs stop massively subsidising their models only inside their tools and align with api pricing. Personally I think that the inflection point is near considering the slew of recent drama with Claude Code.

Claude Code and Codex are solid, but the real reason people use these over alternatives is that they have dramatically lower overall cost compared to open alternatives.

New comment by fireant in "The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables"

fireant — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:05:58 +0000

This could probably be a generic MITM HTTP proxy as well, keep OPENAI_API_KEY=OPENAI_API_KEY in your .env and then replace this with the real key inside the proxy. It wouldn't need to know anything about endpoints or services.

New comment by fireant in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

fireant — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:46:09 +0000

It used to be worse, these days you can at least link between storybook and figma and have similar component naming and figma mostly uses css mental model. Before we had invision and sketch and designers and developers lived in their own worlds that were just completely disjoined.

New comment by fireant in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

fireant — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:36:27 +0000

"hard cap it's technically impossible" is really funny because every other provider manages it just fine. Even wrappers like OpenRouter enable you to set a hard cap on proxied Google resources, but Google themselves are unable to manage that inside gcloud.

New comment by fireant in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

fireant — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:33:19 +0000

€26,000 per the fine article

New comment by fireant in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

fireant — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:32:51 +0000

Besides the reasons already listed, Cloudflare is free, Azure is not. As a pirate site owner I imagine you don't want you payment information with your name associated with your pirate site. You can pay for hosting and dns with crypto.

New comment by fireant in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

fireant — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:26:00 +0000

There is nothing wrong with that. Stock price is based on perceived future value , not current company profits.

New comment by fireant in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

fireant — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:10:28 +0000

So many people in this thread started commenting before trying the product or even watching a simple video of what it does. It's like reddit, commenting based on title without any actual comprehension of the content. Shameful really.

New comment by fireant in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

fireant — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:05:08 +0000

GitButler from OP also allows you to do this incredibly easily. This and stacked commits is IMO their main selling point.