Hacker News: gaws

New comment by gaws in "Tell HN: Anthropic's Fable model is too expensive"

gaws — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:33:55 +0000

> OpenCode has a generous $10 plan for open weight models

No point if one can't use Anthropic's models.

How Japan Stopped Civil War

gaws — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:54:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/how-japan-stopped-civil-war

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48464831

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gaws in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"

gaws — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:01:42 +0000

How do we minimize our exposure to this IPO?

Your URL bar is a CLI (2020)

gaws — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:55:09 +0000

Article URL: https://river.me/blog/url-bar-is-a-cli/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385766

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaws in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

gaws — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:01:26 +0000

> I am very lucky to be ensconced right now within a team and a company that views the current LLM mania with a similar level of disdain as myself.

It only takes one person, someone with enough power, to fall for the ai-equals-productivity-equals-profits trap to bring the house down.

New comment by gaws in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

gaws — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:59:13 +0000

When the funds dry up, he'll be back.

New comment by gaws in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

gaws — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:58:52 +0000

There will always be a crop of people who can only program because they can't afford land to take up farming.

New comment by gaws in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

gaws — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:54:06 +0000

> I guess tech has been good enough to provide some kind of economic cushion that you can retain a reasonable life style as home depot as your only source of income.

It certainly has. There are other instances of former tech workers who subtely brag online about "moving to the countryside" to "raise chickens," "write poetry," or another performative lifestyle using profits from the industry they're quitting.

New comment by gaws in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

gaws — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:47:34 +0000

The equivalent of posting a screenshot of a Notes app entry on Instagram.

New comment by gaws in "Ask HN: I found out that I'm about to be laid off. How do people find jobs?"

gaws — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:38:40 +0000

> How do people find jobs?

By tapping into a network you've ideally built over the course of your career. In the 2020s, people get good jobs from whom they know, not what they know.

The Fonts of the U.S. Federal Courts

gaws — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:43:51 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/the_fonts_of_the_us_federal_courts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338825

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaws in "Ask HN: What game have you replayed more times than any other?"

gaws — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:53:06 +0000

Do you play with any mods?

Project Push: Live Archive of Push Notifications From Global News Organizations

gaws — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:05:18 +0000

Article URL: https://project-push.tk.gg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283403

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaws in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

gaws — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:58:54 +0000

It's about pride at this point.

New comment by gaws in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

gaws — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:58:24 +0000

> E.H. promised her investors a magic cure -> sharlatan

*charlatan

New comment by gaws in "AOC displays drinking water contaminated by data center"

gaws — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:53:55 +0000

Access to drinkable water is pretty important.

New comment by gaws in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

gaws — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:41:52 +0000

The great thing about Bitwarden is its ability to sync passwords between multiple devices seamlessly. KeePassXC is the next move here, and I'd like to know how people made syncing work, especially for iPhone users.

New comment by gaws in "FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive"

gaws — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:39:22 +0000

> He surely got good money for selling FiveThirtyEight

Yes, he did: https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/residential/cny-na...

New comment by gaws in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

gaws — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:00:40 +0000

Let us know when this isn't a Chrome-specific tool.

Ask an Astronaut: 333 hours of Q&A footage with astronauts

gaws — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:25:43 +0000

Article URL: https://askanastronaut.issinrealtime.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152754

Points: 200

# Comments: 25