Hacker News: gbear605

New comment by gbear605 in "Codex for almost everything"

gbear605 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:09:08 +0000

> 2x speed mode that isn't billed as extra usage

...at least for my account, the speed mode is 1.5x the speed at 2x the usage

New comment by gbear605 in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

gbear605 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:36:29 +0000

Ah yes, I have a lot of faith that the stacked Supreme Court will return a fair result in this issue.

New comment by gbear605 in "Stop Flock"

gbear605 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:27:38 +0000

You should.

New comment by gbear605 in "Stop Flock"

gbear605 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:27:06 +0000

Yes.

New comment by gbear605 in "Stop Flock"

gbear605 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:24:42 +0000

On a daily basis, I see several cars that are going forty+ miles per hour over the speed limit, weaving between lanes. They go right past the cop and the cop doesn't care. Then someone going five over goes past the cop and the cop gives them a ticket. They go after the easy ones that fill their quotas, not the ones that actually make anyone safer.

New comment by gbear605 in "Stop Flock"

gbear605 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:20:52 +0000

Yes.

New comment by gbear605 in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

gbear605 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:48:56 +0000

There are some benefits that definitely used to exist, and maybe still exist, like early access to new features and additional Google Drive storage. But in practice today, the only real benefit is the badge.

New comment by gbear605 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

gbear605 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:41:46 +0000

It's possible that the government thought that if they did try to challenge the Commerce Clause analysis, then the Supreme Court could have struck down Filburn. They'd much rather lose narrowly on this specific case than have Filburn reversed entirely.

New comment by gbear605 in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

gbear605 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:04:09 +0000

By “under $100”, I meant that there are options at $20. Yes, you can get a smartphone for twenty bucks.

I agree that there are some people who can’t even find $20 to get a smartphone, but they’re going to be a small minority of even the very poor.

New comment by gbear605 in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

gbear605 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:35:15 +0000

Phones can be had for a lot less than that - you can find decent enough used phones that will last a year or two for under $100, which is cheap enough that almost everyone can scrounge together the money for it.

New comment by gbear605 in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

gbear605 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:42:30 +0000

They already have the way that you're supposed to bill for usages like this, the API usage. The purpose of the subscription plan is strictly for the cases where you are using few enough tokens on average that it's not a money pit for them.

New comment by gbear605 in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

gbear605 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:40:16 +0000

Even with those tools, the usage of Claude Code with all of them turned on is going to trend much lower than OpenClaw usage. Everyone that I've seen with OpenClaw will intentionally waste tokens just to make sure they hit the cap, even if they're doing useless stuff with it. And it can be going 24/7, every minute constantly, while the intended purpose with scheduled tasks is to use them at a set rate but not nearly constantly.

New comment by gbear605 in "Goodbye to Sora"

gbear605 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:09:35 +0000

WSJ is reporting that they're entirely dropping their video gen features.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-set-to-discontinue-sora-v...

> CEO Sam Altman announced the changes to staff on Tuesday, writing that the company would wind down products that use its video models. In addition to the consumer app, OpenAI is also discontinuing a version of Sora for developers and won’t support video functionality inside ChatGPT, either.

New comment by gbear605 in "GitHub is once again down"

gbear605 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:38:51 +0000

Circa 2019, my office had a bell that we would ring whenever GitHub had an outage, and it was rung several times per week.

New comment by gbear605 in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

gbear605 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:14:31 +0000

Hacker News absolutely would be if it was making those requests to random sites that the user doesn’t know about, and have no reason to be making requests to other than attacking them.

I suppose if all the users go on the site intentionally wanting to take part in a DDoS, then sure it’s not a botnet. But that’s not reality.

New comment by gbear605 in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

gbear605 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:06:36 +0000

It is in fact a botnet - they’ve been hijacking user browsers to act as a botnet to DDoS.

New comment by gbear605 in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

gbear605 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:52:10 +0000

You’d have to ask Google

New comment by gbear605 in "Java 26 is here"

gbear605 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:15:39 +0000

My experience has been that developers say that they’ll share types between the frontend and backend, and then in practice they just duplicate it.

New comment by gbear605 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

gbear605 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:32:56 +0000

Traditional translation tools still work, and they're pretty darn good still.

New comment by gbear605 in "19 States approved permanent daylight saving time"

gbear605 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:02:11 +0000

The federal government constrains what states are allowed to do, so it has to be decided at the federal government. AZ and HI got legal exceptions long ago.