Hacker News: guelo

New comment by guelo in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

guelo — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:23:40 +0000

Because it's happening no matter how much you'd rather ignore it or scoff at it.

New comment by guelo in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

guelo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:59:56 +0000

Network effects and marketing can easily prevent better tools from winning.

New comment by guelo in "The Rational Conclusion of Doomerism Is Violence"

guelo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:20:07 +0000

Jeebuz that was long, I only made it through about half of it. But I think he's calling for cold war nuclear treaties style international cooperation. But I believe those mechanisms are broken and unavailable to us for two main reasons:

1. The Western world and especially the US is in the process of destroying the UN and other institutions of international law in order to protect Israel, for reasons that I have tried and failed to understand because the propaganda around it is so dense.

2. The Supreme Court made bribery of politicians legal so now we have AI investors with actual governmental power. All restraint efforts will be blocked by the federal government at minimum for these next 3 crucial years.

New comment by guelo in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

guelo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:00:57 +0000

Form over function

New comment by guelo in "EFF is leaving X"

guelo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:03:10 +0000

This is a lie, certain powerful elements of the right wing are much more anti free speech.

New comment by guelo in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

guelo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:45:24 +0000

The responsible thing would be to not sell way more subscriptions than their capacity. But they have to show the exponential revenue curves to their investors. I cancelled my subscription yesterday.

New comment by guelo in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

guelo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:13:28 +0000

Well I just canceled my Claude Pro subscription because of the mysterious limits that I don't experience with codex, even after paying for "extra usage". If Anthropic can't figure out their capacity problems they are in trouble.

New comment by guelo in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

guelo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:20:24 +0000

¸That field is called Machine Learning.

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

guelo — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:31:02 +0000

How many tokens does the $20/month buy me? I want to know what those hard token limits are but they refuse to tell me. I'm pretty sure they've reduced those limits the last week but they won't admit it. It feels like a scammy pricing model.

New comment by guelo in "America Is Now a Rogue Superpower"

guelo — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:41:59 +0000

The constitution says the president must "take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed". That means hiring people to enforce the laws, that's the civil servant system.

New comment by guelo in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

guelo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:29:05 +0000

When match was illegally allowed to buy okcupid an then tinder in violation of antitrust laws is when I realized how thoroughly libertarian propaganda has won and is destroying the country. I mean we've now fully legalized gambling and bribery of politicians for the sake of fake freedom. We're cooked.

New comment by guelo in ""Roadrunner": a bipedal, wheeled robot for multi-modal locomotion [video]"

guelo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:04:59 +0000

I believe so. A few billionaires will control giant robot armies and go up against nation states for a while, while poverty and famine rip through the rest of us who will be considered useless. But eventually the machines will get rid of everyone besides maybe a few of us in zoos or as pets.

New comment by guelo in "Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND"

guelo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:07:20 +0000

To get your data deleted in the states that require it you have to submit a photo of yourself which I really don't want to do for a sketchy company with ties to evil billionaire Peter Thiel.

New comment by guelo in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

guelo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:21:55 +0000

That is according to OSI. OSI does not get to dictate the english language.

New comment by guelo in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

guelo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:07:29 +0000

Right. OSI tried to use their authority to make it seem like AWS's strip mining of the open source ecosystem was the moral high ground. HN has a lot of wishful commercial operators who side with AWS. So they use "open source" lower case as a weapon to harass the open source developers. Personally I tend to side with the developers who try to figure out a way to keep their projects viable.

New comment by guelo in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

guelo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 05:38:10 +0000

It is not OSI® Open Source Definition™ approved, but it is open source for the common use of the term.

New comment by guelo in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

guelo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:21:43 +0000

HN always does this, make ridiculous generalizations about the thousands of people that comment on HN.

New comment by guelo in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

guelo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:07:07 +0000

people like directing anger at a "bad guy"

New comment by guelo in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

guelo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:04:43 +0000

> just should not use smartphones and the internet

That's ridiculous. Phones are being made more and more of a requirement to participate in society, including by governments.

New comment by guelo in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

guelo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:11:58 +0000

Who are you to decide what should or should not be?

"proper parental control software" doesn't exist for a lot of the platforms.