<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: harles</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=harles</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:57:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=harles" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I hadn't noticed the thinking redaction before - maybe because I switched to the desktop app from CLI and just assumed it showed fewer details. This is the most concerning part. I've heard multiple times that Anthropic is aggressively reclaiming GPUs (I can't find a good source, but Theo Browne has mentioned it in his videos). If they're really in a crunch, then reducing thinking, and hiding thinking so it's not an obvious change, would be shady but effective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:47:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663390</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663390</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s become a core expectation at work now (Meta). If I’m not actively using it, then I’ll be significantly dinged in performance reviews. Honestly, it’s forced me to consider going to work elsewhere.<p>It does _feel_ like the value and happiness will come some versions down the road when I can actually focus on orchestration, and not just bang my head on the table. That’s the main thing that keeps me from just removing it all in personal projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:37:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558997</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558997</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> But it feels like we all need to try and use it anyway just in case we're going to be obsolete without it somehow.<p>I feel this exactly. I’ve been one of the biggest champions of the tech in my org in spite of the frequent pain I feel from it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:29:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558894</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>~20 years working in tech for me, mostly big companies, and I’ve never been more miserable. I also can’t stop myself from using Claude Code and the like.<p>I think it’s a bit like a gambling addiction. I’m riding high the few times it pays off, but most of the time it feels like it’s just on the edge of paying off (working) and surely the next prompt will push it over the edge.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:05:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558581</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558581</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46558581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Linux is good now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see not being able to install invasive kernel level anti-cheat as a positive. I uninstalled all Riot games before they rolled it out. I would’ve been pretty miffed if I had accidentally gotten their kernel modules simply because I wasn’t reading tech news before the auto update.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:50:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461536</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46461536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Deep Think is TBD. Maybe. So far I like it better than GPT 5.1 Pro, but that came after the initial purchase. I likely won’t renew at this tier.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:31:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101565</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are some clear objective signals that aren’t just user preference. I shelled out the $250 for Gemini’s top tier and am profoundly disappointed. I had forgotten that loops were still a thing. I’ve hit this multiple times in Gemini CLI, and in different projects. It gets stuck in a loop (as in the exact same, usually nonsense, message over and over) and the automated loop detection stops the whole operation. It also stops in the middle of an operation very frequently. I don’t hit either of these in Claude Code or Codex.<p>There certainly is some user preference, but the deal breakers are flat out shortcomings that other tools solved (in AI terms) long ago. I haven’t dealt with agent loops since March with any other tool.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:45:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064091</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46064091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Nano Banana Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s a pretty uncharitable take. Given the scale of their recent launches and amount of compute to make them work, it seems incredibly smooth. Edge cases always arise, and all the company/teams can really do is be responsive - which is exactly why I see happening.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:01:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998431</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998431</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The arbitrary ban on THC<p>You clearly haven’t read either the original law or this one.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:17:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922414</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45922414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It is mostly about shifting profits from mom and pop, low regulation hemp industry to wealthy corporations that own dispensaries that have gargantuan regulatory costs that gatekeep out most the competition.<p>That’s a big assertion that needs evidence. I’m strongly in favor of legalization but not deregulation. It was a pretty big loophole that allowed what’s essentially weed to sidestep the regulation their competitors faced - and there wasn’t great consumer awareness about the differences even though there were safety implications: <a href="https://drexel.edu/cannabis-research/research/research-highlights/2022/August/hemp-derived-cbd-thc-products-mislabeled/" rel="nofollow">https://drexel.edu/cannabis-research/research/research-highl...</a><p>This law seems pretty well targeted in its scope, bringing the 2018 law back to what was intended (easy legal CBD/hemp, as long as there aren’t other things in there).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:03:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920502</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920502</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AT&T is pretty bad in its own way. They snoop DNS and to sell your info (including physical address) to advertisers - even if you switch your DNS providers. They used to had a paid opt out (~$20/mo IIRC) but I don’t see that option anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:33:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44428648</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44428648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44428648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This reply seems to miss the question, or at least doesn’t answer it clearly. Is this service overly tolerant of mispronunciations? Foundational models are becoming more tolerant, not less, over time which is the opposite of what I’d want in this case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:28:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389981</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44389981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Migrating away from Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve found such changes can actually be a draw at first. “Hey look, progress and activity!”. Doubly so as a primarily C++ dev frustrated with legacy choices in stl. But as you and others point out, living with these changes is a huge pain.</p>
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<p>It’s definitely not a transaction. Every time I’ve seen push come to shove, companies prioritize the folks they see as critical to their company’s success with loyalty not even being a small factor. And if it’s a moderate to large sized company, many of the decisions will be made by a consulting firm with 0 context (or care) for loyalty.</p>
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<p>That could explain compute efficiency, but has nothing to do with the parameter efficiency pointed at in the paper.</p>
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<p>I love that “in mice” is in the title (both on HN and in the original article). It seems like a promising result and I really appreciate them not over hyping it.</p>
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<p>I’m surprised as well. I start my day off with a half hour of video game news everyday (Spawn Wave + other sources) and hadn’t heard a peep about this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121969</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121969</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>An indie studio building not only its own engine but its own language to make its own engine seems like a huge mistake.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:30:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121896</link><dc:creator>harles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121896</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41121896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by harles in "USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except it was the government agency that violated their agreements by providing this data. At least Facebook, based on their response, specifically put in the agreement that this sort of data should never be provided. It seems like the proposal of consequences flows the wrong way here.</p>
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<p>GPL is tricky at the best of times to enforce. Onyx, makers of Boox, was called out on this years ago (sorry I couldn’t find a single concise source to link to) and hasn’t faced any consequences. I doubt Rabbit will get in trouble for this.</p>
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