<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: ifwinterco</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ifwinterco</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 08:47:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ifwinterco" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes I think salaries are still a bit lower, but the gap has closed a lot. And cost of living is lower in Poland plus there is some tax break for self employed contractors that means you only pay ~20% tax compared to ~40% in the UK.<p>With those two factors you could easily end up better off overall, especially if you have kids</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 07:16:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059751</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure when it was formally banned but my dad talks about boys in his school getting "slippered" and that was in the 60s, so caning was gone but you could still hit kids with slightly less painful objects.<p>And throwing the heavy wooden blackboard rubber at boys who were goofing around or not listening was also considered completely normal</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 06:30:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059398</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very regional as well, Eastern europe is supposedly doing well, western europe (UK/NL) is doing alright, north america seems significantly worse</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 06:24:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059343</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059343</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48059343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The lesson from the British empire is it's a slow process, death by a thousand cuts.<p>"There is a great deal of ruin in a nation" and all that.<p>We'll be watching it for the rest of our lives, mostly in slow motion with occasional rapid periods of decline like the one at the moment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 14:17:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049795</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049795</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's more evidence if any was needed that the US is now definitively in a late imperial phase of decline - US elites have become corrupt. This is classic decline of empire stuff.<p>So no you can't stop it, but knowing that does at least let you make decisions with more clarity in your own life</p>
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<p>Ah yeah I forgot about decorators - I’ve worked with angular before but clearly I managed to erase all knowledge of it from my brain.<p>Outside of that I’ve barely seen them used in typescript, they’re not really idiomatic in react projects</p>
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<p>Isn't that mostly just enums?<p>Is there anything else that doesn't run as valid JS if you strip the types (and maybe some other extra keywords)out?<p>Genuine question, in my head there's not much, but TS has a few weird corners I maybe haven't used</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:12:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013524</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013524</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My point is not that unfiltered coffee is good, I’m just saying that northern italians who eat dessert for breakfast, cook everything in lard, drink unfiltered coffee and even (gasp) sometimes smoke cigarettes are significantly healthier than Americans on every metric.<p>Not saying those things are necessarily good for you, I’m just saying we don’t seem to understand this stuff very well</p>
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<p>Which is why Italians and Greeks famously all die young of heart disease</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 18:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999673</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47999673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Software engineering is one thing but if you look 10-20 years into the future and everyone can run models equivalent to today's SoTA locally with zero monitoring or censorship, that could... not be good.<p>Some people will use them responsibly but a lot of people will not.<p>LLMs are already frying some people's brains and there are some human desires that should not be encouraged</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:21:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996223</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996223</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Biggest issue with Opus for me is not so much that it's expensive (though it is), but the fact it's slow especially during US working hours.<p>I prefer using slightly worse but significantly quicker models on a tighter leash and iterating faster, feels more productive</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 12:16:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996177</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996177</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep, also in my experience for some reason British people have a hard time understanding why this might be considered hostile from the people being bombed from our soil.<p>Even when given the example of roles reversed and asked how they would feel about France or Ireland if Russia had air bases in those countries they were using to bomb London, people just can’t see the issue.<p>In a sense we’re still under American occupation 80 years later, not just physically but more importantly in our minds</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 05:14:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983523</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983523</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>UK has been trying to thread the needle of staying out of what is obviously a complete cluster** of a war while also not annoying the US too much, but US bombers are taking off from air force bases in the UK to bomb Iran all the time.<p>Because of that and the general ingrained hostility of the permanent UK security state to Iran, they view us as a legitimate target albeit not a particularly important one because we’re just not that powerful anymore</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:13:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978069</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Almost universal" is a bit of a stretch, most of the time these days Python apps are deployed as Docker containers, and if you're using k8s this becomes effectively mandatory.<p>However a lot of the time especially for older codebases the docker build will just run pip install from public pypi without a proper lockfile.<p>So at least install code isn't being executed on your production machine, but still significant surface area for supply chain attacks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 05:44:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971619</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47971619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I strongly dislike all of these companies (and the people who run them), and I don't love LLMs in general, although I use them every day because they are useful for my job.<p>But the simple fact is, if you're paying $20/mo and using $200/mo of tokens, that is not going to last forever.<p>The only way to make it last a bit longer for the people with relatively sane usage patterns is to try and stop people absolutely taking the piss</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:27:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966421</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right, didn't read that properly. Okay then that actually makes sense if that's a (relatively) deterministic way to work out if openclaw is used</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:23:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966371</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At this point everyone doing these kind of flows (using claws or any other flows that run agents in a loop 24/7) using any kind of subscription-based billing for inference must be aware they're on borrowed time.<p>Enough people have gone over the economics - you're costing OpenAI/Anthropic money, potentially a lot of money, so it's inevitable that sooner or later that particular party will come to an end.<p>Having said that, doing it by running a regex on your prompts to look for keywords is a bit loose</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:49:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965948</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965948</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47965948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "Where the goblins came from"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also for coding: I often use prompts like "follow the structure of this existing feature as closely as possible".<p>This works and models generally follow it but it has a noticeable side effect: both codex and Claude will completely stop suggesting any refactors of the existing code at all with this in the prompt, even small ones that are sensible and necessary for the new code to work. Instead they start proposing messy hacks to get the new code to conform exactly to the old one</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:18:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959287</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959287</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47959287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Optimum meal timing in particular I believe is heavily influenced by genes - I have friends who never eat breakfast, survive on black coffee until 1PM, then eat a lot in the evening and feel good doing it. If I do that I feel terrible.<p>So yes eat 2g/kg protein but the best way to time that in terms of meals, best specific foods to eat etc is definitely influenced by your genes</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:23:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954907</link><dc:creator>ifwinterco</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ifwinterco in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair this is a reflection of the general state of nutritional science and the actual answer seems to be "it depends on your genes".<p>Some people do well on 6 small meals, others do well on no breakfast and two large ones. Studies can't tell you anything useful about that, you have to experiment and find out what works best for you</p>
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