Hacker News: impure

New comment by impure in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""

impure — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:47:02 +0000

If you had any doubts about digital sovereignty or leaving the USD movements...

New comment by impure in "Nebula Sans"

impure — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:24:41 +0000

What is going on with the kerning in ‘print’? Yuck.

New comment by impure in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

impure — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:15:30 +0000

What's with all the birds? Also I like A the best. It's very modern.

New comment by impure in "US gas prices hit an average of $4 a gallon again"

impure — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:59:35 +0000

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Also will be interesting what happens when the SPR runs out.

New comment by impure in "Do LLMs pass the mirror test?"

impure — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:43:52 +0000

For my AI Agent it sometimes detects if I manually modified the file contents or git state. And it always assumes it must have made a mistake. It's sort of annoying actually.

New comment by impure in "AI Coding at Home Without Going Broke"

impure — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:18:45 +0000

I recently made an AI Agent and surprisingly coding with DeepSeek V4 Flash is quite cheap. It probably has to do with the aggressive prompt caching. I'm using OpenRouter with Novita AI as the preferred provider.

New comment by impure in "Open source AI must win"

impure — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:38:16 +0000

Not to be that guy, but the correct term is Open Weight LLM. And I’d argue it already has. Many open models are already very competitive with closed models at a fraction of the cost.

New comment by impure in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

impure — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:41:53 +0000

No, the new method of inflation that Kevin Warsh likes is the trimmed mean which is 2.8%.

New comment by impure in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

impure — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:30:27 +0000

First of all the May jobs report was mostly in temporary workers possibly due to the World Cup. Second as already noted the jobs are mostly in healthcare. Third job openings does not equal employment. These numbers have been diverging for a while likely due to people holding multiple jobs. Also I believe the evidence suggests the job crisis is due to WFH and not AI https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326721

New comment by impure in "They are looting your life savings"

impure — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:05:59 +0000

They’d have to keep this up for 12 months which is not guaranteed as you have to factor in hardware depreciation and other costs. Also they’d have to issue more shares to get over the liquidity requirement. And looting may be too strong of a word. They are nudging your returns down a little bit. Although SpaceX could go up too, crazier things have happened.

New comment by impure in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

impure — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:06:09 +0000

Good thing they're not dropping the profitability requirements. Ed Zitron would be proud.

New comment by impure in "SpaceX, Other Mega IPOs Denied Fast Index Entry by S&P"

impure — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:00:23 +0000

They have to be rebalanced every quarter regardless. And I'm not sure how many people would actually sell due to the inclusion of a single company. They're very loud about it, but no evidence that this is causing a significant amount of selling.

New comment by impure in "Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?"

impure — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:29:14 +0000

Steve Jobs famously said, "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think." Not sure if it is true, but programming definitely has applicability to other things. Programming is just a list of instructions if you think about it.

AI coding tools are great but they are restricted in what they can do. They still result in incredibly hacky solutions. They still litter your code with security vulnerabilities. And they still fall into loops of trying to do things the hard way, possibly failing, and burning your API tokens. I've been hearing about these problems since people started coding with AI and nothing has improved. You will always need a programmer, especially if you plan on maintaining and updating your code.

Plus AI is a wonderful learning tool. You don't have to scour the internet for a solution to your problem only to find someone who asked the same question, resolved it, and never explained how. You can just ask your AI tool.

I am very skeptical about the AI replacing programmers hype. Sure, there are a lot of AI-coded apps but there were always a lot of apps. Discovery on the app store has been a problem for a while now and I don't really see AI changing things much. It might even result in more programmers as programmers need to come in and fix all this AI slop code.

New comment by impure in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

impure — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:40:30 +0000

Oh no, not Rsync. I guess that's one good thing about MacOS shipping with an ancient version of rsync. Oh, wait, they ship openrsync now, but the command is still called rsync.

New comment by impure in "My Favorite Bugs: Invalid Surrogate Pairs"

impure — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:42:34 +0000

I had an emoji cut in half problem in Dart. I was a bit surprised because I thought substring operations worked on characters. It only caused an invalid Unicode symbol though so not too bad.

New comment by impure in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

impure — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:32:16 +0000

People want to believe this war will end soon.

New comment by impure in "PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading"

impure — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:00:48 +0000

There are readers with a 'full text mode' which will fetch the website and display it in something like Mozilla's Readability view. It does not always work, especially if the page is paywalled but it works for most sites.

New comment by impure in "US national debt surges past $39 Trillion"

impure — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:07:33 +0000

Apparently the debt is keeping the Fed from raising interest rates as much as they did in 1979 when a similar crisis happened. Raising interest rates would increase the debt servicing costs pushing the US into a debt crisis.

New comment by impure in "US national debt surges past $39 Trillion"

impure — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:05:37 +0000

If Elon Musk hadn't sacked those government workers it would probably be less than 39 trillion as he had to pay termination packages and hire back people he accidentally fired.

New comment by impure in "UMD Scientists Create 'Smart Underwear' to Measure Human Flatulence"

impure — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:58:22 +0000

32 a day!?! I guess I’m not that abnormal after all then.