Hacker News: itemize123

New comment by itemize123 in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

itemize123 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:01:09 +0000

are you sure other forms of language to express urgency doesn't work as well or better?

New comment by itemize123 in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

itemize123 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:04:16 +0000

yes speech to text exists

New comment by itemize123 in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

itemize123 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:42:19 +0000

if it's not broken then we trust the assertion that it's broken. if it's broken then it's broken.

it's analysis of what is broken is probably wrong or at least incomplete though

New comment by itemize123 in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

itemize123 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:38:38 +0000

and yet we're black box too

New comment by itemize123 in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

itemize123 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:23:04 +0000

you find that pay-per-use API's degraded too?

New comment by itemize123 in "Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat"

itemize123 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:35:34 +0000

if he's in competition for a job with them, probably yes.

New comment by itemize123 in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

itemize123 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:10:09 +0000

it does seem the user wants a conditional variable.

For locking I am guessing they want multithreading, each with an event loop.

New comment by itemize123 in "Are the Mysteries of Quantum Mechanics Beginning to Dissolve?"

itemize123 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:46:07 +0000

it's not complexity but lack of training data right

New comment by itemize123 in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

itemize123 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:36:47 +0000

but we've been doing the same without llm. what're the new pieces which llm would bring in?

New comment by itemize123 in "Operational issue – Multiple services (UAE)"

itemize123 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:33:45 +0000

so they self-destruct to force better terms of negotiation.

New comment by itemize123 in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

itemize123 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:13:28 +0000

he would make 10 times more if he's a supermodel of same caliber.

New comment by itemize123 in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

itemize123 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:43:28 +0000

yet those flaws didn't matter. qualitative right. quantitative wrong.

New comment by itemize123 in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

itemize123 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:11:13 +0000

no, more precisely, they can actively think about it and still believe it's not an issue. For example they can justify that the migrant workers are given a choice etc or it's better than some of their alternative.

New comment by itemize123 in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

itemize123 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:57:18 +0000

dont think this hold much water at all.

New comment by itemize123 in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

itemize123 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:44:32 +0000

we are. you can check the APP STORE release yoy. it's skyrocketing.

New comment by itemize123 in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

itemize123 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:20:25 +0000

this is almost entirely orthogonal. you can use cpf for private, non-99year lease housing too.

New comment by itemize123 in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

itemize123 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:32:04 +0000

not everyone has the same ethics or even subscribes to that

New comment by itemize123 in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

itemize123 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:46:10 +0000

so the country can be productive? so it can have resources to fulfil duties to citizens?

New comment by itemize123 in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

itemize123 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:42:04 +0000

Not true. Importantly, a majority of the cpf can be used for participating in stock market.

New comment by itemize123 in "The Codex App"

itemize123 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:17:48 +0000

i think you've to be more nuanced here - perf becomes important only on the extreme. i think there are compromises to be made between perf and go-to-market.