<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: jmuguy</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jmuguy</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:29:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jmuguy" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If anyone knows how to get it to stop adding comments, I'm all ears.  Its just getting worse and I'm starting to worry that the comments themselves are poisoning future agents that examine the codebase.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298718</link><dc:creator>jmuguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298718</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I love disaster movies and they ocassionally lean into the idea of traffic being  <i>kind of bad</i> in the event of a disaster.  Deep Impact had a protagonist escaping biblical level tsunamis on a dirt bike.</p>
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<p>I hope its strictly an American fantasy to think you're driving out of anywhere when something like that happens.<p>Buy a bicycle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:47:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285895</link><dc:creator>jmuguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think its just luck of the draw.  I find that the scam calls come in waves.  I'll get several of the same scams, latest being spoofed calls from Google, every day for a week or two and then they'll stop completely for months.  I haven't had any in a while now.  Currently getting a ton of scam SMS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:33:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259939</link><dc:creator>jmuguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "CEO Just Fired 500 People Because He Says Zillow Is More Efficient Without Them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe they were constrained on token budget and so the image model got the shaft.  I did like that apparently you walk in off the street directly into a conference room.  And that one guy carrying a picture of himself.</p>
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<p>I think these same people believe everything they see on TV, unless the thing on TV is something they already knew about.</p>
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<p>This has been the case in several recent reports.  It really ought to put to bed the idea that Trump was somehow going to be "good for business" and bring back manufacturing.  At best all he's done is create a ton of uncertainty, at worst he's actively harmed massive swaths of American businesses with tariffs, war, and gutting the federal workforce and programs that indirectly supported a ton of businesses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:50:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210383</link><dc:creator>jmuguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49210383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To paraphrase Office Space - Why should we change names?  He's the one who sucks.</p>
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<p>Yeah this seems pretty strange to me, I feel like I don't really care about messing around with all the tooling surrounding AI.  I just want to get my actual work done.  When I first moved to VS Code from Sublime Text I think I spent maybe 15 minutes setting up a few extensions like Emmet and then never really thought about it again - because I had actual work to do.   I've just been waiting for all the constant change around AI coding to die down, assuming whatever is best will emerge and then I'll just use that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185573</link><dc:creator>jmuguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This might just be a Firefox thing but the animations are really struggling on my system here - very slow and choppy.</p>
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<p>Its an old something awful thing <a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed" rel="nofollow">https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-is-babby-formed</a></p>
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<p>A big part of messaging for the republican party, for at least as long as I've been alive, has been that criminals are everywhere and constantly doing more and more heinous crimes. So if you don't give the police more and more money and ridiculous unconstitutional authority and military tech, these criminals will come in your house and do all sorts of crimes to you and your family.<p>Its funny to watch them still run on this playbook, even at the exclusion of other more obvious issues.  For instance the current republican campaign for the senate seat in NC is all about crime, while we can literally watch gas prices and everything else go up day by day.</p>
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<p>mothers who kill thier babby. becuse these babbys cant frigth back?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:01:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991780</link><dc:creator>jmuguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah this is where I stopped.  I use AI every day for work but 10k spend to me is a signal that OP is doing something extremely stupid with their AI use.</p>
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<p>Maybe they'll actually do it this time <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_time_observation_in_...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:56:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921813</link><dc:creator>jmuguy</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48921813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jmuguy in "Tell HN: Installing Cursor on iOS irreversibly changes your privacy settings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The mobile app is kind of pointless anyway, imo.  It cannot start an agent session on your computer, it can only be "handed off" an existing session from your computer.  I don't use Cloud Agents, because for some reason they can't connect to our Linear instance.  So I was only interested in using the mobile app as a proxy for my home system.</p>
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<p>There must be someone senior at Apple that still thinks the squircles look good, I dunno how we're still stuck with them.  I haven't made a change to my dock in years and I have to hunt for apps nearly every time I open it.  It doesn't help that a lot of newer apps seeming don't actually have a logo and are just happy with some random circular shaped blob.</p>
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<p>The way remote control works is pretty underwhelming, and I think currently broken.<p>Essentially you need to "hand off" a session started from your computer to the mobile app.  Where as I assumed I would be able to start a session on my home PC from the mobile app, that's not possible.<p>Also when I did the hand off (using /remote-control command in Cursor on my computer) that agent session stopped responding normally on my computer - namely the little suggested "chips"/buttons stopped showing up.</p>
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<p>If you keep each album in its own folder, basically any app will be able to use the MP3 tags to keep things organized for you.  Really even the folders aren't needed, you could just have a huge directory full of every MP3, but that would be annoying to deal with for other reasons.<p>Something like <a href="https://picard.musicbrainz.org/" rel="nofollow">https://picard.musicbrainz.org/</a> can be used if you want to get more complicated.  For instance I like to keep albums in folders per release year.</p>
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<p>You're correct that AI will probably end up producing the majority of music no one cares about.  Like the muzak you hear on elevators.  Or for people that just put on a playlist at work and don't really care much beyond having some background noise.<p>When you're paying attention, and if you actually care about art and music as human expression, then it will matter.  And maybe AI music will still "fool" someone then.  Maybe we'll discover the next Michael Jackson was just prompting their way to the top of the charts.  But that won't really be the point, just like it wasn't the point when everyone discovered that Milli Vanilli were faking it.<p>People don't like liars.  And using AI to generate art is lying.  You didn't make it, the AI that did make it was only possible because it collectively stole from every human musician and artist before it.  You can wrap it up however you like, but at the end of the day its just a lie.<p>And yeah there's some nuance here.  Lets take Milli Vanilli for example.  They were considered frauds because they weren't actually singing on their tracks.  What if they had been singing, but using autotune?  I don't know where you draw the line but for me its somewhere around people who have no appreciation of the amount of effort that goes into producing art that think they can create it whole cloth from a couple of prompts.</p>
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