<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: johnsmith1840</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=johnsmith1840</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 18:20:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=johnsmith1840" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And the lethal trifecta but I suppose that's all agents as of now anyhow. Every AI provider has major warnings about letting AI have access to PII in the browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:17:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027916</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Text based web browsing? Would love the comparison there. Tons of systems have a dom translation layer. I'm building around this with the concept of turn a webpage into text for an agent to use directly. I actually had to move away from haiku not because of accuracy problems but because it operated the browser too fast for a human to follow what it was doing. The real loss here are bespoke webapps like a figma or google docs which are near impossible to see what they are doing via the dom.<p>To me the browser is a translation layer. Working on the browser directly while hard enables big advantages on compatibility. The only thing I miss as of now which is on the todo is ocr of the images in the browser into text out. But an api would need to do that anyways to work.<p>The main loss in my view of pure API based is, where do you get the data? We won't replicate human work without seeing that done. Humans work in the UI that's it. Computer use to me is the promise of being able to replicate end to end actions a human does. API can do that in theory but the data to do that is also near impossible to collect properly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:03:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027734</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48027734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would have agreed until I went abroad.<p>I distinctly remember seeing the mother and child in a dark stairwell mother thin as a rail sitting on dirt and trash the woman barely lucid baby wailing.<p>Or the old man begging on the corner with one arm clearly starving in nothing but a fabric cloth pants the bones sticking out like nothing I've seen before.<p>Malnutrition by western standards is bs you're either dying or you're not. Most of the world does not live on a balanced diet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:24:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894682</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ok that's understandable and I agree then.<p>We have a real problem of just letting people be homelss forever. If someone's a drug addict here they effectively can stay one forever. Any money they get can go to the drug and all other ammenities are used.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:16:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894615</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47894615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think you've seen starving people if this is your opinion.<p>I have never seen someone in america starving.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:00:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880971</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47880971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Whose the largest oil exporter in the world?<p>US about to be scroogemcducking in oil money</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:33:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853448</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "Anthropic says OpenClaw-style Claude CLI usage is allowed again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like they are scaring off any startup trying to build a product like this before anthropic can ship their own.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:32:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853425</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So, hypothetical.<p>If US lost public support then destroyed all oil and major iranian infra then left what would happen?<p>Think 20 years down the line what that would do.</p>
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<p>Orange man seems to think so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:24:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845263</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>US lost more planes to friendly fire and accidents than the enemy.<p>We've killed more senior leadership than total US deaths in the war.<p>Iran has not killed a single pilot or sailor.<p>That's a generational ass whooping.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:23:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845259</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47845259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pretty sure Iran didn't plan on being obliterated.<p>Why did they have a navy if this was their only plan?<p>Also blocking the straight is funny because the only people it hurts is everyone in the world but the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:54:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843610</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843610</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If US destroys Iran it will be the dominate energy supplier for the next 100 years. Iran will be in shambles for 50 years.<p>If Iran surrenders US will be the dominate energy supplier for the next 30 years. Iran will be in shambles for 10 years.<p>The former would cause a worldwide depression but the clear winner of that is the US by a very large margin. If Iran wants to destroy itself and its neighbors US would be happy with the untold billions that would flow into the country and its energy infra investments in venezuela. All the wealth of middle east would leave and not be reinvested as now it's risky to invest in the ME.<p>Iran has the choice of a deal US likes or to make the middle east a wasteland for Israel to dominate for generations while US grows to a power that is hard to comprehend.<p>The only thing that has to happen for US to win is not surrender to a country with no military whose only threat they can make is to harm everyone else in the world but the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:53:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843232</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47843232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing in the world would have stopped iran launching cheap drones at civilian ships. Article is trying to say F35 is a problem when clearly it's not.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:06:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842888</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So none of them lost on ground in Iran.<p>No US ship was to my knowledge even hit by a drone/missle.<p>Iran has been prepping forever for this with Russian/Chinese equipment.<p>This sounds identical to previous arguments I saw of how hard it would be for US to beat Iran in open conflict. China is different but comparing theoretical ability with reality is different also.<p>The only reality we have as of now is that f35 completely dominated the enemy on every single front. It's insane to see discussions like these when we just witnessed one of histories greatest showcases of technological dominance.<p>There is no technology or method in this conflict that would have changed the current state. If a nation wants to toss cheap drones at you there's basically nothing that can be done. Another example is US blockade, without something that can take an F35 down there is actively nothing Iran or China could do to prevent a complete crippling of their country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:52:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842751</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842751</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47842751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "Ask HN: My ISP is telling my neighbors their slow internet is because of me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's the cost difference of doing this via S3?<p>I don't understand whag thr archive is doing either, why does that mean 14TB upload a month?<p>You could go with a cloud provider that has low to no egress or ingress charges??</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773793</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most cloud features are open source tools with special sauce sprinkeled in. But at the same time these companies heavily fund said OS project so I suppose it's not just pure community based work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:05:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773069</link><dc:creator>johnsmith1840</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by johnsmith1840 in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not a crypto expert but how would that have solved this?<p>1. Make a website
2. Website has trusted code 
3. Code update adds a virus<p>How do your suggestions fix those? Not trying to be dismissive I work on zero trust security perhaps I'm missing something crypto has to offer here?</p>
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<p>Or their ulterior motive is that they don't have one and want to fit in? Meaning they would never diverge?<p>Didn't realize my point was so philisophical lol</p>
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<p>Cool read! Yeah I suppose this is my point AI is the perfect P-zombie here.<p>I was thinking of clear cases like true pychopaths on certain emotions.</p>
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<p>What's the difference. Act upset or is upset the results are the same?<p>Some humans lack certain emotions, them telling you something, and doing something doesn't really matter if they "felt" that emotion?</p>
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