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New comment by joshrw in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

joshrw — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:54:13 +0000

The GPT-4 demo. Taking a screenshot of handwritten instructions to build a website, along with a drawing of what the website should look like. Then ChatGPT spit out a working prototype.

Also the live video mode demo later that year.

Then the agentic coding breakthrough in Nov/Dec 2025.

New comment by joshrw in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

joshrw — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:50:01 +0000

That’s not what that quote means. It means even if your portfolio is down you should keep buying.

New comment by joshrw in "Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones"

joshrw — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:09:38 +0000

“Bug”. More like a “bugdoor”

New comment by joshrw in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

joshrw — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:56:44 +0000

Terrible article. The real Satoshi is Nick Szabo and no one else is even close. Hal Finney, Wei Dai, etc. New York Times’ quality has really gone downhill.

New comment by joshrw in "Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands"

joshrw — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:23:56 +0000

Hello, have you heard of the Snowden revelations? What OP was referring to are called bugdoors.

New comment by joshrw in "Iran War Cost Tracker"

joshrw — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:56:49 +0000

Doublespeak

New comment by joshrw in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

joshrw — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:27:06 +0000

Then it needs to do context compacting, otherwise the results become garbage

New comment by joshrw in "GitHub having issues [resolved]"

joshrw — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:14:36 +0000

Happening very often lately

New comment by joshrw in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

joshrw — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:30:14 +0000

Weapons of mass destruction, as usual.

New comment by joshrw in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

joshrw — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:29:40 +0000

Always have been.

New comment by joshrw in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

joshrw — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 11:34:43 +0000

I prefer using a VPS instead of an old laptop. 2 improvements I’d recommend:

1. Use tmux to keep sessions alive

2. Launch Claude Code using the —-dangerously-skip-permissions flag to avoid annoying pauses in execution

It’s like having a team of full-time interns running in the cloud building your software

New comment by joshrw in "Ask HN: If you live in a stripe unsupported country – how do you accept payments"

joshrw — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 14:29:05 +0000

There's always Stripe Atlas, which would give you a US-based business Stripe account, but for solopreneurs I'd recommend Paddle or Gumroad.

New comment by joshrw in "Canada to make online hate speech a crime punishable by fine"

joshrw — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 13:40:10 +0000

The chilling effects it will have on free speech should not be discounted, though. Despite the patchy enforcement and relatively small fines, people will self-censor rather than risk saying anything "illegal".

New comment by joshrw in ".org doesn't mean credible"

joshrw — Tue, 04 May 2021 09:50:34 +0000

They actually do a bit further down the page: http://dotorgdoesntmeancredible.org/misguidedinstruction.htm...