Hacker News: joshuacc

New comment by joshuacc in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

joshuacc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:04:59 +0000

You have a specific idea of customer in mind. Likely different than the gp’s. Many types of customers are quite happy to have prototypes thrown at them. Sometimes it’s even contractually required in agency work.

New comment by joshuacc in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

joshuacc — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:23:35 +0000

If someone wants to propose an amendment allowing the feds to do this, they can. They just need to get 2/3rds of both the House and the Senate to approve the proposal and then get 3/4ths of the state legislatures to ratify it.

Not sure why you’re acting like I think changing the law in this way would be a good idea, though.

New comment by joshuacc in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

joshuacc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:38:06 +0000

Sure. But by the text of the constitution (the thing we made up) Congress does not have the power to criminalize “anything,” but only things in specific areas. Everything else is left to state law.

New comment by joshuacc in "Cursor 3"

joshuacc — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:33:18 +0000

Customers aren’t in the habit of paying for things they don’t want.

New comment by joshuacc in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

joshuacc — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:01:56 +0000

These are factors to be considered, not pass/fail questions.

New comment by joshuacc in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

joshuacc — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:45:11 +0000

Nope. Virtually every fast food restaurant has free wifi, to say nothing of public libraries. It’s more common now than it ever was previously.

New comment by joshuacc in "GPT-5.4"

joshuacc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:59:40 +0000

Presumably you don’t anymore if you have 5.4.

New comment by joshuacc in "Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine"

joshuacc — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:19:46 +0000

Codex added skills support recently. It appears to work exactly the same as Claude Code.

New comment by joshuacc in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

joshuacc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:53:39 +0000

Cursor, Copilot, Roo Code, Cline, among others.

New comment by joshuacc in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

joshuacc — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:38:34 +0000

“firing people while turning a profit is 100% bad faith that should be regulated or barred.”

That’s far too broad a claim. Just because you’re turning a profit doesn’t mean you should be locked into keeping all of your employees. Some are likely to be underperformers who don’t bring sufficient ROI compared to other investments/hires you could make.

New comment by joshuacc in "Node.js is able to execute TypeScript files without additional configuration"

joshuacc — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:31:52 +0000

Your expanded version is also incorrect.

New comment by joshuacc in "Australian court finds Apple, Google guilty of being anticompetitive"

joshuacc — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:44:22 +0000

> If it really was "just a complex situation", you would expect equal percentages of simple and complicated cases for regular joes and huge corporations, no?

Obviously not. Regular joes almost always have relatively simple situations relative to multinational corporations, otherwise they wouldn't be regular joes.

New comment by joshuacc in "GPT-5"

joshuacc — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:30:32 +0000

Still relevant, as it means that a coding agent is more likely to get things right without searching. That saves time, money, and improves accuracy of results.

New comment by joshuacc in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

joshuacc — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:14:06 +0000

Citation needed for the idea that zero is the optimal price for public benefit. Among other issues, I expect medication compliance would be higher when the patient has to pay for the medication.

New comment by joshuacc in "Gemini CLI"

joshuacc — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 17:40:24 +0000

I believe they are talking about the OpenAI API, not ChatGPT.

New comment by joshuacc in "How to negotiate your salary package"

joshuacc — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:21:48 +0000

I’ve never provided a number first. I’ve also never been dropped from interviews or negotiations because of that.

I’m an expert in my specialty now, but I wasn’t when I started following Patrick’s advice.

New comment by joshuacc in "How to negotiate your salary package"

joshuacc — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 22:23:14 +0000

I’m not a celebrity or superstar, and I’ve successfully used his techniques several times. The very first time it resulted in $20k improvement over the initial salary offer. Another time it resulted in an additional $40k in signing bonus.

Most recently it resulted in a modest $5k boost to the offered salary.

But the level of success you are likely to experience entirely depends on the alternatives that you have and the alternatives they have.

(I should also note that I’ve never been located anywhere like SF.)

New comment by joshuacc in "As an experienced LLM user, I don't use generative LLMs often"

joshuacc — Tue, 06 May 2025 00:35:28 +0000

I ran into this as well, but now I have given standing instructions for the llm to pull the latest RR docs anytime it needs to work with RR. That has solved the entire issue.

New comment by joshuacc in "Customizable HTML Select"

joshuacc — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 02:01:07 +0000

Why wouldn’t you put your inputs in a form element?

New comment by joshuacc in "Why Children's Books?"

joshuacc — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:41:53 +0000

Have you ever read the books? The main characters are middle class or poor.