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New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"

kamikazeturtles — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:08:30 +0000

> In states that allowed online betting, the study reported a 10% increase in the likelihood of bankruptcy and an 8% increase in debt collection amounts — outcomes that tended to appear about two years after the practice was legalized.

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/04/nx-s1-5773354/legal-sports-be...

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Healthcare is driving America's economy"

kamikazeturtles — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:53:18 +0000

https://archive.ph/OYi3c

Healthcare is driving America's economy

kamikazeturtles — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:52:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/6b1bcbab-21d4-49a3-9940-d7550f042e5d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925649

Points: 21

# Comments: 8

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Where did my taxes go?"

kamikazeturtles — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:27:45 +0000

A lot less than those born from the economic prosperity brought from open and protected sea lanes

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Where did my taxes go?"

kamikazeturtles — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:26:38 +0000

I look forward to a website that tells me who to vote for based on my occupation, socioeconomic status, and who will be the most benefit to me

That will be the true death knell of democracy

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

kamikazeturtles — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:35:57 +0000

https://archive.ph/KpOsf

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

kamikazeturtles — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:01:09 +0000

How do you use Claude to admin it? Does Claude SSH into the server and do everything or just write bash scripts?

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Components of a Coding Agent"

kamikazeturtles — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:33:01 +0000

> It doesn't perform on par with Anthropic's models in my experience.

Why do you think that is the case? Is Anthropic's models just better or do they train the models to somehow work better with the harness?

Harness Engineering for Coding Agents

kamikazeturtles — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:24:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/skill-issue-harness-engineering-for-coding-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47541861

Points: 1

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New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

kamikazeturtles — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:00:39 +0000

How does Cursor compare to Claude Code or Codex?

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon"

kamikazeturtles — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:45:58 +0000

Many of the people who had the pagers were doctors, lawyers, bureaucrats...

Maybe I'm wrong, but, I think Hezb0-lla-h is pretty much the "government", especially in southern Lebanon

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic"

kamikazeturtles — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:56:05 +0000

> Having seized the vessel, the navy said it could not be towed back to shore due to poor weather and its fragile construction, and it later sank in the open sea.

Well, they did sink the submarine

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic"

kamikazeturtles — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:54:23 +0000

It's probably very expensive patrolling waters 1000 nautical miles from your shores.

What incentive does Portuguese authorities have to do this, especially considering the cocaine would've likely just been shipped off to buyers in other parts of the EU and not affect Portugal as much

Sequoia Names Alfred Lin and Pat Grady as New Co-Stewards

kamikazeturtles — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:26:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/04/sequoia-names-alfred-lin-and-pat-grady-as-new-co-stewards-as-roelof-botha-steps-down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816575

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "OpenAI Moves to Complete Potentially the Largest Theft in Human History"

kamikazeturtles — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:40:57 +0000

> Also, the largest theft in human history surely has to be the East India Company extracting something like 50 trillion from India over 200 years, right?

I never understood these sorts of statements. I feel historical events maybe after the Victorian age can claim to be theft, otherwise it's just empires and conquest.

Adjusted for inflation, wouldn't Alexander the Great's plundering of Persia, which at the time comprised 40% of the world's population, be the greatest theft in human history, using your logic?

Ups Has Cut 48,000 Workers Since Last Year

kamikazeturtles — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:17:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/business/ups-layoffs-48000-workers-this-year.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45749970

Points: 14

# Comments: 2

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum"

kamikazeturtles — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 17:49:28 +0000

What are the economics of stealing historical jewelry?

Their size is probably big enough that any collector could distinguish them from any random jewels.

Who is there to sell to? The best bet is to store it away then let your great grandkids sell it to some Asian billionaire in the future when Europe and Europol no longer have any power and influence.

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "U.S. military was caught off guard by Israeli strike on Qatar"

kamikazeturtles — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:51:03 +0000

NATO lost its credibility when they didn't back Turkey after a Russian fighter jet violated Turkish airspace and was subsequently shot down.

Or when they pulled out of Afghanistan and the world saw 20 years of occupation unravel within a couple weeks.

Or when they went ahead and destroyed multiple countries without much thought.

At this point, NATO is just a bully with a big stick, whacking people then scurrying back across the pond. As well as a marketplace to force allies to buy and get locked in to the American arms industry.

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20"

kamikazeturtles — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:00:58 +0000

Does any normal person think "AGI" is real?

I thought that was just the marketing strategy execs employed to get regulatory capture and convince all the AGI pilled researchers to work for them

New comment by kamikazeturtles in "Alibaba's new AI chip: Key specifications comparable to H20"

kamikazeturtles — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:56:23 +0000

The Europeans invented the car and Ford mass produced it.

Yet, we see Ford as extremely innovative and revolutionary. I think we can draw lots of parallels between a 19th and early 20th century industrializing US and current China.