Hacker News: kenmacd

New comment by kenmacd in "'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up"

kenmacd — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:26:55 +0000

Have you run your numbers recently because a 20+ year break-even isn't common? I wonder if you have some highly subsidized power or something because most places would be under 10.

New comment by kenmacd in "Francis Fukuyama: The American Right Has Gone Off the Deep End"

kenmacd — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:54:48 +0000

"not a paywall", yeah right.

https://archive.is/C3Usw

New comment by kenmacd in "I built an AI junior trader. It forked its own constitution"

kenmacd — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:48:28 +0000

The writing is so AI-y as to make the otherwise interesting content nearly unreadable.

New comment by kenmacd in "Qwen3.8-Max"

kenmacd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:57:33 +0000

Subscriptions. From some searching I saw a best case if around 600M tokens as a back of a napkin usage on the Anthropic subscription for $200 and at worst 2.6B for glm-5.3 for $120.

The credit system makes it tricky to compare though so I'm curious how you worked them out to be closer. (K3 does seem much closer, I think)

New comment by kenmacd in "Qwen3.8-Max"

kenmacd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:18:03 +0000

I don't know about kimi, but my napkin-math shows that qwen and glm give you at least an order of magnitude more usage than anthropic, and that's before you factor in any off-peak discounts.

New comment by kenmacd in "State of the Map 2026"

kenmacd — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:43:22 +0000

It doesn't for me (although it does include it in parentheses after the real name), so I'm going to hope this is only an 'only in the US' change.

New comment by kenmacd in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

kenmacd — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:25:09 +0000

You are framing this as something they have to do: support it, release documentation, open source it, etc.

It's not. It's something they have to stop doing. Stop adding code that specifically stops third party software from running.

New comment by kenmacd in "New EU-wide product repair rules come into force"

kenmacd — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:14:18 +0000

> Android devices are unlocked

If only that were true. I have a Samsung S20 with 128gb storage and a adequate battery that is ewaste because of the locked bootloader and now permanently vulnerable kernel.

Not disagreeing with your premise (the same should be done with ISPs — own the connection or the wires, but not both). I'd just take the "hard" install with fewer features over what we have now.

New comment by kenmacd in "Firefox Containers Preview"

kenmacd — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:48:26 +0000

Huh, I'd been using this through Sidebery for so long I thought it was a built in feature.

New comment by kenmacd in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

kenmacd — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:57:05 +0000

Learning this has also changed my life, but maybe not for the better. Now every time I see someone I know and their shoes are tied in a granny knot I have to waste a bunch of calories deciding if they'd appreciate me telling them.

New comment by kenmacd in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

kenmacd — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:42:48 +0000

Have you moved it anywhere else? I checked codeberg and didn't see it there.

New comment by kenmacd in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

kenmacd — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:17:26 +0000

Watch the video. They worked around this by selling lego sets to 10 different people (as it was still owned by the lego owner), then the 10 different people all opened separate $10k suits, which they all won.

Then corporate shut down the location to avoid paying the suits they lost.

New comment by kenmacd in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

kenmacd — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:11:10 +0000

Not true of non-US companies. I had also added money to Deepseek, and it was still there (and Z.ai and Moonshot are the same). I'm reasonable though, if it's been 5 years or something I might have understood, but it was 1 year and the account was in use during that time.

Where I live (in Canada) it's actually illegal for gift cards to ever expire, and there's lots available from US companies, so if it's an accounting issue other companies have figured it out.

New comment by kenmacd in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

kenmacd — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:04:12 +0000

> scamming from the literal money

That's par the course for Anthropic. I added some money to my account before I really had a use case for product. A year later they said my money had expired and when I contacted support they basically told me to pound sand.

This while they have the audacity to list one of their corporate values as 'Be good to our users'. They'll never get another dollar from me.

New comment by kenmacd in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

kenmacd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:28:47 +0000

There's a 5 hour difference between the replies, and new data that came in, so the posts aren't really in conflict.

Also it doesn't sound like they know "there's a model issue", so opening it now would be premature. Maybe they just read it wrong, do better to let a few others verify first, then reopen.

New comment by kenmacd in "Running Gemma 4 locally with LM Studio's new headless CLI and Claude Code"

kenmacd — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:45:46 +0000

not to use the cli tool. You can install it and change the settings to point to pretty much any other model.

It's an okay-enough tool, but I don't see a lot of point in using it when open sources tools like Pi and OpenCode exist (or octofriend, or forge, or droid, etc).

New comment by kenmacd in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

kenmacd — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:34:23 +0000

@eieio: whatever email protection you're running is triggering on the extension info. For example I see:

> And they’re sent to servers that advertise the availability of the [email protected] extension. What if we just…don’t advertise [email protected]?

New comment by kenmacd in "UniFi 5G"

kenmacd — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:12:12 +0000

If you avoid Chinese-branded devices you should doubly avoid US-branded devices. See National Security Letters and Room 641A as a small subset of why.

New comment by kenmacd in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"

kenmacd — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:21:48 +0000

There are systems (like the sanco2) that use an indoor/outdoor pump.

> This sounds terrible for efficiency in winter, as you will need to reheat the room

Sure, but lots of people have some point of the year they want cooling.

Even during the heating season it's only worse if you're heating the living space with something _worse_ than what you're using to heat the hot water. If you have a heat pump for room heat then you're moving heat from outside, to in the house, to in the water heater.

If you're heating the room with electric then in the winter it's no different than using an electric water heater (100% efficient).

New comment by kenmacd in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"

kenmacd — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:14:16 +0000

> If I’m gone on a trip for 2 weeks my hot water bill is zero

You mention other advantages, but money isn't one. You're limited to 100% efficiency with tankless.

Although an idle hot water tank can waste ~70W (~1.7kWh) of power, this is way more than made up for by using a heat pump. Plus tankless strains the grid a lot more than any system with a buffer built in.