<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: lacoolj</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lacoolj</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 21:03:21 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lacoolj" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Cursor Camp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Lol Zed > Cursor but this Cursor > Zed</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:51:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957877</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Cursor Camp"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bug report. If i click a book on the phone my pseudo cursor goes away! :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:50:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957871</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Show HN: Smol machines – subsecond coldstart, portable virtual machines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What percentage of this code was written by LLM/AI?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:18:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810675</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810675</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is probably an adjacent result of this (from anthropic launch post):<p>> In Claude Code, we’ve raised the default effort level to xhigh for all plans.<p>Try changing your effort level and see what results you get</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:52:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807949</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807949</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would love more information.<p>What exactly did the request for information say from DHS?  What exactly was the reason for them to look for you specifically (certainly there are many others protesting)?  Following up on that, how do others avoid something like this?  What red flags should be avoided and how?<p>There may or may not be a solid answer for any of this.  But this article feels like it's made for awareness, when it could also be made for action, with the right details included.</p>
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<p>So it's the age of AI.  And this seems like a great new benchmark! Lots of text,  structured but each item a separate "task". Each thing requiring its own new image + textual representation.<p>I copy + pasted the whole article (minus the few included images) and added this prompt in Gemini 3 Pro:<p>> Take each of the following and add an image representing the act being described. The image should be very basic. Think of signs in buildings - exit signs, bathroom door signs, no smoking signs, etc. That style of simplicity. Just simple, flat, elegant vector graphic lines for the chopsticks, hands, bowls, etc.<p>Google Gemini output: <a href="https://gemini.google.com/share/11df1bc53e3d" rel="nofollow">https://gemini.google.com/share/11df1bc53e3d</a><p>I think this is pretty dang good for a one-shot run. I also ran this through Claude Opus 4.6 Extended (doesn't generate images directly, so it made an HTML page and some vector icons).  Not as good as Gemini IMO.  See here if curious: <a href="https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8b6589b3-4da4-4fd5-b862-c1dad5d62955" rel="nofollow">https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/8b6589b3-4da4-4fd5-b862-c...</a><p>Anyone able to do this better with a different prompt or model (or both)?</p>
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<p>> But I think that’s too long. The patent has already served its purpose well, and I believe that holding on to it any longer benefits nobody.<p>Damn dude didn't you pay like ... over $10k for that patent?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:51:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418830</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using Claude for code you use yourself or at your own company internally is one thing, but when you start injecting it into widely-shared projects like this (or, the linux kernel, or Debian, etc) there will always be a lingering feeling of the project being tainted.<p>Just my opinion, probably not a popular one.  But I will be avoiding an upgrade to Node.js after 24.14 for a while if this is becoming an acceptable precedent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:30:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415709</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Owning copyright of something and writing it are very different things</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:22:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415626</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Recursive Problems Benefit from Recursive Solutions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This page is a good example of when Typescript is both unnecessary and off-putting, based on the content's purpose.<p>The author is trying to demonstrate a problem and the proposed solution, using example code that the reader then needs to read, formulate a visual "structure" in their mind, and then apply that structure to the subsequent code.<p>Typescript is not in any way invalid here, and as a tool when programming something that will run in the real-world, can be invaluable.<p>However, when writing anything you want someone to deeply comprehend, you want to use the least amount of text needed to get your point across. Adding types don't serve any purpose here. The types used are generics, which tell you nothing specific, hence the name, and the names given to the functions and object properties are enough to convey what this code is doing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:10:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378092</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47378092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good luck finding a phone with a headphone jack anymore though :(<p>I love my wired headphones though. They support BT but I've used that maybe twice. Ever. Obviously was only because I was using my phone with them, which again don't have a port for the cord.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:39:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377168</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Shall I implement it? No"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you get a support ticket in to Anthropic and post the results here?<p>Would like to see their take on this</p>
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<p>lol yet another pat on their own backs without comparison to other frontier models.<p>Also, the timing of this release, 5.3 and 5.2, relative to the other releases, feels more like a bug fix than something "new"</p>
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<p>Hopefully this has a domino affect across the industry and more companies do this.<p>It really is just a parenting issue at its core.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:42:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278352</link><dc:creator>lacoolj</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lacoolj in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a lawyer.<p>While AI is not a real human, brain, consciousness, soul ... it has evolved enough to "feel" like it is if you talk to it in certain ways.<p>I'm not sure how the law is supposed to handle something like this really.  If a person is deliberately telling someone things in order to get them to hurt themselves, they're guilty of a crime (I would expect maybe third-degree murder/involuntary manslaughter possibly, depending on the evidence and intent, again, not a lawyer these are just guesses).<p>But when a system is given specific inputs and isn't trained not to give specific outputs, it's kind of hard to capture every case like this, no matter how many safe-guards and RI training is done, and even harder to punish someone specific for it.<p>Is it neglect? Or is there malicious intent involved? Google may be on trial for this (unless thrown out or settled), but every provider could potentially be targeted here if there is precedent set.<p>But if that happens, how are providers supposed to respond? The open models are "out there", a snapshot in time - there's no taking them back (they could be taken offline, but that's like condemning a TV show or a book - still going to be circulated somehow). Non-open models can try to help curb this sort of problem actively in new releases, but nothing is going to be perfect.<p>I hope something constructive comes from this rather than a simple finger pointing.<p>Maybe we can get away from natural language processing and go back to more structured inputs.  Limit what can be said and how. I dunno, just writing what comes to mind at this point.<p>Have a good day everyone!</p>
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<p>I wonder if an american company poached one/all of them.  They've been pretty much bleeding edge of open models and would not surprise me if Amazon or Google snatched them up</p>
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<p>OK so now I need someone to take this problem and feed it into Gemini Deep Think or whatever and see if you get the same (or better/worse) outcome.<p>No one cares about ChatGPT so don't bother with that.<p>OK GO</p>
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<p>The examples given in the video about "over-caveating" are more like bug fixes than enhancements to the model.  You don't see those kind of responses on most newer models ("Sure! Let's look at your physics question, but remember - it can't be used for evil, so don't ask!!!")<p>OpenAI, yet again, launching something so it can pat itself on the back.  Just merge with Anthropic and kill ChatGPT.</p>
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<p>lol the iPhone of the laptop world (literally)<p>next year we get the M6 Titanium and then the M7e</p>
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<p>As a few others have noted already - this should just be a website, not a CLI tool.  We can easily enter our CPU, RAM, GPU specs into a form to get this info.</p>
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