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New comment by lancebeet in "Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue"

lancebeet — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:56:13 +0000

You were right to push back. It's not an accurate representation of claude. It's satire.

New comment by lancebeet in "The turbulent AI era is here"

lancebeet — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:53:54 +0000

Today's Bill Gates' pathology isn't greed, but guilt. You can't trust him to do what's best for us, but you can trust him to (try to) do what's best for his public image as a philanthropist. These goals don't always coincide, but they often do.

New comment by lancebeet in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

lancebeet — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:18:43 +0000

I think that "almost everyone" has a multi region cdn, but fewer have multi region application deployment, or cdn workers handling a significant portion of the application logic. My experience here may be incorrect or not generalizable, but I've rarely seen web apps that are slow due to latency loading static resources, but I've often seen slowness from high latency of the API calls and due to large static payloads.

New comment by lancebeet in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"

lancebeet — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:29:18 +0000

Is this the react test framework enzyme? To me, $6 million and 5 years seems like a very high estimate for this even without any automation (AI or otherwise) for even relatively large applications. How could they possibly have a test suite this large?

New comment by lancebeet in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

lancebeet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:40:15 +0000

Well, yes, since long before the current administration. It's mentioned multiple times (with examples) in the European Parliament's "The Echelon Affair" report.[0] But it seems to me that this is not really what you're asking, but rather you're implying that there's no justification for this move other than European protectionism. If this is the case, I would argue that a sitting administration actively threatening with the invasion of your territories is a compelling argument for politicians and business leaders to evaluate alternatives.

[0] https://historicalarchives.europarl.europa.eu/files/live/sit...

New comment by lancebeet in "Show HN: IKEA Complexity Index"

lancebeet — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:49:08 +0000

If you look at the item number and it begins with an s, it means it's a combination of multiple articles. If you click "what's included" you'll see what articles it consists of. The assembly documents will include the assembly documents for each child article. On the top pax, you can see it actually consists of 20 distinct child articles (some of which require no assembly).

New comment by lancebeet in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

lancebeet — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:51:12 +0000

I've never really gotten the impression that Allard or the Örebro party support ethnic cleansing. What makes you say this? I'm not sure if any of their suggested policies would even be considered that controversial outside of Sweden.

New comment by lancebeet in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

lancebeet — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:50:25 +0000

I think his train of thought is "young graduates generally aren't anti-immigration, so if I insinuate they're anti-immigration if they disagree with me they will be convinced by my argument". I don't think we need to read much more than that into it.

New comment by lancebeet in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

lancebeet — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:33:42 +0000

I don't think the mistakes in themselves are damaging. What seems damaging to me is that cf has, on multiple occasions, repeated the same or similar mistakes right after they made major mistakes. This makes it seem like they're not learning from mistakes. Regarding the success of their business model, I can't make a meaningful statement about it, but is that really a convincing argument? If a business is successful, does that automatically mean their product is good?

New comment by lancebeet in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

lancebeet — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:22:54 +0000

I think GPs point is that this is how they're trying to spin it, but they're not explicitly saying it, and there are doubts whether it's actually true. For outside observers it's difficult to simply ignore all the embarrassing outages that cf has experienced recently and just accept that the company has suddenly solved all their issues by using AI and firing people.

New comment by lancebeet in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

lancebeet — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:02:32 +0000

Maybe I expressed myself poorly. Generally, higher speed is associated with higher fatality rates, all else being equal. So, one would assume a highway without speed limits would cause lots of fatalities. Most people would probably be surprised to learn that this is not the case.

New comment by lancebeet in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

lancebeet — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:48:40 +0000

Hm, it's only something like 10% of German traffic fatalities that occur on the autobahn. And according to wikipedia, Germany doesn't rank high in terms of traffic fatalities, even by European standards. France has a similar number of highway deaths. I'm personally not a fan of the autobahn and especially not the unrestricted speed. It seems obvious that it should cause lots of fatalities, but the evidence for it just doesn't seem to be there.

New comment by lancebeet in "Sal Khan's AI revolution hasn't happened yet"

lancebeet — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:43:54 +0000

>In my interactions with my kids public school and their teachers, they're goal is ram content down their throat and test for retention, not foster an environment open to questions

Is that actually true though? Average American students (especially those in the public school system) are not excellent test takers, and they're even worse at rote memorization. If this is actually the goal they're not achieving that either.

New comment by lancebeet in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

lancebeet — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:14:29 +0000

I would "just" do C-B PgUp and then use vi-like movement keys like hj, gg/G etc., and q to escape the pager, but I realize now that I say it that it doesn't sound very convenient or discoverable.

New comment by lancebeet in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

lancebeet — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:14:01 +0000

Sorry, what are you implying here? That people burn lumber from Canada to heat their homes?

New comment by lancebeet in "Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz"

lancebeet — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:02:52 +0000

Blocking them would further increase the global oil price which is probably contrary to the administration's wishes.

New comment by lancebeet in "What 81,000 people want from AI"

lancebeet — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:15:32 +0000

This has to be intentional, right? To reassure people that front-end developers still have a job? The data is interesting but the site itself is a complete embarrassment for several reasons.

New comment by lancebeet in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

lancebeet — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:41:40 +0000

I think what you're describing is what people working with recommender systems call serendipity. Maximizing serendipity, while maintaining relatively high relevance/recommendation success rate, is supposedly a pretty difficult problem to solve. I'm not sure if LLMs have changed that.

New comment by lancebeet in "Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents"

lancebeet — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:50:18 +0000

This will sound snarky, so forgive me, but I honestly don't know the answer. Is this actually true? Is there a reliable source containing statistics on LLM compute usage that includes training vs inference for the whole market?

New comment by lancebeet in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

lancebeet — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:05:18 +0000

You obviously don't believe that AGI is coming in two release cycles, and you also don't seem to have much faith in the new models containing massive improvements over the last ones. So the answer to who is going to pay for these custom chips seems to be you.