Hacker News: liamwire

New comment by liamwire in "Message your other Claude Code sessions"

liamwire — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:23:20 +0000

Does your terminal emulator not support bells/notifications? If it does, Claude Code (and albeit without checking surely Codex too) supports them natively.

New comment by liamwire in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

liamwire — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:31:20 +0000

I'm grateful that this is possible via Up bank here in Australia. Webhooks push the data through a free-tier Worker on Cloudflare and into YNAB within a second of the transaction going through. Full updates across pending/cleared and deleted transactions too. I’ve had this running for 18 months now and it's been a dream.

New comment by liamwire in "Qwen 3.8"

liamwire — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:18:26 +0000

I like the comparison, but I'm not sure it holds. What did it cost him to develop beyond intangibles such as his time and money forgone? Because the latter especially is not equivalent to upfront capex and opex costs that preempt any ability to be charitable. Genuinely asking, but I'd be hard pressed to think it's even within the same magnitude.

New comment by liamwire in "Better and Cheaper Than IPTV"

liamwire — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:16:12 +0000

This is fantastic, as others have said. Could you talk a bit about how it's so wonderfully fast?

New comment by liamwire in "FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill"

liamwire — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:07:25 +0000

It's articles such as this that truly make me sit back and marvel at our species. What an incredible accomplishment.

New comment by liamwire in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

liamwire — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:47:25 +0000

We were doing LTSC for Windows 10 years back as well, so I'm genuinely curious about any resources on this. We're very by-the-book and I'd be incredibly shocked to find we're actually in violation of any laws/ToS.

New comment by liamwire in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

liamwire — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:05:27 +0000

I couldn't disagree more. In a fight for existential survival, repelling an invader at any cost constitutes a win. It may almost be pyrrhic in the end, but deterrence is invaluable.

Not to lose sight of the very real cost, down to every man and family destroyed. Many may even argue that life under subjugation is still at least life. But many more have walked the walk into the fire, in defiance of that notion. I see no way of arguing the opinions of the living outweigh those of the dead when it comes to opinions on what's worth fighting for.

I would add that this isn't advocating for blindly and endlessly throwing meat into the meat grinder. But to the extent that a country tells you, not from the top down but from the men on the very frontlines of war, that they're willing to die, to win... I'd say believe them when they say they understand the costs, and yet consider it a win not in spite of those costs, but in the face of them, defiantly.

New comment by liamwire in "The UK's Latest "Debanking" Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause"

liamwire — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:25:31 +0000

This makes me incredibly grateful for having a regulator with teeth in Australia. AFCA very recently awarded me (well, my mum whom I was helping) $1,000 with very little work due to Bank of Queensland temporarily locking an account.

New comment by liamwire in "Microsoft Needs Windows Lite"

liamwire — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:32:10 +0000

Seconding the correction that LTSC is not restricted to hardware OEMs. I work for a multinational construction materials company and we image LTSC machines day in day out.

New comment by liamwire in "Siri AI"

liamwire — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:57:48 +0000

I tried this on the iOS 27 beta with Siri AI and it worked, to an approximation. It'll take 5 minutes from the original timer just fine, but not from the remaining time no matter which way I phrase it. Still, a massive improvement in my eyes.

New comment by liamwire in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

liamwire — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:17:20 +0000

Dr. Richard Scolyer was at the forefront of this, and died only recently after a long battle against brain cancer at 59. His open letter is well worth the read.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-08/professor-richard-sco...

New comment by liamwire in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

liamwire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:48:22 +0000

Come on, a problem nobody really had? I wholeheartedly disagree. Data loss and the orthogonal problem of lacking free space on computers is/was a massive problem at enterprise scale and OneDrive, for all its many shortcomings, is well and truly into good-enough territory to cover the 80% case. I'd go so far as to argue that the scenario you've described is by far the less frequent one. And if it frustrates you, you're afforded the ability to designate files and entire folders to be kept downloaded at all times anyway.

New comment by liamwire in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

liamwire — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:58:30 +0000

Find your criticisms of others and, if valid, air them. But surely, don't expect others to be silent in the face of harmful and terrible voices.

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

liamwire — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:53:37 +0000

Your alternative is that the contract was forged. Something easily falsifiable in court and absolutely devastating to any case brought, not to mention any follow-on charges that may result. Is that what you're putting forward?

New comment by liamwire in "Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored"

liamwire — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:34:25 +0000

If your enemy can kill you with impunity, you are in fact, threatened.

New comment by liamwire in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

liamwire — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:50:47 +0000

My god, man. Go read the HN guidelines, this method of communication isn't only insufferable to read, but is actively making this place worse to be a participant of.

New comment by liamwire in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

liamwire — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:38:39 +0000

What? Many celebrities are so specifically because they're impressive. Athletes and musicians being the two most obvious examples.

New comment by liamwire in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

liamwire — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:32:08 +0000

HN guidelines strongly encourage me not calling you an asinine twat, so I won't do that. As your other reply highlighted, no one's arguing thermodynamics with you. It's clearly a behavioural phenomenon, and one that isn't half as well understood as we may like to believe. It's at the intersection of advertising, biology, dietetics, economics, genetics, neuroscience, nutrition, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, the disciplines go on. Consider all the myriad ways those factors may interact and compound, then look at the statistics: that the overwhelming majority of adults fail to lose significant weight long term through "eat less" should tell you all you need to know about the state of the problem. If your conclusion is as simple as "they mustn't have considered to put the fork down and try harder, en masse," I feel it says more about you than anything else.

New comment by liamwire in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

liamwire — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:26:58 +0000

You had me at spinning rat cursor

New comment by liamwire in ""openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn"

liamwire — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:51:52 +0000

Scott & Tomoko's site, the former tiktok.com, was particularly touching as a time capsule of the pre-9/11 world. I wonder where, and who, they are now, if they are at all.