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New comment by lkbm in "Claude Corps"

lkbm — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:20:54 +0000

> The entire premise behind AI is that it can amplify (and in some cases) replace human workers. This seems completely backwards to what they're advertising to the enterprise in sales.

idgi. I'm pretty sure this is also exactly what they've been telling enterprise. This has been the line I've been hearing consistently from them (and everyone else).

New comment by lkbm in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

lkbm — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:52:47 +0000

Are you referring how it does a `brew upgrade` when doing a `brew install`? It should tell you how to disable that whenever it happens:

> Adjust how often this is run with `$HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS` or disable with

> `$HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1`. Hide these hints with `$HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS=1` (see `man brew`).

New comment by lkbm in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

lkbm — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:38:06 +0000

Following up with recent news, S&P won't waive the requirements: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/documents/indexnews/announ...

New comment by lkbm in "Can you solve this hw prompt?"

lkbm — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:32:03 +0000

I don't get it. It's asking the student to write a couple essays/journal entries. There's nothing to "solve". You just write.

New comment by lkbm in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2026)"

lkbm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:31:02 +0000

It's kind of weird that I have to install their app on my computer, but recording a short video isn't that big of a deal, IMO.

That said, madiganf: I'd recommend poof-reading that Google Doc in the job posting. There were some malformed sentences. EDIT: Huh, looks like the doc has been edited and the questions themselves have changed a bit. :-)

New comment by lkbm in "What five simple habits can do over 35 years"

lkbm — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:18:25 +0000

I wouldn't consider "low body weight" to be a habit, but nice to know it's valuable.

I feel like these are all pretty much what everyone already believes. It's good to have studies to confirm and quantify the benefits, but it's hardly news that not smoking is healthier than smoking.

New comment by lkbm in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

lkbm — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:58:04 +0000

I think you're right.

Confusingly they reference a 2026 article (which isn't included in their citation list) that allegedly includes "placebo-controlled trial", but I think it might just be [0], which is based on the same single-arm trial. If they do have a paper using a placebo-controlled trial, they should definitely include that citation.

[0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12927926/

New comment by lkbm in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

lkbm — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:18:28 +0000

This is definitely a concern. We've pretty much always been green, but it's hard to police after you leave, and usually we're gone before Temple Burn. (One year two of our camp mates stayed for Temple Burn and they ended up having to pack out two extra bikes that got dumped, in addition to having to deal with multiple people trying to camp in our empty spot. Maybe those people would've been fine, but given that they didn't understand the open camping situation, I'm unsure they understood LNT either.)

New comment by lkbm in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

lkbm — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:54:52 +0000

> If you're getting laid off, the only thing that really matters is the severance package.

I don't think this is true. Humans typically prefer "thanks for the hard work, here's your severance" to "you suck, here's your severance, loser."

Humans like being treated with respect, and words are a big part of that. Money is nice, but it's not the only thing we care about.

New comment by lkbm in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

lkbm — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:19:53 +0000

Location: Marshall NC

Remote: Preferred (some travel is fine)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Typescript/Javascript (React), Postgres, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://resume.lucamasters.com/

Email: luca@lucamasters.com

My primary experience is subscription ecommerce (starting in tech support and moving into fullstack engineering) and fincom. I'm always happy to learn new tech, but I've mostly done Python and JS/TS in the past few years.

New comment by lkbm in "Germany has become the largest ammunition producer in the world"

lkbm — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:56:54 +0000

Because we're not here for Reddit jokes.

New comment by lkbm in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

lkbm — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:38:15 +0000

Yes, but doesn't the token change mean that?

New comment by lkbm in "40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal"

lkbm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:40:53 +0000

> If excess beef consumption were reduced to healthy quantities, as defined by the EAT-Lancet healthy reference diet, and substituted with chicken in forty-eight higher-income countries, the lost calories avoided would be enough to meet the caloric needs of 850 million people.

It's really impressive how efficient chickens are compared to beef. Obviously thinks like legumes are way more efficient, but we've really bred chickens to be meat machines in a way we haven't with cows.

New comment by lkbm in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

lkbm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:01:09 +0000

I've been building a Thunderbird extension that gives me the mail view I want.

So far it's mostly just configuring hotkeys to tag messages, and settings to hide or fold messages by tag, but I can trivially add functions to parse common messages, send things to my todo list, etc. It's great how easily programmable this is. I threw together a "summarize message with Gemma4 on Ollama", and it wasn't useful, but was a quick and easy experiment.

Thunderbird extensions are just Javascript using the Thunderbird API, and Claude knows the API, so it's a super-low barrier to get started on your own personal extension.

New comment by lkbm in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

lkbm — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:54:06 +0000

It doesn't require any technical expertise to set up--you click a button--unless you want to import into something else. I agree it should be more advertised, but I don't see how an open source tool would require less technical knowledge or be better known.

New comment by lkbm in "From Hierarchy to Intelligence"

lkbm — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:02:12 +0000

Non-Twitter version: https://block.xyz/inside/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence

New comment by lkbm in "FFmpeg Is Moving to Rust"

lkbm — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:00:59 +0000

Just a dumb April Fool's joke.

New comment by lkbm in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

lkbm — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:53:23 +0000

Google Takeout[0] seems to have basically everything selected by default, so I don't see a need for another tool.

[0] https://takeout.google.com/

New comment by lkbm in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

lkbm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:36:33 +0000

Update: Maybe the difference is that I think I was just using the vscode extension at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586176

I go back and forth between vscode and claude in the terminal, but that day I think I did vscode.

New comment by lkbm in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

lkbm — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:01:50 +0000

Technically, this was Friday morning, so I think I was still in peak hours.