<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: ltbarcly3</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ltbarcly3</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:13:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ltbarcly3" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's amazing how humble someone can pretend to be a couple days after the top investigative journalist in the country (maybe world) exposes them as a sociopath and there is an attempt to assassinate them.<p>What I would not do if there were attempts to kill me is post a picture of my spouse and child and point out how important they are to me with a photograph of them.  It's literally trading a little bit of the safety of your family in exchange for sympathy from bystanders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:23:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726265</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726265</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"We are going to spend $17M and have nothing to show for it"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:41:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715649</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yea this is a stupid idea.  Old laptops don't have good performance per watt compared to new servers once you factor in that they are many many times slower.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:47:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712617</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "Microsoft PhotoDNA scanning problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why does he keep using that picture?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712612</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712612</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their competitors caught up after about 3 years though.  Gemini 2.5 was more or less awful vs even GPT 3/4.  Models have more than one measure of quality so they don't cleanly totally order, but Gemini 2.5 was awful.  Gemini 3.1 is better than GPT 5.3 and competitive with 5.4 and preceded it by months.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:26:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609301</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609301</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47609301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They were <i>years</i> ahead.  They managed to generate competitors (Anthropic is OpenAI refugees) by alienating their own employees by being so dishonest and immoral when compared to their own founding principals and even legal documents.  They experienced a coup where the primary technical vision of the company was forced out in favor of someone who is comparatively a nontechnical dummy.  That was the beginning of the multiple years of stagnation while they burned tens and hundreds of billions of dollars while their competitors caught up and then passed them by.<p>OpenAI is floundering and can't sustain their own burn rate.  Their competitors are thriving.  This is a market and technology that OpenAI largely created and just a few years in they are behind, losing unprecedented amounts of money, and have no clear path to catch up.<p>Lets be totally clear, they were 3 years ahead <i>3 years ago</i> and now they are behind.  They are literally standing still.</p>
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<p>They have to focus on the distant future (where they are frankly unlikely to exist) because they are falling further and further behind in the immediate future.<p>Their latest desperate bid for relevance is a plugin for Claude Code that uses Codex as a second opinion.  Please clap.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593197</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593197</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That would explain the weird confidence that execution is cheap now, despite the lack of any examples of vibe-coded anything notable.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:35:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575637</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575637</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This essay is not written by an LLM.  An LLM might not be creative but it would be able to make a coherent thesis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:25:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575513</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47575513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "Apple Just Lost Me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's large enough.<p>I'm saying that a functioning company that reaches a certain size can stop being good at what it does and start buying market position and market share.<p>For example, I don't believe Apple is more efficient at designing processors than most processor companies, I think they have had some luck in that they adopted a strategy for mobile that ended up delivering a CPU with high performance (this is roughly the same story as Intel Core 20 years ago).  They are able to deliver a CPU that is at the top but not dramatically faster than their competitors not because they are so 'good at' designing processors, but because they steer a very large percentage of the total CPU R&D budget of the entire world.  They can buy anyone who is innovative, and generally that means eliminating them rather than incorporating them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:21:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530826</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47530826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "Apple Just Lost Me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple has gone from a company with a long term vision of the future and their part in it to a quarterly financial report gradient climber.  This is what happens to every company when it loses it's founder(s).  They have enough money and market influence to be a problem for all of us for the next 30 years or so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:38:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517938</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "Intensifying global heat threatens livability for younger and older adults"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems like a reasonable analysis.<p>One thing I think it neglects is the ability of people to adapt, and the fact that people don't adapt until forced to.  For example, in many countries will provide shelters when conditions reach the point that it is necessary to do so:<p><a href="https://tribune.net.ph/2025/03/10/doh-directs-hospitals-to-set-up-cooling-centers-hydration-stations-amid-heat-stress" rel="nofollow">https://tribune.net.ph/2025/03/10/doh-directs-hospitals-to-s...</a><p><a href="https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-society/2025/06/17/5LYKRPNYTJEQNDBD4AP7H44ROI/" rel="nofollow">https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-society/2025/06/17/5LYKRPNYTJEQ...</a><p>You can search, there are hundreds of examples.<p>Additionally, individuals and families put thought and effort into solving this for themselves.  Setting up a room with a beat up old window AC and salvaged insulation, even if they they can only run during peak times to provide protection for their elderly relatives, for example.  People in these countries aren't going to start suddenly dying by the millions when it gets to hot, they will adapt and overcome.<p>Rich industrialized countries should provide some kind of compensation, it's manifestly unjust for rich countries to keep all the benefits while poor people have to reallocate already meager resources to survive the consequences.  Rich countries should provide offsetting investments in education and infrastructure.  It would be a massive benefit to a poor community that depends on importing diesel to generate electricity if they were provided with wind and solar capacity, especially solar in this case.  This would directly make their AC use more affordable as well as reduce additional emissions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324234</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324234</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47324234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Life is too short to use SQL Server.  I know people that use it will swear it's "not bad anymore" but yes it is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:47:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283941</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "GPT-5.4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not a single comparison between 5.4 and Gemini or Claude.  OpenAI continues to fall further behind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:55:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268393</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why did Iran kill dozens of civilians in retaliation?  They have launched missiles and drones into virtually every country they neighbor, knowing they are only going to hit residential areas.  Why would they do that?  Why do dozens and dozens of Arab civilians have to die from Iranian drone strikes?<p>Why is one side morally culpable when they kill people but the killings on the other side are always explained away or minimized?<p>What about Iran's supplying drones to be used against civilians in Kyiv?  How many innocent Ukrainians have died from Shahed drones that both Iran and Russia know are being used entirely for terror strikes against civilians?  Where is your flippant post that points out that Putin's attempt to 'free the people of Ukraine' by years of strikes intentionally against civilians using Iranian drones is ridiculous?<p>Perhaps you are only interested in talking about innocent people dying if it furthers your political goals, and you would like to look the other way when it does not?<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/world/middleeast/iran-fires-drones.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/world/middleeast/iran-fir...</a>
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/magazine/ukraine-russia-war-drone-shahed-iran.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/magazine/ukraine-russia-w...</a></p>
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<p>But the problem is it's trash?  I've repeatedly tried to do things documented to work that weren't implemented, or where the implementation is buggy.<p>Docker is profoundly bad software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176699</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are begging the question.  If age verification is required, it's not 'perfectly legal' to access weird porn without going through age verification.<p>There is no right, or even a debate about whether there should be a right, to consume digital streams of other people engaging in sexual acts in total anonymity without proving age.  In fact being able to do this at all is something that didn't exist until about 25 years ago, before that you had to drive down to a video store and rent a DVD or tape.  At that video store you would have to show an ID to get an account, and there would be a permanent record at the store of what you have rented.<p>I get that people want to watch people engage in acts that they themselves find embarrassing and shameful.  I don't agree that this is healthy, but if it's legal then I have no standing to complain much.  However, it's not legal to provide videos of hardcore sex to children, which you are insisting is necessary to allow adults to consume videos of hardcore sex acts in perfect anonymity, which wasn't even a thing that was possible until very recently.  Your argument is just stupid and absurd on its face.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:24:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137530</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's amazing how much it's possible to foment arguments against something if you  are very well funded and a regulation will cost your industry a lot of money.<p>Age verification is a good thing.  Giving children unrestricted access to hardcore pornography is <i>bad for them</i>.  Whatever arguments you want to make, fundamentally this is true.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128447</link><dc:creator>ltbarcly3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47128447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ltbarcly3 in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think you've used it lately.  Gemini 2/2.5 were garbage-tier.  The flash level models are absolute trash.  3/3.1 pro are state of the art.</p>
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<p>Well they work in that the color temperature of the light in my house is much cooler during the day than at night, and it's nice to match it so it doesn't look jarring.</p>
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