Hacker News: mikeg8

New comment by mikeg8 in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

mikeg8 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:29:29 +0000

Lick! The! Boot!

New comment by mikeg8 in "[dead]"

mikeg8 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:00:16 +0000

Hungry little money grab

New comment by mikeg8 in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

mikeg8 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:19:09 +0000

That doesn’t mean that the subscription itself is losing money. The margin on the subscription could be fine, but by using that margin to R&D the next model, the org may still be intentionally unprofitable. It’s their investment/growth strategy, not an indictment of their pricing strategy.

New comment by mikeg8 in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

mikeg8 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:50:28 +0000

That’s not the way they are presented at all. And making foreign goods much more expensive when we don’t currently produce enough of those products domestically to offer actual alternatives is a clear harm to consumers, not a boon to domestic manufacturing.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign"

mikeg8 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:15:46 +0000

Defensive much, Sam?

New comment by mikeg8 in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

mikeg8 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:57:08 +0000

“Foundational” seems a bit overkill here. There is nothing foundational about it – it’s a convenience tool, albeit a very good one.

AI is disruptive technology - like other tech innovations before it, there will be casualties to incumbents. If anything, this just shows how small businesses with need to be more creative when establishing moats and sustainability in this new landscape.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

mikeg8 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:03:49 +0000

Yea! I totally trust corporations and government to always do the right thing and never abuse their powers!

New comment by mikeg8 in "Is it a bubble?"

mikeg8 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:34:13 +0000

I believe it’s you who is misunderstanding his positions here. He clearly lays out that he is focused on irrational optimism effecting the investment around the tech, not whether or not the tech itself is viable. His analysis was indeed well thought out from the perspective he is approaching it from.

New comment by mikeg8 in "How private equity is changing housing"

mikeg8 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:42:30 +0000

its a good bet on their part (although i hate it). we obviously can't increase supply fast enough to keep up with demand in the current regulatory climate and with an existing shortage of skilled tradesmen and ratio of tradesman retiring out vs newcomers entering construction, there doesn't seem to be a feasible way to meaningfully increase supply.

New comment by mikeg8 in "How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)"

mikeg8 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 05:18:25 +0000

No, there is an airport 10 minutes from the museum but the museum itself is closer to downtown.

New comment by mikeg8 in "The RubyGems "Security Incident""

mikeg8 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 06:55:05 +0000

Ruby central looks so incompetent it’s not even funny. Bummer all around.

New comment by mikeg8 in "ChatGPT Pulse"

mikeg8 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 03:08:43 +0000

I’d disagree. I think there is still so much value it can offer if you really open your mind. For instance, I’ve met very few “programmers” that I’d consider even moderately competent at front-end, so the ability of a programmer to build and iterate a clean and responsive UI is just one example of a huge win for AI tools.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community"

mikeg8 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:40:50 +0000

I think you are spot on here, although many may not like to acknowledge it.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community"

mikeg8 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:38:54 +0000

This splitting of hairs between the legal entities and the work of their paid teams/employees isn’t adding strength to your argument. Companies are run by people and those people get to make decisions on the allocation of resources. If they decided to put substantial resources into OSS, the company does get to claim credit there.

> there are plenty of open source communities that exist without the direct funding of work.

Great! Maybe the Ruby community can strive for this in the future but it does not reflect the OPs point that these companies and their outsized contributions via time and money are still core to the existing community we have today.

New comment by mikeg8 in "A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy"

mikeg8 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 05:42:43 +0000

Best comment I’ve seen on this thread so far.

New comment by mikeg8 in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

mikeg8 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:45:55 +0000

Splitting hairs. At the time your friend owned it, the company and people were one and the same.

New comment by mikeg8 in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

mikeg8 — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:22:31 +0000

A small company can just pay the $250 a month for X number of employees to each have CC max plan. Not that complicated

New comment by mikeg8 in "Why can't HTML alone do includes?"

mikeg8 — Sun, 04 May 2025 16:09:57 +0000

An additional requests for html isn’t slow, and now I have to have a whole “build” process for something that is basically static. Not ideal

New comment by mikeg8 in "Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding"

mikeg8 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 16:53:34 +0000

Finding product market fit is a human directional issue, and LLMs absolutely can help speed up iteration time here. I’ve built two RoR MVPs for small hobbby projects spending ~$75 in Claude code to make something in a day that would have previously taken me a month plus. Again, absolutely bizarre that people can’t see the value here, even as these tools are still working through their kinks.

New comment by mikeg8 in "Founder Mode"

mikeg8 — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 16:39:25 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. He’s talking about a management style in such a nebulous way, when I would imagine his experience and proximity to so many founders/companies could provide a little more concrete substance. This feels like a first draft, and should have “Dig deeper” written in red across the top