Hacker News: mikegioia

New comment by mikegioia in "After the AI Crash"

mikegioia — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:58:04 +0000

Over 40 myself and switched to high school teaching this year. I feel like tech in general has been degrading for a while but 2025 AI really just wiped it out imo.

New comment by mikegioia in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

mikegioia — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:01:44 +0000

I don't think it's in the same ballpark at all. I checked the `/usage` in my session which uses a Max x5 plan. One day I had used $400 of tokens and 20% of my Fable allocation. Anthropic is effectively giving us more tokens per $ on the monthly plans but it comes at the cost of Anthropic being the prompt-writers and managers of the agents pretty much entirely. I don't think this is a bad deal.

New comment by mikegioia in "Running local models is good now"

mikegioia — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:00:12 +0000

Everyone has at least one in their pocket right now though.

New comment by mikegioia in "A magnificent 1850s house dubbed the Blue Belle of Brooklyn"

mikegioia — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 13:49:28 +0000

I lived on 10th street and 4th avenue for a few years and I used to walk past this house frequently. I love it, and I love Brooklyn and the entire feeling the city has. I miss it so much and this article has really taken me back there.

New comment by mikegioia in "The Uber Bubble"

mikegioia — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:32:53 +0000

> like telling you that your ride will be booked soon when there are literally no drivers available

I got burned on this using Lyft to get the airport early in the morning. Scheduled the night before to pick up at 5am the next morning. No one was actually scheduled, and it was just searching endlessly for a driver in the area but there were none! No car services open, I had to call my mother and ask her to take us! I couldn't believe it and I'll never use one again. Only car services for me now, at least for anything that matters.

New comment by mikegioia in "The City of London Is Hiding the World’s Stolen Money"

mikegioia — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 15:01:41 +0000

> What changed in Denmark between the 90s and now?

> Why do people, even in Denmark, send their kid to

> private schools if they can afford it?

I'm not speaking on behalf of the OP here, but my interpretation is that what changed _was_ people sending their kids to private schools instead of intermingling as they did before. I believe you are asking about the "why", why did they start sending them to private schools or why did they stop sending them to public or community schools.

That could be a multi-faceted answer, and it could be very difficult to pin down even what the dominant factors are. I would also like to know about Denmark.

I will add that this same problem exists in some form in my own home town, so I don't know if it's something unique to Denmark. My guess is that it's probably something to do with competition in generation from many more people consuming increasing amounts of a diminishing supply of resources.

New comment by mikegioia in "Level 3 Global Outage"

mikegioia — Sun, 30 Aug 2020 11:14:46 +0000

Me too. I can only connect to one of my DO servers. The rest are all unreachable.

New comment by mikegioia in "Anxiety in product development"

mikegioia — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 18:06:23 +0000

I agree with this a lot, but I would add one thing. I don't think it's deliberate, I think they're just bad managers.

New comment by mikegioia in "First stable release of Ubuntu Unity 20.04"

mikegioia — Mon, 11 May 2020 13:18:11 +0000

I agree, and they have no homepage or anything either. Unity was (is) a desktop environment alternative to Gnome. It used to be the default in 16.x but Gnome became the default in 18.x.

Remix is (I think) an updated, forked version of Unity that is now being maintained and advanced with the latest versions of Ubuntu. This is particularly exciting for me and other Unity lovers because I pretty much only use Unity as my DE. I have been manually installing it as a replacement for Gnome and this update is very exciting. I think Unity is a lot better.

New comment by mikegioia in "Reiki can’t possibly work, so why does it?"

mikegioia — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:06:59 +0000

It sounds like your contradicting yourself. You say placebos don't work and don't have an effect on anything, but in that example the kiss is the placebo. And then you say the kiss lowers their pain, which implies it does work.

New comment by mikegioia in "Why iOS 13 and Catalina Are So Buggy"

mikegioia — Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:53:55 +0000

Fixing the bugs is one thing, but identifying that user reported bugs are in fact bugs is an entirely separate issue. The latter takes a ton of time, requires no developers, and is what everyone above you in this thread is talking about.

New comment by mikegioia in "Richard M. Stallman resigns"

mikegioia — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:16:46 +0000

Everything you said is conjecture. This is one of the most baseless and accusatory comments I've read here. It's so low effort and it's immediately transparent that you just don't like the guy.

New comment by mikegioia in "FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Source Says"

mikegioia — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:43:13 +0000

Doesn't this entire issue corroborate the idea that this ISN'T just about a social media company trying to sell us shit?

Two of the issues you mentioned, state run gulags and anthropogenic climate change, are issues really only solvable at the federal level. Facebook's and Cambridge Analytica's ability to influence an election can have a profound effect on those kinds of issues. I mean, we now have a climate change denier in the White House who is dismantling the EPA. If propaganda spreading through Facebook created that, could that not also be partly responsible for our inability to do something about climate change?

That's just one example, but I think you're being just as hyperbolic by saying this wouldn't crack the top 100.

New comment by mikegioia in "Ask HN: Is Pinboard abandonware?"

mikegioia — Mon, 08 May 2017 13:42:33 +0000

Thanks!

Ask HN: Is Pinboard abandonware?

mikegioia — Mon, 08 May 2017 11:53:38 +0000

I've been a long-time Pinboard user but noticed a potential problem with the archiving feature. I sent a support request on April 12th but haven't heard anything back. I just sent another now, but noticed that their Blog is now offline.

The problem I'm having is that Pinboard's crawler is overwriting previously cached copies with 500/40x errors if the page is now offline. I need to know if they keep historical copies or the "last known good" version and if not, sadly need to migrate everything yet again to a new system.

If anyone has any info I would very much appreciate it. I know idlewords is an HN user too so I figured this site was my next best place to look.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14290803

Points: 5

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New comment by mikegioia in "Mini.css – Minimal, responsive, style-agnostic CSS framework"

mikegioia — Thu, 04 May 2017 23:03:58 +0000

Yea, it should be:

or something. Using elements as class names is insane.

New comment by mikegioia in "The end of smartphone innovation"

mikegioia — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:37:31 +0000

I've been wishing for this for years. I'd add "tactile keyboard".

New comment by mikegioia in "The end of smartphone innovation"

mikegioia — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 16:32:09 +0000

Full screen, non-tactile keyboard is a non-starter IMO.

New comment by mikegioia in "To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls"

mikegioia — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 01:51:12 +0000

It's not hard, and I see 10-20 people per train car on the R going between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I've seen people standing and reading kindles in body-to-body crammed trains.

New comment by mikegioia in "What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans"

mikegioia — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 12:39:35 +0000

Exactly! It's maddening.

You can start paying off your CO2 right now. This is a side project of mine: https://earthboost.org