<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: mmcconnell1618</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mmcconnell1618</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:20:25 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mmcconnell1618" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic clearly doesn't understand that customers see their brand as "Claude", Google's brand as "Gemini" and OpenAI's brand as "ChatGPT." They have so many plans and exclusions that they risk customer confusion. I was surprised when I was pay $200/month for Claude Code, finding it super helpful, and then I had to pay separately to get API access for an experiment. Why are so many parts of "Claude" separate from each other, especially on a $200/month subscription.<p>Anthropic better get this sorted out with a proper product manager and marketing or they risk customers jumping to easier to understand platforms that are good enough.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:21:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855368</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "NASA Force"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NASA "Force?" It sounds very similar to Space Force and Air Force and adds a militaristic tone to NASA. Maybe that is the intent. I know that NASA and the military are closely linked but the general brand of NASA is a the science-focused civilian side while something like Space Force would be the military side.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:16:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810117</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've built a few transportation simulations where I started out with pathfinding methods like A* but the compute cost doesn't scale well with 10,000 or 100,000 agents running around. Pre-computing flow fields for common map destinations is one of those areas where you trade off storage for compute. The agents just look for the signpost telling them "this direction to destination x" instead of actually calculating a path.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm#" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A*_search_algorithm#</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr6ObNVgytk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr6ObNVgytk</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:22:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488456</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47488456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also, have massive layoffs every few months just to keep people on edge. AWS wants people to leave with RTO and badging policies, comp range shifts lower unless you have year over year ratings, and an obsessive push to force AI into every process. Top talent is leaving and will continue to leave AWS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:38:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330159</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47330159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Most people are individually optimistic, but think the world is falling apart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I made a decision to reframe "news" as the "fear network" so my brain had that context as I found out the news of the day. The article had an interesting perspective on information diets contributing to overall pessimism.</p>
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<p>Marco Rubio needed this for his presidential run in 2028. Does this mean that Putin will look the other way for Maduro as long as Trump looks the other way when Putin captures or kills Zelenskyy? Have they officially agreed to divide the world as spheres of influence?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:08:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476814</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476814</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46476814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Learning to play individual notes from sheet music only helps you learn one song. The breakthrough for me was thinking in musical structure.<p>- There are 12 keys on the piano just repeated
- A scale can start on any of those 12 keys
- The "home" key of the scale get labels with a roman numeral one, I
- The rest of the keys in the scale get roman numerals ii,iii,IV,V,vi,vii
- The I,IV,V are all upper case to represent major chords, the lower case for minor chords
- Most pop songs use I,IV,V from a scale. In C-major scale, C, F, G major chords.
- You can start on any key on the piano and if you play the same sequence of I, IV, V, you'll get the same song, just transposed into a different key. (the scales are slightly different due to even temperament for advanced ears)<p>So, learn songs by the chord structure first. It is easier to remember and you'll start to recognize patterns in other songs and unlock them faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:50:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391541</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Color grading is pretty interesting. Please share good resources if you find some.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:43:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391494</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Technical:<p>- Understand how to deploy teams of agents effectively to accomplish significant goals<p>- Learn ECS/Dots in Unity to scale a system to hundreds of thousands of actors<p>Non Technical:<p>- Improve people management skills for leading technical teams with a target of helping each person grow in 2026 and level up the team<p>- Automate more of my personal finances to gain leverage from systems instead of  hoping I make good decisions consistently</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:36:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391454</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Claude Memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I do the same. It lets you see exactly what the LLM is using for context and you can easily correct manually. Similar to the spec-driven-development in Kiro where you define the plan first, then move to creating code to meet the plan.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:15:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693401</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Claude Memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you get the answer you want, follow up with "How could I have asked my question in a way to get to this answer faster?" and the LLM will provide some guidance on how to improve your question prompt. Over time, you'll get better at asking questions and getting answers in fewer shots.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:13:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693380</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693380</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45693380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't MacOS already render as 2x resolution and downsize in order to do font smoothing? Looks are important to Apple and I think they are willing to add custom hardware capable of handling these type of effects without killing battery life and CPU cycles.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 11:03:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125854</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125854</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45125854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Claude Code is all you need"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There was a time when everyone hand-coded HTML. Then came Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft FrontPage which promised a WYSIWYG experience. No one would ever need to "learn HTML and CSS" because the tool could write it for them. Those tools could crank out a website in minutes.<p>When those tools created some awful, complex and slow output, only the people who knew HTML could understand why it wasn't working and fix things.<p>Vibe coding is in a similar place. It demos really well. It can be powerful and allows for quick iteration on ideas. It works, most of the time. Vibe coding can produce some really terrible code that is not well architected and difficult to maintain. It can introduce basic logic errors that are not easily corrected through multiple prompts back to the system.<p>I don't know if they will ever be capable of creating production quality systems on par with what senior engineers produce or if they will only get incrementally better and remain best for prototypes and testing ideas.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:39:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44874978</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44874978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44874978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "GPT-5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Self-learning opens new training opportunities but not at the scale or speed of current training. The world only operates at 1x speed. Today's models have been trained on written and visual content created by billions of humans over thousands of years.<p>You can only experience the world in one place in real time. Even if you networked a bunch of "experiencers" together to gather real time data from many places at the same time, you would need a way to learn and train on that data in real time that could incorporate all the simultaneous inputs. I don't see that capability happening anytime soon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 22:38:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831270</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44831270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "AI is killing the web – can anything save it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just read Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis which has an interesting perspective that "cloud capitalism" is replacing traditional capitalism and competition. A few players are assembling their own fiefdoms inside dominant web/mobile platforms.
<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudalism-by-yanis-varoufakis/" rel="nofollow">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/751443/technofeudal...</a><p>The internet doesn't have a clear, simple, micro-payment system that would allow people to reward value, so instead we have an attention based system where the number of likes and followers grants social status and financial opportunity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623925</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Nobody knows how to build with AI yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>English and other languages come with lots of ambiguity and assumptions. A significant benefit of programming languages is they have explicit rules for how they will be converted into a running program. An LLM can take many paths from the same starting prompt and deliver vastly different output.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 23:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620491</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44620491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like an opportunity to sell a price negotiation AI to all consumers. Get paid on both sides of the AI wars.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:49:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596707</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "What happens when people don't understand how AI works"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing these models are extremely good at is reading large amounts of text quickly and summarizing important points. That capability alone may be enough to pay $20 a month for many people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:29:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219879</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44219879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some cruise lines, like Norwegian, have specific solo travel fares and cabins and even social events just for solo travelers</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 19:56:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44129696</link><dc:creator>mmcconnell1618</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44129696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44129696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mmcconnell1618 in "AniSora: Open-source anime video generation model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reproduction cost for the 2nd copy of media is near zero just like software. Handmade or customized furniture is more expensive because it takes more labor for each copy. With media, the cost is fixed, even if it is large. Once the first version of handmade media has been created, the owner is incentivized to get as much value from it as possible. The optimal demand curve is probably not a few rich people paying as much as possible.</p>
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