Hacker News: mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrhottakesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:35:07 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"]]>they don't care about their reputation with devs, they care about their reputation with people that can write them big fat checks

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:44:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854918mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854918<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Show HN: Alien – Self-hosting with remote management (written in Rust)"]]>agreed, this architecture is a non-starter for many enterprise orgs

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:11:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838329mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838329https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838329<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"]]>they should make a clone with a cooler theme and call it KnowledgeBattles.org

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:04:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838232mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838232https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838232<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"]]>He understands the modern conservative male mindset better than anyone, it's amazing

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:02:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838198mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838198https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838198<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"]]>They are fascists that like money

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:35:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837774mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837774https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837774<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"]]>> I still wonder what real value Palantir provides the US Gov.

Their "product" has always been some hacky database joins behind a web app with a dark mode interface that makes the baby brains at DOD feel like they're in a 90s hacker movie

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:34:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837756mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837756https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837756<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"]]>The movements and announcements of large tech companies tend to be newsworthy, whether it's "we made a new iPhone", "our new model is so good it's dangerous!" or "we should have a draft to support new American imperialism"

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:32:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837733mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837733https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837733<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"]]>"Right wing politics dominated by the rich" is the natural endpoint of libertarianism, so that makes sense. Whether they're "real" libertarians or not, the elite techies leading the charge are people with politics like Karp, Andreessen, Musk, etc.

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:30:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837713mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837713https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837713<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Palantir Wants to Reinstate the Draft"]]>The hacker aesthetic has always been largely reactionary and hyperfocused on the individual and individual freedoms. See also the politics of "generation X"

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:05:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837259mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837259https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47837259<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"]]>They sold the shoe business for a new company to mess up

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:05:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781079mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781079https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781079<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"]]>The $50M is for keeping the company alive long enough for the c suite to finish tearing the copper out of the walls

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:04:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781060mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781060https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781060<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"]]>Yes, you lose the privilege if your attorney-client communications are not intended to be confidential. If you agree to share those communications with a third party, you don't intend them to be confidential.

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:18:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779339mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779339https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779339<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Anthropic's Claude Mythos isn't a sentient super-hacker, it's a sales pitch"]]>I swear every time an LLM does something stupid, the usual band of AI hype pushers bends over backwards trying to invent reasons that it's actually good.

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:40:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721356mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47721356<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"]]>this is true, Claude and other LLMs are highly skilled at producing secure code

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:30:58 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705036mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705036https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47705036<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"]]>He's been lying through his teeth for the better part of two decades, "fraud" is true and productive.

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:40:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628042mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628042https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628042<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks"]]>i'm going to write a fawning article about cars standing still

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:44:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605596mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605596https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605596<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "AI for American-produced cement and concrete"]]>How cheap are existing AI construction workers?

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:31:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605435mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605435https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605435<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened"]]>It works very poorly

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:21:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605316mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605316https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605316<![CDATA[New comment by mrhottakes in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"]]>True, Elon has really been achieving win after win with Tesla and Twitter.

]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:18:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605265mrhottakeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605265https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605265