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New comment by newAccount2025 in "A lack of male protagonists is making it harder to get young boys into books"

newAccount2025 — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:40:10 +0000

Did someone steal all the old books? This is absurd on its face.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Bug Finding Considered Harmful?"

newAccount2025 — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:10:15 +0000

Yes. Or it’s like, a sign that the system needs a deep rethink based on a sound design, because it’s currently an unprincipled mess. :)

New comment by newAccount2025 in "We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:19:12 +0000

This seems correct? If true, they are currently dangerous to others and they should be called out for it. Why will people be more proactive here if they can just hide their mistakes?

New comment by newAccount2025 in "TLP Is Not a Suggestion"

newAccount2025 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:01:20 +0000

Heh. We can’t even get people to stop using languages like C and C++ after all these decades of memory corruption exploits.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

newAccount2025 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:48:18 +0000

I agree at the top, and it certainly trickles down to some degree. Still, a lot of the everyday engineers who actually make the stuff at every place I’ve ever been just care about making things that are good.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

newAccount2025 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:49:21 +0000

My nissan has a one-click opt-out… but like… every… single… trip. :(

New comment by newAccount2025 in "US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution"

newAccount2025 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:53:29 +0000

It’s expensive? We were quoted 60k last year. Maybe a scammy company but that’s a lot up front.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:24:49 +0000

It’s not just a windows problem. File systems are an absolute disaster across all platforms. David Wheeler has a lovely article on the topic: https://dwheeler.com/essays/fixing-unix-linux-filenames.html

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Astra for Law"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:59:33 +0000

Does the human find enough bugs that they stay on guard, or just rubber stamp everything without really looking at it? It’s hard to stay vigilant when stuff looks plausible.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

newAccount2025 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:29:18 +0000

NATO is certainly weaker with the USA having lost her mind. But Russia seems to have gotten herself into a total quagmire in Ukraine and she is bleeding badly with no end in sight. Nobody is winning here.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

newAccount2025 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:13:12 +0000

I like this mindset and I’m going to steal this quote. Everyone is figuring things on their own skill journey with their hobbies and careers. Wherever you are, you can learn more and help people to come with you.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "An Alien Mind"

newAccount2025 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:29:51 +0000

Hrmn. Maybe you’re about to lose everything you have anyway, you’re ticked off about it, and you don’t value any life besides your own. Like, say, a total narcissist nearing end of life/reign.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:33:40 +0000

It’s common for formal proof efforts about software and hardware to involve thousands to tens of thousands of small lemmas.

13M lines does seem extreme and there is probably a lot of inefficiency given the way the proof was developed. Cutting it down is probably a long road, but is also a very well defined problem that AIs can probably just go do with enough time and budget now.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:16:04 +0000

Nah. At the end of the day it’s candidate A vs. B. Once they’re all corrupt you still have to decide between them and pick the lesser evil as you see it. They’re creatures of ambition and incentives, and the corruption is a feature of the system. It sucks but what can you do but vote for the corrupt dems or the corrupt republicans?

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

newAccount2025 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:52:58 +0000

2025-09 would be helpful context for the article link

New comment by newAccount2025 in "What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:21:59 +0000

Haha. Yeah. I somehow find Claude Code’s utter lack of time reasoning to be very fun. “The work we did two weeks ago…” oh friend that was this morning…

New comment by newAccount2025 in "What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:06:26 +0000

I’m loving small models. The gemma4 26/31b models have been deeply impressive on weird prose analysis tasks that I am working on. Nova-micro is really stupid but is extremely fast when it’s smart enough to do something. I’m trying to be disciplined about able to evaluate quality vs cost everywhere for real systems built on this stuff. I probably need to get off Bedrock because it’s missing a lot of other little models that might be good competitors.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

newAccount2025 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 22:35:17 +0000

Similar experience here. I had raised my cap to $20 because they had given me promo credit. The credit expired without me using it and I didn’t notice.

One fine day I was like, oh my weekly quota resets soon, I will kick off an expensive bug hunt. It launched parallel things and burned $10 in like a moment.

It’s scary. I turned off extra usage after that.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:59:22 +0000

100%. It is crazy that the default response to everything is act then explain. It starts writing code or running commands and I’m just like my dude wtf are you trying to do, can you just clue me in first.

New comment by newAccount2025 in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

newAccount2025 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:55:11 +0000

I had pretty good luck recently by giving it a writing guide about word choice, sentence structure, paragraph structure, and overall doc structure. I basically ask it to read the guide and revise a couple of times before I engage with its writing. Ymmv.