<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: nikcub</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nikcub</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 18:25:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nikcub" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>both realtime markets where multi-AZ is hard?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 23:06:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069872</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069872</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48069872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>oh they have too! came out a couple of months ago.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 00:07:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030481</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They're so tied to crypto that i'm surprised they haven't been tempted to diversify into other asset classes, or even yolo into prediction markets like robinhood did.<p>It would be slop, but the market would love it</p>
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<p>can't believe Bret's bio doesn't mention friendfeed!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 20:05:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014236</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48014236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "I am worried about Bun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the AI replies itt are cringe</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 19:21:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013661</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013661</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48013661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "To my students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>* real programmers write assembly, not FORTRAN<p>* real programmers manage memory, it's a craft<p>* real programmers don't drag and drop<p>* real programmers don't use intellisense<p>* real programmers don't need stack overflow<p>* real programmers don't tab-complete<p>* real programmers don't need copilot<p>* real programmers don't use llms <- you are here</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:33:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929508</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929508</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "To my students"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If a tree falls in the forest...<p>I hope this is a pun on the content management system used to publish OP. It's forester[0], written in OCaml and parses TeX-like .tree files into semantic XML which uses browser XSLT to render the HTML.<p>View source on the page to get an idea.<p>Reminder of what the idealised web promise from decades ago was. Long gone. Very apt.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.forester-notes.org/index/index.xml" rel="nofollow">https://www.forester-notes.org/index/index.xml</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:15:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929381</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Show HN: OSS Agent I built topped the TerminalBench on Gemini-3-flash-preview"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>the most cited is terminal bench 2.0, but its also plagued by cheating accusations and benchmaxxing.<p>somewhat remarkably, claude code ranks last for Opus 4.6 - which may say something about cc, or say something about the benchmark<p>[0] <a href="https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0" rel="nofollow">https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:01:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927970</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927970</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47927970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Stunning results at the top of the field. Some interesting takeaways on both fuelling and shoes.<p>Maurten spent months working with Sawe and other runners getting their gut capacity trained so they could absorb and burn 100 carbs per hour[0][1]<p>> The Maurten research team was embedded with Sawe’s team in Kenya for 32 days across six trips between last and this April. They were training his gut to absorb that load by mimicking race-day protocol in training. The hydrogel technology they have developed over the past 10 years now allows athletes to absorb 90–120 grams of carbs per hour without GI distress.<p>Second is the shoes. Adidas Adizero weigh 96 grams[2] with new foam tech and new carbon plates<p>Nike and INEOS spent millions over years to get Kipchoge to a sub-2 in artificial conditions, and now the elite end of the field are knocking that barrier out in race conditions. Unreal.<p>Running tech and training have been revolutionized in the past few years.<p>[0] <a href="https://marathonhandbook.com/sebastian-sawe-arrives-in-london-fitter-than-he-was-before-berlin/" rel="nofollow">https://marathonhandbook.com/sebastian-sawe-arrives-in-londo...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DXmvAUvkWaq/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/p/DXmvAUvkWaq/</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/gear/shoes/a71129333/sabastian-sawe-shoes-sub-2-adidas/" rel="nofollow">https://www.runnersworld.com/uk/gear/shoes/a71129333/sabasti...</a><p>edit: correct :s/calories/carbs thanks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:35:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914829</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Airlines are down there amongst cinema chains and video game retail stores in terms of being terrible businesses</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:48:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897193</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897193</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Amazon and Google get discounts because they bring more than just cash and help solve a very immediate problem for Anthropic<p>Great position to be in if you're Amazon and Google</p>
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<p>Google cloud also need to be able to offer Anthropic models on Vertex otherwise they just won't be competitive.<p>Microsoft is in the same boat with Azure.</p>
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<p>compartmentalize. I do development and anything finance / crypto related / sensitive on separate machines.<p>If you're brave you can run whonix.<p>The issue is developers who have publish access to popular packages - they really should be publishing and signing on a separate machine / environment.<p>Same with not doing any personal work on corporate machines (and having strict corp policy - vercel were weak here).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:30:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884792</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884792</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47884792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>and then released a model that didn't really leave a mark with code performance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:26:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857521</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47857521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's not dollars it's X bucks</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:23:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856894</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856894</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> hand out free top end model coding access for a bit and you'll very rapidly have developer data<p>They tried this - grok was free on openrouter for a while</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:23:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856889</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>knee-jerk is that it's weird, but makes sense:<p>* X will have a total of ~2GW of GPU sometime this year largely not doing much outside of 'grok is this true'<p>* despite no longer being in vogue with consumer devs Cursor still has a lot of developer data that can assist in building a model<p>* Cursor have decent enterprise relationships (while for xAI it is ~zero) and that's where the real revenue for llms + agents is<p>* Cursor are paying retail for tokens and competing against the frontier model co's who are also their suppliers. Not sustainable (hence their in-house composer model).<p>* Cursor the product covers the gamut from lovable-style prompt-to-app, an IDE, cli and bugbot<p>* X are using "x bucks" to pay for a potential later acquisition which are arguably overvalued based on the space x IPO hype<p>Option there to give X a window to make it work, otherwise walk away with a $10B breakup fee for access to it's data</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:30:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856297</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856297</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47856297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Claude Code defaulting to a certain set of recommended providers[0] and frameworks is making the web more homogenous and that lack of diversity is increasing the blast radius of incidents<p>[0] <a href="https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks/report" rel="nofollow">https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks/report</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:46:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826114</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826114</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Vercel Says Internal Systems Hit in Breach"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>he's completely ripped that post from the person who originally found it on breach forums. absolutely shameless.<p><a href="https://x.com/DiffeKey/status/2045813085408051670" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/DiffeKey/status/2045813085408051670</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:40:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826067</link><dc:creator>nikcub</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826067</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nikcub in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Department of War timing on picking fights couldn't be worse</p>
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