<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: patates</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patates</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:25:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=patates" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by patates in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Writing this from a corporate win11 computer, the whole thing is so laggy, it's unbelievable. Last year, I had revived my old desktop from 2007 with an intel Q6600, windows xp and a clicky dying HDD, and that thing flied compared to this. Dear Microsoft and its partners (Especially DELL!), what the hell happened?!</p>
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<p>It smells better, my skin feels better after using it, and I feel happier. Showering may take little time, but I have my skin all the time :)</p>
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<p>Why can't you have the agent running on its own server/vm in your pocket?</p>
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<p>Not to shoot down your comment with sarcasm, I'm being really honest: I changed my shower gel with an expensive one this week, and it really had an unexpected, exciting effect. Small stuff can really have consequences much bigger than themselves.<p>That said, if you ever decide solve the tidying the toys problem, start a kickstarter, I pledge to pledge support! :D</p>
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<p>Claude makes more detailed plans that seem better if you just skim them, but when analyzed, has a lot of errors, usually.<p>It compensates for most during implementation if you make it use TDD by using superpower et al, or just telling it to do so.<p>GPT 5.4 makes more simple plans (compared to superpowers - a plugin from the official claude plugin marketplace - not the plan mode), but can better fill the details while implementing.<p>Plan mode in Claude Code got much better in the last months, but the lacking details cannot be compensated by the model during the implementation.<p>So my workflow has been:<p>Make claude plan with superpowers:brainstorm, review the spec, make updates, give the spec to gpt, usually to witness grave errors found by gpt, spec gets updates, another manual review, (many iterations later), final spec is written, write the plan, gpt finds mind boggling errors, (many iterations later), claude agent swarm implements, gpt finds even more errors, I find errors, fix fix fix, manual code review and red tests from me, tests get fixed (many iterations later) finally something usable with stylistic issues at most (human opinion)!<p>This happens with the most complex features that'd be a nightmare to implement even for the most experienced programmers of course. For basic things, most SOTA modals can one-shot anyway.</p>
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<p>Plus plan doesn't get the pro model, which is (AFAICT) the same 5.4 model but thinks like <i>a lot</i>.</p>
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<p>5.4, in my own testing, was almost always ahead of Opus 4.6 for reviews and planning. I'm on plus plan on openai, so I couldn't test it so deeply. Anyone who had more experience on both could perhaps chime in? Pros/cons compared to Opus? I'm invested in Claude ecosystem but the recent quality and session limits decrease have me on the edge.</p>
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<p>The book doesn't support anything in "their" favor. The idea boils down to nobody being "them".<p>Related part from Wikipedia:<p>> Becker argues that the conflict between contradictory immortality projects (particularly in religion) is a major source of the violence and misery in the world such as wars, genocide, racism, nationalism and so forth since immortality projects that contradict one another threaten one's core beliefs and sense of security<p>There you go.</p>
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<p>I meant biking accidents this product is obviously trying to solve.<p>> And cars have no business being on other roads as long as highways exist ;)<p>Biking lanes are not comparable to highways. Where I'm living, if you bike on car lanes when biking lanes exist, or if you bike on sidewalks at all, you get a hefty fine depending on the situation and if you possess one, you get points on your driving license.<p>Exceptions are turning, leaving the road, the lane being blocked by a clueless driver etc. obviously.<p>Cars are also not allowed on biking lanes, neither are pedestrians. Same exceptions apply.<p>Highways are more comparable to railroads, maybe.</p>
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<p>The text is from Wikipedia, which summarizes the ideas from the book, both of which have been linked/referenced in the comment already.<p>Comments on the Israel situation are my thoughts.<p>Is there anything else I missed?</p>
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<p>Sorry I didn't write "don't have trees in the middle of the cycling lanes", I should have been more clear.<p>Also "don't let the restaurants cover the pavement with tables" follows the same logic.<p>Perhaps, planners should travel the route three times for every permitted mode of transportation, including walking, biking, and driving.</p>
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<p>Draw a line, say this is for bicycles, pedestrians and cars have no business here, and bikes have no business being on any other lane as long as these exist.<p>When bikes have to go through areas where people walk freely, they need to limit  their speed to a walking pace.<p>People should not wear headphones (noise-cancelling or not) when going through traffic as pedestrians. Take them off when crossing!<p>People should not hear loud music when driving - max is normal speaking voice level. Bike drivers should never hear any music, let alone wearing headphones. Behind-ear speakers on low could be a compromise.<p>Hey, we just solved 90% of the accidents.</p>
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<p>Pasting from Wikipedia:<p>> Becker argues that a basic duality in human life exists between the physical world of objects and biology, and a symbolic world of human meaning. Thus, since humanity has a dualistic nature consisting of a physical self and a symbolic self, we are able to transcend the dilemma of mortality by focusing our attention mainly on our symbolic selves, i.e. our culturally based self esteem, which Becker calls "heroism": a "defiant creation of meaning" expressing "the myth of the significance of human life" as compared to other animals. This counters the personal insignificance and finitude that death represents in the human mind.<p>> Such symbolic self-focus takes the form of an individual's "causa sui project", (sometimes called an "immortality project", or a "heroism project"). A person's "causa sui project" acts as their immortality vessel, whereby they subscribe to a particular set of culturally-created meanings and through them gain personal significance beyond that afforded to other mortal animals. This enables the individual to imagine at least some vestige of those meanings continuing beyond their own life-span; thus avoiding the complete "self-negation" we perceive when other biological creatures die in nature.<p>You can find big similarities such as the promised land as the immortality vessel, heroism as a response to historical trauma and the ongoing attacks on their sovereignty, and the immortality project would be the nation-state. Becker goes on to categorize all of this similar to a mental illness. You can read the wikipedia page here, I find it very helpful: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denial_of_Death</a><p>TL;DR: If you look through Becker's lens, you start to realize how stupid such wars and expansionist ideals seem. People should focus on what exists <i>now</i> and stop chasing projects that'd span beyond their lifetimes while making life <i>today</i> worse.</p>
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<p>Stop the immortality project and stop the massive suffering happening right now. People should really read "The Denial of Death".</p>
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<p>What people also underestimate is the new power of the index.php that comes from the LLMs.<p>Tell claude to create a php backend to your portfolio html template, drag the generated file to the cheapest server, and you already have a custom CMS.</p>
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<p>Even if openly stated, why would they be comparing to a previous generation if not for deception?<p>Laziness? Lack of time? It's not like the latest generation of the SOTA models were released yesterday.</p>
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<p>> european woke bureaucratic bullshit<p>This may have been an attempt at rage-bait, but putting woke and bureaucracy next to each other makes it actually hilarious.</p>
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<p>I used to hang out there too. However, describing me as 'fine' would require a lengthy debate over definitions.</p>
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<p>It would be marvelous if they used a drawing of a spider.<p><a href="https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html" rel="nofollow">https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html</a></p>
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<p>But in search results, you only find the sites that game the system to maximize their profits, while millions of other well-meaning sites get little to no traffic, and eventually people lose interest in maintaining an online presence. They move toward big silos like Instagram, platforms that just use their content to attract more ads.<p>Ads do break the internet, or let's say, fundamentally change the model of how it works to the detriment of most people</p>
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