Hacker News: pbreit

New comment by pbreit in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

pbreit — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:16:34 +0000

Since it's entirely possible (extremely likely?) the "problem" would never materialize, this is quite reasonable.

New comment by pbreit in "Spanish traders set the standard for GnuCash database design"

pbreit — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:41:20 +0000

Storing money as an integer is OK but I've never liked APIs that required financial amounts to be integers. Amounts always eventually need to be displayed to a human as a decimal.

New comment by pbreit in "Why Britain's fintech stars faded"

pbreit — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:38:44 +0000

Easy: non-competitive equity compensation.

New comment by pbreit in "Heat pump sales rise across Europe"

pbreit — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:49:33 +0000

“ A total of around 575,000 residential heat pump units were sold across 11 European countries from January to March 2026, up from 494,000 in the same period in 2025”

Not a big increase on a relatively small base. What is the takeaway here?

New comment by pbreit in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

pbreit — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:21:06 +0000

I don't go to the gym much but that is one place where I would be VERY careful trying to strike up a confirmation and heaven forbid tapping someone on the shoulder.

New comment by pbreit in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

pbreit — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:06:41 +0000

All my co-workers say Claude blows away Gemini. Is it really that good? How can I do Kimi?

New comment by pbreit in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

pbreit — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:44:51 +0000

"half the employees of Google or Apple; only a third of Microsoft"

That sounds like 2-10x too many. Think about what Google, Apple & Microsoft do compared to Meta.

New comment by pbreit in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

pbreit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:13:17 +0000

If no one hears them, do they really exist?

New comment by pbreit in "Show HN: Plain – The full-stack Python framework designed for humans and agents"

pbreit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:49:08 +0000

That would be good if the changes are to slim it down by 80%.

New comment by pbreit in "EFF is leaving X"

pbreit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:33:26 +0000

Much fewer bots on X than Facebook. I think you are completely wrong.

New comment by pbreit in "EFF is leaving X"

pbreit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:31:54 +0000

"X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years ago"

Does anyone believe this?

New comment by pbreit in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

pbreit — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:48:33 +0000

Same as Block booking crypto trades as revenue.

New comment by pbreit in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

pbreit — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:06:46 +0000

Maybe just allow "insider trading".

New comment by pbreit in "MacBook Neo"

pbreit — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:41:29 +0000

No. And multi-resident dorm rooms much less so.

New comment by pbreit in "MacBook Neo"

pbreit — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:40:02 +0000

Very small percentage of students (the primary audience) are touch typists.

New comment by pbreit in "MacBook Neo"

pbreit — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:39:15 +0000

It's a show-stopper for the main audience: students.

New comment by pbreit in "MacBook Neo"

pbreit — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:37:48 +0000

I would say the vast, vast majority of people are completely unable to use a non-lit keyboard in the dark.

New comment by pbreit in "MacBook Neo"

pbreit — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:28:46 +0000

Can't see the keys in a dark classroom or bedroom.

New comment by pbreit in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

pbreit — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:05:35 +0000

I would say Malco is not Apple and I have no idea what a vice grip is.

New comment by pbreit in "MacBook Neo"

pbreit — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:03:55 +0000

I'd go further and suggest that metal is a lousy substance for laptop enclosures.