Hacker News: peab

New comment by peab in "Books are not too expensive"

peab — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:16:07 +0000

Agreed. A bookshelf is great, and bookmarks are great. Cognitive load of using a tablet to load and flip through pages? Not so great

New comment by peab in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

peab — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:17:50 +0000

the cursor 20$ a month plan has been working great for me. You can use most models, and unlimited use of composer 2, which is surprisingly good

New comment by peab in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

peab — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:47:47 +0000

You have a protected right to photograph or film things that are plainly visible from public spaces, including federal buildings, transportation facilities, and police interactions

New comment by peab in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

peab — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:46:06 +0000

Well there's a dedicated subscriptions page which is nice.

On desktop, the homepage also has subscriptions on the side, with an indicator that someone has a new video.

New comment by peab in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

peab — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:32:03 +0000

Youtube's the only social media left where subscribing to a channel actually means something

New comment by peab in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

peab — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:17:11 +0000

It's a stretch for sure.

I think the point is that it's a tradeoff of civil liberties in exchange for safety.

I think it's an interesting discussion and it's not clear to me what the right answer is.

Given the first amendment in the USA, i think once it's cheap enough everyone will be filming everyone all the time. Just look at how many people have ring doorbells.

New comment by peab in "AI Singer Now Occupies Eleven Spots on iTunes Singles Chart"

peab — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:28:30 +0000

charts will become totally meaningless.

Event data will be what matters most. That's how artists actually make their revenue these days anyways.

New comment by peab in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

peab — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:46:28 +0000

nobody serious uses langchain. The biggest agent products are coding tools, and I doubt any of them use langchain

New comment by peab in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

peab — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:40:47 +0000

United recently started announcing at the beginning of flights that using your phone with sound on the speaker is prohibited, as a new official policy.

New comment by peab in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

peab — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:40:04 +0000

his point is that it's useful, and there's nothing special about planes that make it important for them not to have internet, compared to any other mode of transportation. If you want to get away from the internet, you could have a dedicated space for that.

Also, nobody forces you to use the internet on a plane...

New comment by peab in "Death to Scroll Fade"

peab — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:40:30 +0000

the effect in this example fine though, and not obnoxious like OPs? I don't get it

New comment by peab in "Honda is killing its EVs"

peab — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:20:02 +0000

I'm sure it's coming. I'm in Mexico this week and was surprised to drive by not one but two chinese car dealerships. Looks like almost 10% of cars sold last year were EVs

New comment by peab in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

peab — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:11:52 +0000

It's been great - I work on a lot of projects that are essentially prototypes, to test out different ideas. It's amazing for this - I can create web apps in a day now, which in the past I would not have been able to create at all, as I spent most of my career on the backend.

New comment by peab in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

peab — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:09:57 +0000

>I am yet to successfully prompt it and get a working commit.

May I ask what you're working on?

New comment by peab in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

peab — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:08:13 +0000

This seems to be a team problem more than anything? Why are your coworkers taking on your responsibilities? Where's your manager on this?

New comment by peab in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

peab — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:36:41 +0000

they continue to build more solar, more wind, but also more coal power plants.

New comment by peab in "GPT-5.4"

peab — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:33:24 +0000

such a great meme

New comment by peab in "GPT-5.4"

peab — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:32:16 +0000

LOL - yes Sam, AGI is near indeed. (sarcasm)

New comment by peab in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

peab — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:17:50 +0000

This seems pretty in line with how you’d manage a human - you give it a time constraint. a human isn't guaranteed to fix a problem either, and humans are paid by time

New comment by peab in "Google is using AI answers in Search for Calculator answers"

peab — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:54:28 +0000

This seems crazy to me, but I often use google search for simple calculations when I'm using chrome. Today, I did this and I was met with an AI generated answer.

Why on earth would I want an AI generated answer, when the calculator worked perfectly?

What is going on? Whoever turned this on at google, please, please, turn it off.