Hacker News: phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phist_mcgeeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:55:38 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"]]>Go on, spill some more tea..

]]>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:48:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029098phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029098https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029098<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"]]>I realise you're joking, but crypto is now a heavily regulated industry, the KYC/AML requirements are no-joke and non-compliance will get the company's licences in a given country/state terminated.

For the end user it looks like an evil cash-grab, but really it's the company protecting itself from regulatory vengeance.

]]>Tue, 05 May 2026 21:45:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029065phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029065https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029065<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "How ChatGPT serves ads"]]>Fusion power is proven to be possible.

AGI is not.

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:31:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945200phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945200https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945200<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "GitHub Actions is the weakest link"]]>What an absolute joke that it has taken GitHub this long to clean up it's act when it comes to supply chain security.

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:14:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940053phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940053https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940053<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"]]>Which did you enjoy serving on more? Submariners apparently eat better than anywhere else on the navy, but also don't get any sunlight for 6 months?

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:11:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940017phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940017https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940017<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "GPT-5.5"]]>Parable of the mechanic who charges $5k to hit a machine on the side once with a hammer to get it working. $5 for the hammer, $4995 for the knowledge of where to hit the machine etc etc.

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:12:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882100phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882100https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47882100<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"]]>Nor does the cop who demands $100 for letting you go without arresting you.

But they're still responsible for their own personal piece of the rot in the system.

]]>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:52:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841442phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47841442<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips"]]>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IsR06zf8nQ

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:10:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827681phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827681https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47827681<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"]]>Ever seen a vibe-coded react app? It's astounding how well SOTA LLMs can produce good looking code in detail, but zoom out to the architectural or broader picture and it becomes an unholy mess.

It's like a masterpiece painted by an artist with their nose 5 inches from the canvas at all times.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:47:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821655phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821655https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821655<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"]]>Just teach backend engineers to do frontend pixel perfect CSS!

Different fields.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:42:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821635phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821635https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821635<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker"]]>Workpersonship doesn't exactly roll off the tongue.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:22:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821556phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821556https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47821556<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "The beginning of scarcity in AI"]]>Perhaps its because american hyperscalers want unlimited upside for their capital?

]]>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:59:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803207phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803207https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47803207<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Codex for almost everything"]]>I never wanted to memorise trivia, like remembering flags on a certain cli command. That always felt so painful when I just wanted to do a thing

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:42:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800437phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800437https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800437<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Claude Opus 4.7"]]>Isn't that kind of nuts?

They can't even properly beta test their new releases?

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:58:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800049phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800049https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800049<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"]]>Agreed that beads seems way over engineered for an issue tracker.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:45:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772925phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772925https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772925<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"]]>You're prompting it wrong!

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:44:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772918phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772918<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Claude Code Routines"]]>Let's see how it shakes out after Athropic and OpenAI fully stop subsidizing their plans, that may alter the calculus.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:59:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772044phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772044https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772044<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"]]>So it was just the head of the family?

What if there were several of these birthday parties in succession due to siblings dying?

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:03:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713477phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713477https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713477<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"]]>Yeah but who pays the enormous cost?

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:51:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681801phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681801https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681801<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"]]>Tell that to the thousands of comp sci students who drop out every year because they don't like programming in C!

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:17:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668063phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668063https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668063