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New comment by pigeons in "We must pace the frontier"

pigeons — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:16:45 +0000

Because you basically get a discount to use claude code via subscription when using an anthropic model, compared to what you pay via api billing with another harness

New comment by pigeons in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

pigeons — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:47:29 +0000

How is filecoin looking for surviving IPFS's great decline?

New comment by pigeons in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

pigeons — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:28:38 +0000

Its just a skin, Apple doesn't let you use anything other than their fork of the Konqueror browser's engine.

New comment by pigeons in "MartyPC is a cross-platform emulator of early PCs written in Rust"

pigeons — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:39:43 +0000

"Hax – a minimalist, terminal-native coding agent written in C" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49273175

but I see your point.

New comment by pigeons in "Incident with Github.com"

pigeons — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:02:54 +0000

Well it's not business at all today!

New comment by pigeons in "Pixel Watch 5"

pigeons — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:22:15 +0000

I love the rotating dial UI round Samsung watches used to have.

New comment by pigeons in "Show HN: CostPerPrompt – Live AI API pricing and real-workload cost calculators"

pigeons — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:38:45 +0000

so many people write with your style now

New comment by pigeons in "DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'"

pigeons — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:47:58 +0000

There's a novel that deals with this. I think it's called the light of other days by Arthur c. Clarke and Stephen Baxter

New comment by pigeons in "Show HN: The Occult Gatsby"

pigeons — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:07:32 +0000

needs more sources and variety

New comment by pigeons in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

pigeons — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:59:00 +0000

Including the linux kernel.

New comment by pigeons in "Self-host your mail server"

pigeons — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:29:16 +0000

Proton doesn't really host a standard email server like imap for you to access on the client side. You have to bridge/proxy/translate it. And Proton doesn't offer any of the convienences like distribution lists that you expect for the past 30+ years.

New comment by pigeons in "LoRA Speedrun – a public wall-clock leaderboard for fine-tuning techniques"

pigeons — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:42:09 +0000

I wish there was an acronym for it that didn't collide with the radio tech.

New comment by pigeons in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"

pigeons — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:10:35 +0000

They do try privilege escalation unprompted.

New comment by pigeons in "Show HN: Earth Game – An offline CLI for turning life goals into quests"

pigeons — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:08:03 +0000

The context for "open loops" here is David Allen's "Getting Things Done" or GTD. A commitment that your brain is still holding onto because you haven’t clarified what it means or what to do about it.

New comment by pigeons in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

pigeons — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:07:20 +0000

So like Computer Associates?

New comment by pigeons in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

pigeons — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:05:58 +0000

That avoided the Apache Foundation.

New comment by pigeons in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

pigeons — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:44:35 +0000

Yeah, gotta call out the "There's nothing wrong with that".

New comment by pigeons in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

pigeons — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 22:31:38 +0000

What came into effect in 2009?

New comment by pigeons in "Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web"

pigeons — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:17:35 +0000

There's a recording of Nirvana playing Baba O'Riley where Kurt Cobain says "I hope I die before I turn into Pete Townsend"

New comment by pigeons in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

pigeons — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:15:19 +0000

Ai can't even take a McDonald's order as well as a low paid human yet