<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: pllbnk</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pllbnk</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:49:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=pllbnk" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Cal.com is going closed source"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's been a common wisdom now for decades that open source is more secure. Security is just a scapegoat here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:42:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789084</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Youtube's front page is terrible:<p>- Of the topmost 4 videos I would consider watching one because I am already subscribed to the channel and even have the particular video in Watch Later (so what's the point?)<p>- Shorts appearing again and again after I explicitly remove them, taking up valuable space<p>- Below some random videos half of which I am already subscribed to so I can see them in Subscriptions - no need for duplicates<p>- The other half in large part is of doomerism, although I don't watch that content</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:31:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776732</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47776732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It feels (nobody can prove it) that all user-facing applications are fully vibe-coded and no internal developers have any idea how they work, so they just keep redirecting user questions to Claude to answer on behalf of them. That's why they are dealing with regressions and downtimes every few releases as it's the usual pattern with vibe coding that bug keep resurfacing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:41:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748478</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47748478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am not talking specifically about him but when you reach a certain level in society and large enough umber of people start reading or listening what you are saying your every sentence must be extremely thoughtful because it might have unintended consequences, which are impossible to measure. That’s why so many leaders are publicly so boring and bland.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:03:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729504</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "EU Migration to and from the UK (Since Brexit)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is changing slowly, but the dynamics is so complex that it might as well reverse its course. In the mean time they are still dominating and will probably continue to do so over the coming decades (so for a generation or two more).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:46:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714884</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "EU Migration to and from the UK (Since Brexit)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most of the time for bureaucratic legalese you would need a local specialist either way, even if the documents were written in English because you need to know local laws (or where to look them up) also. Going back to the Netherlands example, I think that's a totally reasonable behavior on their part, yet never has been an issue to me not knowing Dutch, nor has been an issue to me not knowing Danish in Denmark. But for regular daily activities - Uber, restaurant, healthcare - communication is fluent and that's what matters for those living there temporary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:05:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688526</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "EU Migration to and from the UK (Since Brexit)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree that competition between peoples is counterproductive. But this is the world we live in. I also think that in large part international competition is pushed by the US as part of their culture and because they are the leading world power. In this world order, Europeans should be able to sit at the table as equals with other major powers.<p>Also, why does federalization have to mean the death of cultures? Can't we come up with ideas how to have both?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:30:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688162</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "EU Migration to and from the UK (Since Brexit)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, let's take the Netherlands or Scandinavian countries as example. Their languages are alive and well, yet temporary work immigrants can live fully functional lives with speaking only English. Europe will be held back economically as long as there are communication obstacles.<p>Anecdotally, English is the only foreign language I know well enough to communicate fluently. Suppose I received a job offer from Germany and decided to migrate. Should I start learning German along with learning at a new job and other obligations, keeping in mind I will probably switch jobs again in a few years? What's next - French or Italian?<p>Language should serve the people, not the other way around.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:25:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688131</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688131</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47688131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They have this new Mythos model. I am sure it can fix all the bugs and reliability issues since it's nearly AGI. /s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:35:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687123</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "EU Migration to and from the UK (Since Brexit)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same works the other way. English is a de facto lingua franca. Migrating between different countries within Europe comes with challenges because many countries still stubbornly implicitly require immigrants to know the native language. With the UK in the EU it was the path of least resistance when migration was considered temporary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:30:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687097</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was lucky at one point to work professionally with Clojure for several years and it has made a huge impact how I think and write code in other languages as well. Also, those other languages now seem needlessly verbose and annoying compared with Clojure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:56:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604982</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's not enough computer literacy among population and this 'gatekeeper' role is made up. I also have a Google account which was my main and only one for a very long time (starting from when the Gmail accounts were invite-only and were actually considered really cool) but over time I have come up with Plan A, Plan B and Plan C (which is where Google has been relegated to). I couldn't care less if my Google account somehow got locked. Comparing a service which has countless alternatives to essential workers is meaningless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:49:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604911</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Sony halts memory card shipments due to NAND shortage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How else will we be able to write these HN comments if data centers are not there to help us? By typing on our keyboards character by character? [1]<p>[1]: <a href="https://x.com/sama/status/2033935276079510011" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/sama/status/2033935276079510011</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:25:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586315</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The entire ticket was most likely created by Claude Code's analysis, i.e. hallucinated. Absurd.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:11:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571728</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All they (all big tech companies) have been doing for the past decades has been mining data for ads. Yet, they still are pretty much stuck on the same level:<p>- I search for and buy something, they keep showing me ads for the thing I don't need anymore.<p>- I check out some random product, they all think if they just show me one more ad with that product, I will surely buy it.<p>While I am not immune to ads and they help with brand recognition, it can sometimes serve opposite purpose than intended.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:00:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548191</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47548191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's barely anything worth watching on Netflix anymore but somehow their stock is rising and they manage to increase subscription prices. I had been subscribing on and off for the past few years but recently almost never because anything worth watching (for me anyway, although I don't have some weird intricate taste in media content) is elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:23:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547101</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Don't Wait for Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So far the only company that is really outspoken about the scale of their vibe coding has been Anthropic. However their uptime and bug count is atrocious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:16:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547029</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47547029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Don't Wait for Claude"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know how and if people really manage to run many tasks in parallel and also not check the output. Very recently I had two items that for a reasonably intelligent engineer wouldn't be very complex, but would take time to implement.<p>One of them was vibe-coding an Electron app for myself that was running a Llama server. Claude couldn't find out why it wasn't running on Windows while it worked fine on Linux and Mac. I obviously didn't check all its output but after several hours had a feeling that it was running in circles. Eventually we managed to cooperatively debug it after I gave it several hints but it wasted a a lot of time for a rather simple issue which was a challenge for me also because I didn't know well how the vibe-coded app worked.<p>The second one (can't go into details) was also something that's reasonably simple but I was finding awfully many bugs because unlike the first app, this one was for my job and I review everything. So we had to go back and forth for multiple hours.<p>How can someone just switch to another task while the current one requires constant handholding?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:13:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546985</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546985</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "The AI Industry Is Lying to You"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Here's an example [1] of him fumbling on simple arithmetic.<p>If you read just the _next_ paragraph after what this Timothy B. Lee conveniently screenshoted, you will find Ed Zitron saying this:<p>---
The exact quote from the affidavit is that “...[Anthropic] has generated substantial revenue since entering the commercial market—exceeding $5 billion to date,” and while boosters will say “uhm, it says “exceeding,” if it were anything higher than $5.5 billion Anthropic would’ve absolutely said so. 
---<p>I checked archive.org and Ed's article wasn't edited and it was saying that from the very beginning so I can only assume malicious misinformation presented by the X'er. So, you are saying he fumbled at simple arithmetic while showing the source which skips the half where he is absolutely correct in his arithmetic and even foresees what the "boosters" will claim.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529061</link><dc:creator>pllbnk</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529061</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pllbnk in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly, what's the purpose of things like this when anyone can open Claude Code  and ask it to create a cheat sheet of itself and even present it in any way you deem best for them?</p>
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