Hacker News: quinncom

New comment by quinncom in "Show HN: Superlog (YC P26) – Observability that installs itself and fixes bugs"

quinncom — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:02:31 +0000

I don’t use Slack either. What about solo indie founders who don’t use “team communication”?

New comment by quinncom in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

quinncom — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:01:33 +0000

Plaid is criticized because it’s a public-facing mechanism for third-party access into your finances, but many companies already have access without you knowing. In the US, many banks share nonpublic info such as transactions with retailers, marketers, government agencies, and others. They’re allowed to do so under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. Report from the GOA:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-21-36

New comment by quinncom in "Show HN: Free tool to see how much AI bots are costing your site"

quinncom — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:02:14 +0000

The article doesn't really get into the details. Does it analyze the user agent and compare it to a list of known bot user agents? What about all the bots that spoof user agent values – does it do something special to detect those?

New comment by quinncom in "What causes lightning? The answer keeps getting more interesting"

quinncom — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:48:26 +0000

It must have been so fun to be Benjamin Franklin. He installed an electric bell in-line on his first lightning rods so that this increase in electrical potential would cause the bell to ring, signaling that the danger for lightning was increased.

You can experience this voltage potential firsthand: take a friend to a hill or somewhere where high‑voltage power lines are nearer to the ground. One person, wearing rubber-soled shoes, stands tall with an arm in the air. The other squats down with both hands on the ground. The standing person uses the non-raised hand to gently touch the sensitive skin of the other person (ear lobe, lips), and they can feel an electric arc.

New comment by quinncom in "Ask HN: How do you find good personal blogs on Google nowadays?"

quinncom — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:52:22 +0000

Kagi’s small web app is fun: https://kagi.com/smallweb/

New comment by quinncom in "Claude Code CVE-2026-39861:sandbox escape via symlink"

quinncom — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:20:23 +0000

Probably it did, but just thought, “I’m saving this one just for me”

New comment by quinncom in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

quinncom — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:50:13 +0000

Obviously I’m virtue signaling, and I hope instilling a feeling of shame in people who support businesses that contribute to climate change.

But more than that, the emissions generated by the Colossus data centers are far worse than typical combined-cycle gas plants or data centers that buy renewable: these turbines emit NOx, fine particulates, carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde into a population-dense area.

I thought people knew about this already. Post from last year: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xai-data-center/

New comment by quinncom in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

quinncom — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:55:23 +0000

One of the reasons I refuse to use xAI’s models is because of the outsized negative environmental impacts of the methane gas turbines.

Now I have to avoid Claude too.

New comment by quinncom in "Show HN: Weather app to show actual performance of weather models"

quinncom — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:31:31 +0000

I’m getting a “Forecast API error: 429 - Too many concurrent requests” error.

New comment by quinncom in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

quinncom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:01:10 +0000

Do you know how much it affects your deep sleep duration?

People who drink caffeine at night may claim to be able to sleep still, but they will find that deep sleep stages are shorter, which is significant because it may be the most important type of sleep.

New comment by quinncom in "Mexico's President Sheinbaum Decrees Universal Healthcare for 120M"

quinncom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:50:37 +0000

Mexico already has “universal healthcare.” The public hospitals are so bad and chaotic that most people who can afford to pay private insurance so they can go to private hospitals.

The article doesn't state explicitly, but I guess this new decree changes the qualifying rules. For example, that even if you have private insurance, you can still access public healthcare facilities.

I don't see how this is going to work unless they also improve the resources to the public facilities.

New comment by quinncom in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

quinncom — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:52:05 +0000

You can try McFly [1] and Television [2]. I still prefer fzf.

[1] https://github.com/cantino/mcfly

[2] https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television

New comment by quinncom in "Tell HN: If working with agents means this, robots, please take my job"

quinncom — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:59:49 +0000

“We found that the phenomenon described in these posts—cognitive exhaustion from intensive oversight of AI agents—is both real and significant. We call it “AI brain fry,” which we define as mental fatigue from excessive use or oversight of AI tools beyond one’s cognitive capacity.”

https://hbr.org/2026/03/when-using-ai-leads-to-brain-fry

New comment by quinncom in "Ask HN: Did you ever have a supernatural experience?"

quinncom — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:40:45 +0000

I've never experienced a miracle, but I'm surrounded by people who claim to have seen one or know somebody who did. I'm still waiting for mine.

I met with a supposedly realized Buddhist master in a monastery in Nepal and asked him if he had ever had a supernatural experience (Buddhist cosmology has many stories about enlightened people flying, walking through walls, etc). At first he had difficulty understanding the question (the translator seemed to have difficulty finding the right words). Finally he replied with a blunt “No.” But then amended that with the inconclusive statement, “If a supernatural event occurred, by it existing, it would immediately cease to be supernatural because there would be some explanation for it.”

New comment by quinncom in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

quinncom — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:08:35 +0000

If I had been tethering to mobile hotspot at the time it would have instantly used 500 pesos of data. That’s 3x my monthly electric bill.

New comment by quinncom in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

quinncom — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:22:29 +0000

I accidentally clicked the Claude Cowork button inside the Claude desktop app. I never used it. I didn't notice anything at the time, but a week later I discovered the huge VM file on my disk.

It would be really nice to ask the user, “Are you sure you want to use Cowork, it will download and install a huge VM on your disk.”

New comment by quinncom in "Claude Code Remote Control"

quinncom — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:31:44 +0000

Happy is buggy af and is in the middle of a rewrite (see its Discord).

A fork named Happier looks promising, but is alpha-stage and is also a mystery-meat vibe-coded security roulette.

New comment by quinncom in "pz: pi coding-agent in Zig"

quinncom — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:59:22 +0000

The README claims “Full feature parity with pi,” but I presume pz does not support pi’s extension/package ecosystem (because they’re all writted in TS and so would require bundling node/bun) – is that correct? One of the highlights of pi is its extensibility; if that’s not possible with pz, it should be clearly stated as a goal/nongoal.

New comment by quinncom in "Show HN: ContextVM – Running MCP over Nostr"

quinncom — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:07:15 +0000

I just learned yesterday that ChatGPT (and maybe others) can’t connect to a MCP running on localhost; it needs an endpoint on the public internet. (I guess because the request comes from OpenAI servers?)

I’d rather not expose a private MCP to the public, so ContextVM sounds like a step in the right direction. But I’m confused about how it is called: doesn’t OpenAI’s servers still need you to provide a public endpoint with a domain name and TLS? Or does it use a Nostr API?

How to build a bootstrapped startup without funding

quinncom — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:19:58 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/2026394719434236261

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144106

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