Hacker News: quxbar

New comment by quxbar in "Anthropic S-1"

quxbar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:57:06 +0000

This is like somebody with a construction job who buys a new $100,000 truck - just because you paid that much to do your work doesn't mean somebody couldn't have accomplished the same with 1/5th the expense.

New comment by quxbar in "Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work"

quxbar — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:10:40 +0000

It's more like saying 'I don't care if monsanto goes under because I will save my own seeds to plant next year's crops'.

New comment by quxbar in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

quxbar — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:51:05 +0000

Seconding this! It's a great pairing.

New comment by quxbar in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

quxbar — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:50:22 +0000

In fact, having a physicalized 3D representation of the cities is IMHO antithetical to the text. I don't think OP ever stopped to ask if there was more to Calvino's work than 'cool city descriptions'.

New comment by quxbar in "An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism"

quxbar — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:33:27 +0000

The joke's on us, today's highly rewarding LLM language tics are tomorrow's vernacular (ALLMVE?)

New comment by quxbar in "Waymo in Dallas"

quxbar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:28:42 +0000

Here in Austin, I'm stuck calling an uber and hoping I get a Waymo. When does that deal expire?

New comment by quxbar in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

quxbar — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:56:46 +0000

IME: Cycling bibs and shorts from knockoff amazon brands seem to be of equal quality to entry-level name brand stuff (pearl izumi) at a fraction of the price. Plain underwear, on the other hand, has serious want of quality vs 'real' athleisure brands (nike, underarmor, hanes). I was surprised to have such different experiences with two similar product categories.

New comment by quxbar in ""No Feigning Surprise""

quxbar — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:57:39 +0000

Love this, it's like Randall Munroe x Lynda Barry

New comment by quxbar in "Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster"

quxbar — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:42:16 +0000

About time somebody started flooding the millennial nostalgia collectibles market with fakes.

New comment by quxbar in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

quxbar — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:46:26 +0000

Ah yes, my first love. I remember creating a quiz game based on greek mythology, and a little RPG where I realized the power of exponential functions by wrecking my power curve.

New comment by quxbar in "Programming Still Sucks"

quxbar — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:17:27 +0000

I don't agree with everything this piece concludes, but I do admire getting to read through a whole HN article without feeling the sheen of AI co-authorship.

New comment by quxbar in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

quxbar — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:57:27 +0000

I actually realized last night that everything that got me excited about the internet circa 2013 is actually way easier now, fun little one-off websites are far more doable, but we've lost the zeitgeist perhaps. It makes me wanna move back to NYC and go to BrooklynJS again.

New comment by quxbar in "Commenting and Approving Pull Requests"

quxbar — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:14:40 +0000

I started doing this a few years ago, it works a treat with non-junior engineers. With the right testing in place, review becomes more about communicating the ideas clearly rather than gatekeeping.

New comment by quxbar in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

quxbar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:15:07 +0000

If you go outside and they are burning witches, it's best to go along with it.

New comment by quxbar in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

quxbar — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:07:11 +0000

I really miss the old way of doing things. I know it was a maintenance nightmare, but I only really value having an iphone app with native notifications that lets me see exactly the same stuff I would see on my laptop. I don't manage a ton of agents, I typically have one main task I am focusing on and possibly another smaller task on the back burner.

New comment by quxbar in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

quxbar — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:41:16 +0000

Yes, look at the massive 'success' of Vail, Colorado.

New comment by quxbar in "Quality Food Comes from Constraints"

quxbar — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:24:37 +0000

While refrigerated transport came with great benefits - everyday families who previously had meat only 1 or 2 nights a week could have it daily! - but I don't think we've yet realized the impact of only consuming food that has been dead and stored for several days.

New comment by quxbar in "[dead]"

quxbar — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:48:42 +0000

By your own logic, anything that can be done 'for women' would equally benefit you. You are in a woman's societal role, and being marginalized to the point of invisibility comes with the territory.

New comment by quxbar in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

quxbar — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:39:48 +0000

My mother always enjoyed playing Jeopardy! on alexa, it was a novel format and everybody could participate while sitting around and chatting. She happily would have paid for it, even the dreaded monthly subscription, but it was neglected. The service started being buggy (lagging, repeatedly restarting the day's question series) and now they've moved on.

If anyone knows of an open-source alternative I could stitch together, I am all ears!

New comment by quxbar in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

quxbar — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:02:49 +0000

After the better part of a decade spent with chromecast and legal streaming, I have been forced back to the high seas as of late. I can't reliably get programs without onerous subscriptions, each for one or two shows I actually care about.