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New comment by ra0x3 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ra0x3 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:24:16 +0000

I do want to follow up to my own comment here, and just mention that I realize that capital's entire point is to get us to blame each other instead of capital (e.g., American software vs Indian|Chinese|etc software).

The moral of the story is that two things can be true at the same time: A lot of H1Bs are rightfully thrilled at the opportunity to work for decent US companies and make decent money to provide for their family. While a lot of American engineers are rightfully wary of the knock-on effects of hiring workers who can be cheaper and more 'malleable' (in a manner of speaking).

New comment by ra0x3 in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ra0x3 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:46:55 +0000

> I think the situation is quite simple. Companies want the best candidates they can get, and the larger the recruitment pool, the better.

Respectfully, this sounds terribly naive.

New comment by ra0x3 in "Meta to pay $17B, overhaul Facebook and Instagram"

ra0x3 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:59:38 +0000

Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448819

Show HN: Systemg compares to other process managers

ra0x3 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 15:15:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sysg.dev/blog/2026-08-21/how-systemg-compares

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49435594

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: SystemG – An agent-friendly general process composer

ra0x3 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:26:12 +0000

Article URL: https://sysg.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49377572

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ra0x3 in "Ask HN: How can you tell a site/app is vibe coded?"

ra0x3 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:08:57 +0000

For B2B SaaS apps, you'll notice that the panels and navs (top navigation, bottom navigation, left-navigation, etc) are much smaller (which is a slightly more 'modern' look) - e.g., OpenAI/Claude dashboards. In general components are more uniform/standard, fonts are smaller. Again, this is just what I've noticed for specifically B2B SaaS apps. If you ask Claude Design to build you one - you'll see exactly what I'm referring to.

I honestly don't mind it. For these B2B SaaS apps its nice to have some site consistency. It almost reminds me of a a new "Bootstrap" way of doing things.

New comment by ra0x3 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

ra0x3 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:38:33 +0000

I've always ran into an issue running arbitrary processes - whether it be for serious production work, or just toy scripts. So many choices with so many dependencies, featuring so many foot-guns. So I decided to take a stab at solving the problem. Would love any feedback or contributors :)

SystemG - An agent-friendly general process composer.

- https://sysg.dev/

- https://github.com/ra0x3/systemg

- https://docs.rs/systemg/latest/systemg/

Show HN: Remove LinkedIn reaction-promoted posts using uBlock

ra0x3 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:45:12 +0000

If you're like me, and 99% of your LinkedIn feed is just "likes this" or "celebrates this" repost spam from LinkedIn to make it "appear" like their feed is an actual feed, add this to your uBlock filters:

linkedin.com##div:has(> h2):has-text(/likes this/i) linkedin.com##div:has(> h2):has-text(/celebrates this/i) linkedin.com##div:has(> h2):has-text(/supports this/i) linkedin.com##div:has(> h2):has-text(/loves this/i) linkedin.com##div:has(> h2):has-text(/finds this insightful/i) linkedin.com##div:has(> h2):has-text(/finds this funny/i)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49213110

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ra0x3 in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

ra0x3 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:27:35 +0000

I understand the source is thehindu.com - but I'm assuming there's no way we can get that title updated? "Government orders..." sort've misleadingly implies something that "Indian government orders..." does not.

New comment by ra0x3 in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

ra0x3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:36:41 +0000

Great point. Devs have relatively no incentive to be more productive for their orgs, and all the incentive to be more productive on their own personal work. The AI benefit to devs is real, just not for large enterprises IMO outside of automating clerical/mundane work.

New comment by ra0x3 in "non-tech founder + choosing between buying ClaudeCode or CodeX"

ra0x3 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:13:20 +0000

A bit of meta: Claude Design -> Claude Code or Codex.

IMO Claude Code almost feels like a hack for getting web-ish products off the ground. It does such a great job of making the UI mockups interactive and providing a great "base" that the agents can use. Once you get that "base" the way you want in Claude Design, export it, then literally just tell your agent "Hey, the exported design project is /at/this/path - read it and implement it". No it's seriously been that simple - either agent can handle it. From there, you can A/B test to see which agent you prefer. The better agent is going to depend on your project and your prompting.

Good luck :)

New comment by ra0x3 in "GPT-5.6"

ra0x3 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:49:38 +0000

My final answer on this is that we just can't say anything affirmative because all of our projects/codebases are completely different. I've gone back and forth on the "codex vs claude" being better, and while I'm currently of the believe that Claude is superior, I understand that might be the case for _my_ particular set of projects and _my_ personal way of interacting with the model.

China, Russia and Others Seek to Inflame Debate over A.I. Data Centers

ra0x3 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:05:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/business/china-russia-ai-data-centers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48852364

Points: 12

# Comments: 3

New comment by ra0x3 in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

ra0x3 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:52:40 +0000

Meh, seems he's using arbitrary metrics to make arbitrary claims (which is fine). But to just state that "Life is so much better in 2026 than in 1926 for Americans" is obviously a pretty nebulous statement. It's like saying "Beaches in 2026 are so much better than beaches in 1926". Sure you could cherry-pick some metrics to make the case, and someone else could cherry-pick metrics to make the opposite case. Sort've a "talking just to hear yourself talk" kind've thing.

New comment by ra0x3 in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"

ra0x3 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:40:44 +0000

I think Elon owns a lot of real estate in these guys’ heads. When you have $200B+ in the bank, little else matters others than being seen as a titan of industry IMO. I think the fact that Musk has Tesla and Spacex (even with all his extra curricular activities) makes a guy like Zuckerberg seethe that he’s just “the internet websites guy”.

Ask HN: Could someone invite me to lobste.rs?

ra0x3 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:18:29 +0000

HackerNews user since 2014. Would love to join lobste.rs, as I've been a lurker there for quite some time.

Email in profile.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48753889

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

LLMs as a Last Resort

ra0x3 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:29:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stonehedgelabs.com/blog/llms-as-a-last-resort

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48752687

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Any OSS models as good as GPT-4o-mini?

ra0x3 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:45:00 +0000

Exactly what the title says. I've recently realized I rarely need something as powerful as GPT5 (or as expensive!). GPT-4o-mini has been doing the job well. Curious to see if OSS has caught up to this model in anyone's experience.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48692961

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ra0x3 in "The CAPTCHA arms race: from distorted text to browser identity"

ra0x3 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:01:22 +0000

TLDR: They're promoting a product they're working on with Cloudfare under the guise of it being an "open standard" [1]. Of course, in the docs, Step 1 is "Sign in with your Cloudfare account". Comes across a bit land-grabby.

[1] https://www.browserbase.com/blog/cloudflare-browserbase-pion...

New comment by ra0x3 in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

ra0x3 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:55:54 +0000

Not sure why you're being downvoted. Maybe a little preachy, but the gist of the point isn't incorrect