<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: reedf1</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=reedf1</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:24:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=reedf1" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean possibly. I interact in the space and there is almost no information in a cancelled subscription. There is more information in how much you spent on takeaway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716059</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Subscriptions are not a contract of payment. Your bank pre-authorizes these payments, simply ask them to remove pre-authorization. If they can't do that, then the bank is spending your money without your consent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:58:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714965</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You haven't signed any agreement or opened any lines of credit - I would be amazed if there was any jurisdiction in the entire world where this would affect your credit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:57:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714956</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>bullshit - canceling the authorization will have no affect on your account at all, the subscription will just end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:53:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714929</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714929</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47714929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And homer and the entire corpus of greek plays.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:20:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602925</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've always been a bit embarrassed by the extent of my self-conciousness, but recently I'm starting to think of it as more of a virtue than a hindrance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:16:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602865</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47602865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Believe it or not; it is an enormous luxury to be able to ignore politics.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:42:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587273</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Ask HN: Where have you found the coding limits of current models?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Layers of abstraction. Most noticeably with inheritance and general OOP concepts. I've tried to force it, assuming it prefers a more functional or simple class style; but it genuinely struggles to generate (but not understand) what I might call a typical system in an OOP paradigm with well defined abstractions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:27:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573406</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573406</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Douglas Lenat's Automated Mathematician Source Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Includes D&D character sheet:<p><a href="https://www.saildart.org/NWOR[AM,DBL]1" rel="nofollow">https://www.saildart.org/NWOR[AM,DBL]1</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:47:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571971</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Last gasps of the rent seeking class?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>funny. people are probably more likely to know him as geohot here. and afaik he is ex-comma. a more likely motivation (if you wanted to suppose one) is that he sells local compute. <a href="https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox" rel="nofollow">https://tinygrad.org/#tinybox</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:25:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545652</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545652</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47545652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: 'Engaged Students, Joyful Teachers'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They are not allowed in any school I've been to, especially during class.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:06:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456590</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456590</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Oregon School Cell Phone Ban: 'Engaged Students, Joyful Teachers'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My understanding is that these are already banned in most schools and the practical difference between enforcing this at a state or national basis is basically nonexistent vs simple local enforcement.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:04:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456572</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456572</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47456572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Given that it is the general consensus that a step function occurred with Opus 4.5/4.6 only 3 months ago - it seems like an insane omission.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:30:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349671</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349671</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Google to Provide Pentagon with AI Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pete Hegseth: Hey Google, what are the best bits of Iran to bomb to maximize civilian damage?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:48:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333933</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47333933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No country will be truly coal-free until they are a net energy exporter and they do not import any goods that use coal-based energy in their supply chain. Europe has de-industrialized which means it has effectively exported its coal burden.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:11:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308021</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308021</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We are still in early days and I'm sure this isn't the best way to approach this but here is what I do.<p>1. Agent context with platform/system idiosyncrasies, how to access tools, this is actually kept pretty minimal - and a line directing it to the plan document.<p>2. A plan document on how to make changes to the repo and work that needs to be done. This is a living document pruned by the orchestrating agent. Included in this document is a directive written by you to use, update the document after ever run. Here also is a guide on benchmarking, regression, unit tests that need to be performed every time.<p>2a. When an agent has a code change it is then analyzed by a council of subagents, each focused on a different area, some examples, security, maintainability, system architect, business domain expert. I encourage these to be adversarial "red team". We sit in the core loop until the code changes pass through the council.<p>2b. Additional subagents to create documentation, build architecture diagrams etc.<p>2c. A suggested workflow is created on how to independently invoke testing, and subagent, etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:29:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307645</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Build a redteam into your feedback mechanism. Seriously. You've identified the problem and even solved it. Now automate it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:17:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307559</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have a fair perspective and I'm not going to try to move you from it. You have my exact opinion as of 3 months ago. I will just suggest you earnestly try it yourself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:47:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307328</link><dc:creator>reedf1</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by reedf1 in "Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Honestly people are in such a weird place with this shit. I'm not saying don't read the fucking code - but I managed to get my setup to write 100k lines of indistinguishable SWE code in a week or so. The main limitation was my reading speed. This is something like a 10x speedup for me.</p>
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<p>The same is true with human engineers - isn't this just what engineering is?</p>
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