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New comment by reenorap in "Student Debt Burdened Them, So They Moved Abroad and Stopped Paying"

reenorap — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:30:08 +0000

Paying your debts is a business decision, not a moral decision. There is nothing moral about paying your debt to a bank and nothing immoral about not paying your debt to a bank.

Businesses do this ALL THE TIME. Businesses can do this, and will walk away from debt the second when the math makes sense. If it's okay for businesses, then the exact same behavior should be okay for us humans to do. I walked away from my house at the height of the financial crisis. It was a business decision, because the mortgage was far larger than the value of my house.

Student loans are the only reason why tuition has gone up 10x in 30 years. Every financial entity from banks to schools feel like it's okay to hang students out to dry with large debts because they will have to pay for it for the rest of their lives. I hope a large portion of the debt disappears because the students simply walk away from the US.

New comment by reenorap in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

reenorap — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:23:23 +0000

Can't she just return the money from the severance agreement and rescind the NDA?

New comment by reenorap in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

reenorap — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:44:18 +0000

The title is extremely deceitful. They filed H1Bs for 2025 and 2026, but not after or during the layoffs from last week.

That’s like saying “Oracle hires tens of thousands and mass layoffs” (* hired during the pandemic)

New comment by reenorap in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

reenorap — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:06:48 +0000

The threads on that /r/sysadmin post sound exactly like every sysadmin I've ever worked with in my career.

New comment by reenorap in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

reenorap — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:20:57 +0000

I panic bought a Macbook Pro M5 Max with 128 GB ram. I yolo'ed because I don't think ram prices get better in 18 months so this might be the last time we see "cheap" memory, even though the laptop cost me $5000.

New comment by reenorap in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

reenorap — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:18:59 +0000

memmaker for the win!

New comment by reenorap in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

reenorap — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:16:37 +0000

This is an extinction event for the low-cost cell phone companies. How are they going to survive if they can't sell their $100 phones profitably for 2 years? I think many of the low-end companies will simply sell their allocations of RAM and close up shop.

New comment by reenorap in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

reenorap — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:12:37 +0000

If your prompt to Claude isn't "This program doesn't seem to work properly. The log files indicate that writing to the database keeps occurring over and over again. What is the cause?" and if it doesn't actual fix the problem without anything more than the above prompt, then you're not using it properly.

New comment by reenorap in "Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks"

reenorap — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:16:15 +0000

> each evening, it withdrew to a covered location.

Why? Isn't the advantage that it can stay in a position indefinitely? Does it not have infrared cameras, etc?

New comment by reenorap in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

reenorap — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:26:15 +0000

I also have 30+ years of experience.

If you are "match or beat Claude at the tasks" you give it, you're using it wrong. You sound like some of my coworkers that are eschewing AI or are minimizing it. The ones such as yourself who find AI annoying or not useful are the ones who are going to go extinct during the next few years.

The new era of programmers aren't going to be the most "skilled" ones but the most mentally agile and flexible ones because things are going to be changing so quickly. No one knows where our field is going to end up but we know the path is going to be fast paced and will keep changing and only those with mental flexibility and agility will be able to keep up.

New comment by reenorap in "U.S. exempts oil industry from protecting Gulf animals, for 'national security'"

reenorap — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:32:51 +0000

It's millions of barrels per day not billions.

New comment by reenorap in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

reenorap — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:53:34 +0000

You must not be using it right because where I work, a Big Tech company, it's been transformational. Things that would take me a day to code takes minutes. I can't coded since last year. I can see why software engineering as a career is a dead end job now, I spend most of my time testing and code reviewing instead of coding.

New comment by reenorap in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

reenorap — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:19:08 +0000

What effect will this have on their IPO? Can someone take the code and make a clone?

New comment by reenorap in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

reenorap — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:25:26 +0000

The only way AI will be profitable to companies like Anthropic or OpenAI is to make the cost $1000-2000/month or more for coding. Every programmer will be forced to pay for it because it's only a fraction of their salary (in the US anyway) and it's the only way the programmer will be competitive. Whether the company pays for it, or they pay for it themselves, it will need to be paid.

There's no other way that these companies can compete against the likes of Google, and Facebook unless they sell themselves to these companies. With AWS and GCP spending hundreds of billions of dollars per year, there's no way that Anthropic or OpenAI can continue competing unless they make an absurd amount of money and throw that at resources like their own datacenters, etc and they can't do that at $20/month.

New comment by reenorap in "Tony Hoare has died"

reenorap — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 23:16:47 +0000

Once verified, I definitely think the creator of Quicksort deserves a black bar.

New comment by reenorap in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

reenorap — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:44:09 +0000

At worse back in 1988 it impacted only PCs.

This shortage in 2026 is more consequential across the board and impacts consumer electronics as a whole and the fact it's going to last years means that many low cost manufacturers are going to close up shop because they won't be profitable.

New comment by reenorap in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

reenorap — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:23:07 +0000

I've been in tech for ~40 years now and I've never seen anything like this. The downstream repercussions on consumer products that have no access to cheap memory is devastating and is an extinction level event for most low-cost providers of cell phones, tvs, etc.

Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage

reenorap — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:13:43 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apples-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgement-of-the-ram-shortage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47288361

Points: 5

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New comment by reenorap in "Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs"

reenorap — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:28:16 +0000

US treasuries are exempt from state tax but you didn't mention them. And Municipal bonds have no taxes but a lower rate.

New comment by reenorap in "Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs"

reenorap — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:25:37 +0000

My read of this answer is "There really is no difference except you pay us 0.25% for 'ease of use'".