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New comment by rockostrich in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

rockostrich — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:09:09 +0000

Low cost carriers are almost an entirely different industry than traditional airlines. For example, Frontier has a loyalty program as well as their "Go Wild" pass which is essentially "Movie Pass" for flying domestically in the US, but that operates as a loss leader for ancillaries, where they make most of their money (around $70 per passenger). As others have mentioned, RyanAir also has a loyalty program that they lose money on.

Traditional airlines are very much like Starbucks nowadays in that they are essentially banks, but low cost carriers are closer to movie theaters where they essentially make nothing selling the actual seat so the more people they get in the door, the more they can make on ancillaries.

New comment by rockostrich in "I am building a cloud"

rockostrich — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:40:32 +0000

At the end of the day it's all different levels of abstractions and whether or not you're using the abstraction correctly. With k8s, the best practices are mostly set in a lot of use cases. For LLMs, we still have no idea what the best practices are.

New comment by rockostrich in "A Brief History of Fish Sauce"

rockostrich — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:18:25 +0000

I usually have a tube of anchovy paste in the fridge for whenever I make Caesar salad, but in the rare times that I don't I just use fish sauce in the dressing instead and it works surprisingly well.

New comment by rockostrich in "Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS"

rockostrich — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:11:11 +0000

You will want to search for IPTV services. It's a bit of a wild west out there but I'd recommend finding one that has a Discord. Most will offer a free trial for 24 hours or a week for you to try them out.

New comment by rockostrich in "Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS"

rockostrich — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:09:42 +0000

The NBA is similarly annoying. It's $110 for the season to watch all non-blacked out games. As a Knicks fan, it was great when I was living in Philly because I could watch all Knicks games unless they were nationally broadcast or if they were playing the Sixers. Now that I live in NJ I'm technically in the NY broadcast region. The only way for me to watch local games legally is to have MSG through a cable provider or pay for Gotham Sports Plus which is $35/month.

New comment by rockostrich in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

rockostrich — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:53:26 +0000

I don't know if we're all 10x'ing but our entire org is shipping PRs using an in-house framework akin to Stripe's Minions [1] and many of those PRs are generated from Slack. We definitely have work to do on the latter part of the SDLC to have more confidence in these changes but we can still rely on the existing observability layer to make sure things are working as expected.

Another commenter mentioned that Docker, git, etc. were all tools that greatly enhanced productivity and coding agents are just another tool that does that. I would agree, but argue that it's more impactful than all of those tools combined.

[1] https://stripe.dev/blog/minions-stripes-one-shot-end-to-end-...

New comment by rockostrich in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

rockostrich — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:52:21 +0000

Same here. I do well in existing codebases because I can follow patterns and adapt to existing limitations but starting a new project is always so daunting to me. Writing a spec and iterating on it is so much more natural than writing code in a new project for me.

New comment by rockostrich in "Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity"

rockostrich — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:55:39 +0000

It doesn't prove anything. It provides context for why someone would make that statement. Can you prove that things that do not need to eat and drink to survive can suffer?

New comment by rockostrich in "Show HN: Emdash – Open-source agentic development environment"

rockostrich — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:28:47 +0000

This is essentially just setting up an MCP connection to your kanban provider and instructing the agent to plan out an epic. I did this this morning for some data modeling our team needed to do. For the most part it generated a good set of tickets, but there were some hallucinations due to ambiguity. Reviewing the already written out tickets was much better than writing them out myself.

But the standard that will hopefully take over in most mature shops is spec driven development where instead of a team reviewing code, they review a spec which is used to generate tasks and subsequently code to satisfy the spec. Then 2 kanban boards exist. One for writing and submitting specs and another for the agents themselves to implement the approved specs.

New comment by rockostrich in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

rockostrich — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:26:03 +0000

These chips are large by fab standards and even with state of the art processes we likely won't see any kind of integration on consumer tech any time soon, but I imagine they will absolutely see instant demand if they can deliver on what they laid out in the post.

New comment by rockostrich in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

rockostrich — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:23:16 +0000

> From my own experience, models are at the tipping point for being useful at prototypes in software

You must not have much experience using the new frontier models then. A lot of large tech companies are replacing their SDLC with agentic workflows. The tooling and frameworks are still ramping up, but the models have no problem producing production ready software given proper specifications.

New comment by rockostrich in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

rockostrich — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:10:36 +0000

But at one point the model is sufficiently large enough to accomplish any task a human could specify. For software development, I think we're pretty much at that point with the latest Anthropic/Google/OpenAI models. We have no idea where the direction of token pricing is going to go in the future, but the consensus seems to be that it will only get more expensive. If Taalas can offer the same functionality that we have with frontier models today at a 1/10 of the cost and 10x the speed then they're going to take over a large part of the market.

New comment by rockostrich in "Hugging Face Skills"

rockostrich — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:33:15 +0000

Except they're still not accepting any feedback around AGENTS.md as a standard. You need to explicitly symlink CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md in a workspace in order to Claude to work like every other agent when it comes to loading context.

New comment by rockostrich in "Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity"

rockostrich — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:48:42 +0000

In the entire span of human history, the concept of suffering required sentience and the only things with sentience eat and drink.

New comment by rockostrich in "Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity"

rockostrich — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:52:16 +0000

The intent is good, but it will end up just pricing out everyone but Google, Amazon, and Microsoft (and the start-ups those companies bankroll).

New comment by rockostrich in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"

rockostrich — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:10:06 +0000

Seems like SLUM is down.

New comment by rockostrich in "A web developer posted a payment shaming message on their client's site"

rockostrich — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:06:08 +0000

I would guess that they use their own domain for email and the dev manages the domain.

New comment by rockostrich in "Ask HN: Why Did Python Win?"

rockostrich — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:16:18 +0000

If you look at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/, Python's growth really started in 2018 which was before langchain, streamlit, and fastapi.

New comment by rockostrich in "Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable"

rockostrich — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:00:19 +0000

You don't even need to do that. You can just put each set of repos in a directory on a per-account basis and set up git-configs for each. The top of my `.gitconfig` looks like

    [includeIf "gitdir:~/Work/"]
      path = .gitconfig_work
    [includeIf "gitdir:~/OpenSource/"]
      path = .gitconfig_opensource

where `Work` is where all of our repos associated with our GitHub EMU go and `OpenSource` is where I clone all of the open source repos I need to contribute to for work. Our EMU policy doesn't allow us to use our EMU accounts on other repos (or maybe this is just a general restriction of EMU) so I have that set-up to use my personal GitHub.

New comment by rockostrich in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

rockostrich — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:54:47 +0000

McMaster-Carr's website is actually pretty impressive given how unassuming it is. It does a ton of pre-loading on hover and caching to make it feel like you're just navigating a static site. I didn't even realize that the page had a loading state until I enabled throttling from my network tab and immediately clicked on a link as soon as I hovered over it.