Hacker News: rsstack

New comment by rsstack in "The End of an Era"

rsstack — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:39:11 +0000

You're definitely in a certain environment of readers. There are populations living on this Earth reading AI-generated books that are available on Amazon, an AI-generated TV shows. I am not recommending you try to engage and consume that content, just saying that it exists and there are people that either don't notice or don't mind.

New comment by rsstack in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

rsstack — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:40:19 +0000

In this article, it's just an AI-generated TL;DR, tagline, sub-title box that was badly prompt-engineered and the website owners didn't care about its quality. I am pretty sure the entire website is an AI generated news aggregator.

New comment by rsstack in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

rsstack — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:42:42 +0000

> Explain Like I'm 5

> Buzz is an open-source, self-hosted workspace that combines team chat, AI agents and Git hosting using signed Nostr events, so teams can keep control of their data.

Very different expectations of 5-year-olds.

New comment by rsstack in "Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii"

rsstack — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:21:23 +0000

Her rowboat is fascinating: https://yourowkelsey.com/ https://yourowkelsey.com/about/

New comment by rsstack in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

rsstack — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:56:27 +0000

2/5 isn't quality, it's consistency as written there. The full links are at the bottom. Most of Spark's attempts are failures:

https://d1md4c6gq9re9p.cloudfront.net/blog/gpt-5.6-buildoff/...

New comment by rsstack in "Muse Spark 1.1"

rsstack — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:35:50 +0000

They were leading the race in a niche category a few years ago. Now they are, according to some benchmarks, even on the right playing field.

New comment by rsstack in "Small Penis Rule"

rsstack — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:56:23 +0000

Not everything is post-scarcity, mostly food and clothes. Land, fuel, weapons, art, fame, and labor are still limited resources in the Star Trek world. Also, not everywhere is post-scarcity, as we see many "poor" or restricted societies. The post-scarcity bit is mostly about a social safety net for individuals in the Federation.

New comment by rsstack in "Small Penis Rule"

rsstack — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:03:37 +0000

I tried to Google his joke, but couldn't find it quickly enough. It might have been part of a longer special.

New comment by rsstack in "Small Penis Rule"

rsstack — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:32:08 +0000

> Armin Shimerman addressed the issue when asked at a question-and-answer session at a Star Trek convention. He stated that:

> In America, people ask "Do the Ferengi represent Jews?" In England, they ask "Do the Ferengi represent the Irish?" In Australia, they ask if the Ferengi represent the Chinese ... The Ferengi represent the outcast ... it's the person who lives among us that we don't fully understand.[30]

New comment by rsstack in "Small Penis Rule"

rsstack — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:00:18 +0000

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?"

*Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

New comment by rsstack in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

rsstack — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:29:36 +0000

Will you document how to (AI-)author and share reusable workflows between team members, to ensure some consistency of quality?

Maybe blasphemy, but will workflows be able to use non-Anthropic LLMs (e.g., delegating some steps to local models, but design and review by Claude)?

New comment by rsstack in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

rsstack — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:09:23 +0000

Thank you! That's basically what I was asking.

New comment by rsstack in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

rsstack — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:52:49 +0000

All my corporate AML training says that not performing some KYC for large payments, directly or through a bank, is a crime in its own even if the recipient isn't sanctioned.

From Claude, maybe it's a little nuanced compared to conservative corporate policies, but doesn't feel very legal: "You can be charged with money laundering (18 USC 1956/1957 in the US, equivalents elsewhere) if you knowingly — or with willful blindness — process proceeds of crime. "I didn't ask" is not a defense if the circumstances were suspicious; deliberately avoiding KYC to preserve deniability is exactly what willful blindness doctrine targets. The recipient doesn't need to be formally sanctioned; the funds just need to be tainted."

New comment by rsstack in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

rsstack — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:13:47 +0000

How is it not a violation of AML laws to pay a ransom like this? Surely they didn't verify that the recipient (a criminal) isn't sanctioned or associated with sanctioned organizations.

New comment by rsstack in "AI Product Graveyard"

rsstack — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:21:36 +0000

It's counting acquisitions as "death". Not a useful list as is.

New comment by rsstack in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

rsstack — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:38:40 +0000

Philadelphia cheese brand is from New York. Presumably, the German market licenses the brand but produces locally in Europe and doesn't import from the US (New York and Wisconsin).

New comment by rsstack in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

rsstack — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:31:18 +0000

In New York it's the same, they make the license plates and also school furniture, and maybe other things too. I was scared for a moment when I was told by USPS Informed Delivery that I have incoming mail from Auburn Correctional Facility - but it was a license plate.

New comment by rsstack in "Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)"

rsstack — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:37:02 +0000

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

> This is used for namespacing and to ensure forward compatibility (since no elements will be added to HTML, SVG, or MathML with hyphen-containing local names going forward).

So things that work today without a dash might break in the future if , for example, becomes a standard HTML element.

New comment by rsstack in "OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems"

rsstack — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:58:06 +0000

Customer A pays you $100 for goods that cost you $10. You invest $100-$10=$90 in customer B so that they'll pay you $90 for goods that cost you $9. Your reported revenue is now $100+$90=$190, but the only money that entered the system is the original $100.

New comment by rsstack in "Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters"

rsstack — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:27:23 +0000

In the early stages of that pilot, the backup person was off-site in a call center so the higher the AI failure rate was the more expensive the program was. If they realized it's better to have the backup person be the order-taker, that's pretty good.