Hacker News: rwc

New comment by rwc in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

rwc — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:16:51 +0000

The "credit" for that move actually belongs to WarnerBros Discovery

New comment by rwc in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

rwc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:12:24 +0000

Astropad Workbench

New comment by rwc in "Saying No"

rwc — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:37:20 +0000

* to spite your face

New comment by rwc in "Safari Technology Preview 248 Released"

rwc — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:55:51 +0000

(bonus: this is not exclusively a Safari feature, this is a macOS feature)

New comment by rwc in "You only need the frontier model for one single edit"

rwc — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:11:46 +0000

Just specify that the more efficient model should only be used if the cost of doing the task would be less than using the higher horsepower model. Fable has no problem routing based on that instruction.

New comment by rwc in "Loom doubles prices, offers no export functionality"

rwc — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:48:07 +0000

"Starting on your first billing date after the integration, your price will change from $10/user/month → $18/user/month"

Loom doubles prices, offers no export functionality

rwc — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://support.atlassian.com/loom/docs/loom-customer-integration-with-atlassian-pricing-billing-and-role-changes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48777088

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rwc in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

rwc — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:02:43 +0000

The timing (after 5pm ET on a Friday) is telling. Build a KYC module over the weekend and we’ll be back on Fable after uploading our ID Monday morning.

New comment by rwc in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

rwc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:28:35 +0000

Just installed and I have to say, works exactly as promised. This is a huge quality of life upgrade, thank you for sharing it Paul.

New comment by rwc in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

rwc — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:23:12 +0000

Now do it 100x every day and see if it gets old :)

New comment by rwc in "Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM"

rwc — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:32:23 +0000

Contrastive negation continues to be a dead giveaway.

New comment by rwc in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

rwc — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:24:19 +0000

The unrelenting human belief that one is special, unique, and capable of things no one else is.

New comment by rwc in "The window chrome of our discontent"

rwc — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:20:53 +0000

"None of the siblings got it right."

Perfectly proving my point. It's a meaningless argument built on vibes that every reader interprets differently.

New comment by rwc in "The window chrome of our discontent"

rwc — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:09:17 +0000

"shareholder-enforced enshittification" what on earth could this possibly mean?

New comment by rwc in "Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)"

rwc — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:51:38 +0000

I mean, I don’t know what I was expecting but I clicked anyway…

New comment by rwc in "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash"

rwc — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:35:17 +0000

Early audience response suggested the message struggled to land. According to an iSpot survey of 500 viewers, the ad’s likeability score placed it in the bottom 3% compared with Super Bowl ads over the past five years. Its top-two-box purchase intent scored 24% below Super Bowl norms and 19% below ads in its category that aired over the last 90 days. Viewers most commonly described their reaction as “WTF,” signaling confusion around both the message and the execution.

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/super-bowl-revealed-a...

New comment by rwc in "Film students who can no longer sit through films"

rwc — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:02:31 +0000

"Many students are resisting the idea of in-person screenings altogether. Given the ease of streaming assignments from their dorm rooms, they see gathering in a campus theater as an imposition."

Students telegraphing to the film world that a coming generation of consumers simply won't be going to the theatre. The article is framed as a tragedy about the students, but it's actually a tragedy about the professors and institution of moviegoing.

New comment by rwc in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

rwc — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:05:29 +0000

There's a nonzero chance his AI bot was just talking to their AI bot to reach this happy conclusion.

New comment by rwc in "How to Firefox"

rwc — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 12:19:28 +0000

Yes. If you say you’re compatible with Windows software and games, my expectation as a user is that everything “just works”.

New comment by rwc in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

rwc — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 16:37:38 +0000

Mimestream on Mac implements GMail's keyboard shortcuts so there was no learning curve for me and I'm able to enjoy a desktop app experience.