<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: saltyoldman</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=saltyoldman</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:54:24 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=saltyoldman" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see a future where there are LLM vetted repos for Java, Python, Go, etc... And it will cost $1 to submit a release candidate (even for open source)<p>edit: The idea is the $1 goes towards the tokens required to scan the source code by an LLM, not simply cost a dollar for no other reason that raising the bar.<p>First submission is full code scan, incremental releases the scanner focuses on the diffs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755914</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nah, 3d printed firearms next.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:02:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755732</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755732</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "Claude.ai down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Clean. Here's what changed: Deleted Anthropic</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:57:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755665</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47755665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "Claude.ai down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been actively using through all 55 minutes this thread has existed (and an hour before).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:37:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754609</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754609</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47754609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't disagree with solving that too. But it seems like the answer is always "TAX MORE" but nothing in our government spending aligns with the fixing the ACTUAL PROBLEMS.</p>
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<p>> Kindly fuck off with that repeatedly disproven propaganda, Reagan.<p>Please don't do that, we all have opinions here.<p>> Seriously. Fuck off, read a book, talk to people. Just turn off the podcasts and cable news for a spell.<p>Then you update with Fuck off and talk to people. Am I not talking to people now?</p>
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<p>I don't think the rich should be taxed a dime more until they route out the Fraud. What's the point of having all the rich people suddenly pay out $40 Billion next week, if that money disappears in California Homeless and Hospice crap. I don't disagree with increased safety nets but it needs to be done without people writing 50k Medicare billing lines per day.<p>Supposedly CA spent 800k on EACH HOMELESS PERSON over the last 5 years. They could have all gotten a free home in a suburb and developer salary for 2 years instead of fraud capture.</p>
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<p>I haven't seen prices rise much at all, I think most of the companies absorbed the difference. I have two minds on this. Because most of the price hike was absorbed, perhaps they should get a refund. But on the other hand, the nice thing about these tariff hikes being absorbed, it was effectively a tax on the rich.<p>And another side to think about- necessities are largely domestic (food, rent, etc). It's only if you're going out and buying an expensive thing on Amazon that you might pay a lot in Tariffs, so again, it does seem like a tax on the rich.</p>
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<p>100% agree, for anyone that hasn't seen the clip, saved you some time googling:<p><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-cory-booker-made-similar-salutes-media-reacted-much-differently" rel="nofollow">https://www.foxnews.com/media/elon-musk-cory-booker-made-sim...</a></p>
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<p>I think the counterpoint to that is if a tax expert and 1 coder that vibes can now compete against TaxActOnline or FreeTaxUSA (or any number of large ones out there today), whereas those existing companies built their solution with hundreds of developers.<p>I mean someone can literally make a tax app now asking the user to just snap a picture of their w2 and any other tax forms from banks they received, and submit in 15 seconds.</p>
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<p>My bad, I meant something more along the lines of "mini unicorn" not $100B unicorn. I should have used different words.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707421</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "Clean code in the age of coding agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I started a side project that was supposed to be 100% vibe coded (because I have a similar view as you). I'm using go and Bubble Tea for a TUI interface. I wanted mouse interaction, etc.. It turns out it defaulted to bubble tea 1.0 (instead of 2.0). The mouse clicks were all between 1 and 3 lines below where the actual buttons were. I kept telling it that the math must be wrong. And then telling it to use Bubble objects to avoid all this crazy math.<p>I am now hand coding the UI because the vibe coded method does not work.<p>I then looked at the db-agent I was designing and I explicitly told it to create SQL using the LLM, and it does. But the ACTUAL SQL that it persists to the project is a separate SQL generator that it wrote by hand. The LLM one that gets displayed on the screen looks perfect, then when it comes down to committing it to the database, it runs an alternative DDL generator with lots of hard coded CREATE TABLE syntax etc... It's actually a beautiful DDL generator, for something written in like 2015, but I ONLY wanted the LLM to do it.<p>I started screaming at the agent. I think when they do take over I might be high up on their hit list.<p>Just anecdata. I still think in a year or two, we'll be right about clean code not mattering, but 2026 might not be that year.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:13:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704825</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While the news may seem inconsequential, many people keep saying "where are all the new apps".<p>There you go. Your apps are here. Even if 95% go nowhere, some will become 1 person unicorns, perhaps 1 - 3 million ARR companies. If you're wondering if anyone gets rich off AI, it's that 5% of people that couldn't write it before - well they can now with a $20 subscription.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:17:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699217</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699217</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47699217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "Ask HN: Why are people buying GitHub repositories?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can only guess it is probably patent trolling related. Probably buying up all the possible IP that represents prior art? AI scanned?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:43:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691771</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "OpenAI says its new model GPT-2 is too dangerous to release (2019)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I am now just going to go through the (single file) of code and just fix it myself.<p>You can't it's all vibed, you'll face the art vs build internal struggle and end up re-coding the entire thing by hand.</p>
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<p>Evil dictator who killed millions of people in his lifetime is also now dead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:03:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684509</link><dc:creator>saltyoldman</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by saltyoldman in "AI Will Not Make You Rich"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've seen multiple people that I know get rich because AI exists. shrug. maybe that's just anecdata.</p>
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<p>It's kind of the reason C-execs (and up) stay, the company keeps paying them more and more to hold the secrets.</p>
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<p>Welcome to days ago</p>
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<p>Is anyone even getting anything out of a $20/mo sub for Anthropic?<p>I'm doing a side-by-side with GPT-5.4 for $20/mo and Sonnet for $20/mo and I can tell you that all my 5 hour tokens are eaten in 30 minutes with Claude. I still haven't used my tokens for OpenAI.<p>Code quality seems fine on both. Building an app in Go</p>
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