Hacker News: secos

New comment by secos in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

secos — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:29:07 +0000

This. I remember many a time pmarca getting so upset and just blocking everyone who disagreed with him on Twitter. It was the weirdest thing.

New comment by secos in "Show HN: Try Archetype 360 – AI‑powered personality test, 3× deeper than MBTI"

secos — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:26:24 +0000

3x deeper than MBTI...

... that sounds horrible

New comment by secos in "Peter Thiel: 2,436 emails with Epstein from 2014 to 2019"

secos — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:59:14 +0000

He didn't say anything close to "Shooting people in the street is wrong!"

How did you get that from the linked videos?

New comment by secos in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

secos — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:57:16 +0000

You do not need optimism to do good. It helps motivate, but its not required.

New comment by secos in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

secos — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:43:22 +0000

To me it feels like an awkward API that creates opportunities to work the limitations of a normal API... which to me is not a great thing. Potentially useful, sure, but not great.

New comment by secos in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

secos — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 10:40:30 +0000

Blitzscaled? Yep.

New comment by secos in "Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts"

secos — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 13:28:39 +0000

Ranked Choice Voting goes a long way to solving this as well.

New comment by secos in "DOGEs K Schutt's computer infected by malware, credentials found in stealer logs"

secos — Fri, 09 May 2025 01:19:08 +0000

I meant the article was dumb. The clickbait title on HN doesn't match the meat of the article.

New comment by secos in "DOGEs K Schutt's computer infected by malware, credentials found in stealer logs"

secos — Thu, 08 May 2025 20:33:40 +0000

Really? This is... dumb.

New comment by secos in "Apache ECharts"

secos — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:55:27 +0000

I'd forgotten all about this library, its certainly come a long way!

New comment by secos in "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes"

secos — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:27:40 +0000

or raise taxes.

New comment by secos in "DOGE's only public ledger is riddled with mistakes"

secos — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 22:26:01 +0000

This planet money article lays out the arguments for both with lots of interesting links to follow. https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2025/02/18/g-s1-49...

New comment by secos in "AI demand is already shrinking"

secos — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:24:46 +0000

Well said.

New comment by secos in "The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained"

secos — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:18:01 +0000

The ones I use today:

- Facebook

- Instagram (finally opened in the last two years)

- Youtube

- Linkedin

Perhaps I'm not getting your point, but... most of the major social platforms in the US are still open, except for Twitter.

New comment by secos in "Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone"

secos — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:23:18 +0000

Thank you for reminding me why I dislike this place so much.

I've literally got the email right here: "As I mentioned on the phone, we structure them as a monthly subscription based on an annual agreement. Variables that affect pricing are the APIs you use to get data and the amount of data you consume each month. Our smallest packages fall between $5,000-$8,000 per month."

The price they quoted me, over the phone, was 6k. Doesn't mean we took it (we didn't) but that was what they were asking for. I know others that were paying 5k/mo.

And I know others who still had free accounts from way back in the day. Everyone is being swept up now.

New comment by secos in "Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone"

secos — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 23:14:44 +0000

"Trust us, bro"

New comment by secos in "Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone"

secos — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:01:19 +0000

That remains to be seen...

I would not be surprised if he could have offered the api $420/mo and 100x more apps were willing and/or able to pay.

New comment by secos in "Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone"

secos — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:16:06 +0000

The last time I talked to Twitter sales (about 2 years ago) they were asking for 6k/mo.

New comment by secos in "Ask HN: Twitter was unanimously predicted to implode. Nothing happened. Why?"

secos — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:37:12 +0000

That's something we can all agree on.

New comment by secos in "Paul Graham is leaving Twitter for now"

secos — Fri, 23 Dec 2022 13:51:26 +0000

The only person I saw suspended during that insane period was PG. Hundreds of people in my TL were saying "FU heres my mastodon ban me if you want Elon" and didn't see any repercussions whatsoever.