Hacker News: sethherr

New comment by sethherr in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

sethherr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:23:26 +0000

I’m also terrified of this.

When this happens I will have to look at other providers and downgrade my subscription. Conductor is just too powerful to give up. It’s the whole reason why I’m on a max plan.

New comment by sethherr in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

sethherr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:17:00 +0000

This website, at least in dark mode, doesn't have any visible indication when text is selected.

... Which is additionally frustrating, since the links at the bottom aren't actually links (so you have to select them to copy and paste into your address bar)

New comment by sethherr in "Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs"

sethherr — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:39:46 +0000

I’ve wanted this produce for years. Signed up. Thank you.

New comment by sethherr in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

sethherr — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:53:50 +0000

Not true. NYTimes had reported on it

New comment by sethherr in "Mom and daughter find stranger in trunk of Waymo"

sethherr — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 04:04:52 +0000

I love that he got in because the trunk was left open, and then couldn’t get out.

Failure mode they hadn’t thought of yet

New comment by sethherr in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

sethherr — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:49:12 +0000

Trying to figure out how to align this with my experiences (which match the parents’ comment), and I have an idea:

Coding contests are not like my job at all.

My job is taking fuzzy human things and making code that solves it. Frankly AI isn’t good at closing open issues on open source projects either.

New comment by sethherr in "Time to start de-Appling"

sethherr — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:07:45 +0000

I think the fact that Apple is having to fight this fight is evidence of why they were right to make a secure walled garden. I don’t know of any other service I would recommend my mother use for securely backing up her phone.

I think the UK is ultimately going to roll back this law. I don’t think this means that iCloud E2E is hostile to Apple or its users. I think Apple is going to win.

The war isn’t won by telling people to use GPG https://moxie.org/2015/02/24/gpg-and-me.html

New comment by sethherr in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

sethherr — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:01:26 +0000

Checks out - you aren’t in a city.

I was surprised that the original comment said they were in a city

New comment by sethherr in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

sethherr — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 21:47:31 +0000

Wild! I’ve lived in Chicago and San Francisco and have never lost power for more than an hour. And can’t remember the last time it went out at all, maybe 2 years ago?

What city do you live in?

New comment by sethherr in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

sethherr — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:49:17 +0000

I got to stay on my parents health care for additional years because of Obamacare - as have millions of others. That gave me flexibility to experiment and during that time I learned to program.

New comment by sethherr in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

sethherr — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:04:59 +0000

You have an incorrect definition of Class 3.

Class 3 allows pedal assist up to 28 and throttle to 20

https://thecyclistchoice.com/resources/electric-bike-classes...

New comment by sethherr in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

sethherr — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:55:31 +0000

I’m asking because I genuinely don’t know - what are “pages” here?

New comment by sethherr in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

sethherr — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 04:43:21 +0000

My understanding is it’s more akin to stage hypnosis, where you say bananas and they tell you all their passwords

… the articles example of a potential exploit is exfiltration of data.

New comment by sethherr in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

sethherr — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:29:16 +0000

All roles are networking roles

New comment by sethherr in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

sethherr — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:06:56 +0000

The article address this very criticism

New comment by sethherr in "Rails Charts Using ECharts from Apache"

sethherr — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:09:05 +0000

Any clear reason to use this over chartkick?

New comment by sethherr in "Death by AI"

sethherr — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:07:46 +0000

Biking is great tho

New comment by sethherr in "LLM Inference Handbook"

sethherr — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:07:49 +0000

This seems useful and well put together, but splitting it into many small pages instead of a single page that can be scrolled through is frustrating - particularly on mobile where the table of contents isn't shown by default. I stopped reading after a few pages because it annoyed me.

At the very least, the sections should be a single page each.

New comment by sethherr in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

sethherr — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 23:44:51 +0000

Sorry, "don't pay taxes" was hyperbole - what I meant was have a lower tax rate than the rest of us.

Isn't that the whole point of all sorts of tax strategies, for instance Buy, Borrow, Die?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrae/2022/07/14/how-the-ric...

New comment by sethherr in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

sethherr — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:49:25 +0000

While I understand the drawbacks, the current situation - where the ultra-wealthy don’t pay taxes because all their wealth is in unrealized gain - is even worse