Hacker News: skywhopper

New comment by skywhopper in "Americans still opt for print books over digital or audio versions"

skywhopper — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:34:01 +0000

Because they are better in almost every way.

New comment by skywhopper in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

skywhopper — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:32:42 +0000

Yeah, there’s also a particularly American version of Catholicism that hates the Church and its teachings, who include among their adherents the Vice President and at least one Supreme Court Justice if not several. While one would hope they would learn the lessons of history, the particular details of the theocracy they envision probably won’t break down along the same lines as past conflicts.

New comment by skywhopper in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

skywhopper — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:54:21 +0000

This sucks but is not surprising at all. Anthropic has more demand than it could ever fulfill, and looking into support tickets asking for refunds is never going to get anyone’s attention. If you actually want the money back, assuming you live in the US, this is what small-claims court is for.

New comment by skywhopper in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

skywhopper — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:53:45 +0000

The limits are smaller now, is how.

New comment by skywhopper in "Euro-Office – Your sovereign office"

skywhopper — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:33:02 +0000

Ironic that this sketchy project hosts itself on GitHub, then.

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

skywhopper — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:03:43 +0000

Yes, and they are in control of Claude Code, so they are fine with that. If it causes problems they can tweak it. If OpenClaw causes problems they can’t.

New comment by skywhopper in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

skywhopper — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:21:44 +0000

Because some implementers will need or want to use it.

New comment by skywhopper in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

skywhopper — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:57:33 +0000

Which component is the bombardier?

New comment by skywhopper in "Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

skywhopper — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:15:06 +0000

Everyone on my team has been running into this, including the super users on the Max plan and the skeptics who only use it every few days. The quota is going way faster than it did before, sometimes a single prompt will eat up a third or more of the session quota.

New comment by skywhopper in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

skywhopper — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:48:21 +0000

“Ad” doesn’t mean “paid for”. A “tip” linking to some other place, injected into a place with no permission or context, is an “ad” in every meaningful sense (and if this “tip” system were left in place it would soon enough be turned into a pay-for explicit ad system). If someone at Microsoft deludes themselves that they are just trying to be helpful, that doesn’t change the impact and result of their actions.

New comment by skywhopper in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

skywhopper — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:42:47 +0000

Updated to add on March 31: Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations, GitHub, said in a statement: "GitHub does not and does not plan to include advertisements in GitHub. We identified a programming logic issue with a GitHub Copilot coding agent tip that surfaced in the wrong context within a pull request comment. We have removed agent tips from pull request comments moving forward."

Wow, well that is clearly a bald-faced lie.

New comment by skywhopper in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:20:37 +0000

Nah, PR text is a completely inappropriate place for a tip to appear. A PR description should describe the contents of the PR, not include unrelated, unsolicited advice. It’d be like submitting a bug fix, and saying “this PR fixes bug X, and also, have you considered using a different linter in this project?” Completely inappropriate.

New comment by skywhopper in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:15:33 +0000

Tips are also not acceptable to add to PR text. It’s like the definition of a “weed”. A “tip” in the GitHub UI would make sense. But “tips” injected into my own PR text become unwelcome ads. In any case, what may be helpful “tips” today are only a gateway to straight up paid ads tomorrow. After all, I get told all the time by adtech folks that actually, the ads and all the tracking behind them are good because aren’t I glad the ads are relevant to my interests and that I’m supporting small businesses online whose shops can only exist because of the ad infrastructure. To which I say, no, they aren’t, and that’s a lie.

New comment by skywhopper in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:25:59 +0000

The bigger question is, why is that even the primary goal?

New comment by skywhopper in "72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:24:53 +0000

This is a bizarre framing that totally misunderstands inflation, money, and macroeconomics.

New comment by skywhopper in "Pharma is dosing drugs wrong – the quantum tunneling correction nobody is using"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:37:43 +0000

This article makes some wild claims all based on one assertion that has no cited evidence. Beware.

New comment by skywhopper in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:12:00 +0000

Regulation is the only reasonable answer to this sort of problem. The specific suggestion may not be the best possible regulation, but we have several hundred years of proof that individual market-based action cannot solve what is basically an insurance problem.

New comment by skywhopper in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:01:38 +0000

It’s largely a problem of how these tools are packaged, but while it’s certainly nice to have an LLM check your spelling, or review your grammar or style or usage, you should never allow them to actually edit your document directly.

First of all, they will make substantive changes you didn’t intend. The meaning will get changed, errors will be introduced. Tone will be off, and as the author says, your voice will disappear. There is no single “correct” way to write something. And voice and tone are conveyed with grammatical and usage variation. Don’t give that up to a robotic average.

Secondly, you will never improve, or even maintain, your own writing skills if you don’t actively engage with the suggested changes. You also won’t fully realize half the purpose of writing, which is to understand the topic better yourself. Doing the work of editing your piece will help you understand the subject even better. If you just let the machine “fix” your errors, you’ll become a worse writer and less of an expert over time.

New comment by skywhopper in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

skywhopper — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:54:59 +0000

It’s a spot that will easily be replaced with paid ads, for sure. Not sure why it wouldn’t be better to just inject this sort of message into the UI instead of editing the PR text itself. (Except that the team implementing it probably couldn’t get the UI team to agree.)

New comment by skywhopper in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

skywhopper — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:04:07 +0000

It’s going to be impossible to have an LLM that can fulfill all the roles people want. They lie and hallucinate which is bad for some purposes like research, but good for others, like making fictional stories. Likewise, some purposes require sympathy and some require critique. An LLM won’t be good at all of them.