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New comment by smallerfish in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

smallerfish — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:17:36 +0000

I didn't say industrial processing led to unhealthier food. In fact I explicitly said that the health question is distinct from the definition, and can be studied.

New comment by smallerfish in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

smallerfish — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:02:53 +0000

It's not meaningless.

"Processed" means that ingredients had to be manipulated to produce the food (e.g. most recipes). Most of what you make at home is "processed".

"Ultra-processed" means food produced using industrial processing, using additives (perhaps not typically considered "food" in an of themselves) for emulsifying, flavor, shelf stability & preservation, color, etc. That's a clear distinction.

Whether or not that means anything for the nutritional value and health outcomes from consumption of the food is a different question, but it can clearly be studied.

New comment by smallerfish in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

smallerfish — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:38:45 +0000

I think the reasons for them going with API pricing will become abundantly clear when the S-1s become available. If they don't have a story covering how they can get revenue closer to expenses, then they're relying on the market to believe the pixie dust version of their profitability story, which I think people increasingly don't.

New comment by smallerfish in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

smallerfish — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:35:50 +0000

> enterprise who cannot walk away from these $200/month plans

But that's the point of the article. Enterprise plans are starting to get API pricing, not the subsidized subscription pricing.

New comment by smallerfish in "The real cost of owning a home"

smallerfish — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:48:41 +0000

It depends on a lot on your timing with the market. This guy (from TFA) sold in 2007; I bought my first house as a (fairly dire) fixer-upper in 2008. I sold it in 2016, after it had more than doubled in value (partly due to improvements we'd made, partly due to market improvements). I bought the next house as a (cosmetic) fixer-upper in 2016, and sold it in 2020, after the pandemic had multiplied its value by 1.5x. Now I own outright, pay no mortgage, and my property tax is less than 1% where I live. Yes I got lucky on timing on both ends of the 12 years, but not selling into a down market (if you can help it, of course), buying with an eye to potential increase in value, and being willing to take advantage of market conditions are all things that can work in your favor.

New comment by smallerfish in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

smallerfish — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:06:08 +0000

There isn't resistance. It comes from development patterns.

A developer buys 10 hectares of land and wants to max out the returns, so they pack it full of houses. Another developer buys the adjacent 20 hectares and follows the same strategy. Rinse and repeat. Purely market driven housing development orients towards developer profit, not long term quality of life of the neighborhoods being constructed.

New comment by smallerfish in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

smallerfish — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:59:02 +0000

They may be state backed, in which case the loss-leading could be a geopolitical move. It's a useful model regardless.

China sell lithium at a loss to make it unprofitable for Australian/US miners, for example (https://www.miningweekly.com/article/china-is-oversupplying-...).

New comment by smallerfish in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

smallerfish — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:26:46 +0000

So make it a closed issue tracker with a public email gateway. Get Anthropic to donate LLM time to classify and combine incoming reports.

Anthropic announces that it's doubling 5 hour rate limits

smallerfish — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:28:23 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/i/status/2052060693269008586

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040560

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by smallerfish in "Incident with Actions"

smallerfish — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:22:27 +0000

> Why are you still using Github?

Show me the VCs who are willing to fund the marketing effort that would be needed to conquer the network-effects moat, and I'm in.

New comment by smallerfish in "All Four Sentinel-1 Satellites Are Now Live"

smallerfish — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:53:37 +0000

Better (more accurate) link and title: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Coperni...

We're exploring using the SAR data for conservation / deforestation monitoring. Anybody else working in this space who has blazed the trail?

Palantir's Al Targeting System Running the Iran War [video]

smallerfish — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:02:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHLFl26p7Po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47966103

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

New comment by smallerfish in "Google Flow Music"

smallerfish — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:27:18 +0000

If it's anything like suno, it probably takes you 30 to 40 attempts to dial in what you were looking for. (And don't get me wrong, the results can be great with suno - there's just a lot of trial and error, and dice rolling.)

New comment by smallerfish in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

smallerfish — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:12:53 +0000

That's disingenuous. The point is that "human" isn't a particularly good dividing line if you want to distinguish music with value vs music without.

New comment by smallerfish in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

smallerfish — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:49:53 +0000

Is formulaic pop music produced by a corporate label that's designed to push all the right buttons more "human" than the average track you find published on Suno? I wouldn't say so. Pop music was already to some extent a commodity.

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

smallerfish — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:56:17 +0000

> for third-party harnesses

What's the exact definition of third-party harnesses? They have an Agent SDK in Claude Code that can be used. Are they trying to say that only Anthropic products can use pro/max plans?

New comment by smallerfish in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

smallerfish — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:01:55 +0000

Compare with and steal any ideas you like from mine if you like. I've got a semi-decent curl|bash pattern covered, and also add network filtering via pasta (which may be more robust than rolling your own). https://github.com/reubenfirmin/bubblewrap-tui

New comment by smallerfish in "Do your own writing"

smallerfish — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:16:44 +0000

Bad AI writing is bad, and obvious once you know what you're looking for. Nobody wants to read it.

Good AI writing takes time, can be valuable, and can inspire readers to send in praise about how insightful or thorough a particular article was (speaking from experience). Why do it? The same reason we all use Claude all day to write code - it is faster / you can do more of it. But in the same way that a junior engineer vibing code is a lot more likely to produce slop than a grizzled senior who is doing the same thing, you have to know what you are doing to get good results out of it.

Pushing back against AI writing in 2026 is like the people pushing back against AI coding in 2024. It's not a question of if it will happen. It's a question of how to do it well. ;)

New comment by smallerfish in "BYD is seeing a flood of new EV buyers"

smallerfish — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:33:22 +0000

> in two decades

While I agree with your overall point, I'm reminded of "the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" here. The US is a huge economy with a massive military infrastructure. I don't think it's fading to fallen empire status that quickly.

New comment by smallerfish in "Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics"

smallerfish — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:53:33 +0000

> content, the content or transcript of the agent session

Does this include the files being worked on by the agent in the session, or just the chat transcript?