Hacker News: square_usual

New comment by square_usual in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Claude (Code)?"

square_usual — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:18:51 +0000

Just pay the $20 for codex and use it. It's the only real alternative.

New comment by square_usual in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

square_usual — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:06:45 +0000

Yeah, and that's why gas prices in the US have not changed at all in the past month!

New comment by square_usual in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

square_usual — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:55:30 +0000

You don't need AI to shoot yourself in the face; salesforce can do that just fine.

New comment by square_usual in "Phil Spencer is exiting Microsoft as AI executive takes over Xbox"

square_usual — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:12:07 +0000

Yeah, that's a great thing to hear? At the end of the day it's all exec speak, but it softens the blow of the title a little.

New comment by square_usual in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

square_usual — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:27:42 +0000

Even on highways I've had to intervene maybe once every 50 miles as it will often miss exits for me. This is a 2025 Model 3 with the latest 14.2 update in a major US metro.

New comment by square_usual in "GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics"

square_usual — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:20:33 +0000

It's interesting to me that whenever a new breakthrough in AI use comes up, there's always a flood of people who come in to handwave away why this isn't actually a win for LLMs. Like with the novel solutions GPT 5.2 has been able to find for erdos problems - many users here (even in this very thread!) think they know more about this than Fields medalist Terence Tao, who maintains this list showing that, yes, LLMs have driven these proofs: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution...

New comment by square_usual in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

square_usual — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:00:51 +0000

My logic is if you can transfer you don't have absolute loyalty. Your logic is... what exactly?

New comment by square_usual in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

square_usual — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:49:00 +0000

Great, yes, but you sure as hell don't have "absolute loyalty" to a company.

New comment by square_usual in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

square_usual — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:48:15 +0000

How is that related to a transfer? If you have a job on an H1b, you can get another job and switch to it any time with a transfer.

New comment by square_usual in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

square_usual — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:50:09 +0000

H1B transfers are easy. You aren't beholden to an employer.

New comment by square_usual in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

square_usual — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:31:47 +0000

Did you read the comment that started this thread? Let me repeat that, ICYMI:

> "So I agree this isn't just wiring up of dependencies, and neither is it copied from existing implementations: it's a uniquely bad design that could never support anything resembling a real-world web engine."

It didn't use Servo, and it wasn't just calling dependencies. It was terribly slow and stupid, but your comment is more of a mischaracterization than anything the Cursor people have said.

New comment by square_usual in "When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype"

square_usual — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:30:21 +0000

That's a great way to tell on yourself that you've never read Simon's work.

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

square_usual — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:04:02 +0000

… did you read your own linked article?

> she was jailed for calling for mass deportation and for migrant hotels to be set on fire

That’s literally calling for violence?

New comment by square_usual in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

square_usual — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:59:47 +0000

In this case, customers can sue them.

New comment by square_usual in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

square_usual — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:20:51 +0000

Is anybody surprised all the AI influencers are doing the same thing all the crypto influencers are doing?

New comment by square_usual in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

square_usual — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:19:24 +0000

I hate TODO.mds too. If I ever have to use one, I'll keep track of it manually, and split the work myself into chunks of the size I believe CC/codex can handle. TODO.md is a recipe for failure because you'll quickly have more code than you can review and nothing to trust that it was executed well.

New comment by square_usual in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

square_usual — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:16:08 +0000

Isn't that fun though? We get paid to fuck around. People say AI is putting devs out of jobs, I say we're getting paid to play with them and see if there's any value there. This is no different from the dev tools boom of the ZIRP era: I remember having several sprints worth of work just integrating the latest dev tool whose sales team won our execs over.

This is only partly tongue in cheek :P

New comment by square_usual in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

square_usual — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:13:17 +0000

Isn't the point that he refused them? VCs can be dumb (see the crypto hype, even the recent inflated AI raises) so I wouldn't put too much stock in what they think is valuable.

New comment by square_usual in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

square_usual — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:11:59 +0000

I've been reading Steve's posts for quite literally a decade now and I don't think his new posts are so meaningfully different from the old ones that he's not at the wheel any more. Besides, his twitter posts often double down on what he's writing in the blog, and it's doubtful he's not writing those.

New comment by square_usual in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

square_usual — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:10:50 +0000

Not much more than his recent posts, no.