Hacker News: squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=squeegmeisterHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:56:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "EFF is leaving X"]]>Leave today

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:30:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711658squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711658https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711658<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"]]>Anthropic has a QA process? I run into bugs on the regular, even on the "stable" release channel

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:45:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588112squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588112https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588112<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Observations from carbon dioxide monitoring"]]>Aren’t old buildings usually draftier? So less CO2

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:24:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580943squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580943https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580943<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"]]>You are correct

]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:31:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526655squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526655https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47526655<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"]]>Hypotheticals fear him

]]>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:55:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328674squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328674https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328674<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"]]>House plants make too minor a difference to be worthwhile.

Opening windows is better but if you want a more energy efficient solution you should invest in a HRV/ERV

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:21:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265205squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265205https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265205<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"]]>“We live in the age of computers,” Eaton said. “It must be possible for Customs Service to program its computers so it doesn’t need a manual review.”

lol

]]>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:01:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264967squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264967https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47264967<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "The View from RSS"]]>I’ve always thought RSS seemed cool. Hope it has a renaissance with people leaving social media

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:48:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254410squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254410https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47254410<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"]]>Isn’t code in Haskell pure by default and you have to use special keywords to have code with side effects?

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:09:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223394squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223394https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223394<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"]]>This is great, but aug 2025 is almost a lifetime ago with how fast these models are improving. Opus 4.5 came out November 2025 fwiw

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:07:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223379squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223379https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223379<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"]]>Have also wondered how Haskell would be. From my limited understanding it’s one of the few languages whose compiler enforces functional purity. I’ve always liked that idea in theory but never tried the language

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:15:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222660squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222660https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47222660<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "DOGE Track"]]>You might consider sharing this in the fednews subreddit. Awesome project

]]>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:47:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075058squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075058<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"]]>At the least they should lead with the most indisputable lies and leave the borderlines towards the end

]]>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:03:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062479squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062479https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062479<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"]]>Yeah we need someone to make an secret, air gapped strategy game for benchmarking purposes

]]>Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:54:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008949squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008949https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008949<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"]]>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-expands-tools-t...

What are your thoughts on Apple's approach? You still have to provide your birthdate to apple. But after that, it only only ever shares your age range with other companies that request it, not your birthdate.

]]>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:50:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949210squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949210https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949210<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"]]>I would if Unreal Engine was properly supported

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:37:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577717squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577717https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577717<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "GPT-5: Key characteristics, pricing and system card"]]>Yeah hallucinations are very context dependent. I’m guessing OP is working in very well documented domains

]]>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:34:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44829986squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44829986https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44829986<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Bop Spotter"]]>Awesome project.

I'm mildly annoyed at battery bars not completely filling the battery at 100%

]]>Mon, 30 Sep 2024 22:01:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702602squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41702602<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"]]>Yes, and because you now know it exists, and you later look it up again if you need the specific details. Which you otherwise wouldn’t know to do

]]>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:20:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157929squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157929https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157929<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "LLMs approach expert-level clinical knowledge and reasoning in ophthalmology"]]>There are reasons to believe we’ve reached a plateau with gpt 4. Check out Gary Marcus’s Substack

]]>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:03:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077001squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077001https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40077001