Hacker News: squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=squeegmeisterHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:53:32 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"]]>[deleted]

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:37:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616661squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616661https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49616661<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"]]>Paywalls are how you run a business without ads/spyware. These are not remotely the same

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:18:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615406squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615406https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615406<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby"]]>Curious how a PS5 measures on the spyware scale

]]>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:16:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615381squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615381https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49615381<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "OpenAI's Unraveling Has Begun"]]>I used to enjoy his posts until they became him just posting tweets

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:40:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368094squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368094https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368094<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"]]>I.e, network effects are hard to overcome

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:54:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766501squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766501https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766501<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Exapunks (2018)"]]>I think about this game often

]]>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:48:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766440squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766440https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766440<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Claude Sonnet 5"]]>Wouldn't it be more malicious for them not to mention this at all?

]]>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:51:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738305squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738305https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738305<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Claude Fable 5"]]>It’s like saying you can’t make a unique sentence unless you first make unique words

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:41:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483123squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48483123<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"]]>Manufacturing Consent continues being relevant

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:03:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396907squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396907https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48396907<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"]]>The article also treats the word "good" as load-bearing in a way that should have you questioning their analysis:

"I’ve called November 2025 the November inflection point because that was when GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5, combined with their respective coding agent harnesses, got good—good enough that we’ve spent the last six months adapting to agent systems that can reliably get useful work done."

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 20:55:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300527squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300527https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300527<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Opus 4.7 knows the real Kelsey"]]>Even the inventor of Bitcoin can’t hide

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-...

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 01:59:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970562squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970562https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47970562<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Letting AI play my game – building an agentic test harness to help play-testing"]]>I recently added E2E tests in my game too. One of the benefits is that I can have my agent verify its own work by asking it write a test and look at screenshots. Which means I can say “I’m going to bed, implement this and verify it with e2e tests” and it gets further along than it used to

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:55:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949321squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949321https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949321<![CDATA[New comment by squeegmeister in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"]]>I wish they would too. I’d respect them more for the transparency. I think everyone’s enshitiffication sensors have rightly been dialed up over the years. So without explanations for the regressions it just feels like another example

]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:26:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745581squeegmeisterhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745581https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745581<![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