Hacker News: staplers

New comment by staplers in "Accelerando (2005)"

staplers — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:05:46 +0000

A Google API?

New comment by staplers in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

staplers — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:50:28 +0000

  You need to be checking every thing it does.

This is what seems to be lost on so many. As someone with relatively little code experience, I find myself learning more than ever by checking the results and what went right/wrong.

This is also why I don't see it getting better anytime soon. So many people ask me "how do you get your claude to have such good output?" and the answer is always "I paid attention and spotted problems and asked claude to fix them." And it's literally that simple but I can see their eyes already glazing over.

Just as google made finding information easier, it didn't fix the human element of deciphering quality information from poor information.

New comment by staplers in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

staplers — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:44:26 +0000

You've mistaken indifference with inability. The government can absolutely get something done very quickly if certain people wish. There are numerous examples.

New comment by staplers in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

staplers — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:21:52 +0000

  the handful of sites you feel like you're stuck using for some reason

Billions have been spent building walls around niche and small sites to funnel people into major platforms. Pretending this ad/discoverability infrastructure doesn't exist is very naive.

New comment by staplers in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

staplers — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:57:16 +0000

As someone who has written many docs, it's because 99% won't read it (rightfully so if it's verbose). You can turn that doc into a skill in a repo and Claude will read it everytime it's needed.

New comment by staplers in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

staplers — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:31:34 +0000

  I would think, the golden age of criminal hacking is drawing to a close. This assume companies smart enough to do this however.

It's rarely the systems that are the weak link, rather the humans with backdoor access.

New comment by staplers in "447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane"

staplers — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:53:27 +0000

Communication technologies have been evolving for billions of years

New comment by staplers in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

staplers — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:15:18 +0000

Thank you, it's really crazy to be see "it's sad that you want truth when ignorance makes me happy" being upvoted on this platform. I suppose it's par for the course on a VC forum..

New comment by staplers in "The best seat in town"

staplers — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:07:32 +0000

Any "private" space in a public place becomes valuable with more density. It's basic scarcity incentives. It unfortunately incentivizes hooligans to make the restroom appear even more disheveled and unsafe to increase the privacy (less people want to go in it)

New comment by staplers in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

staplers — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:22:44 +0000

Great point, if the only constant is change, then philosophy should follow (or lead).

New comment by staplers in "EFF is leaving X"

staplers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:31:37 +0000

We all perform everyday. Those performances eventually become our identity and influence our actions.

New comment by staplers in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

staplers — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:29:13 +0000

  want to give other nice people the benefit of the doubt

Maybe the most naive, sheltered thing I've read on this site. If we were talking about an individual OSS maintainer, sure, that's possible. But large corporations have been doing the opposite for as long as they've existed and there's evidence presented to that fact nearly everyday.

New comment by staplers in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

staplers — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:22:57 +0000

Things that have never happened with USD. Glad we have a truly clean pure money that is incorruptible unlike bitcoin.

New comment by staplers in "WFH is becoming a benefit again"

staplers — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:02:16 +0000

Likely because they are fully aware of the power dynamics in a job and understand of when they are being taken advantage for performative theater.

New comment by staplers in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

staplers — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:40:14 +0000

Am all for it if law enforcement were held to the same standards. Plenty of cases where LE murder is simply not enforced. Thus LE becomes a haven for those seeking impunity and ability to nefariously track anyone.

New comment by staplers in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

staplers — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:44:31 +0000

The assembly line has been mass producing ready-made products for over 100 years and yet product quality, material stability, aesthetic trends, and function design still dominate the purchasing decisions of the general public.

Being tapped into fickle human preference and changing utility landscape will be necessary for a long time still. It may get faster and easier to build, but tastemakers and craftsmen still have heavy sway over markets than can mass-produce vanilla products.

New comment by staplers in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

staplers — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:20:34 +0000

  computation — like speech and property — is a fundamental human right

Computation however requires a vast supply chain where certain middlemen have a near monopoly on distribution of said "fundamental right". The incentives for lobbyists seems clear.

I don't necessarily disagree with the idea, but until profit is shared with taxpayers, this is a one-way transaction of taxpayers bankrolling AI companies.

New comment by staplers in "Workers report watching Ray-Ban Meta-shot footage of people using the bathroom"

staplers — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:35:14 +0000

Sadly, "using the bathroom" will cause a more immediate visceral reaction for most people than "maliciously manipulating your entire life via ad networks and media".

New comment by staplers in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

staplers — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:14:08 +0000

  If we could all spread the knowledge of what is actually going on to the wider public, it would make my meetings easier, and prevent very smart folks from outside the field from saying dumb-sounding stuff.

This is an example of why LLMs won't displace engineers as severely as many think. There are very old solved processes and hyper-efficient ways of building things in the real world that still require a level of understanding many simply don't care or want to achieve.

New comment by staplers in "California's Digital Age Assurance Act, and FOSS"

staplers — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:40:33 +0000

As Disney took open source IP (fairy tales, etc) and pulled the ladder up behind them, so too are tech companies.