<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: stephbook</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephbook</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:12:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stephbook" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Mitos editor is a fork of Helix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't even have a prod environment anymore. I route any incoming traffic directly to my LLM on Openrouter and let it answer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 18:22:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143833</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50143833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Elon is the richest person on earth and he doesn't seem particularly happy. Trump is the most powerful and hate-tweets himself to sleep every night. Zuckerberg seems to be his happiest doing sport and spending time with his family.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:55:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074867</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50074867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "I'm sorry, but you still have to think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With all these ports, I always wonder: Who implements new features, and in which code base?<p>It's easy to port a codebase (at least, if you have automated tests), but once you've done that, do you<p>- Implement features in the old code and port again?<p>- Implement them in the new, unfamiliar codebase?<p>- Just write a Jira ticket and let the agent YOLO it?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:58:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045924</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50045924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Open-source Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word replications"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You've fallen prey to the "Everyone is stupid except me" fallacy.<p>By the time you add cloud-storage space integration (SharePoint), live collaborative editing, support hotline, support for 30 year old macros, and Active directory user integration, you'll be charging the same per seat.<p>But hey, proof me wrong please. Code it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 16:25:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044923</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044923</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50044923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Even if you hate Amazon or Google, you probably wouldn't want AWS or Google Cloud datacenters destroyed by Iran, because that would just affect innocent users.<p>Interesting take. Last I checked, those datacenters hosted software that targeted a children's school.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:25:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040840</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040840</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50040840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can still easily spot actual work, whether in website design or recruiter messages. Isn't that the whole schtick of the article?<p>But low-effort spam will always dominate, that's just the nature of it. You will always receive 10 times more messages that were only 1/10th of the work on the other side. How could it ever be otherwise?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:05:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009531</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50009531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Claude Haiku 5.5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox</a><p>AI gets cheaper, people use it everywhere. Google searches, for example. Now we want to crack math problems and spend weeks with unreleased models.<p>If you used GPT-2, it'd be incredibly cheap. You basically can't use it for anything and it's simple to serve.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:58:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998723</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998723</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49998723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How do you switch Deno versions on Debian?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:03:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981211</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981211</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49981211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "So you think you could be an electrician?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We'll wipe your memory after work, so you get to live completely free.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:32:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950956</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950956</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49950956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Decent? I couldn't quit the game and finished my first (and only) run at 5am.<p>It's truly amazing. It integrated with my ten year old Alienware keyboard and made the lighting ice blue during a snow storm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945960</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945960</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're right, this is Lite. I change my charge to "this is the AI you're going to get on the free tier."<p>I mean, sure you can blame Google Maps, but it wasn't my choice to consult Google Maps.<p>I think noticeable here is how hard it is to steer this trash model even when fed already correct information.<p>I asked "why closed?" and it corrected me to "it's open" with wrong information. Then it got the current time wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:29:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943290</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Gemini ending free use of Flash and Pro models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's what they want you to pay for:<p><a href="https://share.gemini.google/r9T9GPuC0Cjc" rel="nofollow">https://share.gemini.google/r9T9GPuC0Cjc</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943198</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943198</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "An AI agent emailed researchers for help. It told us why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Instructs agent to email humans<p>> Gives agent email access<p>> Agent emails humans<p>We've got a mystery on our hands, boys!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 10:53:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943088</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943088</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Gemini 4 Argon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Memory safety is pretty important in the "AIs hack everything" age.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:35:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917778</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49917778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The article content is both true and framed strangely.<p>Does the author think "product customers" hand you a tidy list of requirements the stupid programmer automatons just have to translate into code? Obviously not. Customers also don't know what they want, or could want. Famously, they claim to want faster horses.<p>Then the author goes on to list "crash led discovery", as if this was so different from prioritizing bugs in prod. Or, If you have no idea, just improving efficiency. Or talking to customers, err, users.<p>All of this is true and none of this is any different from any of the other software, just translated into other lingo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:48:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899307</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899307</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Walking Men"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What about Bompel against smombies?<p><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodenampel" rel="nofollow">https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodenampel</a><p>(short for Bodenampel, or "ground traffic light" to help "smartphone zombies" cross the street)<p>I just wish they also had gotten cool designs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:37:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899176</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899176</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49899176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not US, under 40. The depiction of dinner parties makes me think not much was lost.<p>What I gleam from TV shows is: The wife invited people over to brag about her husband's recent promotion or her children's achievements. Once over, they gossiped about a perceived fault in the other family (did you see the son's long hair? I heard he smokes weed!<p>Sounds like a suburban nightmare. There surely are other socializing events that were more beneficial; like a weekly bowling club meeting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:41:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892216</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "You are no longer invited to dinner"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah right, 80 year olds hosting dinner parties.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:33:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892121</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892121</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "Tank Body Problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've always enjoyed "Space Tanks." Beyond the whole gravity stuff, it was FUN. Silly designs, bouncy weapons, upgrading tanks..<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Tanks" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Tanks</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8yvSl9j9yU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8yvSl9j9yU</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 06:55:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889221</link><dc:creator>stephbook</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49889221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stephbook in "AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We've had movies like Terminator, Matrix, or i, Robot. Black Mirror Metalhead. Boston dynamics robo dog with a knife or a gun. Humanoids doing back flips. Memes making fun of how we are going to fight these for access to water.<p>The intelligence is there and so is the physical incarnation.<p>Google's models fold proteins better than humans and Covid might have been engineered and inadvertently escaped from a lab.<p>But when CEOs warn of that, they're dismissed as scare mongers. Why? Are only powerless internet commentators allowed to be fearful?</p>
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