<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: stldev</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stldev</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:33:23 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stldev" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stldev in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you name a single western democracy where the citizens are prohibited from criticizing their government?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:48:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263906</link><dc:creator>stldev</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263906</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stldev in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>10yr+ All Products Pack subber as well, cancelled in August.<p>They really didn't do well with AI integration the past few years. When Cursor was all the rage, JetBrains was pushing their own service whose pricing wasn't transparent and just didn't hold up to SotA. I'd still agree that using Codex or Claude from CLI is a better user experience.<p>Yet, looks like their revenue is up. Wonder where they're investing.</p>
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<p>Marketing teams kill for this. Every business wants this in the beginning. Once you're big enough that it threatens the trademark, the game changes.</p>
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<p>Fair point, I'm quite sure it is the opposite.<p>Tomorrow's FTC perhaps.</p>
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<p>100% this.<p>When you need to work with the government, the last thing you want is a program limited by a specific set of rules and interfaces. You want a person who understands your (sometimes unique) issue, who knows how things actually work, and can work around the restrictions imposed upon programs. Someone who can pick up a phone, help you out of bureaucratic corners.</p>
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<p>My experience as well.<p>For coding specifically, I've found 5.6-Sol > 6.0 Sol > Astra.<p>For modeling and artwork, Astra has been great routinely outperforming Kimi.<p>This is reminiscent to me of what Anthropic pulled back in February with their adaptive thinking rollout.<p>I can't wait for technology to catch up to a point where we can rid ourselves of this oligopoly.</p>
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<p>> If your Pro 200 subscription was active at the eligibility cutoff or during the seven days before it, you’re eligible to keep your previous included usage allowance through Oct 29, 2026 while you have an active Pro 200 subscription.<p>Got it, calendar updated: switch back to Claude on the 29th.<p>I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, but I feel the FTC should start looking at things like this. If a well funded company can bait the market long enough to drown most everyone else out then double their price overnight (ok, 30 days..) doesn't competition just become a matter of who has the deepest pockets?</p>
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<p>Neat! Reminds me of circa 92-94 Prodigy/CompuServe days. By '96 I recall having moved on to local dial-up ISPs. The longer handshake was well worth it for 56k versus the 300-2400 many of us came from.</p>
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<p>Regex pre-filter. You're welcome.<p><pre><code>  re.sub(r'(?is)\b(?:honest|caveat|absolutely right)\b.*', '', text)</code></pre></p>
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<p>Right. Steal the world's information and wrap it up as a set of numbers. Convince a bunch of billionaires that those numbers are worth a trillion. Then once you realize it's just another commodity and the competition is real, aim for "too big to fail", cozy up with the gov't and hope for a bailout.</p>
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<p>Is this solely to prop up SPCX?<p>Besides its following, does Cursor have any sort of moat? It's VS Code with a harness right?</p>
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<p>This is incredibly cruel, and not surprising at all.<p>On par with this administration- Goons pulled back because they're murdering innocent civilians at car stops? Chief goon steps up and says "put them back!"<p>Then he takes to the waves to instill fear and uncertainty in our election process.<p>Americans are being boiled alive, nice and slow- and a third of them love it!</p>
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<p>Reserve status is based on confidence. The US can't bomb markets into trusting the dollar. They've already begun diversifying away from it.</p>
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<p>They built their own benchmark and then trained directly against its scoring function.. seems to be the rage, but nothing convincing from the article alone.</p>
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<p>This is my read too- if American companies start backing nonsense like this,  they'll fall behind permanently.<p>> My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—<p>Isn't this article an argument in favor of authoritarianism? Plus a tad hypocritical no? The US is on an obvious authoritarian path; complete with threatening their neighbors, murdering innocent civilians, and locking up innocent people in droves<p>Please stop giving this company money, people.</p>
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<p>So company who stole stuff to make their stuff is mad because another company is stealing their stuff.<p>And now a regime best known for lying to their own people is the one trying to convince me?<p>Go, China!</p>
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<p>That's the one murdering innocent civilians in the streets? That's the one locking up thousands and denying basic human rights?<p>No. They're not the 'correct agency' for anything.</p>
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<p>This isn't about "finding" fraud.<p>This is about instilling fear, uncertainty and doubt.</p>
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<p>Interesting generalization; that’s almost the opposite of my experience.<p>A common hiring anecdote we share with people outside tech is literally: “A CS degree doesn’t teach you how to code.”<p>For me, ~25 years ago in the UC system, it was all math/science/theory-oriented. Some C++/Java that was introduced to get you through all that theory. Learning how to code/actual software engineering comes with practical experience.</p>
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<p>Agreed, it seems to be working and it's nonsense. I don't know why you're being downvoted.<p>"This information is too dangerous for you, so we'll just hold on to it.."<p>Thanks big brother, super anthropic of you!<p>The internet of '95 is looking back at us, with tears in its eyes.</p>
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