Hacker News: subarctic

New comment by subarctic in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

subarctic — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:41:45 +0000

I'm pretty sure in this case it's anthropic doing the subsidizing because the api and extra usage rates are extremely expensive compared to the usage you get for the lowest subscription level. I pay $28 CAD per month and I'm pretty sure I'd burn through that in a day or two, and I'm not really a power user, I'm just using it to write code like it says on the tin. I seriously doubt there's a large portion of subscribers with low enough monthly usage that they'd save money by switching to the API.

New comment by subarctic in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

subarctic — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:07:29 +0000

What gave this one away — just the em dashes?

New comment by subarctic in "Chuck Norris dies at age 86"

subarctic — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:06:41 +0000

I'm a bit embarassed to admit this but I'm only familiar with Chuck Norris from the recurring memes about him. I think I vaguely knew he was an actor but haven't seen any of the movies that he's in. Which are the one or two best that you would recommend?

New comment by subarctic in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

subarctic — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:00:17 +0000

Claude code makes it so easy to do things the "right way" that it also makes it really easy for you to let scope creep get out of hand. I have a personal project that I haven't deployed yet that in some ways is way overengineered for its purpose. It's hard to blame the tool though, it's always telling me I'm making it more complicated than it needs to be but I don't listen

New comment by subarctic in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

subarctic — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:50:26 +0000

What is the broad spectrum of new promising tech today? How much time and money should you invest in each one?

This question is easy to answer in hindsight but it's not trivial to answer in the moment. I like your mindset though

New comment by subarctic in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

subarctic — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:53:51 +0000

There's plenty of people that don't own these smart glasses, as far as i know it's still only early adopters using them but i guess i could be wrong. The nice thing is you actually can vote with your feet here because there's no network effects, whereas there's tons of people that are stuck being on facebook or instagram because of everyone else that's on there.

New comment by subarctic in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

subarctic — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:18:22 +0000

Gotta go interview all the murder victims

New comment by subarctic in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

subarctic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:53:41 +0000

Looks interesting but I haven't seen it discussed much yet. How did you find out about it?

New comment by subarctic in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

subarctic — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:03:02 +0000

Probably because there's a bunch of English speakers on here from Canada, the US and the UK. TBH I think it made it to the front page because of interesting discussion in the comments, not because of the content of the article itself

New comment by subarctic in "Canada's Carney called out for 'utilizing' British spelling"

subarctic — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:51:37 +0000

Funny I'm Canadian and I thought it was aluminium and maneuvers

New comment by subarctic in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

subarctic — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:32:21 +0000

I mean I wouldn't say it's misleading, it just says what the graph contains. It's important that it shows 18 months so you can see how flat it was before

New comment by subarctic in "Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy"

subarctic — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:37:59 +0000

"Figure out an opinion that no one has that you could conceivably argue for that will piss off the most people"

I know some people that like to do this for their own entertainment in real life, i guess they could get a job writing for cnbc

New comment by subarctic in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

subarctic — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:23:28 +0000

This rant is inspiring, it makes me want to find, or be, that company that is putting the accelerator down and building things instead of focusing on limiting costs and replacing people with AI.

New comment by subarctic in "Mullvad: Shutting down our search proxy Leta"

subarctic — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:19:39 +0000

I switched to brave search a year or two ago and found it to be an improvement

New comment by subarctic in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

subarctic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:47:07 +0000

It's annoying how they're the only big ISP offering fiber everywhere when they're also the ones that don't support ipv6 and have the shitty peering policy. I've heard you can use another isp though (teksavvy maybe?) that uses Bell's fibre and supports ipv6

New comment by subarctic in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

subarctic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:43:39 +0000

Maybe that's a way to give them bad PR and convince then to change policies? Unfortunately most people probably don't understand this well enough and they have a pretty well oiled PR machine with all their control over tv and radio stations, etc

New comment by subarctic in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

subarctic — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:14:33 +0000

Exactly

New comment by subarctic in "I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars"

subarctic — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 22:01:52 +0000

Having my own server in a datacenter would be cool, buy it's hard to imagine having side projects that I'm willingly spending $1400 US/month on AWS for. Right now I'm still using the free tier on most platforms, plus a $14/month database on digital ocean that I'm not even using

New comment by subarctic in "Apple reports fourth quarter results"

subarctic — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:09:40 +0000

> alternative to paying tax is paying shareholders a dividend

I thought corporate income tax was a tax on profits, and if a company pays a dividend that doesn't lower profits so wouldn't that be after taxes?

New comment by subarctic in "Apple will phase out Rosetta 2 in macOS 28"

subarctic — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:48:24 +0000

But their new hardware is so good though, it's kind of hard to pass up