Hacker News: submain

New comment by submain in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

submain — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:15:13 +0000

Aren't servers depreciating assets owned by the company and tracked on the balance sheet?

If so, on a liquidation event, I'd imagine they'd have to be sold to compensate the shareholders.

New comment by submain in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

submain — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:10:59 +0000

In my country of origin (not US) that's how it worked starting in high school. Homework was called "suggested problems". The teacher reviewed them in class. No grading. We ended up doing it because that was almost the only way to pass the exams (which, btw, could be up to 50 questions long...)

New comment by submain in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

submain — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:15:15 +0000

I stopped reading three sentences in when I realized it was getting hard to follow. AI explains it.

New comment by submain in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

submain — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:03:23 +0000

Do you need to keep taking Dramamine, or do you adapt to it eventually?

New comment by submain in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

submain — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:51:38 +0000

I literally created a /plain-language skill.

New comment by submain in "Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)"

submain — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:04:39 +0000

The documentation is really hard to read. It's full of claudisms and verbosity. I highly recommend you to do a human review on the whole thing.

New comment by submain in "What will our economic future look like?"

submain — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:19:22 +0000

Which is why we need competition. Which is almost non-existent in US healthcare as comparing prices is near impossible.

New comment by submain in "OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on ARC-AGI-3"

submain — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 02:31:35 +0000

Unproven, but it could very well be some problems require consciousness to be solved.

New comment by submain in "Nobody Has Actually Built a Software Factory"

submain — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:04:47 +0000

It's amazing how exhausting AI text is to read.

New comment by submain in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

submain — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:06:05 +0000

Likewise. I signed up for woodworking classes. I think I'm in for a rude awakening.

New comment by submain in "Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU"

submain — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:58:24 +0000

NVidia seems to want them. They have a lot of lobbying power.

New comment by submain in "Steam Machine launches today"

submain — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:32:16 +0000

Not op, but I use it for seeing the joystick + throttle and the "real" instruments in flight simulator.

New comment by submain in "Claude Fable 5"

submain — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:21:53 +0000

The investors will get their money back on the IPO. They'll dump all their stocks in the market and run away, leaving retail with the bill.

New comment by submain in "India's surprise baby bust"

submain — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:59:45 +0000

I think that's a fair take. We could also frame it as society in the past has carried a lot of the burden of raising kids.

Tribes and communities helped raise kids. That's no longer true in an individualistic and institutionalized society.

New comment by submain in "India's surprise baby bust"

submain — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:41:07 +0000

Is that enough though? Women change their entire bodies, sacrifice years of their lives, and go through considerable stress to have a baby. And at the end, the benefits of that ordeal are not clear.

Society would need to offer something to offset all those costs.

New comment by submain in "India's surprise baby bust"

submain — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:38:52 +0000

I agree. It comes down to the opportunity cost for women to have babies.

On pre-industrialized societies, women have barely a choice. On industrialized ones they do. And it turns out that, when given the choice, they choose not to have babies.

New comment by submain in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

submain — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:17:31 +0000

It seems to me China is chasing widespread adoption, while the US is chasing the AGI dream.

New comment by submain in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

submain — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:55:15 +0000

I have been doing this and the results have been fairly good.

I use claude to build requirements.md -> implementation.md -> todo.md. Then I tell opencode + openrouter to read those files and follow the todo using a cheap (many times free) model.

It works 90% of the time. The other 10% it will get stuck, in which case I revert to claude.

That has allowed me to stay on the $20/month claude subscription as opposed to the $100.

New comment by submain in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

submain — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:30:03 +0000

Great work :). Go doesn't have TCO. That means functional languages (no for loops) could blow up the stack. How did you solve that?

New comment by submain in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

submain — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:21:15 +0000

> And don't even let me get started on how bad Claude client has become

The latest versions of claude code have been freezing and then crashing while waiting on long running commands. It's pretty frustrating.