<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: tempest_</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tempest_</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:17:12 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tempest_" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I dont love it.<p>Opus 5 is just a token burner.<p>I use fable plan and spawn opus 4.8 workflows which seems to work alright.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:18:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201895</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If by mafia you mean English Crown sure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:22:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149030</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149030</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If these people are glorified copy paste scripts why are they even employed....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:47:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124583</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124583</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49124583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "The End of an Era"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is very weird. 6 months ago I generated some documentation for a service that was largely undocumented. When it was done my only thought was "who is this for?" Is any one going to actually read this or are they just going to ask the LLM? If someone didnt write it, why would I read it? It just becomes something to pipe into the context for the next person. It seems though a lot of people don't have this experience, its like they think they are the only ones with access to this technology.<p>Additionally I am so, so ,so sick of reading claudes overly wordy technical writing ish bullshit. Its exhausting trying to find the fuck ups or hidden assumptions in the pages of text it produces for everything.<p>Every time I try and search for ways to make it stop I just find people trying to save tokens which I don't give a shit about. I just want it to communicate things to me without having to constantly read 4 paragraphs, dump the context or fork it or start a new session so it "remembers" or re-weights that is was told to be concise and terse in like 7 different places. Maybe I am using it wrong.</p>
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<p>Search traffic is nose diving due to LLM use. The fundamental calculus with google is you install GA and it helps your SEO has changed and google is riding out what will eventually wither as people start to reevaluate the trade off.</p>
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<p>As a Canadian driving through Michigan/Ohio/Upstate New York and places look run down and like they peaked in the 60s-80s and its been down hill since.<p>When I was younger and it was a new thing it was quite a shock since American media obviously doesnt portray it that way. It is quite a contrast to even how the more run down parts of Canada look.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 19:23:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951268</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951268</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48951268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I remember about 10 years ago I switched our billing / subscription code from paypal to braintree. Braintree was better than paypal but that wasnt saying much. Then paypal bought Braintree and started fucking around with it, asking for conference calls because they wanted us off one of their old flows so they could get us on webhooks that preformed worse and were a pain to implement.<p>Anyway we switched to stripe. Don't love stripe and they take a big cut but I hate paypal.</p>
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<p>The reason is because while you want to use the low end the general public does not understand that USB-C is the  connector only and that various levels of power and data depend on the cable and the device at both ends.<p>If you sell a 10 port USB-C charged someone is going to plug 10 MacBooks into it and complain it doesnt work.<p>The best I have seen for what you want is<p><a href="https://ca.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-500w-desktop-charger" rel="nofollow">https://ca.ugreen.com/products/ugreen-500w-desktop-charger</a><p>but is not cheap at all or something like<p><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Powered-Aluminum-Adapter-Computer-Printer/dp/B0G13RQ2SZ" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.ca/Powered-Aluminum-Adapter-Computer-Prin...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:44:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909548</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "Learning to code is still worthwhile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I make this comparison a lot and a lot of devs don't like it.<p>I am sure I could make a decent industrial PLC tech, same shit, different tools.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:17:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813323</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48813323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Repo claims<p>> A single archive of public exploit PoCs and vulnerability research writeups. At the time I post these, none have been reported. Feel free to report them yourself and take credit for the CVE if handed out lulz. Please do not abuse these. I do this so to allure people into the field, and I've always found this is the most efficient way.<p>Which is roughly the definition of zero day. Whether the contents of the repo reflect the above claim is something else entirely.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:03:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699392</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699392</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48699392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah the last decade of Nuclear work is the ONE thing that they have been successful at wrt to project planning.<p>Hopefully that expertise is well placed to execute on these other projects.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:01:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640531</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48640531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "In praise of memcached"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Mature ops would be tracking cache hit ratios right?<p>Sure, and sentry integrates well with redis in python which is what I use primarily with redis.<p>I don't think memcached is bad, I just think its old and industry has moved to redis because it offers more while covering the previous use case.<p>Calling redis fiddly is a mischaracterization. For many use cases I have not had to think more than 30s to setup redis.<p>(also when I say redis I mean Valkey at this point, even if they are starting to diverge)</p>
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<p>I don't want my cache to silently fail.<p>Clustering redis is not that hard even if you do it manually and I have only had to do it once.<p>I never use redis persistence and have a max size set with LRU or whatever the application requires.<p>With memcached I remember having to mess around the LD_LIBRARY path to link whatever python module I was using at the time</p>
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<p>I stopped using memcached a decade a go in favour of Redis and now use valkey.<p>Never felt the need to go back to memcached except when a legacy dependency needed it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:48:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639573</link><dc:creator>tempest_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48639573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tempest_ in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Merchants near me are using more computer based terminal that seem to take nearly every thing. Amex's cut probably smaller compared to squares or stripes.<p>When talking to a local merchant about why they dont take amex the fee was not mentioned. The merchant said that visa and mastercard settle at the end of the day and they get their money but amex it was sometimes 4 or 5 days before they actually got their payment.</p>
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<p>I don't think people appreciate how much power comes from such a small amount of waste. The largest plant near me has been operating for > 50 years and the waste is still kept on site though I believe they are working on another solution.</p>
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<p>The problem is that the agents can not be trusted to do things so at the end of the day you wade through loads of crap and they cant solve your problem because they usually only have the same powers you do.<p>Great if grandma doesnt know how to use a web form, fucking useless for everyone else.</p>
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<p>For sure, I was thinking consumer desktop motherboards.<p>Even server boards often have their SFP in daughter boards specific to the chassis.</p>
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<p>I mean.. cat8 already exists but it will never be common because most people who dont make home networking a hobby just use wifi.<p>Hell many many people now a days own only a tablet and phone and no desktop/laptop at all.<p>Someone else in this thread mentioned motherboards with SFP ports on them and I cant believe that will ever be common because people can barely handle the many flavours of cables using USB C, how are they going to manage the mishmash of transceivers that only like specific brands and the DAC cables that may or may not work depending on how they feel that day.</p>
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<p>If you don't want the anime girl pay for the support, otherwise you get the anime jackal. Seems like a fair deal to me.</p>
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