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New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

the_mitsuhiko — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:08:53 +0000

Since I (until Anthropic decided to remove access for subs) used Anthropic models extensively with pi I explored the two caching options and the much higher cost of 1h caches is almost never a good tradeoff.

Since the caching really primarily is something they can be judged at scale from across many users I can only assume that Anthropic looked at their infra load and impact and made a very intentional change.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "The Center Has a Bias"

the_mitsuhiko — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:26:53 +0000

Author here: ethical concerns are legitimate and they don’t require contact. You’re right that the center is not just skewed because of the arguments I made but also because of other factors such as the availability of money and time.

I’m not disputing that. The argument in the article is a much narrower one: use. It’s that without use, one’s view of how it behaves in practice is second-hand from the people that engage.

If all ones criticism is confine within ethical or monetary concerns then this article does not apply.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "The Center Has a Bias"

the_mitsuhiko — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:51:45 +0000

That’s very possible! But right now I think the bigger risk is that the center is biased towards people with time and money.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

the_mitsuhiko — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:14:21 +0000

Difficulty only adjusts every 2016 blocks. If the system gets out of whack enough it could slow down to a crawl for an extended period of time.

In practice it’s not much of an issue because bitcoin is not use for commerce but it’s a store of value and it some of the trades are not even on chain.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "I've sold out"

the_mitsuhiko — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:22:52 +0000

Armin from Earendil: At the end of the day there is nothing I can demonstrate to you now that we will be doing a good job here. But I want to be able to put back at comments like this in a few years and be able to demonstrate that we made the right calls for everybody involved.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "I've sold out"

the_mitsuhiko — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:20:46 +0000

Armin from Earendil here. I don't know about everything, but I find it disappointing that Tolkien has to "live" with being associated with the companies that are currently named after his works. I want to build a company that is based on better values.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

the_mitsuhiko — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:37:08 +0000

They implemented it in a way that it only responds with a valid image and a 200 status code, when the referrer is adobe.com. It's probably somewhat sane given the insanity that is the host files hack.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

the_mitsuhiko — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:14:32 +0000

> so that doesn't really break the rules

At the time it did not break the rules. It's breaking the rules now because by the original rules it should have been phased out. What makes it survive is a special arrangement.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

the_mitsuhiko — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:13:39 +0000

Though not all country codes point to a country. See .eu, .ac .su as different examples of stuff that breaks the rules.

Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling

the_mitsuhiko — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:57:06 +0000

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2016/3/24/open-source-trust-scaling/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584967

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "21,864 Yugoslavian .yu domains"

the_mitsuhiko — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:30:53 +0000

That is more political than otherwise. SU and EU both are exceptional reservations in ISO 3166-1 alpha-2.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people"

the_mitsuhiko — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:58:43 +0000

My main exposure to Codeberg is Zig and it has an issue tracker there and I pull in changes from it.

For how infrequent I interface with Codeberg I have to say that my experience has been pretty terrible when it comes to availability.

So I guess the answer is: the availability is bad enough that even infrequent interactions with it are a problem.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

the_mitsuhiko — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:09:00 +0000

It's way more complicated. For instance according to this vote Denmark is overwhelmingly against it. However Denmark most recently was the country that pushed heavily towards this, in fact, under Denmark's leadership the whole thing was revived last time around.

If you look at local politics and news they are all lobbying massively for it (or some people do). The reason is usually "for sake of the children". Parents in particular are heavily in favor of chat control.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance"

the_mitsuhiko — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:00:42 +0000

This will come back because too many EU countries want it.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

the_mitsuhiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:54:21 +0000

It managed to throw itself into a global file for me that Claude used which caused beads to appear in random projects on my machine. Because of how it was there the agent attempted to re-install beads after I already removed it because the guy hook errored.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down"

the_mitsuhiko — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:32:10 +0000

Every problem is self-correcting in that some new normal will emerge. Either through acceptance or because something is changed.

It’s very hard to say right now what happens at the other side of this change right now.

All these new growing pains are happening in many companies simultaneously and they are happening at elevated speed. While that change is taking place it can be quite disorienting and if you want to take a forward looking view it can be quite unclear of how you should behave.

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

the_mitsuhiko — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:26:57 +0000

Did localstack never get bit enough that a fork would emerge or am I missing an obvious one?

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

the_mitsuhiko — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:55:21 +0000

Which, as a non informed person but someone who needs to travel by plane, sounds absolutely insane. Was it always possible to staff that with a single person or is that a result of understaffing?

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Some things just take time"

the_mitsuhiko — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:36:35 +0000

> It has a vague 'about' modal and that's your lot, which is confusing since they're encouraging people to join.

It's a surprisingly good filter and gets curious people to send mail in :)

New comment by the_mitsuhiko in "Some things just take time"

the_mitsuhiko — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:14:41 +0000

I admit that it’s a conflict and I don’t know if I have the right answers. I cannot help but see the good and bad in these things. Rejecting it outright is unlikely to help.