<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: themgt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=themgt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 17:57:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=themgt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>To me, this kind of talk exhibits the very cultish and con side of the whole genAI train ... Generally, and more so with paid products, one should expect to get something that is ready to be used</i><p>Right like I bought an AWS EC2 m6a.metal instance expecting to get something that is ready to be used. Now being told to recite arcane "commands" from the cloud computing holy book. They claim their supposedly groundbreaking hypertext protocol isn't even accessible to mere mortals using a $6000/month EC2, the blame is definitely on you, the user, for not setting up the tool in the right way.<p>This sysadmin cloud cult is basically saying that the EC2 product is actually not much more than an empty box, and that it is your responsibility to augment it with third-party servers and interpreters and application source texts that make it finally useful. And you better be carefully selecting the tools you install.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 10:57:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292315</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292315</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48292315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "My two-part desk setup (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The proper setup is 3 monitors: [ stdout ][ stdin ][ stderr ]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:43:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253503</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253503</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Polsia raised $30M; source map: fake ARR, dead users, god-mode over your company"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://polsia.com/live" rel="nofollow">https://polsia.com/live</a><p>Seems like you can ask Polsia about Polsia. The zero-arr.vercel.app AI investigative journalist interviewing Polsia could be this generation's Frost/Nixon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 23:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252532</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Enough with the AI FOMO, go slow-mo, says Domo CDO"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>"Why aren't people more resentful that these companies have pushed this technology upon them and now everyone is feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety," - Chris Willis, chief design officer and futurist for data platform biz Domo</i><p>> Governed Data for AI Agents<p>> Built with trusted AI models in mind<p>> Enterprise AI for your business data<p>> Connect your business data. Build AI-powered dashboards, agents, and automations. Skip the roadblocks.<p>> Use the best from OpenAI, Anthropic, and more. Domo provides hosted models from the top providers, or you can access your own models inside of Domo through our AI connectors.<p><a href="https://www.domo.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.domo.com</a><p><a href="https://www.domo.com/ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.domo.com/ai</a><p>OK</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:51:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180709</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Service Unavailable</i><p><i>The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.</i><p><i>Additionally, a 503 Service Unavailable error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.</i><p>Performance art.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:55:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177844</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177844</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>The problem is that consciousness is a philosophical invention ... If you accept consciousness is a thing you end up in this weird tautological state</i><p>"The Moon" is a philosophical invention, and yet The Moon is a natural phenomenon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 10:28:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177585</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48177585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Because the "rate of improvement" is only astonishing in well understood areas and really only astonishing if you yourself are not that great at what you do.</i><p>This is a bold vague claim many on HN make, but never put back-of-napkin numbers on. e.g. do you think agentic Opus 4.7/GPT 5.5 are 95th percentile coders but you're 98th percentile? Or are you saying you're a middle-of-the-road 60th percentile coder and AI is 20th percentile so only 20% worst programmers should worry? Let's be specific about the claim being made.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 15:15:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169672</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats, your raw EC2-hosted 500MB WebGL experimental card game went to the HN Front Page! You now owe AWS $30k in egress costs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 13:18:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083746</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083746</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Super-Spreaders" and Person-to-Person Transmission of Andes Virus in Argentina]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040">https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051874">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051874</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2026 17:06:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2009040</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051874</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an author of fine literature, these million monkeys on typewriters simply upset my sense of dignity. And to imagine the impoverished prose so many readers shalt forthwith be perusing!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 18:16:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039619</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039619</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48039619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Jira excels when there is a Jira governance committee</i><p>True but oversimplified. Without a Jira administrative state, along with of course democratically elected Jira executive and legislature and a duly appointed Jira Supreme Court, Jira governance committees over time tend to slide into self-dealing, tyranny and eventually mass executions of anti-Jira resistance factions.<p>Sustaining Jira regime legitimacy over time is far more involved than simply a governance committee with its stakeholder discussions and five year plans for new custom fields.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:50:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910322</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47910322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>(Cognitive behavioral therapy enjoyer l just cut off in traffic) Think positively. He is probably in a rush for a reason. Maybe he's late for a job interview. Maybe his wife is giving birth</i><p><i>Me: I'm da king of da highway</i></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:07:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889113</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889113</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47889113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The first chart is labeled "Hourly wage after taxes (€)" and links to a specific table in official Eurostat[0]. This Eurostat table is "Labour cost levels by NACE Rev. 2 activity" - afaict Eurostat defines[1] "labour cost" as:<p><i>core expenditure borne by employers for the purpose of employing staff. They include employee compensation, with wages and salaries in cash and in kind, employers' social security contributions and employment taxes regarded as labour costs minus any subsidies received, but not vocational training costs or other expenditure such as recruitment costs and spending on working clothes</i><p>In other words, this doesn't whatsoever represent "hourly wage after taxes" and this article is complete slop.<p>[0] <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/LC_LCI_LEV__custom_20807131/default/table" rel="nofollow">https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/LC_LCI_LEV__c...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/de/lc_lci_lev_esms.htm" rel="nofollow">https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/de/lc_lci_lev_e...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:55:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613816</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The IOC policy is specifically that athletes need to test negative for the SRY gene to be eligible to compete in the female category. Imane Khelif won gold in the 2024 Summer Olympics women's boxing event, and has since admitted to having the SRY gene. So it isn't a non-issue.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Khelif#2026" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imane_Khelif#2026</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534798</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Account made 53 days ago with sole interests being defending Palantir and Israel/US war. I love how highly organic and genuine the discussion of certain topics is here on HN.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:16:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478396</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47478396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Interpret: China is a CSIS project aimed at facilitating a more nuanced understanding of global strategic issues through a library of translated materials matched with expert commentary.</i><p>Americans are so propagandized and paranoid that they see a DC blob foreign policy think tank translating Chinese PLA source documents and start wondering if there's a nefarious plot afoot. "Understanding the enemy?! That sounds like an axis of evil conspiracy!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377982</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377982</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47377982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As Buffett said, "only when the tide goes out do you learn who has been swimming naked" - luckily, skimming the news, there's no obvious huge exogenous macroeconomic shocks on the horizon that could cause "the tide to go out" so to speak, so everything should be ok for now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:07:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351728</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351728</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47351728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[IEA: The largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.iea.org/reports/oil-market-report-march-2026">https://www.iea.org/reports/oil-market-report-march-2026</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348621">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348621</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:15:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.iea.org/reports/oil-market-report-march-2026</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "US asked Ukraine for help fighting Iranian drones, Zelensky says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real story is that the Patriot and other interceptor stockpiles Zelensky's asking for are now critically low, and tens of thousands of soft targets are hard to defend against cheap drones. This war is on course to set off a truly unprecedented global energy crisis within days, and the USA/allies don't currently appear to have any plan to fix it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266386</link><dc:creator>themgt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266386</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47266386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by themgt in "Layoffs at Block"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Demand inelasticity.</p>
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