<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: thot_experiment</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thot_experiment</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:23:48 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thot_experiment" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Plan mode is dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fascinating! I literally never use Claude without plan mode and I find it's basically useless without it, constantly wasting tokens going in circles on irrelevant things. Fable or Opus. I feel like neither has a good sense for how to architect things and if I don't use plan mode it usually wastes hours of time chasing it's tail or implementing kludges on kludges to get something working that would be a much simple fix elsewhere, especially when working on a larger codebase.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:11:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854035</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I got recommended this video and felt very clickbaited and stopped watching when he mentioned that he's just replacing the innards with a Pi. Incredibly lame.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:19:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602568</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602568</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49602568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand, how is this possibly implemented?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:03:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599833</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49599833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Dimethyl Mercury Exposure Incident at MIT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagine thinking you'd killed yourself, and then breathing the intense sigh of relief when you realize you're bad at chemistry and you didn't manage to synthesize the compound correctly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:08:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514300</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Show HN: Laser Graffiti"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/projects/laser-tag/#video" rel="nofollow">https://graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/projects/laser-tag/#vid...</a><p>everything old is new again, and toys will be toys</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:13:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513717</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49513717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "LLMs are making me lose my savviness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't need the "for me", it's implicit in it being an article written by someone in a casual setting. I'd argue the issue is that we as internet blog post readers treat these think pieces with more gravitas then they deserve as a baseline.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 21:01:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493306</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493306</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "LLMs are making me lose my savviness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What are you talking about lmao, tons of carpenters have said that. The subjective experience of your craft is shaped by the tools you chose to use. For some people, and I venture this is most often true for master craftspeople, not only is the journey is more important than the destination, but the limitations of the path breed the creativity needed to even arrive at the destination.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:59:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493290</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493290</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "The internet is kind of a predatory cesspit now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's written in a hyperbolic way, but I don't think your characterization is right. The author isn't saying everyone is an asshole, he's saying the systemic forces are mostly aligned in a predatory direction, and that part is absolutely true. I have a good time on Instagram <i>despite</i> the ways the platform is structured.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:17:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492500</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure I get that, but the part where the robot has to read the repo and figure stuff out can be done by a weak model for near-free with no thinking. The delta isn't that big.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:24:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484411</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484411</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49484411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I genuinely don't even understand how people run out of tokens with the basic subscription. I had Claude write an entire app that has completely replaced Adobe Illustrator for my specific usecases (mostly inking sketches, and embellishing generated SVGs). It does everything exactly the way I want and has much better ergonomics (blender hotkeys ftw) and the whole thing took me like 700k tokens over the course of a couple days.<p>Do people just let Opus ultra extra max thinking run amok on their whole codebase with a single context? I don't even think I could even design sensible features faster, I'm the limiting factor here, the robot pretty much oneshots everything I ask for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:54:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476107</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "A Looming Rare Earth Shortage Threatens Critical Tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm pretty sure this is just an economic problem right? It has long been convenient to exploit countries that have low wages and make little effort to price in the negative externalities of extracting these resources. It's not like the imperial core doesn't have the minerals, we're just currently not getting them out of the ground.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476019</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476019</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49476019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>54% to go, good work team.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:03:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315832</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315832</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49315832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Closing Canario Terminal source code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is no pretense here that closing the source is the only alternative. It's only the alternative the author has chosen.<p>For better or worse we live in a society. Even being perceived and having a simulacrum of you in someone's head, much less a collective simulacrum in many people's heads is restrictive. Every facet of yourself you reveal to is another string tied upon you. I'm not here to argue one way or another what you <i>should</i> do, but it is not self inflicted, it is a fact of social existence. Even to have the discipline to ignore an email can be taxing, especially if you view the person on the other end as a human. Just being made aware of a bug, or a different way of structuring things is an infohazard if your goal is to just have fun doing things your way. I think closing the source like this is a fairly drastic course of action, but there's plenty of things I've written that aren't open source for the same reasons, even though I'd <i>like</i> them to be, I'd rather be a hermit about it just because the vibe is better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259682</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259682</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49259682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In terms of safety to me and others this endeavor is far below what is societally acceptable and if you think otherwise you are bad at evaluating danger.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:38:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239611</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239611</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49239611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's absurdist to be concerned about this and be okay driving a car from a total harm to society perspective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:36:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233532</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49233532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Tom Stanton's supersonic trebuchet breaks sound barrier with gravity alone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's shooting 3d printed balls, I imagine they don't stay supersonic for very long. Significantly less dangerous to others than driving a car.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:18:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232777</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232777</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Apple is getting this wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"800 billion" dollar companies making callout blog posts now, truly this is the dumbest timeline. I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:36:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165830</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165830</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obviously not, but since the panels are >8x cheaper it's possible to buy 2x the capacity advertised here + an inverter for a one time cost of $200, so about $0.33/watt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102373</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Balcony Solar: $1.74/watt direct plug-in solar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just for comparison buying solar panels off craigslist is about $0.20/watt.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:58:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102236</link><dc:creator>thot_experiment</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102236</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49102236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thot_experiment in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My freedom to choose an employer is orthogonal to the incentive structures within in that relationship.</p>
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