Hacker News: timcobb

New comment by timcobb in "Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines"

timcobb — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 04:43:19 +0000

It's a drag that products like Windows are stuck forever the way they are. Or, rather, that they're stuck the way they are but then command such market share that nothing new ever comes and sees the light of day. Windows is doomed to keep generating billions for Microsoft until one day it doesn't, which I guess is what they're going for.

It also seems silly to tie the decline of Windows to UI discontent. Windows is in decline because it's increasingly irrelevant in the post-PC, post-USA world, and sucks in general.

New comment by timcobb in "Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand"

timcobb — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:30:08 +0000

1000 is a lot but it sounds like GP was a few orders of magnitude higher.

New comment by timcobb in "Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws"

timcobb — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:57:02 +0000

Just the day I saw a post in the Guardian referring to these things as prediction markets. It's so outrageous and undeserved

New comment by timcobb in "OccupySaaS"

timcobb — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 03:51:25 +0000

> It can be re-made by AI as easily.

Because that's not actually true yet, and may not be for a while

New comment by timcobb in "OccupySaaS"

timcobb — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:20:43 +0000

Yeah why is this Apache-2.0 ??

New comment by timcobb in "Anthropic's Mythos-class model allegedly leaked on Hugging Face"

timcobb — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:08:46 +0000

A casual user doesn't have 8 tbs?

New comment by timcobb in "Running a bootstrapped SaaS for 20 years with my brother"

timcobb — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:13:08 +0000

> I needed an .mp3 to .txt conversion

New comment by timcobb in "An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them"

timcobb — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:15:28 +0000

No these require human cultivation to survive.

New comment by timcobb in "Blockchain intelligence firms link North Korea to $6.3B hack on Binance"

timcobb — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:11:41 +0000

On the other threads it was noted that some of it had been frozen via USDT contracts

New comment by timcobb in "French national assembly votes 0.055€/GB internet tax"

timcobb — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:15:23 +0000

Yeah there's going to be a whole USB flash drive economy like in Cuba

New comment by timcobb in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

timcobb — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:05:18 +0000

But it's not about privacy, it's about data locality, at least at this stage, as far as I understand.

New comment by timcobb in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

timcobb — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:59:40 +0000

This person is so gross why do people like, or more importantly, _trust_ this company?

New comment by timcobb in "Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments"

timcobb — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:21:43 +0000

IRS fillable forms is really good in my opinion it should be more widely known.

New comment by timcobb in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

timcobb — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:00:51 +0000

Even Claude admits this after a bit of prodding.

New comment by timcobb in "Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model"

timcobb — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:59:45 +0000

Claude has caught this exact mistake for me, and asked for forgiveness, I think this was in the past few weeks it was like "omg I sent your email address in a UA". It seemed minor :shrug:.

New comment by timcobb in "Dayjob: Tax – evaluating AI agents on 50 professional tax assignments"

timcobb — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:10:20 +0000

That's neat, what aspect(s) are you formalizing? That a given tax statement is correct?

New comment by timcobb in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

timcobb — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:23:56 +0000

For sure, mental unblocking is easier than ever. Just muster the energy for that first prompt.

New comment by timcobb in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

timcobb — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:54:07 +0000

Definitely working as much as ever but I must say that AI does make it about zero stress for me because delivering isn't really a question at this point.

New comment by timcobb in "There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek"

timcobb — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:18:44 +0000

The fuzzzzz man

New comment by timcobb in "There are now 5 inference providers for abliterated DeepSeek"

timcobb — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 06:13:27 +0000

Which if not all of these are honeypots?