Hacker News: tombot

New comment by tombot in "Clean up Claude 5's token vomit with a separate LLM"

tombot — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:24:20 +0000

Just switch back opus 4.8, it's just as capable and you can actually understand the output

New comment by tombot in "ASK HN: Opus 5.0 is more autonomous"

tombot — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:20:13 +0000

Opus 5 feels slower and less consistent, switching back to 4.8 at this point so I can actually get my work done

New comment by tombot in "Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn"

tombot — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:08:40 +0000

We stopped using CFCs to fix the hole in the ozone layer

New comment by tombot in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

tombot — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:12:53 +0000

Apple isn’t friends with OpenAI anymore

New comment by tombot in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

tombot — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:31:21 +0000

"I haven't been able to enter flow state like I can when I hand write code." new flow state is having 10 terminal tabs in diff worktrees and trying to remember what each bit is

New comment by tombot in "The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower"

tombot — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:09:57 +0000

“16 developers across 246 tasks”

New comment by tombot in "Bohemia Interactive: Cold War Assault Remastered Source Code on GitHub"

tombot — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:25:10 +0000

I believe this game had some interesting anti cheat, it would still let you play if it knew it was cracked but would just make your aim worse and worse until you gave up.

New comment by tombot in "VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'"

tombot — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:46:07 +0000

Glad HN is getting to experience the true level of adverts on “news” sites in the UK. It really is next level.

New comment by tombot in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

tombot — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:36:55 +0000

Most people don’t have jobs they enjoy, programmers have somehow escaped this; better pay and more “protected” time instead of doing what the rest of us were doing all along

New comment by tombot in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

tombot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:19:26 +0000

I really don’t know why there isn’t a brand that’s capitalising on this.

Messaging, calls, maps, notes but no way to take or view images. Marketed simply from a global brand.

New comment by tombot in "UK PM gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children's phones"

tombot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:16:28 +0000

Not sure why this has ended up preferable to a smartphone ban for under 16? Surely we could decide to sell dumber devices that allow communication without internet and image sharing / capture?

New comment by tombot in "UK PM gives tech firms ultimatum to block explicit images on children's phones"

tombot — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:15:06 +0000

Regular device accounts now ask you to prove you are 18+ through different processes, mine was enabled based on age of Apple ID.

This is entirely seperate to the family sharing permissions that’s presumably the op is talking about, where I think? They are saying the permissions are not fine grained enough so workarounds are needed.

New comment by tombot in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

tombot — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:37:51 +0000

Here’s a hack, get yourself a cheap eSIM data only plan from an alternative UK network (VOXI, Talkmobile etc) if you main network doesn’t have connectivity; they will!

New comment by tombot in "AirPods Max 2"

tombot — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:06:43 +0000

Find my works fine on a coin cell battery on AirTag, hard to imagine they need to power up the headphones to do the same.

New comment by tombot in "What AI coding costs you"

tombot — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:41:22 +0000

> Developers need the dopamine hit of creation. That’s not a perk, it’s what keeps good engineers engaged, learning, retained, and prevents burnout.

Are developers some kind of special creature? or must they simply learn to deal with the complexity of juggling multiple projects, like every other desk job in 2026.

New comment by tombot in "India's VIP culture is out of control"

tombot — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:58:03 +0000

https://archive.is/iI6rY

New comment by tombot in "Palantir Captured the UK Ministry of Defence"

tombot — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:22:00 +0000

https://archive.is/jgMF4

New comment by tombot in "And then? And then Mullvad was censored in the UK"

tombot — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:46:50 +0000

Mullvad UK customer here, I don’t think watching Americans order at a drive thru is a very compelling ad, had this campaign been more than jus “oh they banned us” you might have got somewhere. Many many UK ads have been banned over the years, the smart ones used the ban to their advantage, this isn’t it.

New comment by tombot in "Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API"

tombot — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:47:29 +0000

The tool might be desktop only, but you can’t explain it or show me a video even on mobile?

New comment by tombot in "Ask HN: Why is my Claude experience so bad? What am I doing wrong?"

tombot — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:14:04 +0000

Have you read the best practices? https://code.claude.com/docs/en/best-practices Are you using plan mode?