Hacker News: vecter

New comment by vecter in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

vecter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:13:51 +0000

I'm open to hearing, please elaborate

New comment by vecter in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

vecter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:44:09 +0000

Do you disagree with any of the data or conclusions?

New comment by vecter in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

vecter — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:41:48 +0000

From this reply, it seems that it has nothing to do with `/effort`: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796#issue...

I hope you take this seriously. I'm considering moving my company off of Claude Code immediately.

Closing the GH issue without first engaging with the OP is just a slap in the face, especially given how much hard work they've done on your behalf.

New comment by vecter in "Cursor 3"

vecter — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:59:20 +0000

I assume they meant that "Claude Code is so good..." and that they cancelled Currsor and just use CC + VSCode.

New comment by vecter in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

vecter — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:08:57 +0000

That's all factually incorrect. The reason that HFT is valuable to society is exactly because it trades at the microsecond scale. That's how it provides the most liquidity.

Flash crash was transient and had no impact long term value. Neither does volatility.

New comment by vecter in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

vecter — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:48:14 +0000

HFT doesn't inflate or deflate any valuations. They operate at the market microstructure level and provide liquidity. HFT firms have no impact on the long-term value of assets.

New comment by vecter in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"

vecter — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:27:40 +0000

Thanks for the AMA Peter!

What impacts are you seeing as a result of the $100K H-1B fee which took effect on 9/21/25?

New comment by vecter in "Google Antigravity"

vecter — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:06:10 +0000

This is different. AI is an existential threat to Google. I've almost stopped using Google entirely since ChatGPT came out. Why search for a list of webpages which might have the answer to your question and then manually read them one at a time when I can instead just ask an AI to tell me the answer?

If Google doesn't adapt, they could easily be dead in a decade.

New comment by vecter in "Google Antigravity"

vecter — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:14:12 +0000

This kind of cynicism is wild to me. Of course most AI products (and products in general) are for end users. Especially for a company like Google--they need to do everything they can to win the AI wars, and that means winning adoption for their AI models.

New comment by vecter in "Blasting Yeast with UV Light"

vecter — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:54:54 +0000

> When they hit a jack pot. They’d document the mutations, throw the engineered strain out and start blasting them with UV. Afterwards you just scan for the same mutations and voila, now it’s classical strain enhancement!

Instead of starting with a fresh gene pool and blasting it with UV and praying that they get the same jackpot mutations, why didn't they start with an entire population with that desirable jackpot mutation and those blast cells with UV and then select for the ones that survived?

New comment by vecter in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

vecter — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 04:12:33 +0000

Are you just referring to a two-stage AC/furnace?

New comment by vecter in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

vecter — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:51:35 +0000

No more than someone spending a few thousand on a tiny designer bag that can fit almost nothing inside.

New comment by vecter in "Django 6.0 beta 1 released"

vecter — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:23:39 +0000

Ah yes. That’s the one thing I need to teach everyone when they’re new to Django. I was wondering if there were other quirks to the ORM beyond avoiding N+1 queries.

New comment by vecter in "Django 6.0 beta 1 released"

vecter — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:17:48 +0000

What're some DB query performance issues you've run across in the past and how did you resolve them?

New comment by vecter in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

vecter — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:46:25 +0000

The dark forest is such an obviously false theory to me. Its axioms are:

1. Survival is the primary goal of all civilizations.

Agree.

2. Resources in the universe are finite.

True in the theoretical sense, but false in the practical sense.

3. Civilizations cannot be certain of others’ intentions.

Not obviously true or false.

4. Communication is dangerous.

This is such a strong axiom and is almost certainly false.

Its conclusion from applying the four axioms is that preemptive annihilation is the rational strategy.

As an alien civilization, if your strategy for survival in the cosmos is to "immediately and totally annihilate any sign of life", then that is almost a surely losing strategy. If intelligent life is prevalent, and the cost of annihilating a species is so low that they can just do it willy-nilly, then all it takes is one surviving colony to use the same superweapon against you and you're finished. Oh, you'd also have to be annihilating species left and right across the galaxy without revealing your location. And in the worst case, you've just pissed off all the known alien entities in your galactic neighborhood. Good luck to you.

It makes for fun writing, but I don't understand how anyone can take it seriously.

New comment by vecter in "Your data model is your destiny"

vecter — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:02:09 +0000

Can you explain more? I don’t understand the distinction in this case between data and configuration in the context of IP addresses.

New comment by vecter in "Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death"

vecter — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:48:17 +0000

I presume so. Here's a great example of it with bacteria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDa4-nSc7J8

New comment by vecter in "Try the Mosquito Bucket of Death"

vecter — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 14:34:49 +0000

How quickly would the local population of mosquitos adapt to the MosquitoDunks, such that within a few generations, the only surviving ones would be the ones that are unaffected by the dunks? Or is that not a real concern?

New comment by vecter in "Jupiter was formerly twice its current size, had a much stronger magnetic field"

vecter — Sat, 24 May 2025 19:14:02 +0000

What makes that curve exponential?

New comment by vecter in "Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation"

vecter — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:46:28 +0000

It's very common for tech companies to go public without being profitable. As long as their growth is good and they have a reasonable story for how they will achieve profitability, then it typically makes sense. Of course every company is different and not all will reach their profitability goals post-IPO, but in many cases, it wouldn't make sense to wait for profitability before going public.