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New comment by xhrpost in "Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries"

xhrpost — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:30:08 +0000

Why wouldn't this qualify as price discrimination? Which is already illegal.

New comment by xhrpost in "A 386 PC for Your RP2350"

xhrpost — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:05:52 +0000

Did not realize that Win95 can technically run on a 20Mhz 386DX.

New comment by xhrpost in "C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)"

xhrpost — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 18:47:21 +0000

See also "x86 is a high-level language" https://blog.erratasec.com/2015/03/x86-is-high-level-languag...

New comment by xhrpost in "Muse Spark 1.3"

xhrpost — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 21:59:22 +0000

Wow, I actually had this exact idea. I was specifically curious as to how well a given LLM could understand a DSL that hasn't changed much in a couple decades and doesn't have nearly as many examples to learn from online. Seems like it did alright, all things considered.

New comment by xhrpost in "Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete"

xhrpost — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:29:40 +0000

Anyone remember the old GoneGold.com? https://web.archive.org/web/20040213113548/http://www.gonego...

New comment by xhrpost in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

xhrpost — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:58:55 +0000

Would he have been better off just refusing to give a code?

New comment by xhrpost in "Show HN: Graft – Claude Code hooks that cut grep tokens by 42%"

xhrpost — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:11:06 +0000

I intuitively and perhaps naively thought that Claude using the LSP server would negate a lot of grep use. Is this tool solving the same problem or something else?

EA to pay $1.8B in interest annually on buy-out debt

xhrpost — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:18:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/saudi-acquired-ea-is-reportedly-planning-to-make-massive-cuts-after-taking-usd18-billion-of-debt-and-we-all-know-what-that-means/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197051

Points: 5

# Comments: 8

New comment by xhrpost in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

xhrpost — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:55:55 +0000

For a while everyone was saying sub agents is how you save tokens, use lower quality models with limited context to do simple parts of the job after a smart planning agent has put it all in place. Is that no longer true or is this just the result of sub agent being used at the wrong time?

New comment by xhrpost in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

xhrpost — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:01:03 +0000

> Any time I notice something in code review and have to get the agent to fix it.. I throw it on the list! My list is like 200 items now.

This is a gripe I've had with AI tools for a while now. Though it's gotten somewhat better in time, but we don't really know what to expect from the tool in terms of quality. Ex. I'd expect a human engineer to probably not use a brand new assertion library for a new test when there are 200 tests using an existing one. But Claude has done this to me multiple times. So I have to add yet another item to the list, like you have, and tell it to look for testing conventions before writing. But, there is plenty we don't have to tell it, like what a function is or a test should probably cover the change in the diff. But we don't really have a list of what things are on each side so we're just left to sort of hunt and peck to build a viable solution.

New comment by xhrpost in "Half-Life 2 in a Browser"

xhrpost — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:33:08 +0000

Everyone posting links made me want to find HL1 in browser: https://x8bitrain.github.io/webXash/

Third Places (NYC)

xhrpost — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 02:32:17 +0000

Article URL: https://thirdplaces.nyc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48615123

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by xhrpost in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

xhrpost — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:54:29 +0000

That sounds correct, I know what the GP is describing, very first computer for me. I was actually rather unfamiliar with the basic Win 3.1 desktop.

New comment by xhrpost in "The peril of laziness lost"

xhrpost — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:30:55 +0000

I've had this exact sentiment in the past couple months after seeing a few PRs that were definitely the wrong solution to a problem. One was implementing it's own parsing functions to which well established solutions like JSON or others likely existed. I think any non-llm programmer could have thought this up but then immediately decide to look elsewhere, their human emotions would have hit and said "that's way too much (likely redundant) work, there must be a better way". But the LLM has no emotion, it isn't lazy and that can be a problem because it makes it a lot easier to do the wrong thing.

New comment by xhrpost in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

xhrpost — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:03:49 +0000

VTI is market cap free-float weighted, as is VOO and SPY. So what ETFs would this IPO be an issue with if not these?

New comment by xhrpost in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

xhrpost — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:01:53 +0000

It's a good point, maybe? Even the smallest market cap is $22B though, hard to say.

New comment by xhrpost in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

xhrpost — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:58:40 +0000

I still want to be long in the market so my initial thought is switching to equal weight funds.

New comment by xhrpost in "AI Made Writing Code Easier. It Made Being an Engineer Harder"

xhrpost — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:51:03 +0000

>The engineers who thrive will be the ones who can resist the temptation to over-engineer when the marginal cost of adding complexity drops to near zero.

I think this isn't being discussed enough in the SWE world. It wasn't too long ago that engineers on HN would describe a line of code as "not an asset but a liability". Now that code is "free" though, I'm seeing more excessively verbose PRs at work. I'm trying to call it out and rein it in a bit but until engineers on average believe there is inherent risk here, the behavior will continue.

New comment by xhrpost in "The Life Cycle of Money"

xhrpost — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:43:41 +0000

I'll read more of the articles but very first bullet point raised my eyebrows

>Freezing Russian reserves in 2022 introduced confiscation risk to assets previously considered risk-free

Is this actually new? Didn't we freeze Iranian assets back in 1979? Wouldn't be surprised if there were other examples.

New comment by xhrpost in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

xhrpost — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:14:05 +0000

I don't see how the rich don't understand this. Guess they just think it won't happen to them and they'll be smart enough to cash out of America and go elsewhere before everyone else looses.