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throwup238on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model

This is (still) happening to three of my four 20x Max accounts and by all accounts it seems they’re getting short changed on total weekly quota.

They’ve got that IPO coming up so they’re turning up the fraud in preparation.

throwup238on Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain

The train in Spain derails mostly on the plain.

throwup238on The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand

The assembly is almost all automated with pick and places machines and the board fabrication is mostly chemistry. The problem is changing tooling between each run: PNPs need their feeders changed to the right parts for each board and there’s limited space for them so they all have to be changed for every design that runs through. Same with the tooling for the board etching. This stuff is precision equipment and has to be properly aligned so it’s not just a simple matter of plugging and unplugging some parts.

throwup238on Harvey raised 500M for legal AI, I built the same and open sourced it

> CaseCite is a _source-available_, self-hosted legal RAG caselaw research & document analysis platform.

Source-available is not open source.

throwup238on Ask HN: What shenanigans is Anthropic pulling with Claude subs this time?

Same repos, same workflows.

Besides, how would workflows impact how much weekly quota 100% of a five hour quota uses? One account can fit more than six maxed out five hour sessions, the rest only three.

Something is fundamentally different between them, regardless of workflow.

throwup238on Iron Age salt-mining complex found beneath Hallstatt in Austria

Which is really curious. Shortly after the printing press was invented, grammar books were one of the most popular genres as people learned to read but it took centuries more for languages to get standardized and nearly four hundred years for dictionaries to appear.

throwup238on Dessa: the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built

Many of us can do it on just our hacker news comments (been there, done that).

throwup238on 2026 is an exciting year for the Rust compiler (and me)

> It's easy to understate how big of a deal this is for the compiler. This work resolves a major piece of technical debt that a lot of compiler developers dreamed about for years.

No kidding. I’ve been waiting for the solver at least half that decade now. Hopefully it and Polonius unblock specialization which has been in purgatory for years.

throwup238on Nine-Inch Snails

I recommend reading accounts of traveling through the Amazon, like The Lost City of Z. The number of pests in rainforests that do horrifying things to the human body is astounding and the botflies are only one of them. Makes me thankful for modern conveniences like pure DEET.

throwup238on Show HN: Unfenced – Land for sale that borders public land

That ship has sailed. We’ve been spraying Bacillus thuringiensis as an agricultural pesticide for a century now, at a massive scale, and that scale probably pales in comparison to how prevalent the organism is worldwide naturally.

throwup238on AI is a tool and using it well takes skill

Programmers can’t even agree on tabs vs spaces, less alone something important like strict vs weak typing. That survey is going to be a mess, even if you limited it to the most senior engineers. About the only thing we’ll be able to agree on is “source control good”.

throwup238on What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)

It’s especially bad when working on multiple projects at the same time. Memory and CPU contention kills performance.

I’ve switched one of my projects to Go and it took a day for Opus to do the port and another couple of days to finish the features I wanted. I’ve never liked the language and still use Rust in plenty of places, but I can’t argue with how much faster iteration is.

throwup238on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program

Cultural and timezone alignment. We’ve been here before with the outsourcing wave 20 years ago. The answers are still the same, remote is just a job perk.

throwup238on Archaeologists Are Reconstructing the 'Invisible' Technologies of the Stone Age

Accounts by westerners enslaved by nomadic tribes (when they shipwrecked on the coast) often talk about looking for sand to sleep on, especially when in the rocky parts of the Sahara, so I’d wager humans have been sleeping on sand for a very long time.

throwup238on Why were Victorian elites so effective?

> 1. The Colonial Service never administered India, the biggest colony.

And by that point the East India Company had one of the largest armies on earth.

It wasn’t that their administration was effective, it just didn’t care what happened as long as the plunder rolled in. It was backed by the largest Navy in the world and largest private army, which allowed it to devolve most functions to local puppets which implemented them brutally (and why the EIC was eventually nationalized). For example the Mughal bureaucracy alone was massive and they just coopted it, as long as they had the means to physically enforce their control.

throwup238on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents

> isn't sufficiently well understood to tell us how close the software neural network is to being practically equivalent

I’d argue that we do know enough to say conclusively that they’re not mathematically equivalent.

Where is potentiation? Plasticity? You can’t apply the universal approximation theorem against something that’s changing all the time.

throwup238on GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design

There’s a lot of other boring chips on a server motherboard beyond the RAM and CPU that share older processes with everyone else making silicon. Stuff like power management ICs needed to bring up power to a chip in the right order, which were an annoyance even before COVID and AI.

throwup238on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics

“Sodom on earth”? Really?

And you went twice?

throwup238on Pirating the Pirates

“Idea people” are not self aware. That’s the whole problem.

throwup238on Lunar Terminator Paradox

> Or whichever movie was about basketball.

BASEketball?

throwup238on Replacing the old battery on rechargeable bike lights

> it was neigh impossible at any temps my desktop hako could output.

You have to preheat the board so that the giant copper pours don’t sink as much heat. Or just use a Metcal.

throwup238on Lunar Terminator Paradox

Is that the Alien version of the Voight-Kampff test?

throwup238on As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

If the human lawyer doesn’t proofread it, whats the point’s the point of a human lawyer? Scapegoat for the AI?

throwup238on Ask HN: Who's still keeping a DOS machine up because the business depends on it?

I don’t know the specifics of their systems but both of my local lumberyards here in SoCal still use DOS systems for their point of sale and inventory management, with slow dotmatrix printers and everything.

They simply have no reason to modernize. The one big benefit they’d have is an online inventory system but they make most of their money from negotiated bulk orders so there’s zero incentive.

throwup238on Geothermal heat map of US hot springs

Maybe you’re thinking of Letters from Iwo Jima? They shot on location but the island is basically a mass war grave so they couldn’t use much pyrotechnics to avoid disturbing the ground.

Empire of the Sun was mostly shot in Shanghai and Spain. That was the one where they got fined for burning old tires for the special effect smoke, which dumped a bunch of toxic smoke on Shanghai.

throwup238on What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals

I think someone made the mistake of calculating that the canals cover an absurd area, usually mapped by easement area instead of actual geometry. They’re absolutely right that permitting would be easier, without accounting for the fact that the majority of the canals run through the Sierras*, and that the California Water Project is the biggest consumer of power in the entire state (to pump water over the mountains).

Yeah sure, let’s put solar panels over the last section in Bakersfield where all the canals merge. More power, less evaporation. That’s great! But it’s not going to move the needle in California.

* if you go backpacking in the Sierras you’ll often run into one of the canals. They’re both cool and scary. It takes hours to get to them and every time I see one i have to wonder how they managed to build it (it’s been decades so any construction damage has mostly grown over)

throwup238on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

> It’s not really an option to stop using computers or networks. But it’s going to be way too expensive (or maybe even impossible) to secure even just critical systems.

Admiral Adama says otherwise.

throwup238on MiMo v2.6

> It's actually the fact that I don't have warm shells to plug into.

So that’s how the Matrix got started …

throwup238on Winning the visa lottery

Finally a The Thick of It reference in HN.

An AUS Utopia reference would probably be more fitting though.

throwup238on Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices

> You said FAANG, so perhaps you're in California, a state that has laws regulating health insurance to an extent that make it unique in the USA

That is definitely a confounding factor, although I’m curious how much of that is the urban vs rural split in other states. (The construction company was not in California but oil boom-town adjacent in Texas)