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sh34r commented on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git kraxel.org/blog/2026/01/t... · Posted by u/dzulp0d

dirkc · 5 days ago

I'm hazarding a guess that there are many AI startups that focus on building datasets with the aim to sell those datasets. Still doesn't make total sense, since doing it badly would only hurt them, but maybe they don't really care about the product / outcome, they're just capturing their bit of the AI goldrush?

sh34r · 4 days ago

I guess the AI companies finally figured out they’re supposed to buy their stolen datasets from a shell company spun up by the most unsavory character within two degrees of the CEO. Every CEO has a drug dealer, and every CEO drug dealer knows the greasy grey hat dude running a data laundry “startup.” The VCs usually know some private equity dons who run the same racket to do bust out fraud, too.

It’s truly unbelievable that OpenAI and Anthropic were so sloppy. Pirating all that copyrighted media and not even bothering to hide behind one layer of indirection. Amateurs.

So yeah… it’s what, five years’ worth of pent up demand for organized crime, hitting the market everywhere all at once? I’m surprised the request volume isn’t higher!

sh34r commented on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us... · Posted by u/edward

morpheuskafka · 5 days ago

A cartel using a SAM against a US civilian aircraft would massively solidify public opinion against them just like 9/11 or the Iran hostage crisis. The US has been trying to extent the "foreign terrorist" label and casus belli to drug activities forever to justify military operations (ex. the "arrest" of Maduro was for drugs, not oil/Cuba/political stuff). That would be a massive self-own on the cartels part. (And if it did happen, just like 9/11, it would be used as justification for anything even remotely immigration or drug related at every level.)

sh34r · 4 days ago

I take it you don’t know much about the Troubles, then. The SAM missiles would be saved for returning ICE Air flights, not Delta.

sh34r commented on Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us... · Posted by u/edward

HillRat · 5 days ago

Recent updates say this was a unilateral call by FAA because DOD was refusing to coordinate with them for creating safety corridors for DOD drones and/or HEW usage. Issues came to a head after DOD shot down a highly threatening mylar party balloon, which FAA evidently considered to be a somewhat reckless use of military weaponry in a US city's airspace.

sh34r · 4 days ago

FAA ought to be drowning Kegseth’s DoD in bureaucracy at every possible opportunity, after the massacre over the Potomac River a year ago. They deserve no leniency whatsoever.

sh34r commented on Claude Code is being dumbed down? symmetrybreak.ing/blog/cl... · Posted by u/WXLCKNO

bcherny · 4 days ago

Hey, Boris from the Claude Code team here. I wanted to take a sec to explain the context for this change.

One of the hard things about building a product on an LLM is that the model frequently changes underneath you. Since we introduced Claude Code almost a year ago, Claude has gotten more intelligent, it runs for longer periods of time, and it is able to more agentically use more tools. This is one of the magical things about building on models, and also one of the things that makes it very hard. There's always a feeling that the model is outpacing what any given product is able to offer (ie. product overhang). We try very hard to keep up, and to deliver a UX that lets people experience the model in a way that is raw and low level, and maximally useful at the same time.

In particular, as agent trajectories get longer, the average conversation has more and more tool calls. When we released Claude Code, Sonnet 3.5 was able to run unattended for less than 30 seconds at a time before going off the rails; now, Opus 4.6 1-shots much of my code, often running for minutes, hours, and days at a time.

The amount of output this generates can quickly become overwhelming in a terminal, and is something we hear often from users. Terminals give us relatively few pixels to play with; they have a single font size; colors are not uniformly supported; in some terminal emulators, rendering is extremely slow. We want to make sure every user has a good experience, no matter what terminal they are using. This is important to us, because we want Claude Code to work everywhere, on any terminal, any OS, any environment.

Users give the model a prompt, and don't want to drown in a sea of log output in order to pick out what matters: specific tool calls, file edits, and so on, depending on the use case. From a design POV, this is a balance: we want to show you the most relevant information, while giving you a way to see more details when useful (ie. progressive disclosure). Over time, as the model continues to get more capable -- so trajectories become more correct on average -- and as conversations become even longer, we need to manage the amount of information we present in the default view to keep it from feeling overwhelming.

When we started Claude Code, it was just a few of us using it. Now, a large number of engineers rely on Claude Code to get their work done every day. We can no longer design for ourselves, and we rely heavily on community feedback to co-design the right experience. We cannot build the right things without that feedback. Yoshi rightly called out that often this iteration happens in the open. In this case in particular, we approached it intentionally, and dogfooded it internally for over a month to get the UX just right before releasing it; this resulted in an experience that most users preferred.

But we missed the mark for a subset of our users. To improve it, I went back and forth in the issue to understand what issues people were hitting with the new design, and shipped multiple rounds of changes to arrive at a good UX. We've built in the open in this way before, eg. when we iterated on the spinner UX, the todos tool UX, and for many other areas. We always want to hear from users so that we can make the product better.

The specific remaining issue Yoshi called out is reasonable. PR incoming in the next release to improve subagent output (I should have responded to the issue earlier, that's my miss).

Yoshi and others -- please keep the feedback coming. We want to hear it, and we genuinely want to improve the product in a way that gives great defaults for the majority of users, while being extremely hackable and customizable for everyone else.

sh34r · 4 days ago

Why does everything have to be in the TUI? I like the TUI. But I also want all the logs. And I do mean all of them.

Of course all the logs can’t be streamed to a terminal. Why would they need to be? Every logging system out there allows multiple stream handlers with different configurations.

Do whatever reasonable defaults you think make sense for the TUI (with some basic configuration). But then I should also be able to give Claude-code a file descriptor and a different set of config optios, and you can stream all the logs there. Then I can vibe-code whatever view filter I want on top of that, or heck, have a SLM sub-agent filter it all for me.

I could do this myself with some proxy / packet capture nonsense, but then you’d just move fast and break my things again.

I’m also constantly frustrated by the fancier models making wrong assumptions in brownfield projects and creating a big mess instead of asking me follow-up questions. Opus is like the world’s shittiest intern… I think a lot of that is upstream of you, but certainly not all of it. There could be a config option to vary the system prompt to encourage more elicitation.

I love the product you’ve built, so all due respect there, but I also know the stench of enshittification when I smell it. You’re programmers, you know how logging is supposed to work. You know MCP has provided a lot of these basic primitives and they’re deliberately absent from claude code. We’ve all seen a product get ratfucked internally by a product manager who copied the playbook of how Prabhakar Raghavan ruined google search.

The open source community is behind at the moment, but they’ll catch up fast. Open always beats closed in the long run. Just look at OpenAI’s fall into disgrace.

sh34r commented on Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files jmail.world... · Posted by u/lukeigel

Bender · 2 months ago

there's a lot to sift through

The total archive size is 300GB. AFAIK they have only released around 2GB. Curious what is in the rest of it assuming it does not get [redacted] out or deleted. I am also curious how they intend to release the rest of it in time to meet the requirements of the act. Discussion [1] Epstein Files bill sponsor Ro Khanna and Hassan, no dogs being zapped.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT2u0Fp3hQg [video][1hr12m]

sh34r · 2 months ago

> Curious what is in the rest of it

Probably a lot of CSAM, if the Mossad blackmail op theory of Epstein is true.

sh34r commented on MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/mosura

javiramos · 2 months ago

Could this be related to the Brown shooting?

sh34r · 2 months ago

If it is, do you think it’s the Iranians taking revenge on American civilian scientists, or a Ted Kaczynski type?

sh34r commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat

nozzlegear · 2 months ago

I love electric vehicles, but I want something that lands somewhere between the DIY-esque Slate and the literally-costs-more-than-I-paid-for-my-house F-150 Lightning. I have a 23 Chevy Bolt EUV which is the sweet spot for me right now, I just wish it had AWD for the winters where I live.

sh34r · 2 months ago

I want a BYD that costs less than a 2000 Camry did brand new in 2000.

EVs are inherently pretty simple machines. All the complexity is in the battery, and China’s crushing everyone at battery tech. It’s not even close. It’s like a human trying to beat a polar bear in hand to hand combat.

They really need to deregulate the auto industry and let us buy the Yugos with a Jetsons battery. America is a poor country now. Nobody can afford used cars in this economy, never mind new ones.

sh34r commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat

shmoe · 2 months ago

They also could've offered a fleet ready version without the luxury features, but must've decided not to.

They did offer a fleet version.. the "Pro".

sh34r · 2 months ago

I mean, what do we expect from this brainless company that promised a $20k Maverick and let the stealerships mark it up to over $40k?

sh34r commented on Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 wired.com/story/ford-kill... · Posted by u/sacred-rat

sh34r · 2 months ago

The EV pickup obsession is so bizarre. Even moreso than the gas pickup obsession. The obvious next step was to take their brilliant EV Transit and scale up production. You don’t have to convince truck bros. There’s no cultural hang-ups. No issues with towing. Just make a nice cargo van with 120v hookups for $50k that’s easy to drive in the city and easy to convert into a camper. Could’ve built three vans with the lithium it took to build these obscenities.

And you know, I’m already compromising here, because it really ought to be a wagon instead of a van, if Detroit had any brains left.

Can’t wait until someone figures out how to smuggle those $15k BYDs in from Mexico. The North American car market needs to be disrupted badly. By China, not by some meme stock.

sh34r commented on Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems techcrunch.com/2025/12/12... · Posted by u/kernelrocks

tclancy · 2 months ago

That was true for a long time, but before that, Home Depot's customer service was terrific too. I think that's a cost that gets cut by a focus on shareholder value. Local hardware stores are still going to be better, with the caveat it may take a decade before they smile when you walk in.

sh34r · 2 months ago

> with the caveat it may take a decade before they smile when you walk in.

That’s damn good customer service right there, if you ask me. The fake-chipper act makes me want to dive into a wood chipper…