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stingraycharles · 2026-02-10T02:42:02 1770691322

It’s about a specific branch of functional programming that values an almost mathematical rigor, though (like Haskell).

I don’t think the criticism of the author applies LISP-style functional programming, which is much more accommodating to embracing chaos.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-09T11:30:21 1770636621

Your response is, completely expected, an appeal to outrage.

You’re asserting that account age shouldn’t matter, and that any scrutiny is morally illegitimate.

Nobody is discriminating against you. It’s just that account age is one of the few signals that an online platform has to go by.

HN absolutely recognizes this in their policy, considering that they give new accounts an entirely different color to make them stand out from the rest, and that they don’t allow downvotes unless your account has achieved a certain karma level.

joe_mamba · 2026-02-09T11:36:55 1770637015

>Your response is, completely expected, an appeal to outrage.

How do you react towards ageism and discrimination?

>It’s just that account age is one of the few signals that an online platform has to go by.

None of that invalidates or even addresses my arguments. It's still about exclusion of people based on account date rather than WHAT they say.

>HN absolutely recognizes this in their policy, considering that they give new accounts an entirely different color to make them stand out from the rest, and that they don’t allow downvotes unless your account has achieved a certain karma level.

Except that my account is not green, and I AM allowed to downvote.

jamespo · 2026-02-09T11:59:19 1770638359

Hey it's not just ageism, you're also anonymous!

gosub100 · 2026-02-09T12:01:42 1770638502

Did you check what zodiac sign the account was created under too? That's another signal for you.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-09T09:13:22 1770628402

Of course you’re right, but it’s a hell of a lot easier than when the fabs are located exclusively in Taiwan.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-09T06:47:00 1770619620

Or, as I prefer, go back in the conversation and edit / add more context so that it wouldn’t go off the wrong track in the first place.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-09T05:19:18 1770614358

Yes, it is. The unfortunate reality is that western societies care more about TSMC than Taiwan, and they’re hedging their bets this way.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-09T05:04:34 1770613474

I wonder what would have happened if he just let them finish; seems like he asked them to deliver $something immediately, and all they had was an outline. I also can’t help but feel the video is sped up quite a bit.

The video itself isn’t the best demo indeed.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-09T02:07:34 1770602854

If anything, indeed, this company is an outlier because they openly communicate about it.

Rage bait seems to be working judging by the comments over here.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-08T09:13:49 1770542029

no, it’s for Max subscribers to enable “use API when running out of session limit”. the assumption (probably) being that many will forget to turn it off, and they’ll earn it back that way.

Loic · 2026-02-08T11:38:30 1770550710

This was my first thought, but by default, you have no automatic reload of your prepaid account. Which I think is for once user friendly. They could have applied a dark pattern here.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-07T09:31:53 1770456713

Didn’t Anthropic recently acquire some JavaScript engine, though?

I figured that that was because they want tighter integration and a safer execution environment for code written by the LLM. And sandboxing is already very common for JavaScript in browsers.

stingraycharles · 2026-02-06T01:49:09 1770342549

I think those OpenAI announcements are mainly because this hasn’t been the case for them earlier, while it has been part of Claude Code since the beginning.

I don’t think there’s something deeply philosophical in here, especially as Claude Code is pushing stronger for asking more questions recently, introduced functionality to “chat about questions” while they’re asked, etc.