At the time I (and many others) had a much more positive view of Microsoft. In 2018 Nadella was bringing a lot of positive change to Microsoft. The release of VSCode and WSL among the more visible trends that signaled a new direction. A world in which Microsoft wasn't the preferred owner of Github, but could at least be a good steward and an open-source friendly company.
Now in 2026 things look different. While the fears that Microsoft would revert to 90s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish mostly haven't come to pass, their products are instead all plagued by declining quality and stability, and a product direction that seems to willfully ignore most of the user base
That persona still sounds too generic, too unfocused.
But even with that persona, it should already answer your question whether posting on HN and producthunt should be a core part of your strategy. Not a lot of social media managers or compliance people around here. And even for crypto traders there are better places to pitch products to them
Keep in mind that the people who experience issues will always be the loudest.
I've overall enjoyed 4.6. On many easy things it thinks less than 4.5, leading to snappier feedback. And 4.6 seems much more comfortable calling tools: it's much more proactive about looking at the git history to understand the history of a bug or feature, or about looking at online documentation for APIs and packages.
A recent claude code update explicitly offered me the option to change the reasoning level from high to medium, and for many people that seems to help with the overthinking. But for my tasks and medium-sized code bases (far beyond hobby but far below legacy enterprise) I've been very happy with the default setting. Or maybe it's about the prompting style, hard to say
keep in mind that people who point out a regression and measure the actual #tok, which costs $money, aren't just "being loud" — someone diffed session context usaage and found 4.6 burning >7x the amount of context on a task that 4.5 did in under 2 MB.
Being a moderately frequent user of Opus and having spoken to people who use it actively at work for automation, it's a really expensive model to run, I've heard it burn through a company's weekend's credit allocation before Saturday morning, I think using almost an order of magnitude more tokens is a valid consumer concern!
I have yet to hear anyone say "Opus is really good value for money, a real good economic choice for us". It seems that we're trying to retrofit every possible task with SOTA AI that is still severely lacking in solid reasoning, reliability/dependability, so we throw more money at the problem (cough Opus) in the hopes that it will surpass that barrier of trust.
I've also seen Opus 4.6 as a pure upgrade. In particular, it's noticeably better at debugging complex issues and navigating our internal/custom framework.
Likewise, I feel like it's degraded in performance a bit over the last couple weeks but that's just vibes. They surely vary thinking tokens based on load on the backend, especially for subscription users.
When my subscription 4.6 is flagging I'll switch over to Corporate API version and run the same prompts and get a noticeably better solution. In the end it's hard to compare nondeterministic systems.
Mirrors my experience as well. Especially the pro-activeness in tool calling sticks out. It goes web searching to augment knowledge gaps on its own way more often.
They're probably running it with a claude code like tool and it has a local (to the tool, not to anthropic) copy of the git repo it can query using the cli.
If you want to use smaller ids within the stream, that capability section would seem to be the natural place to map from global codec-uuid to file-local u8 identifier
HN is less SV dominated than you might think. Less than half the people here are even from the US. Surely there are some rich founders from around the world among us, but most people here will have pretty typical tech salaries for their country
Ah, a classic paperclip maximizer. Pension plans got the goal of multiplying the money so pensioners have more of it. Nobody bothered to mention that they should also make sure there's a world the pensioners can live in, so now that gets slowly sacrificed in the pursuit of the only explicitly stated goal
If multiplying money is the goal why does the article say they're doing a worse job of that than just buying index funds? If that claim is true, then clearly there are other issues at play than just that.
Pension funds have a different time horizon / cash flow needs than individual investors (namely, they need to meet their liabilities every month) and so are going to have a more conservative asset mix (read: lower expected returns w/ lower volatility) than your average S&P500 index funds.
For example, CaLPERS has ~45% of their assets under management in debt / real estate.
Is high volatility really such a concern when you're dealing with a large pool of funds over such a long timeframe? Sure, if you need to withdraw funds during a downturn that's bad, but over the long term isn't that statistically balanced out by other months where you get lucky and withdraw during a peak?
Further, I know it goes against economic orthodoxy, but I am a big fan of buying low and selling high. When the market is bad, I become more frugal, I might even run on debt instead of selling. When the market is at all time highs, I'll sell some from riskier and move that into other things.
Another oddity in this situation... People die slightly more often during flu season, so you could game this and plan to withdraw less.
Longbets: “Over a ten-year period commencing on January 1, 2008, and ending on December 31, 2017, the S&P 500 will outperform a portfolio of funds of hedge funds, when performance is measured on a basis net of fees, costs and expenses.” - https://longbets.org/362/ (won by Warren Buffett)
Should New York’s $270B pension fund abandon Wall Street? - https://www.semafor.com/article/08/07/2025/new-york-comptrol... - August 7th, 2025 ("Drew Warshaw is running for New York state comptroller, a job most voters would struggle to define but one that includes oversight of the state’s pension fund. If he unseats 18-year incumbent Thomas DiNapoli, Warshaw’s plan is to move much of its nearly $300 billion of investments into ultra-cheap, passive index funds. The New York State and Local Retirement System has more than $90 billion invested in private equity, private credit, real estate, and other complex assets. All promise high returns — catnip for pension managers facing future payouts to retirees — but charge high fees, too. The question facing New York and hundreds of other state and local pension funds, charitable endowments, universities, and government funds around the world: Are these high-priced managers worth the fees they’re charging?")
The management fees are, broadly speaking, a grift/rake of capital flows and economically inefficient, based on the evidence and the data. The issue at play is that the capital market ecosystem has become a bureaucracy that demands to continue to grow, versus cannibalizing itself in the name of economically efficient capital allocation.
Tangentially, the markets are moving to more trading (24/7/5) versus less because when trades are made, money is made in a Parable of the Broken Window sort of way by the capital market industry.
Yes, that's my point. That bet ended 8 years ago. If "multiplying money" is really the sole goal then why didn't all the pension funds switch to investing in index funds back then? There are clearly some structural issues here which don't align well with the idea that pensions are a "paperclip maximizer" with the goal of maximizing returns.
I find it interesting that the OP isn't arguing pensions should switch to investing in index funds, but rather into other projects the OP considers morally superior and that he personally believes will give better returns then hedge funds. To me that just feels like trading one set of hedge fund managers for another.
Why would it matter what they want? I'm making a rhetorical point that "multiplying the money" is de facto not the sole goal of these funds, there's clearly something else at play.
Looks cool to look at. Something that would be cool to have in an airport lounge, or just any public space near an airport
I wonder how feasible it would be to render all airplanes at once, not just those near the chosen airport. A quick google says there are about 12-14k planes in the air at any given time, which sounds reasonable to render with some optimizations
I currently use opensky network api on the client side itself using their anon user thing, which limits me to burn credits, it could in practice load the entire world but you would get rate limited pretty much instantly by opensky.
For the same reason, I made it open source, you can throw in your keys in there and can render all the flights, but keeping it open and free was the priority here, so had to compromise on the distance, but within a given city it has all the flights accurately.
still working on adding a custom terrain map, so its more realistic to view, while the globe part is just pure skill issue, i tried a few different approaches but wasn't able to code that in
Which is also a relatively recent thing, all things considered. If I remember correctly it was primarily WWII Germany that pioneered this approach, which was then quickly adopted by everyone else
I've heard this dichotomy in terms of military command presented in many different ages and different ways. It is primarily the difference between communicating the goals of an operation versus communicating how to achieve those goals. Most recently I've listened to accounts that it explains Russia operational failures in the invasion of Ukraine. I've also read analysis suggesting that it was a relevant difference in the battle of waterloo.
It was practiced by the Prussians during the Franco Prussian war. In WWI, it led to the small team grenade tactics, the Germans deployed to try to overcome trench warfare. It culminated with the blitzkrieg tactics of WWII.
To add another data point, a 2024 study [1] on the mental effects of single doses of creatine was using 0.35g/kg of creatinemonohydrate, or about 28g for a typical adult male. Though obviously high doses are safer if you just do them once
And an earlier 2018 article [2] argued that "Evidence suggests that the
blood–brain barrier is an obstacle for circulating cre-
atine, which may require larger doses and/or longer
protocols to increase brain creatine as compared to
muscle. In fact, the broad spectrum of creatine sup
plementation studies that span different dosing pr-
tocols (e.g. high-dose short-term, low dose longer-
term), co-ingestion of other nutrients/compounds
(e.g. carbohydrate, protein, insulin), different popu
lations (e.g. vegetarians, elderly, patients, athletes)
is unavailable for brain creatine adaptations"
Now in 2026 things look different. While the fears that Microsoft would revert to 90s Embrace, Extend, Extinguish mostly haven't come to pass, their products are instead all plagued by declining quality and stability, and a product direction that seems to willfully ignore most of the user base
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