Hacker News: 0xfaded

New comment by 0xfaded in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans"

0xfaded — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:14:02 +0000

Claude does clearly stupid things, even under auto mode, that no human would reasonably do. I had a sustained 500mb/s ingress to my machine that turned out to be a background "find /" command on a multi-petabyte NFS system. I've now gotten serious about my deny lists, and it trips all the time.

The worst is when it works around the deny list by running an equivalent command like "bfs /" or just writes itself a script.

I wish we would get better sandboxing than more "safeguards", but the direction things are going seems inspired by craw.

New comment by 0xfaded in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

0xfaded — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:11:14 +0000

Tesla just released an infuriating update which adds an incomprehensible number of UI nags to start self driving, despite there being a hardware lever that already does so.

There's even a big button that says "Start Self Driving" in the valuable visual real estate where the speed limit once was.

New comment by 0xfaded in "PART Telescopes – Bringing radio astronomy within reach of rural schools"

0xfaded — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:36:21 +0000

In Australia (at least 15 years ago) you sit your exams and get a score. The universities then set a minimum score for each program based on expected enrollment and capacity. If your score is above the program score, you're in automatically. You only go through the American style interviews if you come in slightly below the bar and are hoping for secondary consideration. These highschool students are probably going to have no problem with their scores, so this is a moot point.

New comment by 0xfaded in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

0xfaded — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:52:57 +0000

I have no problem with people driving cars. I just don't want to subsidize them. Get rid of street parking, add congestion pricing. Set road taxes such that they actually cover the costs of the roads.

The reason it would be unreasonable in America today is because there is no alternative, and people are expected to be able to commute long distances. Bring in alternatives and it becomes logical.

Look at the cities in Japan, most people live within a 15 minute walk of a subway station, but people still drive.

New comment by 0xfaded in "Uber wants to turn its drivers into a sensor grid for self-driving companies"

0xfaded — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:10:54 +0000

I work in self driving and strongly agree with this. I may have had some of the coolaid, but I genuinely believe that self driving cars are the only thing that can pry Americans from their cars. Once ownership falls, people will stop voting against better options.

New comment by 0xfaded in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

0xfaded — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:57:06 +0000

Yes, but something like 90% of the workforce is unionized, and 5 weeks vacation per year is by law, with a "sixth week" being a common perk.

New comment by 0xfaded in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

0xfaded — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:35:40 +0000

I work in the US and every year I take 17 days off over the July period which works out (with another company holiday) to be 4 continuous weeks. The first year I did it I told my manager "I'm going to take three weeks off, but what do you think about four?". I got my three weeks and made myself indispensable enough to get the four the next year.

This stuff can be negotiable if asked for and planned correctly. It won't be offered.

The Danes do it best, they basically shut down the country for 3 months every summer and have an unspoken agreement that nothing will get done.

New comment by 0xfaded in "CATL's new LFP battery can charge from 10 to 98% in less than 7 minutes"

0xfaded — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:48:34 +0000

Sorry, but I giggled at this. A well designed urban environment would have no cars.

New comment by 0xfaded in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

0xfaded — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:12:41 +0000

Conversely, if this is indeed true motivation and management has accepted it, kudos to them. It sounds like the engineers said that the situation is untenable and this is the cover we need to fix it, and they got what they asked for.

New comment by 0xfaded in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

0xfaded — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:57:35 +0000

I think LLMs are really bad at writing tests. In the good old days you invested in your test code to be structured and understandable. Now we all just say "test this thing you just generated".

I shipped a really embarrassing off-by-one error recently because some polygon representations repeat their last vertex as a sentinel (WKT, KML do this). When I checked the "tests", there was a generated test that asserted that a square has 5 vertices.

New comment by 0xfaded in "The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker"

0xfaded — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:13:24 +0000

> AI statement: I didn't use AI to write this article (details).

Meta, but thank you for including this and suggest even putting it at the top of your articles. I'm now off to bother to read something that someone bothered to write :)

New comment by 0xfaded in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

0xfaded — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:51:52 +0000

I work on the mapping team at Zoox (self driving) and we have c++ roles at the entry and mid levels. Requires onsite in the Bay Area though. Charles, if you're reading and would like to chat, I (Carl Chatfield) have sent you a linkedin request.

Thank you for your work on Wesnoth, I spent many hours playing back in the day. There's also a good android port.

New comment by 0xfaded in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

0xfaded — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:43:11 +0000

The MacOS window manager is so bad that I've resorted to three monitors plus the built in screen. Two monitors have fullscreen terminal emulators and the last has the browser. The built-in screen handles all the distracting stuff whenever I can be bothered to look down at it.

With Xmonad I had 10 spaces on a single laptop screen (actually however many I wanted) with the flick of a button. And yes, I know about hacks like aerospace and the others that require disabling system integrity

New comment by 0xfaded in "Sed, a powerfull mini-language from the 70s"

0xfaded — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:14:53 +0000

I learned sed back in the day to show off. I wish I'd invested that effort in learning perl oneliners instead. For whatever reason I picked up enough awk along the way, and now that's what I tend to use if I ever need something beyond a simple substitution.

New comment by 0xfaded in "Making geo joins faster with H3 indexes"

0xfaded — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 05:02:45 +0000

S2 has this property https://s2geometry.io

New comment by 0xfaded in "The Waymo World Model"

0xfaded — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:58:26 +0000

I have HW3, but FSD reliably disengages at this time of year with sunrise and sunset during commute hours.

New comment by 0xfaded in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)"

0xfaded — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:11:03 +0000

Zoox | Full Stack Software Engineer | Bay Area | Hybrid (3 days)

https://jobs.lever.co/zoox/d4a324c6-8186-435f-a102-1ac7a69ab...

I'm an engineer on the HD Mapping Team at Zoox (autonomous vehicles) and we are looking for a mid-career full stack engineer with a flair for automation and dev tooling. The role is about helping us scale our map production and management systems. Geospatial data and 3D visualization (deck.gl) experience are nice to haves but by no means required.

If the role sounds like a good fit and you would like to talk to someone directly you can email me at carl chatfield gmail. (Please fill in the gaps).

Usual perks apply, but please read the linked job description for details.

Thank you :)

New comment by 0xfaded in "High-speed train collision in Spain kills at least 39"

0xfaded — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:33:20 +0000

Disclaimer I work for Zoox, but here is us crash testing https://youtu.be/597C9OwV0o4

New comment by 0xfaded in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

0xfaded — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:11:15 +0000

I'll jump.

I've been meaning to set up a bi-weekly dinner for hacker types who live mid peninsula, specifically near San Mateo. I have a group of 4 or so in mind and have a good place to host, but would like a slightly larger group.

If anyone would be interested in helping to get something stood up, send electronic post to carl chatfield snail (mail run by g)

New comment by 0xfaded in "One Formula That Demystifies 3D Graphics"

0xfaded — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:16:01 +0000

The world of homogeneous coordinates (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous_coordinates) is magical and extends beyond just points and lines to conics.

The Multiview Geometry Book begins with a great deep dive on the topic.

https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/comput...