Hacker News: 90minuteAPI

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

90minuteAPI — Sat, 09 May 2026 15:46:49 +0000

Maybe with some kind of plugin for more deterministic output from those languages?

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Tree of Thoughts"

90minuteAPI — Fri, 26 May 2023 17:10:14 +0000

Seems likely that they're submitting here as Reclaimer. The single comment on these submissions has that same fervent religious writing style as the readme on that EXA repo, itself just a fork of an "awesome-multimodal-ml" collection: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Reclaimer

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Apple’s Use of AppKit, Mac Catalyst and SwiftUI in macOS"

90minuteAPI — Fri, 19 Aug 2022 20:41:49 +0000

Supposedly a major justification for the continued separation of Mac and the others (especially iPad) was differing UI interaction patterns.

So what are they doing now? Using tools that evolved to serve touch-first interfaces to build desktop applications.

The Mac/iPad split grows more confounding with every iteration. Now it feels like familiar desktop features are being reimplemented poorly in both iPadOS _and_ macOS.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Wet/Dry Vacuum Buying Guide (2019)"

90minuteAPI — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:09:58 +0000

I knew something had to be up with them. It’s bad when I come across a round-up or comparison that fails to even mention my top options, and that seems to be the norm over there.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Achieving an open-source implementation of Apple Code Signing and notarization"

90minuteAPI — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 01:15:12 +0000

If those instances are only for tests/validation it could simplify some overall pipelines quite a bit.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "AWS costs every programmer should know (2019)"

90minuteAPI — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 12:33:40 +0000

This was a great read, thank you. I’m just now removing my application-focused blinders, but I already see the same technical, organizational, and financial issues.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Dummy display for Apple Silicon Macs to achieve custom resolutions"

90minuteAPI — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 21:40:11 +0000

> I do not own any HiDPI monitors

This is a major factor. macOS has aggressively optimized for these in recent years, often at the expense of classic 1x display experience. I use 5K 27" and 4K 24" monitors at 2x scaling (this is the default), and the result is excellent.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ"

90minuteAPI — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 15:40:42 +0000

> The applications broken in v4 are so niche that most people won't notice.

Except when you’re building these applications. Then it’s infuriating! Maybe more often a feeling of hopelessness than anger.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "How do I manage an employee who doesn’t need the job?"

90minuteAPI — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 23:46:24 +0000

This is a pretty grim outlook. It’s at best a false dichotomy between “code lovers” who write beautiful code and “money lovers” who write ugly code. An engineer who can adapt their output based on constraints and requirements deserves to be well compensated for that flexibility.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "New in Git: switch and restore"

90minuteAPI — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:10:17 +0000

No apparently that means you don’t know what you’re doing, and you’ll corrupt the repo, and you’re not a real software developer so we’ll come to your desk and rip up your I’m A Very Serious Professional card.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Swift Protocol Oriented Programming and Testing"

90minuteAPI — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:38:57 +0000

Swift is multi-paradigm. Improved support (over ObjC) for functional style, protocol-oriented design, and value types has led many to overuse them.

Multi-paradigm isn’t a cop-out, it’s a pretty specific goal of the language. Being overly “faithful” to particular patterns will conflict with this, as you’ve likely experienced. I appreciate the ability to break out and use different styles where appropriate. That pesky “last 10%” is now far less painful. It also allows for varying styles per module based on functionality required and libraries in use.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "How I store my files"

90minuteAPI — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 16:24:01 +0000

I was so tempted to jump on this with my anecdata of successfully running ZFS without ECC for a time, but that was in the context of a dirt cheap home tinker box.

If you care about data integrity enough to use ZFS, just bite the bullet and use ECC. If you care about data integrity at all, use ECC. If you don’t, what are we even doing here?

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer"

90minuteAPI — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 22:10:17 +0000

Answering “Does this skirt make my butt look too big?” with something that “depends intimately on the true size of the set of real numbers” seems to be among the worst strategies.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "California approves $35M plan for nation's first state-funded UBI"

90minuteAPI — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 21:11:47 +0000

Hence the “some/all” in the quoted text, yes?

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "NVMe is not a hard disk"

90minuteAPI — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:32:47 +0000

I guess it still makes sense for higher abstraction levels though, right? Like a filesystem or other shared access to a storage resource. So these asynchronous APIs aren’t writing as directly to storage, they’re placing something in the queue and notifying when that batch is committed.

> Append-only log structures are what NVMe/flash devices live for.

I would think this is also good for filesystems like ZFS, APFS, and BTRFS, yes? I had an inkling but never really looked into it. Aren’t these filesystems somewhat similar to append-only logs of changes, which serialize operations as a single writer?

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Complexities of e-mail validation logic"

90minuteAPI — Mon, 24 May 2021 16:26:23 +0000

The American Kennel Club rejected mine because the domain was “too similar” to their name. I guess just because it had a “kc” in it? Completely bewildering.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Why I’m a sucker for pen and paper"

90minuteAPI — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 11:14:38 +0000

It’s a shame that the reading experience gets worse as you go from book to e-ink to tablet, at least for me. Like many HN readers I’m already staring at screens for many hours per day. Using the library for books seems like the way to go!

I see bookshelves in so many houses and wonder, realistically how many of those will ever be opened again? I have books that will comfort or challenge me for decades to come, but more than a couple of shelves seems like hoarding. Maybe it’s more of a signal to guests that they’re well-read.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "NFTs Are a Dangerous Trap"

90minuteAPI — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 08:28:45 +0000

Cramming the concept of ownership into another post-scarcity environment is hardly redefining it.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "Grow the IndieWeb with Webmentions"

90minuteAPI — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 07:13:01 +0000

Live-but-throttled is a decent compromise between the first two. Maybe something that submits a notification directly to you, as chance to approve/deny/respond, moderate what gets published, and be generally aware of what you’re publishing for that matter.

New comment by 90minuteAPI in "8 Bits Are Enough for a Version Number"

90minuteAPI — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 04:34:15 +0000

Just realizing that I spent too much time yesterday taping off edge cases around overflow where a BigInt would be much more appropriate.