Hacker News: 91bananas

New comment by 91bananas in "Mapping the US healthcare system’s financial flows"

91bananas — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:14:39 +0000

Time for a change.

New comment by 91bananas in "“Captain Gains” on Capitol Hill"

91bananas — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:10:08 +0000

125k people, $9,000 for the city council position in my area.

New comment by 91bananas in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

91bananas — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:18:32 +0000

This is like the "why do i have to pay property taxes after i pay my house off?" for Apple™

New comment by 91bananas in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

91bananas — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:12:35 +0000

running VMs on apple chips has been rather difficult for me. other than that, yeah.

New comment by 91bananas in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

91bananas — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:36:23 +0000

I've been trying to build a golf side hobby business making putters on antique machinery in my garage. Have grown to get some pretty steady traction on instagram, have realized I am not a businessman in all of this, so a lot of learning.

instagram.com/cushmancustomgolf

New comment by 91bananas in "Show HN: A CSS-Only Terrain Generator"

91bananas — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:19:06 +0000

https://xkcd.com/37/

New comment by 91bananas in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

91bananas — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:29:05 +0000

Probably. I guess I meant a shit ton, but written in a series of confusing "choose your own adventure" style bursts of 40 new browser tabs to figure anything out.

New comment by 91bananas in "Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest"

91bananas — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:02:36 +0000

This has to be satire at this point.

New comment by 91bananas in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

91bananas — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:53:51 +0000

Yeah this is not the case at all lol. I actually find Azure to be far more intuitive after suffering through AWS and a little GCP. It certainly seems more stable in US regions than AWS.

One thing I will say is the Azure documentation is some of the most cumbersome to navigate I've ever experienced, there is a dearth of information in there, you just have to know how to find it.

New comment by 91bananas in "The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership"

91bananas — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:48:29 +0000

I'd counsel you to work with LLMs daily and agree that we're no where close to LLMs that work properly consistently outside of toy use cases, where examples can be scraped from the internet. If we can agree on that we can agree that General Intelligence is not the same thing as a, sometimes, seemingly random guess at the next word...

New comment by 91bananas in "Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers"

91bananas — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:25:39 +0000

I have found this while trying to teach my kids how to write anything software related from scratch. They've done some code.org, but it becomes boring quickly. We tried to make tic-tac-toe in js/html/css since they can do they whole thing in the browser. It held their attention slightly longer, but still became boring. It's not something they want to do.

I totally agree with you on learning for a purpose, picking up knowledge is super easy imo when you're in pursuit of a goal bigger than picking up knowledge. You don't even realize all of the things you learn in order to achieve your goal. But you have to want a goal.

I also totally agree sometimes it's fun to just do dumb problems, I found these CAD modeling youtube videos where guys will race each other modeling some part off of a print, spent a week just screwing around with those because it's fun to flex sometimes.

New comment by 91bananas in "Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]"

91bananas — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:05:09 +0000

I definitely get this often vibe that: somewhat comparable things that take a lot more time often end up a lot better than things that take less time. It's like that commitment you make when you're doing something like this, the amount of effort, care and focus that must be exhibited to finish something like this document.

We should definitely reflect on that a lot.

New comment by 91bananas in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

91bananas — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:28:43 +0000

Heroku made an application I worked on possible. I don't think we had the team to maintain the application stack without something like it. It enabled the company to exist long enough to get the magical stock exit. I'm forever grateful for it existing.

New comment by 91bananas in "M5 MacBook Pro"

91bananas — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 16:18:04 +0000

Play with your keyboard, alt, ctrl, cmd + tab or ~ or combos of those will do wild things for ya

New comment by 91bananas in "Launch HN: Flywheel (YC S25) – Waymo for Excavators"

91bananas — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 17:45:39 +0000

Very optimistic thinking in your first 2 sentences there...

New comment by 91bananas in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

91bananas — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:58:44 +0000

If it all happens out in the open and by the "letter of the law", and everyone involved in steering it that way appears to be complicit in some manner, is it a conspiracy or even hyperbolic any longer? Previous reality seems to have been thrown completely out the window imo.

New comment by 91bananas in "Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system"

91bananas — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:43:07 +0000

Or print a custom spacer to fill any gaps you have on the edges that also has holes or slots to hold even more random crap.

New comment by 91bananas in "Snorting the AGI with Claude Code"

91bananas — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:14:28 +0000

I've been at this 16 years. I've seen one planned project in that 16 years that stuck anywhere near the initial plan. They always grow with the whims of someone.

New comment by 91bananas in "Human coders are still better than LLMs"

91bananas — Thu, 29 May 2025 19:18:01 +0000

Not all engineering is creating models though, sometimes there are simpler problems to solve.

New comment by 91bananas in "CrowdStrike CEO cuts his voting power by 92% with unexplained gifts"

91bananas — Mon, 12 May 2025 19:29:47 +0000

"You are innocent until proven guilty". Now lets all build out our truth tables to check if what he said is accurate.