Hacker News: Bigpet

New comment by Bigpet in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

Bigpet — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:32:22 +0000

Well it seems like whatever's on that page is blocked by the corporate proxy malware scanner I'm currently behind.

New comment by Bigpet in "IBM Announces Strategic Collaboration with Arm"

Bigpet — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:34:57 +0000

Is that in addition to mainframes or for completely replacing them?

New comment by Bigpet in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

Bigpet — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:42:21 +0000

When initially opening the page it had broken colors in light mode. For anyone else encountering it: switch to dark mode and then back to light mode to fix it.

New comment by Bigpet in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

Bigpet — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:02:53 +0000

I think the dev that was responsible for the bootloader or some security chip having the option to be opened posted on twitter a while ago. Pretty sure he implied or mentioned that this was what he was hoping for.

Edit: this was what I was remembering: https://x.com/XenoKovah/status/1339914714055368704

New comment by Bigpet in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

Bigpet — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:12:27 +0000

Oh, thank for the correction. I must've muddled it up in my mind with the contact tracing integration that had during Covid.

New comment by Bigpet in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

Bigpet — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 15:16:45 +0000

Shouldn't most comodity GPS receivers also be GLONASS compatible (I get that Galileo is more niche and might not be included).

Does the Sensor Apple uses not use GLONASS in Russia? Or is it cheapo Android Phones picking up the tag and then sending GPS coords into cloud?

edit: Nvm, I might be dumb, I guess unless your jamming includes all commodity GNSS it's pretty useless.

New comment by Bigpet in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

Bigpet — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:59:03 +0000

I don't even care about that. My suggestion to him was earnest. I don't have a problem with LLMs. Just with how people use them. I just don't like "slop". I see the same user-interaction problems every time.

I just don't want people to litter their heavily polished immaculately styled products that have so clearly bad user-interaction design. E2e testing and closing the loop on LLMs does seem to help here.

Though I really would prefer people click around their own product for at least 5 minutes.

New comment by Bigpet in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

Bigpet — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:26:26 +0000

Was this done heavily LLM assisted? Especially the PDF Edit tools have user-interaction quirks and bugs that a human developer would catch immediately during the regular manual testing when developing.

I'd suggest you at least try and mitigate that by having the LLM do extensive e2e testing if you aren't interested in using your own product.

New comment by Bigpet in "GotaTun – Mullvad's WireGuard Implementation in Rust"

Bigpet — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:27 +0000

I would not have guessed that iOS allows enough access to APIs to implement anything vpp-based. Very cool to see. I also enjoyed working with vpp (for the brief 6 months that I had with it).

New comment by Bigpet in "Computer science courses that don't exist, but should (2015)"

Bigpet — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:10:26 +0000

> Python is heavily OOP, everything is an object in python for example.

I strongly disagree. How is everything being called an object in any way "heavily OOP"? OOP is not just "I organize my stuff into objects".

You can write OOP code with python but most python code I've seen is not organized around OOP principles.

New comment by Bigpet in "F3: Open-source data file format for the future [pdf]"

Bigpet — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 14:00:21 +0000

Don't know if you need to compile, you might want to but I think interpreting might seem reasonable if size/complexity is a concern.

Is the runtime really that large? I know with wasm 2.0 with garbage collection and exceptions is a bit of a beast but wasm 1.0? What's needed (I'm speaking from a place of ignorance here, I haven't implemented a WASM runtime)? Some contiguous memory, a stack machine, IEEE float math and some utf-8 operations. I think you can add some reasonable limitations like only a single module and a handful of available imports relevant to the domain.

I know that feature creep would almost inevitably follow, but if someone cares about minimizing complexity it seems possible.

New comment by Bigpet in "John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta"

Bigpet — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:45:42 +0000

Could you try to address the obvious point being made instead of trying to obfuscate? There's plenty of bad outcomes besides death. Not all fentanyl users die. If some fent wholesaler were to provide unrefutable evidence that Noone died from his fent you wouldn't go "Oh alright then, nothing wrong with what you're doing".

New comment by Bigpet in "Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers"

Bigpet — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 18:50:11 +0000

Very appropriate as well because the machines are given a bunch of feed to digest multiple times and to spew it out the other end as a big steaming pile.

New comment by Bigpet in "How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy"

Bigpet — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:43:19 +0000

You make it sound like there isn't a very wide range of solutions between "just write html files" and "use a complete website framework". There's a space in there where a large percentage of web projects used to be located in.

New comment by Bigpet in "How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy"

Bigpet — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:07:39 +0000

You can math that out pretty well. If your code has a breakage chance of 50% and your dependencies all have a breakage chance of 1% then with 70 dependecies you get to 50.5% breakage chance from dependencies.

New comment by Bigpet in "How to make websites that will require lots of your time and energy"

Bigpet — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:01:52 +0000

I don't think you're arguing against anything that was said in that post. There was never an "at all cost". The author was hedging even in the headlines ("indiscriminately", "before you know you need one" and "always, always").

New comment by Bigpet in "When Sigterm Does Nothing: A Postgres Mystery"

Bigpet — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:10:29 +0000

You can already subscribe to projects or single issues/PRs on github and reply via email to post comments.

I can understand not wanting to use GitHub/GitLab/etc. for various reasons. But I don't understand how usability vs mailing lists is one.

How is a set of 9+ mailing lists any better? It has significantly worse discovery and search tools unless you download all the archives. So you're creating a hurdle for people there already.

Then you have people use all kinds of custom formatting in their email clients, so consistent readability is out the window.

People will keep top-posting (TOFU), transforming the inconsistent styles in the process. Creating an unnecessarily complicated problem for your email client to "detect quotes", or you have to keep reminding people.

Enforcing structure of any kind in email lists seems so tedious. I'm not advocating for bugzilla style "file out these 20 nonsensical fields before you can report anything" but some minimal structure enforced by some tooling as opposed to manual moderation seems very helpful to me.

New comment by Bigpet in "UI Component Testing Revisited: Modern Implementation with Visual Verification"

Bigpet — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:16:29 +0000

I was looking for the current state of the art of component testing for angular. After reading a bunch of drama around playwright and component testing I stumbled across this unrelated blog post.

I liked the cute web page idea for the app under test. Was a neat diversion. I just liked the blog post and wanted to share.

UI Component Testing Revisited: Modern Implementation with Visual Verification

Bigpet — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://paulhammant.com/2025/06/17/ui-component-testing-revisited/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44312554

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Bigpet in "The Problem with AI Welfare"

Bigpet — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 15:39:12 +0000

I too think there is merit in exploring to what degree conciousness can be approximated by or observed in computational systems of any kind. Including neural networks. But I just can't get over how fake and manipulative the framing of "AI welfare" or concern over suffering feels.