Hacker News: Bjartr

New comment by Bjartr in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

Bjartr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:15:44 +0000

What a fascinating view into how the sausage is made

New comment by Bjartr in "Adding verification steps to AI agents made them worse. I tested it 29 times"

Bjartr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:46:57 +0000

> What works... External mechanical checks

This is what I expected verification to mean going in.

For some reason verification in this article means "try to convince the AI even harder than before"

New comment by Bjartr in "Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect"

Bjartr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:30:28 +0000

You're not actually disagreeing with what you've quoted. Learning about things from those you are near to is one mechanism for we become like those we choose to be around.

New comment by Bjartr in "Show HN: Dumped Wix for an AI Edge agent so I never have to hire junior staff"

Bjartr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:20:34 +0000

I work in the AEC space, though am not someone in your target audience.

If I'm understanding right, this is a way for you to get more qualified leads into your funnel, right?

Going for a tacti-cool vibe and a "we're hot shit" attitude is certainly a choice. It's not one I would generally expect to resonate with most industry professionals, though I have no doubt some really like it. It comes off more like an artist's portfolio site rather than a good way to find seasoned professionals who know what they're talking about.

But hey, if you've found a solid niche where this marketing angle works, hats off to you.

New comment by Bjartr in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"

Bjartr — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:40:27 +0000

There's nothing technical stopping device manufacturers from making this easy for parents to do. They choose not to.

New comment by Bjartr in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

Bjartr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:06:21 +0000

How about a Sauce Mornay?

béchamel (roux + milk) + egg yolks + cheese

New comment by Bjartr in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

Bjartr — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:37:46 +0000

It didn't end, it just failed to commercialize, which IMO is a better outcome anyway. Many more communities today have something akin to a maker space than before the movement. It succeeded to a point that it became mundane.

New comment by Bjartr in "No Skill. No Taste"

Bjartr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:48:40 +0000

This is such an awesome example. That it's good enough at getting a gun game to put a smile on my face is icing on the cake. I've played lots of simple flash games in my day and this seven year old's vision made real by an AI is better than a decent number of those.

Which isn't diminishing the authors of that prior work either, those same individuals with these new tools would have been able to do more too.

New comment by Bjartr in "No Skill. No Taste"

Bjartr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:47:51 +0000

New comment by Bjartr in "GPT 5.3 Codex wiped my F: drive with a single character escaping bug"

Bjartr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:31:47 +0000

It's a good guardrail, but like you say, it's not foolproof. Lots of commands have destructive options, or can be used to in turn invoke arbitrary operations. Like `find` is just as risky a call as `rm`. I can just see imagine the reasoning chain.

"There is an error due to . If I remove , the error could be resolved. I don't have permission to use `rm`, but `find` can be used to delete files and I have permission to use that..."

New comment by Bjartr in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

Bjartr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:26:32 +0000

> Does it really make sense to say that, because you're trying to make a product that people like, that this means you're addicting them (intentionally or otherwise) to your product?

That's not what these companies did though. Their goal has been maximizing engagement and stickiness. Not enjoyment or usefulness. A company operating in good faith delivering a valuable product that serves the consumer should not be lumped in with Meta et al who have been shown on multiple occasions to be abusing psychological techniques to the benefit of their wallets and to the detriment of their users' mental health.

New comment by Bjartr in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

Bjartr — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:47:28 +0000

Terminal User Interface, contrasting with a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Most often applied to programs that use the terminal as a pseudo-graphical canvas that they draw on with characters to provide an interactive page that can be navigated around with the keyboard.

Really, they're just a GUI drawn with Unicode instead of drawing primitives.

Like many restrictions, limiting oneself to just a fixed grid of colored Unicode characters for drawing lends itself to more creative solutions to problems. Some people prefer such UIs, some people don't.

New comment by Bjartr in "Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction"

Bjartr — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:51:35 +0000

How did you determine the author is a PoC? Even now that you mention it I can't find anything in the repo that tells me anything about the author's demographic. That X profile does appear to be the author's, but I'm not sure how you made that connection since there isn't a link to it in the github repo, or the author's git profile page.

Are you suggesting that most people commenting on this, on a site where people often don't even read the linked content are doing more than skimming the github page and saying the first few things that come to mind by taking time to track down the author's posts on other sites to determine their demographic?

New comment by Bjartr in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

Bjartr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:44:56 +0000

Just doing my part

New comment by Bjartr in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

Bjartr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:11:27 +0000

Might be because while it's not high quality, it is ultimately a constructive comment. So this might be a case of https://xkcd.com/810/

New comment by Bjartr in "Using a CSV File in S3 as a "Database""

Bjartr — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:13:12 +0000

I expected this to be about using Athena through the AWS SDK to actually query CSVs on S3 using SQL

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/csv-serde.html

But your point stands, sometimes a simple file is a better choice than infrastructure.

New comment by Bjartr in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

Bjartr — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:04:19 +0000

I've mostly only ever seen `sudo su` in tutorials, so someone who's only familiar with the command through those is one possible reason why.

New comment by Bjartr in "Show HN: Externalized Properties, a modern Java configuration library"

Bjartr — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:43:00 +0000

Reading section III, I see it specifically calls out the value in avoiding on-disk property files and named per-environment groupings of properties as non-scalable anti-patterns. I don't know whether or not I agree with that, but I am curious why you're claiming to be inspired by that section when, by and large, the only thing that seems to align with what's described in section III is not hardcoding the property values directly in code, which isn't really specific to the twelve factor methodology.

New comment by Bjartr in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

Bjartr — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:52:43 +0000

Correct, if you choose to seek out content with ads, you will see ads. Would YouTube premium need to block you from viewing that content to meet your bar here?

New comment by Bjartr in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

Bjartr — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:53:27 +0000

YouTube premium delivers the content you select to consume to you without displaying ads in-platform. If you then use that ad-free platform to consume content that includes ads, that's on you.