Hacker News: CGamesPlay

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

CGamesPlay — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:12:41 +0000

That cuts it by about 90%. But as others have said, the default US plug doesn't ship with a ground pin (though the extended cord does IIRC).

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

CGamesPlay — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:29:46 +0000

Oh is that why it happens? Was wondering why the spot directly under my wrist was pitted into a sawblade. I also filed it, though just enough to remove the pitting, nothing like the OP did.

It's easy for me to feel the mains frequency while gently rubbing the top surface of the MacBook while it's plugged in. Really feels unsafe, but neither me nor the computer have suffered any serious injuries yet.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

CGamesPlay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:00:18 +0000

Can you clarify what exactly you mean? Skills are markdown files, so they definitely can't call APIs or CLIs. Are you saying that a skill can tell the agent to use curl to call web APIs? Or something different?

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

CGamesPlay — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:07:15 +0000

The packages that are actually compromised are yanked, but I assume you're talking about a scenario more like log4shell. In that case, you can just disable the config to install the update, then re-enable in 7 days. Given that compromised packages are uploaded all the time and zero-day vulnerabilities are comparatively less common, I'd say it's the right call.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Neovim 0.12.0"

CGamesPlay — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:39:30 +0000

What are you doing with ! that requires this? Some alternatives I can think of depending on the use case are ^Z or :term.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

CGamesPlay — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:41:45 +0000

I am always curious when I see these kinds of movement. It seems abundantly clear that the options on any vote in any legislature for a proposed bill are always “yes” and “ask me later”. So when I see things like Fight Chat Control, it feels like the call is “we must tell our legislators to press the ask later button!”

Why? Why has your approach not been toward passing active legislation that protects these rights going forward? Genuinely curious. I understand that finding and pressing the “don’t ask again” button is always harder, but I don’t understand why “we punted on this decision!” is a celebratory moment.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:02:53 +0000

Except, this wasn't a "cold start" test. It was a "leave the page open and watch subsequent requests" test. Cache absolutely applies here.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:07:54 +0000

Disabling cache and then complaining that the bandwidth usage never stops increasing is certainly a take, but I'm not sure you can meaningfully draw any conclusions from it.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:06:37 +0000

It does when the "disable caches" checkbox is checked, as it is in that screenshot.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "SSH has no Host header"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:56:34 +0000

SSH configs support wildcards, so if you couple it with a ProxyCommand you can an arbitrary level of dynamism for a host pattern (like *.exe.dev).

But yeah, everything is a trade-off.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "SSH has no Host header"

CGamesPlay — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:42:25 +0000

Using nonstandard ports would break the `ssh foo.exe.dev` pattern.

This could also have been solved by requiring users to customize their SSH config (coder does this once per machine, and it applies to all workspaces), but I guess the exe.dev guys are going for a "zero-config, works anywhere" experience.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Reviewing Large Changes with Jujutsu"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:26:05 +0000

This would avoid dealing with merge conflicts when the PR changes, which is nice.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "LLMs can be exhausting"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:52:36 +0000

LLM coding has made programming feel like playing Factorio to me. It's simultaneously much more addictive and much more strenuous than it's even been for me before. Each commit feels like moving to a new link in the supply chain, but each link is imperfect so I have to drop back down to debug them. At the end of a long evening, "one more assembly line" and "one more prompt" feel exactly the same.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

CGamesPlay — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:59:27 +0000

Appears not to. https://claude.ai/share/ac070cf5-0034-4f3c-9a8c-1c43a58eea36

Claude’s analysis seems solid here based on reading the snippets it tested.

A purpose-built linter could be cross-language, it’s pretty reasonable to blanket ban these characters entirely, or at least allowlist them.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Launching the Claude Partner Network"

CGamesPlay — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 02:38:33 +0000

I hope it’s at least a little tricky, since Claude was released only 3 years ago. That said, I would not be surprised to see companies asking for 10 years experience, despite that inconvenient truth.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

CGamesPlay — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:45:45 +0000

I published my submission and all supporting information here, in case anyone is curious! https://github.com/CGamesPlay/moment-swarm

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Prompt-caching – auto-injects Anthropic cache breakpoints (90% token savings)"

CGamesPlay — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:05:34 +0000

Claude subscriptions (strangely) have a Sonnet limit which is lower than the general model limit. Using Sonnet counts against both limits, using Opus only the general limit. So the subscriptions are discouraging Sonnet use as well.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

CGamesPlay — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:28:26 +0000

That was fun! Will there be a blog post / showcase or anything? I came in 9th, and will definitely be writing a blog post. I did not write a single line of antssembly during the contest!

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

CGamesPlay — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:21:43 +0000

Yeah, but then they went and added "memories" and in particular automatic memory management, and now it isn't a clean slate each time. And that's exactly what this is importing: those automatically curated memories that make the chat bot "feel like" it knows you.

New comment by CGamesPlay in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

CGamesPlay — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 08:13:32 +0000

Sure, it's for those customers who don't have any idea what a "context window" is.