Hacker News: CrompyBlompers

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac"

CrompyBlompers — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:38:30 +0000

A better analogy would have reduced required thought. But here we are.

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac"

CrompyBlompers — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:50:30 +0000

My brain stuck on the inaccurate monkey comparison and caused unnecessary work to get past it and back onto the point you were making.

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

CrompyBlompers — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:25:51 +0000

Most people seem to mean "Skills don't pollute the context window [with their entire contents]", they just elide the part in brackets.

There is no magic and people should be more precise when discussing skills.

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

CrompyBlompers — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:38:22 +0000

Then go be an artist and leave the rest of us to tend our well oiled machines.

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

CrompyBlompers — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:32:40 +0000

There's a ton of variation in golang code, as gofmt is not opinionated enough. As evidenced by the existence of golines[0] or gofumpt[1].

0: https://github.com/golangci/golines/

1: https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room"

CrompyBlompers — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:32:26 +0000

The skills dirs have some necessary content (or so I assume):

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail/tree/main/skills

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

CrompyBlompers — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:13:39 +0000

Gotcha, thx for the context.

Typically we'd see the second person "you/your/you're" used and not the third person ("flatpands") here, since you (tarr1124) are directly responding to their comment, as if in conversation with them. ie: "what you're pointing at..."

Otherwise it reads like you're ignoring them and talking around them.

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

CrompyBlompers — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:29:16 +0000

Respectfully, did you use an LLM to write this comment? You're responding to flatpandas here. Having "what flatpands is pointing at..." is similar to the output of an LLM if you were to link to that comment and get a generated summary.

New comment by CrompyBlompers in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

CrompyBlompers — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:18:37 +0000

To disambiguate, this is not meant as “added a mode to the stock Camera app”, but rather “added a mode to the camera API that iOS developers can use”.