Hacker News: Drew_

New comment by Drew_ in "C Is Best (2025)"

Drew_ — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:36:26 +0000

> Safe languages usually want to abort if they encounter an out-of-memory (OOM) situation. SQLite is designed to recover gracefully from an OOM.

As someone who runs into this problem a lot, this is pretty cool! Does anyone know how they can recover from this in SQLite?

New comment by Drew_ in "AI World Clocks"

Drew_ — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:25:47 +0000

The website is regenerating the clocks every minute. When I opened it, Gemini 2.5 was the only working one. Now, they are all broken.

Also, your example is not showing the current time.

New comment by Drew_ in "iPhone Pocket"

Drew_ — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:39:35 +0000

Same story for me, but with the 15 Pro. The Pixel 7 phones were huge so I just switched to my first iPhone.

New comment by Drew_ in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

Drew_ — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:14:26 +0000

No need to include that specific guard rail in every prompt - just use RAG to include it where appropriate.

New comment by Drew_ in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

Drew_ — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 01:00:59 +0000

I suppose they technically could overlay more ads, but they've already had mobile apps, Chrome and Chrome OS for decades and have never gone that far for obvious reasons.

New comment by Drew_ in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

Drew_ — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:35:48 +0000

How does a native app provide any "more surface area" for ads than a web page? Are they not displaying on the same screen?

New comment by Drew_ in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

Drew_ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:12:59 +0000

The amount of "looses" (loses) typos I see everywhere lately is actually crazy

New comment by Drew_ in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

Drew_ — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:10:21 +0000

Strongly agree with this. Many authors and video creators have interesting, valuable things to say, but they don't exercise restraint or respect for their audience's time.

If something is overwhelmingly long, especially considering the subject matter, I just skip to the comments or throw it in an LLM to summarize.

New comment by Drew_ in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

Drew_ — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:58:19 +0000

I agree whole heartedly. It seems clear to me that art and knowledge will transition to more private and/or undocumented experiences in the coming years in order to preserve their value.

New comment by Drew_ in "Recovering from AI Addiction"

Drew_ — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:34:32 +0000

You read these comments incorrectly

New comment by Drew_ in "I'm done with social media – Or: why I have a blog now"

Drew_ — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 16:13:56 +0000

I did the same, but I'm still holding on to Reddit with many restrictions:

- No mobile apps

- 10 min/day time limit on web

- Only browse 6 subreddits individually

- Filtering all posts below a certain karma level (depending on the subreddit)

- Collapsing all comments by default

This has completely changed my relationship with the platform for the better. I would quit it entirely, but unfortunately it's the best news source for a few of my hobbies.

New comment by Drew_ in "Recovering from AI Addiction"

Drew_ — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:43:27 +0000

Yup. The steps are definitely rooted in Christianity, but you can exercise them however you want. As you might imagine, most people suffering with addiction are not that religious (if at all) and the same thing goes in those groups.

New comment by Drew_ in "Poor Man's Back End-as-a-Service (BaaS), Similar to Firebase/Supabase/Pocketbase"

Drew_ — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:31:58 +0000

It sounds like you use CSVs to build static websites, not store or update any dynamic data. That's not even remotely comparable.

New comment by Drew_ in "I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric"

Drew_ — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 21:38:19 +0000

There's a noticeable difference to me between exercising my thinking skills and feeling mentally exhausted versus consuming lots of media and feeling "hungover".

I get that exhausted feeling after any hard day at work. On the other hand, scrolling through reels for about 30 minutes gives me a headache. If I spend over an hour on YouTube, I also get a similar feeling, but only if that time was spent watching many different videos. If I watched one 2 hour video, I feel fine.

New comment by Drew_ in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

Drew_ — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:47:40 +0000

I'm looking around and I don't see anyone mentioning what I think is one of the biggest advantages of debugging: not having to recompile.

Even assuming print statements and debuggers are equally effective (they're not), debuggers are better simply because they are faster. With print statements, you might need to recompile a dozen times before you find whatever it is you're looking for. Even with quick builds this is infuriating and a ton of wasted time.

New comment by Drew_ in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

Drew_ — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:02:08 +0000

Because Mozilla's long term sustainability is good for the internet.

New comment by Drew_ in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

Drew_ — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:01:41 +0000

You can enable email notifications specifically for Facebook events btw. I quit, but leave that enabled.

New comment by Drew_ in "Meta: Shut down your invasive AI Discover feed"

Drew_ — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:10:10 +0000

Mozilla should be more focused on figuring out how to actually make money and not this sensationalist stuff. Depending on how the Google case lands, they're finished.

New comment by Drew_ in "Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College"

Drew_ — Wed, 07 May 2025 14:39:34 +0000

My time in college was 10 years ago, but absolutely none of that was true at the time (I personally seen pretty much everything you referred to as "not allowed"). I find it very hard to believe that much has changed since then.

New comment by Drew_ in "The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state"

Drew_ — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 16:08:55 +0000

I don't know what country you're in, but I'm almost certain people your age are not meeting each other on Instagram. It is not really a platform to meet anyone, especially not in the last 5 years. Joining communities (clubs, churches, etc) are the way to meet new people.