Hacker News: Feathercrown

New comment by Feathercrown in "Artemis II's toilet is a moon mission milestone"

Feathercrown — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:05:31 +0000

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but weren't pencils ruled out by NASA because of the dust they create when they write? The toilet engineering could be a similar situation. These people are professionals, we should not assume they built it like this for no reason.

New comment by Feathercrown in "enclose.horse"

Feathercrown — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:30:42 +0000

This would still benefit from a difficulty rating system or order

New comment by Feathercrown in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

Feathercrown — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 03:58:18 +0000

Incremental config changes sounds like it could lead to a LOT of bugs

New comment by Feathercrown in "Welcome to hell; please drive carefully"

Feathercrown — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:25:20 +0000

This is a well-known effect, it does make a significant difference. People feel safer driving slower when the road has obstacles closeby or when it's curved. You can use this to slow people down with bollards, small curves, or even trees near the road in rural areas.

New comment by Feathercrown in "The subjective experience of coding in different programming languages (2023)"

Feathercrown — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:34:09 +0000

I get the same feelings when I edit code in different languages.

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New comment by Feathercrown in "Alterego: Thought to Text"

Feathercrown — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:02:33 +0000

I haven't found that to be very accurate. I suspect the internal idiosyncrasies of a company are an issue, as the AI doesn't have the necessary context.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Show HN: Draw A Fish and watch it swim with the others"

Feathercrown — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:43:39 +0000

No mobile support?

New comment by Feathercrown in "OpenAI charges by the minute, so speed up your audio"

Feathercrown — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:39:29 +0000

Some people talk slower than your natural listening speed. It's less like skimming and more like if some books used 36pt font and you normalized the size back down to a comfortable information-dense size.

New comment by Feathercrown in "-2000 Lines of code"

Feathercrown — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:08:03 +0000

I did this the other day in an old component that had been refactored several times. It's incredibly satisfying. IMO removing code is often more important than adding it because it helps so much with maintainability and future development speed.

New comment by Feathercrown in "What, exactly, is an 'AI Agent'? Here's a litmus test"

Feathercrown — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:53:43 +0000

An AI agent has agency-- it can choose when to act.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic"

Feathercrown — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:29:08 +0000

Autosorting, fuzzy search, document analysis, identifying posts with the same topic, and sentiment analysis all benefit from AI's soft input handling.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Ask for no, don't ask for yes (2022)"

Feathercrown — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 08:23:06 +0000

This is an excellent tool for the toolbox. My company has work from home days but the managers technically have to approve schedule changes/exceptions. Since they almost always approve it, we usually just say "I'll be working from home Tuesday if that's okay" and unless they object, you're good.

New comment by Feathercrown in "A secret poker game you can play on the subway"

Feathercrown — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:18:21 +0000

Feels this way to me too.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

Feathercrown — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:35:39 +0000

> However, I had no concept of cuteness or how to be it.

My memory isn't as good as yours, but you just reminded me of this fairly distinct feeling. As a child you're being earnest; only as an adult do you see that as being cute.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Why can't we remember our lives as babies or toddlers?"

Feathercrown — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:30:35 +0000

Isn't drowning one of the few things that babies instinctually fear?

New comment by Feathercrown in "Chrome 133 Supports DOM State-Preserving Move with moveBefore()"

Feathercrown — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:35:35 +0000

Flexbox allowed this within a flat list, but this is much more applicable

New comment by Feathercrown in "The Peter Principle still resonates"

Feathercrown — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 21:01:14 +0000

Isn't the Peter Principle only true if you consider skillsets to be static? If you learn and grow into new roles, it can be avoided or mitigated.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition"

Feathercrown — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:14:59 +0000

You can't claim that Linux games running on Windows counts against Linux, but ignore that Windows games also run on Linux. You can't have it both ways.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Is stuff online worth saving?"

Feathercrown — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 18:51:42 +0000

Agreed. I think you could automate some of that too, could save time if you do it often.

New comment by Feathercrown in "Boardgame.io: an engine for creating turn-based games using JavaScript"

Feathercrown — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 04:26:15 +0000

Ooh this is neat, I've been working on something similar. I'll have to check it out and see if they're using the same abstractions as I am. Could be enlightening!