<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Forge36</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Forge36</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:15:26 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Forge36" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's known as Transmitter Hunting (aka Fox Hunting).<p>It's a fundamental flaw of most wireless communication. Are you referring to something more specific?</p>
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<p>There something amazing about that. Thanks for pointing it out!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:58:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633427</link><dc:creator>Forge36</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633427</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "Nobody Reads Your Setup Docs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On a recent project we joked "developers can't read". Occasionally we'd ask for help and be pointed to the docs "I can't read".<p>I suspect there's two big parts to this:<p>1. Users expect batteries included and that everything "just works" the first time.<p>2. The language you used differs match your audience. E.g they search "gray" and find no results, however you've spelt it "grey"</p>
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<p>Profiling[1] your own repository and tweaking as necessary (possibly
disabling auto-status refresh) will likely yield significant
performance improvements.<p>I use magit with a very large repository (100k files, millions of
commits) it's still not lightning fast like it is with smaller
repositories, I'm still finding it an improvement over the CLI.<p>My config notes this saves me ~13 seconds in git-status<p><pre><code>  (remove-hook 'magit-status-headers-hook 'magit-insert-tags-header)
</code></pre>
[1]: <a href="https://docs.magit.vc/devel/magit/Performance.html" rel="nofollow">https://docs.magit.vc/devel/magit/Performance.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:09:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331065</link><dc:creator>Forge36</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331065</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47331065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "Long Range E-Bike (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bikes typically have a weight rating. Mine has 150lbs of cargo capacity (is a cargo bike).</p>
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<p>Context switching like that is exhausting</p>
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<p>For me: Will this task take 30 seconds or 3 minutes. 
With good planning I've been able to step away and come back. Sometimes it decides to prompt me within 5 seconds for permissions. Sometimes it runs for 15 minutes.<p>The output is still small and I can review it. I can switch tasks, however if it's my primary effort for the day I don't like stepping away for an hour to do something else.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:09:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934851</link><dc:creator>Forge36</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934851</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46934851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm still writing code. I'm doing it to solve a problem, there's more to writing code than than typing. Recently AI massively simplified "getting started", and all of the tips here are applicable to working well on a team.<p>My recent experience: I'm porting an app to Mac. It's been in my backlog for ~2 years. With Claude I had a functional prototype in under a day getting the major behavior implemented. I spent the next two weeks refactoring the original app to share as much logic as possible. The first two days was lots of fun. The refactoring was also something I wanted to flush out unit tests, still enjoyable.<p>The worst part was debugging really bugs introduced to my code from 5 years ago. My functions had naming issues describing the behavior wrong, confusing Claude, that I needed to re-understand to add new features.<p>Parts of coding are frustrating. Using AI is frustrating for different reasons.<p>The most frustrating part was rebasing with git to create a sensible history (which I've had to do without AI in the past), reviewing the sheer volume of changes (14k lines) and then deciding "do I want my name on this" which involved cleaning up all the linter warnings I'd self imposed on myself.</p>
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<p>Menards has done this since at least 2012</p>
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<p>Years ago (2015?) I bought a DS416j. Paid maybe $400 at the time. It was the simplest plug-n-play NAS could I could find. I didn't even know it had a GUI! (I was being very lazy with my searching). Two 2tb HDDs. Eventually I started running home assistant (no docker). 2023 I was getting annoyed with performance. Two 2tb SSDs added (4 slots) which helped. 2025 I've moved home assistant to a dedicated $70 thin client.<p>As a dedicated personal backup for my family it's been perfect. The latest vendor lock in has me reconsidering how I'll upgrade when the time comes. Until this post I was considering a $1000 unit and transferring my SSD drives before buying more storage.<p>Sounds like it's time to build a proper storage+computer rack.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 23:07:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070417</link><dc:creator>Forge36</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070417</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I moved out of keep. It's an HTML backend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:33:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870681</link><dc:creator>Forge36</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44870681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "Biofuels Policy, a Mainstay of American Agriculture, a Failure for the Climate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The history of ethanol in gas is quiet old.<p>Per <a href="https://www.eia.gov/kids/history-of-energy/timelines/ethanol.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.eia.gov/kids/history-of-energy/timelines/ethanol...</a><p>It looks like it usage of ethanol as an additive started increasing around the same time lead was being phased out.</p>
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<p>Isn't a large part of ethanol it's use as a fuel additive that it boosts octane and is relatively cheap? Compared to leaded gasoline it seems very "green".</p>
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<p>A statement that writes itself? Neat!</p>
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<p>The default rarely change avoid breaking changes.</p>
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<p>It makes for a good test</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 21:57:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902804</link><dc:creator>Forge36</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902804</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42902804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've found targeted agents work best. Of course this also means I now have ~8 different tools I can choose to search with.<p>They aren't generic and the output needs to be monitored.</p>
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<p>I couldn't find the tester. Thankfully the client i was tested... And it behaves poorly. Thankfully emacs has a client I can switch to!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2024 14:36:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42486552</link><dc:creator>Forge36</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42486552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42486552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Forge36 in "Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread connectivity in brain"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I wonder if that's lost with this paper's method of typing.<p>I learned on a Mac. The course material was copying  from a book without looking at the screen, then correcting the errors. This second pass to correct mistakes is different, and it's not clear that you can be removed when taking notes without affecting learning.</p>
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<p>They give a recommendation for education, but didn't measure retention.<p>I agree with their premise provided students don't know how to touch type (given the anecdotal amount of visual typing I've seen a reason concern for students) it's also interesting that it's cursive, which is being taught less.</p>
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