Hacker News: ItsHarper

New comment by ItsHarper in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

ItsHarper — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:22:21 +0000

I think you meant condemn, but otherwise, well said.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

ItsHarper — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:22:17 +0000

I'm not an athlete, but here's my understanding.

Being on feminine hormones pretty much removes any advantage if you've been on them for a while. There are typically rules about that for (at least) high level competitions. You can't just walk in and state your gender for that kind of thing.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

ItsHarper — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:55:03 +0000

The nano-texture matte finish is available as an option

New comment by ItsHarper in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

ItsHarper — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:38:50 +0000

What?

New comment by ItsHarper in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

ItsHarper — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:38:16 +0000

No it's not. Google sold Motorola to Lenovo like a decade ago.

New comment by ItsHarper in "The Program 2025 annual review: How much money does an audio drama podcast make?"

ItsHarper — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:04:22 +0000

I'm a Pocket Casts user, and see that it was one you tried.

Pocket Casts lets you select the episode order (as well as do things like group by season). I think it's pretty common to be able to add RSS feeds by putting them in the directory search field, and PC does this as well.

I've had absolutely zero problems using Pocket Casts to add custom Patreon feeds, and to listen to episodes in the other they came out.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Problems with D-Bus on the Linux desktop"

ItsHarper — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:19:07 +0000

That's what Android does. Desktop Linux should make this easier.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

ItsHarper — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:44:42 +0000

The problem is that the old owner still has a valid certificate for some period of time.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem"

ItsHarper — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:24:05 +0000

At the end of the article, they talk about how they've since updated to the latest major version of pnpm, which is the one with that change

New comment by ItsHarper in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

ItsHarper — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 06:06:52 +0000

I think they're agreeing with you

New comment by ItsHarper in "Feedback doesn't scale"

ItsHarper — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:28:20 +0000

This approach can't inform you that someone in the feedback chain is causing a problem.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Experiment: Making TypeScript immutable-by-default"

ItsHarper — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:34:12 +0000

That's opting into immutability, the point of the experiment is having it by default. Plus, that's just the type system preventing you from adding a property. It won't stop you from trying to change the `immutable` field.

I'm genuinely curious, was this AI generated, or just a lack of understanding?

New comment by ItsHarper in "Questions for Cloudflare"

ItsHarper — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:21:03 +0000

If you read their previous article about AWS (linked in this one), they specifically call out root cause analysis as a flawed approach.

New comment by ItsHarper in "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"

ItsHarper — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:50:34 +0000

It was Fitbit, but otherwise, yeah

New comment by ItsHarper in "How To Build A Smartwatch: Software"

ItsHarper — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:48:56 +0000

I think Eric has more-or-less implied that they will probably make a Pebble Time Round successor (no doubt with worthwhile battery life this time, given how much more the Duo is)

New comment by ItsHarper in "Springs and Bounces in Native CSS"

ItsHarper — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:01:17 +0000

Where do you see a Bezier-based spring example? I think the one in the section you quoted is just to show what a spring animation looks like, so you know what you're missing by sticking to Bezier curves.

I'm on my phone right now, so I can't actually verify how the one in that section is implemented.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Radiant Computer"

ItsHarper — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:30:07 +0000

They're still at the compiler stage. LLM features and hardware seem far enough away that it's reasonable to wait to evaluate if that combination is actually practical.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Radiant Computer"

ItsHarper — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:08:10 +0000

https://radiant.computer/system/radiance/prime/

New comment by ItsHarper in "Radiant Computer"

ItsHarper — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:06:28 +0000

They've written an R' compiler in C, and ported its order and parser to be self-hosted, with source code for those included in blog posts.

I'm not a fan of all the LLM and image generator usage either, though.

New comment by ItsHarper in "Sufficiently Smart Compiler"

ItsHarper — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:36:22 +0000

And on my phone, it's wider than my screen. Hardcoding a width is not the move.