Hacker News: Izkata

New comment by Izkata in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

Izkata — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:26:24 +0000

On holidays, in the US, Thanksgiving is Fall-themed so we wouldn't want to start winter until after the 4th Thursday of November (which because of how it shifts around, pretty much means December).

New comment by Izkata in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

Izkata — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:21:26 +0000

Sunrise and sunset don't shift at the same time, and December 1 is right about where sunset approaches it's earliest time (where I am it's 4:19, vs the earliest at 4:18 on Dec 8)

Summer doesn't work with that association though, with the latest sunset being the end of June instead of the start.

New comment by Izkata in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

Izkata — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:13 +0000

Roborock released one of these about a year ago. It doesn't do as much as they want, but it can pick up things and put them into designated locations, shoes being the main example.

New comment by Izkata in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

Izkata — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:16:14 +0000

Roborock Saros Z70 is about a year old:

https://us.roborock.com/pages/roborock-saros-z70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AGhb6p8sE

New comment by Izkata in "America Has Lost the Arab World"

Izkata — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:47:39 +0000

> You judge by actions, rather than words. and the actions are far from pointing out any intent for a genocide.

On that note: The population in Gaza appears to have gone up rather than down.

New comment by Izkata in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

Izkata — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:34:53 +0000

> But then you don’t want those multiple commits addressing PR feedback to merge as they’re noise.

They're not noise, they tell future maintainers why something is the way it is. If it's done in an unusual way they can see in the blame that a couple of lines were changed separately from the rest and immediately get an explanation by checking that commit.

New comment by Izkata in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

Izkata — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:29:02 +0000

If it works like gitlab (which a quick search looks like yes), you can specify down to individual files and use it to automatically determine who needs to approve merge requests.

New comment by Izkata in "What does it mean to “write like you talk”?"

Izkata — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:37:07 +0000

Along similar lines, in elementary school we were taught the introduction/body/conclusion pattern to help organize our thoughts in essays, but actually using those words as headers makes you sound like a child. "Conclusion" is especially common. It just reads like you're blindly following that pattern and don't actually know how to tie your thoughts together.

New comment by Izkata in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

Izkata — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:26:55 +0000

We reviewed the plan manually, asked it a few questions to clarify parts, and manually tweaked other parts.

I didn't catch what it was, some web dashboard that showed the cost per prompt. We could see it going up as it ran. We were just using the plan our company provided.

New comment by Izkata in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

Izkata — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:22:48 +0000

I like the idea we live inside the Veil of Madness (A sort of galactic bermuda triangle that drives inhabitants insane, so all spacefaring civilizations stay away).

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/8vbfgk/the_veil_of_mad...

New comment by Izkata in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

Izkata — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:27:37 +0000

I believe the first part is referring to these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186677

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47199948

New comment by Izkata in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

Izkata — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:14:21 +0000

My manager and I have been experimenting with it for some stuff, and our most recent attempt at using plan mode was a refactor to change a data structure and make some conversion code unnecessary, then delete it. The plan looked fine, but after it ran the data structure change was incomplete, most of the conversion code was still there, and it introduced several bugs by changing lines it shouldn't have touched at all. Also removed several "why" style comments and arbitrarily changed variable names to be less clear in code it otherwise didn't change.

This was the costliest one we had access to, chosen as an experiment - took $20 over almost a half hour to run.

New comment by Izkata in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

Izkata — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:57:17 +0000

I use vim with docker compose all the time: Set up the compose file to bind-mount the repo inside the container, so you can edit files freely outside it, and add a convenience "make shell" that gets you inside the container for running commands (basically just "docker compose exec foo bash").

It sounds like if you make devcontainers point at an existing Dockerfile it should be easy to make these work together, so you and teammates both use the same configuration. I haven't used devcontainers though.

New comment by Izkata in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

Izkata — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:13:41 +0000

Yeah, this happened to me recently and the advice could have caused data corruption (yay old systems). I only caught it because they asked before making changes and I had a vague memory of it from having investigated the same thing almost a decade ago (and found the note and explanation with a link to a bugtracker in my personal wiki).

New comment by Izkata in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

Izkata — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:52:58 +0000

Thinking might even be more difficult: Unfiltered thoughts, intrusive thoughts, people with no inner voice to encode as text...

New comment by Izkata in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

Izkata — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:48:46 +0000

> > The experience is strange; you aren't able to grasp any common human aspects because there are none. You can't reason with the human, because the human isn't doing the reasoning. You can't appeal to it, because the LLM behind it is in direct support of its own and the proxy's opinions and whims.

I've sometimes wondered if the chat context is why some people think LLMs are intelligent, it being divorced from their usual experiences, and they need something like this to feel the cognitive dissonance before they can notice LLM shortcomings.

New comment by Izkata in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

Izkata — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:38:58 +0000

Almost two decades ago I watched all of Farscape in under two weeks during a college winter break. I often still reflexively say "frell" instead of "fuck".

New comment by Izkata in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

Izkata — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:54:54 +0000

The impression I got from that thread is its quality is dropping, with weird bugs popping up. And I'm pretty sure I remember they announced at one point they switched to that, so the vibe coding had a human-written codebase to start with.

So that sounds to me like it is evidence vibe coding doesn't work well long term.

New comment by Izkata in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

Izkata — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:12:38 +0000

Pretty sure I made it clear I looked at it, and looks like a domain squatter with no relation to the original comment. Why would I click around further?

Edit: Also y'know what? Those years aren't there on page load. They zoom in a few seconds later. I may not have even seen them, just Wix and then scrolled down to the German text that apparently refers to a school computer lab.

New comment by Izkata in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

Izkata — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:16:13 +0000

It's redirecting to homeputerium.de and seems to have nothing to do with what they're referring to.