Hacker News: StarlaAtNight

New comment by StarlaAtNight in ".gitignore Isn't the only way to ignore files in Git"

StarlaAtNight — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 10:48:36 +0000

You know what’s bad DX? Your company’s product having a massive security breach, people stop using it, and having to lay off all the software engineers

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Midjourney Medical"

StarlaAtNight — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:05:41 +0000

I wonder how doctors feel about people consulting ChatGPT. I know a doctor who can't stand people getting medical advice from quacks on TikTok, but that's probably a different problem/pattern

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

StarlaAtNight — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:56:04 +0000

Thanks for calling that out. I went through and extracted a good handful of those. It’s not a short list. It’s a handful.

“”” The subsidy era is not winding down gracefully. It is showing cracks everywhere. … the question is not whether they got a good deal. The question is how long that deal survives. … A developer running three or four concurrent coding agents is not consuming 3x or 4x the tokens of a chat conversation. It is an order of magnitude more … These are not experiments anymore. They are load-bearing workflows. … That is not a rounding error. That is a line item that needs its own budget code. “””

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"

StarlaAtNight — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:25:54 +0000

I’m not very well read on the topic and you seen to take a strong “con” stance. Curious to hear why you think it deserves such a demise

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Gitas – A tool for Git account switching"

StarlaAtNight — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:14:00 +0000

Consultants or professional services folks will be working in their company’s GitHub account and several clients. Requires managing lots of git/GitHub accounts

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

StarlaAtNight — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:36:41 +0000

We should be able to pin to a version of training data history like we can pin to software package versions. Release new updates w/ SemVer and let the people decide if it’s worth upgrading to

I’m sure it will get there as this space matures, but it feels like model updates are very force-fed to users

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "RegreSQL: Regression Testing for PostgreSQL Queries"

StarlaAtNight — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 10:53:53 +0000

Wonder if the YAML fixtures drew inspiration from dbt’s unit tests: https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/build/unit-tests#unit-testing-a...

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Claude Is Down"

StarlaAtNight — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:53:40 +0000

If you build it, they will come

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood (2019)"

StarlaAtNight — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:59:30 +0000

This headline sounds like a euphemism for something or one of those folksy sounding bits of wisdom

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "GitHub pull requests were down"

StarlaAtNight — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:05:41 +0000

One MILLION dollars puts pinky to corner of mouth

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "GPT might be an information virus (2023)"

StarlaAtNight — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:30:07 +0000

Nice try, AI!

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Scanned piano rolls database"

StarlaAtNight — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 01:14:48 +0000

Just curious, what made you go down that rabbit hole?

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Show HN: Formalizing Principia Mathematica using Lean"

StarlaAtNight — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 00:57:06 +0000

When I saw “Lean” I thought https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Airflow – Stream media files directly from macOS to AirPlay devices"

StarlaAtNight — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:57:11 +0000

Lol! https://star-history.com/#Apache/airflow&Date

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up"

StarlaAtNight — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 03:14:06 +0000

This quote cracked me up:

“I HAVE NO TOOLS BECAUSE I’VE DESTROYED MY TOOLS WITH MY TOOLS”

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling"

StarlaAtNight — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:55:03 +0000

Love this! Will try it out

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT"

StarlaAtNight — Thu, 16 May 2024 23:47:04 +0000

Might make sense for them to anchor to ibis for the code part (since it compiles down to SQL or Pandas) - and, being inspired by tidyverse, could easily translate to R

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "GPT-4o"

StarlaAtNight — Tue, 14 May 2024 02:56:05 +0000

These AI's sure do yap a lot

Also, they're TERRIBLE at harmonizing together

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Keep Out – WebGL Game"

StarlaAtNight — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 00:09:10 +0000

I love that Google+ is included in the "share this to social" functionality. Very retro

New comment by StarlaAtNight in "Univer: Open-Source Alternative for Google Sheets, Slides, Docs"

StarlaAtNight — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 02:07:18 +0000

I tried the Sheets Big Data example, and it crashed on the first run

Reprex-ish: 1. Open this on iPhone Firefox: https://www.univer.ai/examples/sheets-big-data/ 2. Select a cell and drag down 3. It crashes once it hits row 1M-ish

I get that it might be some kind of memory limitation, but if so there should be guardrails to prevent the user from doing it