Hacker News: TYPE_FASTER

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "No More JetBrains Products for Me"

TYPE_FASTER — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:05:33 +0000

Every once in a while, I have to figure out an IntelliJ indexing issue. I've got a personal Claude sub and access to Claude for work, so will not be using the JetBrains AI sub. If the indexing gets worse, or paying more for their AI becomes mandatory, I'll be done and back to Emacs, which is what I've been using for Claude anyway. Not there yet tho.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "No more JetBrains products for me"

TYPE_FASTER — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:01:19 +0000

I asked a former truck driver once and his answer was that it's easier to see what's in front of you than behind you. I wondered why people in our neighborhood backed into their driveways at first, then I realized this was indeed true. If I turn into the street and back into my driveway, somebody probably hasn't jumped behind my car. If I get in my car and back out of my driveway, somebody walking/biking along may not notice my car backing out of the driveway, and my old potato backup camera isn't always the best at illuminating people behind my car at night in bad weather.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:22:52 +0000

Every. Time. No, I'm not interested in something with a similar name on the other side of the planet, I'm interested in the thing that is a 10-20min. drive away from me.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "The Boring Internet"

TYPE_FASTER — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:30:49 +0000

Useful in 1993 before the Unix machines in the computer labs were running Mosaic.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home"

TYPE_FASTER — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:52:04 +0000

I was just reading this thread today: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/1sz9li4/invisible_...

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:37:17 +0000

My LG dryer was using wifi to advertise an extended warranty for itself.

Then it broke, maybe I should have bought the warranty?

I bought a simpler model without wifi this time.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Your Backpack Got Worse on Purpose"

TYPE_FASTER — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:55:40 +0000

Osprey backpacks have worked well for me.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

TYPE_FASTER — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:51:02 +0000

Somebody whipped out a freakin iPad and started recording video in front of me once. Like wtf

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

TYPE_FASTER — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:05:43 +0000

> There was a golden age (2010-2020 or so?)

Also during the Dot Com era. Pretty much every cycle lead to more people getting into the field.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:24:19 +0000

Yeah, I was surprised that something this obvious wasn't addressed.

Investing in a visual redesign (Liquid Glass) but not an obvious UX issue of the notch hiding icons seems like a mis-prioritization.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:27:48 +0000

I have access to more content at the touch of a button than ever before.

I struggle to find content I actually want to watch. It's really weird.

I can't tell if it's me, or the content, or a combination.

I think part of it is our attention span, or lack thereof.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Ukrainian drone holds position for 6 weeks"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:11:14 +0000

https://www.anduril.com/pulsar

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Ask HN: Where have you found the coding limits of current models?"

TYPE_FASTER — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:51:58 +0000

I was working with Claude on a Chrome extension. The extension was getting a 429 "Too many requests" error on one website. Claude suggested a bunch of things to try, none of which really solved the problem and were kind of one-off attempts (hardcoded string compares, etc.).

Eventually I asked it "hey, are you sending two requests when you could send one?" Claude thought about it for a minute and said, "you're right! Let me fix that." The 429 errors stopped.

I've found it really is more like pair programming than having another fully independent developer. For Jenkins pipelines, I don't care about hardcoded string compares as much. For the core capability of the software, details are important.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

TYPE_FASTER — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:09:06 +0000

Current state by state status (not my site): https://pluginsolarusa.com

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Anthropic is preparing to release new models – Mythos and Capybara"

TYPE_FASTER — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:47:27 +0000

Yeah, and clicking on the page opens the Discord channel that is linked in this Twitter profile: https://x.com/M1Astra

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:00:30 +0000

> Biesma has asked himself why he was vulnerable to what came next. He was nearing 50. His adult daughter had left home, his wife went out to work and, in his field, the shift since Covid to working from home had left him feeling “a little isolated”.

I think social isolation can be a factor here.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "The next fight over the use of facial recognition could be in the supermarkets"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:27:57 +0000

Yes. Federal law requires retailers of drugs containing pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and phenlypropanolamine to record the buyer's name and address and keep the records for two years (https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/legal-requi...).

While there is no federal law restricting the sale of medications containing Dextromethorphan, a common cough suppressant, US states have started regulating sales of these medications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextromethorphan_regulation_by...). It looks like most of the time, it's an 18yrs and up age restriction.

My guess would be that it's easier for company policy to always scan the ID, even for age verification, instead of having different policies depending on what is being purchased.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Ask HN: What do you look for in your first 10 hires?"

TYPE_FASTER — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:55:41 +0000

There is a difference between somebody who has used an algorithm/component/framework/library, and somebody who knows how to solve a problem using an algorithm/component/framework/library.

In the beginning, you need the person who knows how to solve the problem. They are harder to find.

If you are pressured to grow quickly, you might be tempted to lower the bar. You can, as long as you understand that the person who knows how to solve the problem is still critically important, because they will be telling people which algo to use.

I think every company that uses tech needs at least one of these people to start with.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

TYPE_FASTER — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:23:31 +0000

I bought another app to play Apple Music because that’s how much the Music app usability has decreased.

New comment by TYPE_FASTER in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

TYPE_FASTER — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:45:07 +0000

> You just have to stick with it for a few years.

Also see: SharePoint