Hacker News: UnfitFootprint

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Gemini 4 Argon"

UnfitFootprint — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:34:05 +0000

Cannot say I’ve shared that experience. Requests 504ed 5/6 times during my short trials with curl

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Gemini 4 Argon"

UnfitFootprint — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:31:27 +0000

Yes! And how well it can avoid compounding complexity and codebase sprawl

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Transit rewards"

UnfitFootprint — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 06:01:45 +0000

Excluding the fact that drug addicts are still humans deserving love, care and the opportunity to recuperate - fostering a clean & safe transit environment is practically a solved problem internationally.

Maybe the moral depravity of SF breeds truly irredeemable addicts, but as someone whos met a lot of troubled people and ridden a lot of public transit your statement seems alarmingly and unhelpfully critical

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "MiMo v2.6"

UnfitFootprint — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:52:49 +0000

Yeah it’s a shame a lot of these benchmarks are behind. My favourite was ‘SlopCodeBench’ [1] as I’m most interested in ai reinforcing its own bad decisions, but it’s not even up to current gen oai

1: https://www.scbench.ai/

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Small programming tricks"

UnfitFootprint — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:07:10 +0000

The printed copy lets you build a spatial association with the command. You are more likely to be able to look up and have your eyes settle roughly where it is than write a query on a custom site.

I think for a digital solution to come close you need it permanently present on a nth monitor

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect"

UnfitFootprint — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:28:12 +0000

The way everybody involved makes money

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

UnfitFootprint — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:56:07 +0000

decreasing perf makes stomaching OS upgrades hard… I can’t remember a time I didn’t resent having to do a major version bump of my OS.

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Zed DeltaDB"

UnfitFootprint — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:29:37 +0000

Is this just any Jetbrains IDE file history?

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

UnfitFootprint — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:23:57 +0000

It’s definitely interesting watching the OSS and commercial world swing in seemingly opposite directions on this. It would be nice to see some companies sharing more balanced successful practices they’ve implemented with AI

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea"

UnfitFootprint — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:08:34 +0000

Genuinely, have these guys done anything other than AI generated ship pictures? The top down ones look like they didn’t even use a good model.

I’d be stunned if anyone takes this seriously

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Kimi K3: second only to Fable 5 on AA-Briefcase"

UnfitFootprint — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:48:22 +0000

People I know who Range Rover their way through life are openly considering BYD… it’s a fascinating and slow but steady market takeover

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Show HN: A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events"

UnfitFootprint — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:24:49 +0000

Really fun! Worked like a dream on iOS safari

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

UnfitFootprint — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:26:06 +0000

Wait what? Is the NYT not paywalled somewhere?

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Proof of Care in the Age of A.I"

UnfitFootprint — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:58:35 +0000

Not to mention accessibility, which as usual benefits everyone with features such as text search, so I guess we‘ll keep looking for an answer.

Typewriters?

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "The git history command"

UnfitFootprint — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:58:05 +0000

I pull out difftastic when it’s all too hard for this. Diffs based off tree sitter

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "LARP – Revenue infrastructure for serious founders"

UnfitFootprint — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:50:03 +0000

Not that I’ve ever partaken in any US startup, but $30/m? If the employees are earning average YC salary that seems like a drop in the ocean, even with 5-6 subscriptions

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

UnfitFootprint — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:06:15 +0000

except for perhaps… a scalable pg bouncer? And good nuclear reactors [1]?

Not to say I support many Russian political moves, but I think discrediting an entire people and their outputs on Russian politics is brusque - particularly open source ones.

[1]: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-08/russia-nuclear-power-...

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "Focus"

UnfitFootprint — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:33:42 +0000

Right, that changes the reading

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner"

UnfitFootprint — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:42:46 +0000

I would so love to visit, but I read an increase in tensions a few years ago caused a tourism stoppage

New comment by UnfitFootprint in "How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner"

UnfitFootprint — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:39:40 +0000

I was fascinated to learn while visiting they consider themselves ‘at war’ and generations from a unified time still strongly believe in the cause.

In tech specifically this leads to some surprising results such as transit planning being very ineffective or broken in google maps due to onshore data storage requirements. Subway alignments are regarded as sensitive info