Hacker News: _kidlike

New comment by _kidlike in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

_kidlike — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:34:20 +0000

very cool word, but I think the etymology stated in Wikipedia is wrong.

the second part of the word just means purchase (in a weird ancient Greek tense). there's no relation to fish whatsoever.

(I'm Greek)

New comment by _kidlike in "Infomaniak transitions to a foundation model to protect user data privacy"

_kidlike — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:39:40 +0000

hey, exact same story and sentiment here!

New comment by _kidlike in "Cats Lock – keyboard lock for cat people"

_kidlike — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:28:25 +0000

do we really AI to solve "lock screen"?

New comment by _kidlike in "Arena AI Model ELO History"

_kidlike — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:30:12 +0000

its very interesting to see that this only happens to American companies. What gives?

New comment by _kidlike in "Claude mixes up who said what"

_kidlike — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:10:28 +0000

But it's not "Claude" at fault here, it's "Claude Code" the CLI tool.

Claude Code is actually far from the best harness for Claude, ironically...

JetBrains' AI Assistant with Claude Agent is a much better harness for Claude.

New comment by _kidlike in "Show HN: I built a DNS resolver from scratch in Rust – no DNS libraries"

_kidlike — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:53:00 +0000

very interesting. how does the blocklist work? can one manage the lists? like StevenBlack or others.

New comment by _kidlike in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

_kidlike — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:05:10 +0000

interesting... for me JetBrains Mono won, which is the one I already use. But I discovered Atkinson Hyperlegible, which looks awesome for reading books. I guess I have a minor reading issue that I wasn't aware of!

New comment by _kidlike in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

_kidlike — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:03:50 +0000

Plasma has been a bit buggy since v6 :(

they tried to do something with remembering "how you left things" between sessions, and even when disabled things are still weird...

Also some power management related hooks are not working as well as before. Like if you put the computer to sleep at night, and wake it up in the morning, the automatic dark-to-light theme switch doesn't trigger. at least not always.

Still the best system to work with though!

New comment by _kidlike in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

_kidlike — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:00:13 +0000

my thoughts exactly... this "verdict" came with very suspicious timing.

New comment by _kidlike in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

_kidlike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:01:08 +0000

Nevermind... somehow it doesn't work :(

New comment by _kidlike in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

_kidlike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:00:47 +0000

he is a junior yes.

New comment by _kidlike in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

_kidlike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:00:17 +0000

I just used it here to approximately convey the scale.

the original function was full of mutable state (not required), full of special cases (not required), full of extra return statements (not required). Also had some private helper methods that were mocked in the tests (!!!).

All of this just for a "pure" function. Just immutable object in - immutable object out.

and yes, he was a junior.

New comment by _kidlike in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

_kidlike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:53:51 +0000

not a new vulnerability class.

Extremely impressive feat nonetheless!

New comment by _kidlike in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

_kidlike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:43:54 +0000

I'm very surprised by these comments...

I regularly review code that is way more complicated that it should.

The last few days I was going back and forth on reviews on a function that had originally cyclomatic complexity of 23. Eventually I got it down to 8, but I had to call him into a pair programming session and show him how the complexity could be reduced.

New comment by _kidlike in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

_kidlike — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:13:14 +0000

I'm on the phone now, but you should be able to already do it. install the Kagi translate browser extension, and use it to do this. I will try it myself in a few hours xD

New comment by _kidlike in "You Just Reveived"

_kidlike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:06:56 +0000

telecom cartels in Greece :)

Were the Egyptian Pyramids Not Built Up, but Carved Down?

_kidlike — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:17:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/02/were-the-egyptian-pyramids-not-built-up-but-carved-down.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47127306

Points: 3

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New comment by _kidlike in "OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions"

_kidlike — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:16:31 +0000

these ads don't solve the broken economy. The original creators of some content that was stolen by OpenAI will not get a piece of the ad pie.

New comment by _kidlike in "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: Full Disclosure of Airoha Race Vulnerabilities"

_kidlike — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 07:23:58 +0000

yup, all 4 headsets in my house are also vulnerable.

This sounds more serious than it has gotten attention for :(

People generally don't do firmware updates on their headsets, unless I live in a bubble...

New comment by _kidlike in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

_kidlike — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:13:13 +0000

putting aside accessibility, I believe that the usefulness of icons boils down to brain efficiency.

Considering that the brain has hard-wired neurons (since birth) to automatically count/recognize up to 3 objects, we need some icons as anchor points. With emphasis on some.

You can have max of 3 icons in a row, and a max distance of 6 items without icons.

Then you can VERY quickly find any menu item, by doing "+/-3 from X anchor" math, which your brain does extremely efficiently.

Further, this means that an action is represented by a relative path (e. g. save as = 1 down from the save icon). This further helps the brain to store these associations, because it's also extremely efficient at storing relative paths. So, long time users automatically become more and more efficient at using your software.