Hacker News: abid786

New comment by abid786 in "Nearby Glasses"

abid786 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:28:13 +0000

Seems like GP spent more time testing this than the author did

New comment by abid786 in "Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update"

abid786 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:44:08 +0000

More and more of the social networks are just the algorithm though - tiktok, X, Facebook, etc. How much of your feed does the average use personally know now?

New comment by abid786 in "Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update"

abid786 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 01:42:17 +0000

This site is not all representative of the average internet user though

New comment by abid786 in "As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook"

abid786 — Wed, 28 May 2025 07:08:18 +0000

In comparison it’s much faster to draw, infinitely more portable and much less distracting. I use pen and paper for self notes that are throwaway in nature or exploring ideas. For artefacts that are meant to be shared with others I use a computer

New comment by abid786 in "Lufthansa plane flew for 10 minutes without pilots"

abid786 — Sat, 17 May 2025 14:37:42 +0000

Autopilots don't do any of those things without human in the loop

New comment by abid786 in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

abid786 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:47:50 +0000

Doesn’t load_json throw if the file doesn’t exist?

New comment by abid786 in "Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests"

abid786 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 15:17:04 +0000

Can you give some examples? Super interesting to me as someone with no children

New comment by abid786 in "How to create value objects in Ruby – the idiomatic way"

abid786 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 16:15:14 +0000

Not sure I follow. The constants like Price or Currency would be available across threads.

Also, if you’re writing a custom data class, you’d need to write code to support immutability which this article’s approach handles

New comment by abid786 in "RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI"

abid786 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 03:31:25 +0000

Because everything in Ruby is an object and everything is a passing messages (ie a method call).

New comment by abid786 in "Rails is better low code than low code"

abid786 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 03:09:41 +0000

Could you give some examples of what the use cases are where Rails makes it hard to stray from the beaten path?

New comment by abid786 in "Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after dam removal project"

abid786 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:37:42 +0000

This is a bunch of pseudoscience that isn't proven by anything at all and isn't peer reviewed either

New comment by abid786 in "Interviewing the Interviewer: Questions to Uncover a Company's True Culture"

abid786 — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:31:55 +0000

Except that if you’re an exceptional candidate you might get uplevelled or they might find money in the budget for you that didn’t previously exist for the role (more so if it’s a small company)

By asking these questions up front you might weed yourself out even though the role might have been a good match.

New comment by abid786 in "After years of leniency, ULA cracks down on hobbyist photographers"

abid786 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:41:42 +0000

A union strike requires a union. That’s why it works because everyone votes the same way. What we have now is prisoners dilemma; some photographers will take pictures of ULA launchers and others will not.

New comment by abid786 in "Dazed and Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of ReCAPTCHAv (2023)"

abid786 — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:32:33 +0000

Why are they an ADA violation? Who are they discriminating against

New comment by abid786 in "The Effects of Meaningless Work"

abid786 — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 04:48:40 +0000

Even if you’re curing cancer a lot of the actual work you do is pretty meaningless

New comment by abid786 in "Taliban Militants Fed Up with Office Culture, Ready to Quiet Quit"

abid786 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:09:40 +0000

Three buildup of troops by Russia along the Ukrainian border started in 2021, which is when the US left Afghanistan.

I'm not the parent nor am I saying the two wars are related but it's not unfathomable to think that American intelligence could have predicted a war between Ukraine and Russia at the same time as they were exiting Afghanistan

New comment by abid786 in "Netflix House Will Let You Experience Your Favorite Shows, Movies in Real Life"

abid786 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:02:56 +0000

There's also those of us who don't have kids, don't want them and would love to go to a theme park without dealing with 5 year olds crying or toddlers throwing tantrums.

New comment by abid786 in "An AI bot is (sort of) running for mayor in Wyoming"

abid786 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:01:00 +0000

I'm just wondering who the globalists here are

New comment by abid786 in "Tiny beauty: how I make scientific art from behind the microscope"

abid786 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:51:15 +0000

Sadly it's a dying art form. 40-50 years ago every scientific university department used to have a scientific photographer to allow the researchers to publish their photos in articles. My own godfather was a scientific photographer who retired and started commercializing scientific photos.

Unfortunately now, due to shrinking budgets and the proliferation of iPhones the need for such photographers is vanishing.

New comment by abid786 in "AI Search: The Bitter-Er Lesson"

abid786 — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 15:08:08 +0000

I'm in the same situation (mobile Safari, French phone) but if you use Chrome it works