Hacker News: abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=abswestHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 03 May 2026 18:41:45 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author"]]>I think its already off in 1.118.0 by default.

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 01:59:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992576abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992576https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992576<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "Ask HN: GitHub Copilot down?"]]>Same, shows error code in IDE and at github.com copilot settings.

]]>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:42:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45044963abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45044963https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45044963<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "Nvidia bets on robotics to drive future growth"]]>I'd love to hear more about your experience with Coral. Sounds like that'd be a good fit for a tiny GPU to run models with conv2d?

]]>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:14:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611795abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611795https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611795<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "Raspberry Pi Ltd is considering an IPO"]]>Seen same power warnings, when powered by RP4 5V/3A. Had to use 5.1V power supply to get rid of them.

]]>Thu, 16 May 2024 02:26:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40374642abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40374642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40374642<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "Monorepos: Please Don't (2019)"]]>You build a package and publish it to a private registry, so builds can reference specific versions of dependencies from other repos.

]]>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:17:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192030abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192030https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40192030<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "Robotic arms that assemble panels on solar farms"]]>Lets put a face to a name - Russia, somehow yet not officially recognized as a terrorist state.

]]>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 18:52:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099879abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099879https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40099879<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"]]>what numeric metric do you use to assess that it is "working well" in Germany?

]]>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:40:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013471abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013471https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013471<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com"]]>I've been using Outlook email primarily for the last decade. Not that much spam, compared to other mailboxes I have.

]]>Thu, 03 Nov 2022 22:48:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459031abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459031https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33459031<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)"]]>> If you've seen the question/answer before just say so!

I did that once at FAANG interview, instead of honesty credits I felt like the interviewer just got annoyed by having to come up with another question.

]]>Mon, 03 Jan 2022 04:29:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29777340abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29777340https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29777340<![CDATA[New comment by abswest in "How I got wealthy without working too hard"]]>well if you prefer to live in the city like SF/NYC, it won't even buy you a house. a solid mortgage down payment and reserve fund - that's it.

]]>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:32:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29267315abswesthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29267315https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29267315