Hacker News: alanbernstein

New comment by alanbernstein in "The worst job interview I ever had"

alanbernstein — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:09:49 +0000

Do you experience many "life challenges" at work?

New comment by alanbernstein in "I want to live like Costco people"

alanbernstein — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:36:14 +0000

Is the super-consumption aspect of it really so different than any other big box store?

New comment by alanbernstein in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

alanbernstein — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:27:01 +0000

In steam deck desktop mode, the touchpad-as-mouse makes it just bearable enough to use. I can't use desktop mode with a wireless Xbox controller with no touchpads. It's really the missing input type that makes the steam deck a complete tv-docked PC.

New comment by alanbernstein in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125k years ago (2025)"

alanbernstein — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:14:50 +0000

As they say, history rhymes

New comment by alanbernstein in "Neanderthals ran 'fat factories' 125,000 years ago (2025)"

alanbernstein — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:12:47 +0000

You might enjoy Hominids by Robert Sawyer

New comment by alanbernstein in "Ti-84 Evo"

alanbernstein — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:00:09 +0000

Ti89 emulator on my android. Muscle memory from high school and college use is strong.

New comment by alanbernstein in "Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in the same photo (2010)"

alanbernstein — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:57:29 +0000

And yet, anything beyond one lifetime is entirely out of reach...

New comment by alanbernstein in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

alanbernstein — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:09:26 +0000

The tearing down of those institutions IS the ebb.

New comment by alanbernstein in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

alanbernstein — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:08:13 +0000

The most material is removed at the corners of the lid-lifting notch. Those are IMO the most offensive pointy part on the body.

New comment by alanbernstein in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

alanbernstein — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:04:58 +0000

It has been one of the main complaints about openscad for some time

New comment by alanbernstein in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

alanbernstein — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:58:29 +0000

Got any example results/chat sessions? I've had little luck with LLMs for 3d modeling

New comment by alanbernstein in "The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere"

alanbernstein — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:02:01 +0000

I don't think "obvious" is the right word here. It makes perfect sense when you understand it, but it's not a conclusion that most people could come to immediately without detailed, assisted study.

New comment by alanbernstein in "Filesystems are having a moment"

alanbernstein — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:16:48 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I might have too much NIH syndrome to use it but I'd love to check it out.

New comment by alanbernstein in "We automated everything except knowing what's going on"

alanbernstein — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:56:46 +0000

True, but I think there's another dimension implied: how many devs are left that understand the code? Being able to start at zero is a fascinating surprise (compared to five years ago).

New comment by alanbernstein in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

alanbernstein — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:42:52 +0000

And yet we are surrounded by cameras that do this constantly

New comment by alanbernstein in "The wonder of modern drywall"

alanbernstein — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 06:38:12 +0000

It's the repainting that bothers me

New comment by alanbernstein in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

alanbernstein — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:15:55 +0000

Well whatever the zero means, it can't be the number of days that the bug has been present, generally. It should be expected that most zero-days concern a bug with a non-zero previous lifespan.

New comment by alanbernstein in "Stop using icons in data tables"

alanbernstein — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:31:57 +0000

Stop using email newsletter popups.

Stop using images that I can't zoom in to.

New comment by alanbernstein in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

alanbernstein — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:17:35 +0000

It's not really a good thing for technical discussion and support topics though. Information that others might hope to find by searching the web is no longer discoverable that way.

New comment by alanbernstein in "The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs"

alanbernstein — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:18:51 +0000

Right, it seems the appropriate analogy is the shift from analog-photograph-developers to digital camera photographers.