Hacker News: antihero

New comment by antihero in "Let's make the worst Htmx"

antihero — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:14:13 +0000

Also don't you entirely lose typing?

My favourite thing about TSX is that it is typechecked. How do you do that with random strings of HTML?

New comment by antihero in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

antihero — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:23:27 +0000

I wonder if the smarter thing to do would be to quietly nuke it as soon as it becomes clear that you'll be detained, so they can't really know that it wasn't already blank (IE you aren't nuking it in their presence).

New comment by antihero in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

antihero — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:22:00 +0000

It would be cool if there's a third PIN that can wipe the unpatriotic profile whilst showing the patriotic one.

So you use 1st pin for normal use, 2nd for downloading your flight details on patriot mode, and 3rd for unlocking to patriot mode whilst silently nuking unpatriotic data.

Or a PIN that just nukes the data for certain apps (Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, E-mail) etc. Feds can read my Slack messages all day.

New comment by antihero in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

antihero — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 10:20:34 +0000

It would be cool if there's a third PIN that can wipe the unpatriotic profile whilst showing the patriotic one.

So you use 1st pin for normal use, 2nd for downloading your flight details on patriot mode, and 3rd for unlocking to patriot mode whilst silently nuking unpatriotic data in case of seizure.

New comment by antihero in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

antihero — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:10:20 +0000

I've just found having TSX on the server and TSX on the client to be a fairly trusty abstraction, and also typesafe way to update the DOM.

The thing that is frustrating me about HTMX so far is: How do I build typesafe templates on the server? I'm trying out Aksama and it seems ok, is there something similar for JS?

Also the SPA abstraction of "your website is just a client that connects to a an API" is nice.

New comment by antihero in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

antihero — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:46:27 +0000

I was against it for ages but having have claude use it in a simple project and being frankly sick/bored of React, it seems nice.

New comment by antihero in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

antihero — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:41:35 +0000

I think the OP was talking about humans parking weirdly in the garage the robot picks them up from, not the car park itself—the car park itself is robot only (so they can jam cars together).

New comment by antihero in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

antihero — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:13:04 +0000

Our org has a really nicely set up review bot which has access to a repo of really strict standards to check new code against. It means that the reviews are much more useful and catch a lot of things that a plain bot wouldn’t. I think that’s a huge factor in being able to trust the reviews to catch more. You can also check the repo out locally.

New comment by antihero in "The drivers behind software delivery inefficiency"

antihero — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:45:34 +0000

I’ve genuinely found that context switching is a skill like any other. When I first started using LLMs and context switching doing 5-10 different work streams at once I was utterly, utterly exhausted at the end of each day.

Now many months in, it doesn’t feel nearly as taxing.

Maybe this is in no small part due to LLMs improving enough you don’t have to spend as much mental energy reviewing their output and them being better at managing worktrees and other tedium, but the idea of doing lots of things at once feels like a mental muscle that was previously weak and has gained in strength in ways I never though possible for me.

New comment by antihero in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

antihero — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:06:17 +0000

Ahh, I started my freelance career on a Portege R100 running Arch back in the day. The amount of times I missed meetings because of X11 failing to run or wpa_supplicant shitting the bed...

New comment by antihero in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

antihero — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:14:34 +0000

There's also Usenet.

New comment by antihero in "Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer"

antihero — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:11:57 +0000

Broot (br -w) can also do this (not with the big rectangles)

New comment by antihero in "Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed"

antihero — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:38:23 +0000

Ah so a little more serious than gang rape, I guess. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cd0m38xndp3t

New comment by antihero in "DMS 1.5 "The Wolverine" Released"

antihero — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:09:12 +0000

The margins/padding on stuff and the sizing is very haphazard.

New comment by antihero in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"

antihero — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:02:28 +0000

Neat, could it leverage https://github.com/apple/container

New comment by antihero in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

antihero — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:08:03 +0000

Doesn’t Eastern Ukraine have more resources and more ethnic Russians?

New comment by antihero in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

antihero — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 06:07:26 +0000

Israel wants the Palestinian land. Many of them would be happy to raze Gaza to nothing and rebuild it.

New comment by antihero in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

antihero — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:45:53 +0000

I mean, all of it? Maybe someone born post rewrite will think wow AI made a cool thing but nobody is going whoa Postgres is made purely by AI?

New comment by antihero in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

antihero — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:40:59 +0000

You really think people should hide their honest opinions about others because they receive money from them?

What an awful corporate mindset.

New comment by antihero in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

antihero — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:35:12 +0000

But that's the thing, without the decades of work, it wouldn't BE trivial.

Everyone is standing on the shoulders of those which came before. If LLMs allow us to combine the incredible decades of effort and knowledge and experiences that's gone into building something as great as Postgres, and take that and combine the experience and philosophy that has led to the creation of a language that potentially provides tangible benefits, and for far less human time and effort that it would have otherwise taken...surely something that should be celebrated as absolutely incredible?