Hacker News: atomicUpdate

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:50:15 +0000

What is a speed light camera?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Agentic Engineering Patterns"

atomicUpdate — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:21:28 +0000

> When code is expensive to produce and is likely to stay in production for many years it's obviously important to review it very carefully. If code is cheap and can be inexpensively replaced maybe we can lower our review standards?

I don't care how cheap it is to replace the incorrect code when it's modifying my bank account or keeping my lights on.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:30:07 +0000

This is the same thing as `git rebase-update`, available in Chrome's `depot_tools`, which deletes merged branches.

Beyond that, this is just OP learning how `xargs` works.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:50:56 +0000

If my car’s brakes have a design flaw and don’t stop my car reliably, I don’t expect to have to keep paying for my car to get them fixed. The manufacturer’s warranty covers that, and bugs in your software fall into the same bucket.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:35:44 +0000

> Their standards forever dropping

And yet their standards still haven’t dropped low enough for Linux to be an acceptable replacement. I don’t think that’s a knock on the Windows user, but an indication that Linux desktop (and its replacement applications) still isn’t user-friendly enough for most people.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Graphite is joining Cursor"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:02:01 +0000

I expect the formatter/linter to be run as part of presubmit and/or committing the code so it doesn't matter how it's edited and saved by the developer. It's strange to hear of a specific IDE being mandated to work around that, and making quick edits with tools like vi unsupported.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Sayonara, R35: Nissan Japan has stopped taking orders for the GT-R"

atomicUpdate — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 19:22:54 +0000

No one has ever cross-shopped an S2k and an FF.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

atomicUpdate — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:09:01 +0000

My first thought is using your union representative to amplify your voice. Presumably the union doesn't want to be associated with, or known to be representing, racists so it's in their best interests to denounce these types of statements.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones"

atomicUpdate — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 17:27:10 +0000

> There’s little doubt that racism played a role in identifying children as gifted even though the label was based on supposedly objective criteria.

Why has the LA Times settled on racist teachers as the only reason for the skew in enrollment numbers, and why aren’t teachers upset the LA Times are calling them racists?

I’m constantly surprised how often accusations like this are thrown around and how little pushback there is by those accused of it.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB"

atomicUpdate — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:22:33 +0000

The reasoning I’ve heard is that Bluetooth traffic is easily snoopable without physical access to the device. Someone could potentially steal password keystrokes while sitting outside the office building, on the other side of a window with the shades drawn, whereas with USB you still need to get past the physical security and be at their desk.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "The Rise and Fall of Matchbox's Toy-Car Empire"

atomicUpdate — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 16:57:21 +0000

> Good heavens. How were we meant to know that?

It’s literally referenced in the comment that poster is replying to. It would have been less work to just pay attention.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "12 Months of Mandarin"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:32:21 +0000

> The ability to focus on some things but not others is perfectly consistent with ADHD.

This is an insanely broad definition that literally the entire population would fall under.

> You might find it easy but that doesn't mean others will.

No one finds concentrating on any and every subject easy. Assuming this is due to ADHD, and not something in their control, is a cop out.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Show HN: Open Scanner, an open-source document scanning app for iPhone"

atomicUpdate — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 13:41:43 +0000

Sublime does it, at least with Merge.

It’s weird to think Linux programs would somehow be different from Windows in this regard. Why would a program running in Linux are more altruistic (for lack of a better term) than one running in Windows?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "How to succeed in MrBeast production (Leaked PDF)"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 03:31:09 +0000

Both of the examples in the quote give you the answer: talk to someone that’s actually done it.

It’s always amazing to me how often the person 3 desks over has already solved the same problem, but is never asked how by the next person. Instead, too many people act like they’re the first person to ever attempt whatever they’re working on.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Public Work: a search engine for public domain images"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:29:31 +0000

Are you asking or telling?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "TwitchAdSolutions – Blocking Twitch Ads"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:19:23 +0000

> Why am I expected to pay another $10 to block ads.

You aren't.

Twitch Turbo costs $12/month. If you're spending more than that on multiple subscriptions then you're better off getting Twitch Turbo and not getting ads on any stream, rather than just those you subscribe to.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "The U.S. government may finally mandate safer table saws"

atomicUpdate — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:51:20 +0000

I tend to agree, assuming there are no false positives. Admittedly, I’m not sure how often that occurs, nor if we even can know that based on all the various work environments the cheap table saws are being used in today.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Mario meets Pareto"

atomicUpdate — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:33:57 +0000

> the animation and the scroll-sensitive layout (vs. just having a series of static diagrams) makes it unpleasant for me to read.

I totally agree; I don't understand the fascination HN has with these types of sites. It all feels like extraneous design just for the sake of it, rather than actually making anything easier or better to understand.

New comment by atomicUpdate in "Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta"

atomicUpdate — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:25:01 +0000

They're literally working on a feature to disable third party coookies by default:

https://blog.google/products/chrome/privacy-sandbox-tracking...

How does that fit in with your conspiracy theorizing?

New comment by atomicUpdate in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

atomicUpdate — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:04:38 +0000

> Simples being you need to log in to multiple different apps, but things like data moving between them etc are also complications.

I don't think this is actually true. Specifically, once I've logged into one Google app (like Gmail), others automatically pick up the user (like Calendar), so it seems to at least be technically possible.