Hacker News: bean469

New comment by bean469 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bean469 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:06:48 +0000

Many people are very detached from the suffering of others

New comment by bean469 in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

bean469 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:01:41 +0000

Since their military capacity is certainly completely demolished, they probably took it down by throwing rocks

New comment by bean469 in "I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed"

bean469 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:16:57 +0000

> There are a lot of casualties on both sides of conflicts around the world. It is a bit suspicious when certain communities want to focus almost exclusively on one side of one conflict, while also leaving out any context about the terrorists that started the conflict and fight in civilian clothing.

You make it sound like both sides experienced the same amount of casualties, blockades and massive displacement from their homes during the conflict

New comment by bean469 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

bean469 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:28:23 +0000

Curiously "clanker" is not on the list

New comment by bean469 in "A nearly perfect USB cable tester"

bean469 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:38:34 +0000

Sucks that there's no USB-B support. Plenty of monitors still use it and many printers do as well

New comment by bean469 in "Can AI Exit Vim?"

bean469 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:33:23 +0000

My favorite big-brained way of quitting is ZZ (save and quit) and ZQ (quit without saving). Learned these shortcuts from a video by the legendary Luke Smith [1].

1. https://lukesmith.xyz

New comment by bean469 in "ISBN Visualization"

bean469 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:11:14 +0000

Children of Time is a incredible book. It's the first Sci-Fi book that I read and I enjoyed it thoroughly

New comment by bean469 in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

bean469 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:30:37 +0000

> Nobody is reading a PhD thesis or a scholarly journal on the bus.

As someone who is involved in academia, I can attest that most of my colleagues (including myself) do in fact read quite a few papers on buses (and trams - can't forget those)

New comment by bean469 in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

bean469 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:24:44 +0000

> The EU has always been focused on harming its citizens.

Insanely bonkers take. What sources do you have for this?

New comment by bean469 in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

bean469 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:21:25 +0000

> We Europeans have a pathological habit of blaming Orange Man Bad for all our many problems

Might be a different social circle, but I have not met a single European in my entire life of living in Europe who would blame Donald Trump or the US in general for the problems that we are currently facing. It doesn't take a genius to summarize that trans-continental geopolitics is much more complex than that

New comment by bean469 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

bean469 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:27:27 +0000

> Hands on the steering wheel for your and the officers safety until they ask you to do something.

Such advice always seemed weird to me, but I suppose that is because I just haven't ever encountered a paranoid cop

New comment by bean469 in "Apple Just Lost Me"

bean469 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:30:01 +0000

Although I do agree with some that you listed, I think that many do have alternatives:

- Audiobooks can be listened on other devices besides smartphones

- A dedicated camera is a very good option for taking high-quality photos fast, but I do agree that instant sharing is not a possibility

- GPS tracking is available on many watches, even non-Smartwatches like the ones Garmin designs

- You can pay with a credit / debit card via NFC - just as fast as with a smartphone

- You can find restaurants and other places through maps, tourism centers, etc. Or there's a option for researching where to go before heading out

New comment by bean469 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

bean469 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:28:39 +0000

> It's asinine to expect someone to put there life in danger for little to no benefit just because they are trained for it and there is a chance it might go well instead of certain death.

Whether it's asinine or not depends on context. Where I live, it is expected for police officers to protect you with their lives from a lethal threat if necessary, both legally and socially, and failure to commit to that means that you shouldn't be a cop

For the US, I think that the Uvalde shooting revealed a lot about what people actually expect from cops in life threatening situations, never mind what they are legally obligated to do

New comment by bean469 in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

bean469 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:26:05 +0000

> I don't understand how we're still using fossil fuels.

Because it's in the corporate interests of many multi-billion dollar companies that lobby politicians

New comment by bean469 in "Migrating to the EU"

bean469 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:09:10 +0000

> How comfortable are you guys with the fact that EU countries allow prosecutors and sometimes even police officers to issue their own search warrants without meaningful judicial review?

Just to be clear, according to the DOJ, law enforcement officials in the US can search your home without a warrant if they suspect that you are a "Alien Enemy" [1].

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25915967-doj-march-1...

New comment by bean469 in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

bean469 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:55:12 +0000

> it just feels like a bad thing when premium enters low-end markets

Depends on your money situation. For some people, spending 600 bucks on a laptop is a lot, even in the US

New comment by bean469 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

bean469 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:28:09 +0000

> You can but you absolutely should not try just because you can in training

For incapable civilians like me - absolutely. But I expect more from police officers than from myself when it comes to non-lethal disarming capabilities

New comment by bean469 in "Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers"

bean469 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:48:59 +0000

Yep, you can also create SAMBA shares, but I think that you need a plugin for it

New comment by bean469 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

bean469 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:37:29 +0000

> I want to see you attempt that in real life when someone is within 21 feet

Sadly I did not film it, but you could have been! I have attended multiple classes during which I had to disarm people with knives and other weird objects. It is absolutely possible with the right circumstances and training, but it's a completely different story when it comes to guns - the element of luck is much more meaningful, as a instructor who was shot quite a few times in their career has pointed out

New comment by bean469 in "Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code"

bean469 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:28:17 +0000

Surprised that there's no discussion about the prevalence of using TypeScript for developing these CLI agent harnesses. To me it seems concerning that such CLI programs are so chunky and commonly have to use over 1GB of RAM. Might be boomer-talk, but I am used to CLI apps being extremely lightweight and fast (think Total Commander, which has a UI, but is still very lightweight and responsive)

I understand that part of the reason is because many of these harnesses are vibe-coded, so plenty is lost in terms of optimization. And, well, because LLMs code best in TypeScript