Hacker News: beaugunderson

New comment by beaugunderson in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

beaugunderson — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:24:29 +0000

opus 4.6 extended still fails.

New comment by beaugunderson in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

beaugunderson — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:24:07 +0000

still failed for me on opus 4.6 extended a second ago.

when i prompted about how walking would mean leaving my car behind the "thinking" done before coming to the right conclusion was:

> lmao, fair point. the user is right - you need to bring the car to the car wash. that's a legitimate correction. own it.

New comment by beaugunderson in "Nonograms: a practical guide with interactive examples"

beaugunderson — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:10:25 +0000

i agree... i play with a stylus on my iPad (the nonograms katana app) and find that phone/laptop pale in comparison.

New comment by beaugunderson in "Film students who can no longer sit through films"

beaugunderson — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:06:20 +0000

worth noting that letterboxd will track progress on these and similar lists, which is how I know I'm 43 films into the AFI100 and 210 into the 1,001:

https://letterboxd.com/beaugunderson/stats/#:~:text=LIST%20P...

New comment by beaugunderson in "OLED, Not for Me"

beaugunderson — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:35:25 +0000

30hz is so painfully slow, I can always tell when I'm in power saving mode on the iPhone by that alone. On desktop I can't even do 60hz anymore after switching to a 144hz monitor.

New comment by beaugunderson in "Open Infrastructure Map"

beaugunderson — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:21:03 +0000

ahh cool, that layer was hidden by default... and now I see all the data centers I mapped in OSM show up!

New comment by beaugunderson in "New Year 2026: Fusion Updates from Helion and Commonwealth Fusion"

beaugunderson — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 08:47:18 +0000

Didn’t expect to see my town on HN! We’re about 10 miles from the Helion plant. The tax revenue from it and the Microsoft and Sabey data centers here are currently the subject of a lawsuit the county is bringing against the port.

New comment by beaugunderson in "ChatGPT Health"

beaugunderson — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:51:25 +0000

Exactly, they're not an alternative to a doctor, which is the point... it's nearly impossible to see a provider these days if you don't have a pre-existing relationship. I moved recently and finding a PCP who is accepting new patients is also maddening.

New comment by beaugunderson in "ChatGPT Health"

beaugunderson — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:46:30 +0000

As someone who was recently injured and waited three months to see a specialist in Seattle, these lines were not helpful ("yes, you should make an appointment"). The only way I was able to see someone was to write a script that blew up my phone when I got a cancellation window email (the first two I missed even though I responded within 30 seconds).

New comment by beaugunderson in "Children and Helical Time"

beaugunderson — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:32:12 +0000

Seems like the author independently discovered Logtime (written ~1996): https://kafalas.com/Logtime.html

New comment by beaugunderson in "Building a macOS app to know when my Mac is thermal throttling"

beaugunderson — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:42:43 +0000

I have not found one since the CA/BF voted to require hardware security modules for signing certificates. The cheapest option for an individual is via Microsoft, $10/month and a relatively painless identify verification lets you do cloud signing. They have enabled and disabled signups for the individual option, though, and it's unclear if it will be there permanently. Other options are ~$300/year and up. Also annoying is that Azure cloud signing works on GitHub Windows runners but not GitLab ones.

New comment by beaugunderson in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

beaugunderson — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:01:19 +0000

How are they not? :)

They set the baseline standard for code signing certificates. In 2020 they added the requirement to use hardware modules which resulted in much higher prices and fewer small developers opting to sign their code.

New comment by beaugunderson in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

beaugunderson — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:31:37 +0000

just make sure at least one side of your TV connection doesn't support HDMI Ethernet Channel ;P

New comment by beaugunderson in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

beaugunderson — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 01:22:40 +0000

The CA/BF has a history of terrible decisions, for example 2020's "Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Code Signing Certificates".

Microsoft voted for it, and now they are basically the only game in town for cloud signing that is affordable for individuals. The Forum needs voting representatives for software developers and end users or else the members will just keep enriching themselves at our expense.

New comment by beaugunderson in "LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted"

beaugunderson — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 22:12:40 +0000

Thanks for the menu tree, just turned it off on our LG G5 (the flagship model) where it had defaulted to on. Gross.

New comment by beaugunderson in "At the end you use `git bisect`"

beaugunderson — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:03:05 +0000

I've only needed to use it a couple of times, but sometimes Chrome releases changes that break your website and it's really nice to be able to point to a changeset when you report it. Chrome has its own tool, bisect-builds.py, which you can do this with:

https://github.com/jay0lee/chrome-bisect

New comment by beaugunderson in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

beaugunderson — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:33:20 +0000

the new windows 11 setup experience is so abysmal, I just went through it yesterday... so many upsells and opt-outs. OneDrive is especially annoying. to save someone else the trouble:

1. in OneDrive settings under Account, click "unlink this computer"

2. in "add or remove programs", you can uninstall OneDrive completely (listed as "Microsoft OneDrive")

New comment by beaugunderson in "Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room"

beaugunderson — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:34:37 +0000

you can, though you must provide a reason compelling enough to the person maintaining access (I provided a few sentences and was approved for most but maybe 20% of registrars declined my request):

https://czds.icann.org/home

also be prepared for thousands of emails about status changes to your access.

New comment by beaugunderson in "Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format"

beaugunderson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:10:47 +0000

OK, so why in this specific case is it a bad idea, other than you being personally offended by the number of languages used in the project's history?

You keep saying your opinion should be uncontroversial but you've offered no evidence other than an appeal to authority, and I think THAT should not go unchallenged.

My most popular project is maintained solely by me and is downloaded >1.3 billion times a year. That usage does not create a responsibility out of thin air. It got popular because people like it, it's fast, and it has excellent test coverage. I could decide to rewrite it in a compile-to-JavaScript language tomorrow for any reason I like and no one using it would be negatively affected in any way.

I think you are much too rigid on your views about software engineering and they don't comport with the reality of building and releasing projects to the world, for fun or profit.

New comment by beaugunderson in "Asciinema CLI 3.0 rewritten in Rust, adds live streaming, upgrades file format"

beaugunderson — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 08:37:05 +0000

"Rewrites should always be avoided" is not a core principle of software engineering. History has shown that rewriting large, monolithic applications often fails, and so rewrites of large applications often require extra effort to ensure the changes actually ship (like rewriting single views and proxying requests to a new service, for example). If a project is small enough that it can be rewritten and still shipped that extra effort is unneeded, and the fact that this project was rewritten and released makes that clear.

I don't understand why you're so hung up on the history of this project. If we were talking about software being used to send people to space I could see your point, but this is largely a single person project which is obviously being used to learn and have fun.