Hacker News: beezlewax

New comment by beezlewax in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

beezlewax — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:05:31 +0000

How is it clear though? It can be really hard to tell.

New comment by beezlewax in "Made a free macOS menu bar app that fixes typing in the wrong keyboard layout"

beezlewax — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:02:10 +0000

What did you make today and give away for free?

New comment by beezlewax in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

beezlewax — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:17:00 +0000

If you go left or right as the first move on mobile you can't get out of the box. Pretty frustrating.

New comment by beezlewax in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

beezlewax — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:36:51 +0000

You may have noticed the same behavioural issues amongst your adult friends or at times in yourself. I know I have. Anytime I give up doom scrolling for a week or two I feel instantly less anxious about the world and everything going on around me.

Social media is a plague and will likely be looked on by the psychiatric/medical professional as extremely harmful in years to come. Something akin to smoking.

New comment by beezlewax in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

beezlewax — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:42:28 +0000

"War is a given" if your foreign policies dictate that outcome. It's not something always unavoidable but it isn't inevitable either.

The United States is one pretty warmongerish nation by any account.

New comment by beezlewax in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

beezlewax — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:46:47 +0000

Do microsoft own git now?

I don't think so

New comment by beezlewax in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

beezlewax — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:08:58 +0000

Ai results that nobody wanted in the first place?

New comment by beezlewax in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

beezlewax — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:56:36 +0000

Do you honestly think an ikea desk has "more expert craftsmanship" than a hand crafted by a woodworker desk?

New comment by beezlewax in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

beezlewax — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:09:57 +0000

Amazon is a hideous looking website too and always has been. Ebay is similar too in that aspect and plenty of others.

New comment by beezlewax in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

beezlewax — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:26:09 +0000

Gibberish paper

New comment by beezlewax in "How LLMs work"

beezlewax — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:40:24 +0000

It is possible to have learned both things you know.

New comment by beezlewax in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

beezlewax — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:35:12 +0000

I've found them useful for in house stuff where you are using a specific design system or architecture. But custom everything works best. Are that Claude works well on its own though at this point.

New comment by beezlewax in "Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery"

beezlewax — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:30:21 +0000

No effort? You are really drinking the AI marketing soup with that one.

"It takes less effort for some parts of the software development life cycle" would be more correct.

New comment by beezlewax in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

beezlewax — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:34:53 +0000

Social media wasn't always toxic at least not to the degree it is today. LLMs could be potentially a lot worse given the right set of instructions

New comment by beezlewax in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

beezlewax — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:01:36 +0000

What part of Europe is that? Is it is in the EU?

New comment by beezlewax in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

beezlewax — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:47:20 +0000

~1 billion freedom units

New comment by beezlewax in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

beezlewax — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:04:15 +0000

How easy is that to setup by comparison?

New comment by beezlewax in "HTML-in-Canvas Demos"

beezlewax — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:25:38 +0000

Flash is back baby!

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

beezlewax — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:20:56 +0000

Soup

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

beezlewax — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:18:33 +0000

I thought it was mostly because our ancestors murdered them?