Hacker News: bhaney

New comment by bhaney in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"

bhaney — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:18:48 +0000

I get a few points for having a robots.txt with rules specific to AI-crawlers, even though those rules are complete bans. Shame, I was hoping to get a 0.

New comment by bhaney in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

bhaney — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:27:18 +0000

Direct link to the table in the paper instead of a screenshot of it:

https://arxiv.org/html/2512.20798v2#S5.T6

New comment by bhaney in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

bhaney — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:11:20 +0000

It's tar pitting my normal unproxied residential traffic too

New comment by bhaney in "Ask HN: Is offline-first viable or do "free and cloud bundle" win?"

bhaney — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:18:17 +0000

It depends on who your customer base is and how much you hate them.

New comment by bhaney in "It seems inevitable that all the GPUs are going to live in space"

bhaney — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:37:25 +0000

Even being very optimistic with all the numbers, I can't get the math on this to work out to anything better than hundreds of years of operation before hitting the breakeven point. We're talking tens of thousands of dollars (again, very optimistically) for the solar panels, heat pumps, radiators, and launch costs of the above for each GPU. That buys you a lot of years of power and cooling terrestrially.

New comment by bhaney in "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"

bhaney — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:47:48 +0000

> The problem is hardly a resource one

Did we read the same article? It's a very obvious complaint from the author. It's not actually a problem anymore, but that's entirely my point.

> you can’t see/scroll/wrangle 2000 tabs with the current tab display UI paradigm— you can’t even see their titles

Pretty much all Chromium-based browsers have a button to display a vertical scrollable list of all open tabs (with their favicon, title, domain, and time since last access) with a filter/search bar. Firefox has a slightly less detailed version (but the same general UI pattern) of the same thing, and can be augmented with more functionality through extensions if the user desires. I swear everyone complaining about this stuff hasn't looked at a browser in years.

> Chrome state management is crap and you’ll end up losing them

I've been using and restoring the exact same session for years with no issues. If I close the browser and re-open it normally, my tabs remain. If the browser crashes and restarts, I click the button that says "restore" and it all immediately comes back just fine. Again, the problem you're describing hasn't actually been a problem in many years.

New comment by bhaney in "A tab hoarder's journey to sanity"

bhaney — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:47:00 +0000

I'm so tired of this topic.

"Tab hoarding" has been dead and buried for years. It's just "using tabs" now. Many people realized that what they used bookmarks for could be done with the same semantics using only tabs, and they started doing that to reduce the number of browser systems they needed to keep in their head. There was a brief gap between that, and browser vendors optimizing their tab systems to efficiently support those use cases. The tab hoarding dilemma arose during this period, and should have died with it. I currently have more tabs open than the author did, on a 15 year old laptop running an out-of-date version of Chromium, and it's using less than a gig of ram. >99% of the tabs are evicted, which is done automatically by the browser based on the presence of ephemeral data in the tab (partially filled out forms) and my typical frequency of accessing that tab. It works great. Every major browser has some form of this, as well as tab searching and tab grouping. If you want to use tabs as if they're bookmarks, like I do, you've been able to do so without problems for many years. It's time to retire the rhetoric of the scandalous tab hoarder.

New comment by bhaney in "Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker"

bhaney — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:03:53 +0000

Are the compile times noticeably faster?

New comment by bhaney in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

bhaney — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:55:49 +0000

https://steam-revenue-calculator.com/app/413150/stardew-vall...

New comment by bhaney in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

bhaney — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:47:57 +0000

One of the first things I did with my robot vacuum cleaner was open it up and yank out its speaker.

New comment by bhaney in "Ask HN: How do you handle release notes for multiple audiences?"

bhaney — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:33:24 +0000

As per industry standards:

v1.4.18 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements"

v1.4.17 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements"

v1.4.16 - "Bug fixes and performance improvements"

New comment by bhaney in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

bhaney — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 04:42:46 +0000

My pile of worthless 512MB DDR1 sticks has bad news for you

New comment by bhaney in "Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z"

bhaney — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:03:32 +0000

> Directories can have up to 248 (256 trillion) entries

It took me a minute to figure out that this was supposed to be 2^48, but even then that's ~281 trillion. What a weird time for the tera/tibi binary prefix confusion to show up, when there aren't even any units being used.

New comment by bhaney in "I have released a 69.0MB version of Windows 7 x86"

bhaney — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:57:04 +0000

A question that will truly haunt philosophers for centuries to come

New comment by bhaney in "Monads are too powerful: The expressiveness spectrum"

bhaney — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:24:26 +0000

This is the first explanation of monads I've heard that makes intuitive sense to me and feels like it sufficiently captures the point. Unless I come back in a few hours to see a bunch of replies from uber-haskellers saying "no that's not what a monad is at all," then I'll consider my search for a good monad explanation to finally be over.

New comment by bhaney in "Disk Prices"

bhaney — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:35:14 +0000

Too bad they're increasing

New comment by bhaney in "Simple Hotkey Daemon for macOS, Ported to Zig"

bhaney — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 20:26:19 +0000

Minor curiosity: Why is "(S)imple (H)ot(K)ey (D)aemon" abbreviated as "SKHD" and not "SHKD"?

Edit: Found this answer from the author of the non-zig version, though it doesn't actually explain much https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd/issues/151

New comment by bhaney in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

bhaney — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 02:25:35 +0000

The DeckHD website says it's sold out. Can I get the same display component without the installation kit from somewhere else? Is there a model or part identifier or something?

New comment by bhaney in "Ask HN: What are you using Motion for?"

bhaney — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:48:31 +0000

Never heard of it. Looks like more dime-a-dozen AI hype-slop.

New comment by bhaney in "Ask HN: What are you using Motion for?"

bhaney — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 21:31:20 +0000

Motion? The security camera software?