Hacker News: bpicolo

New comment by bpicolo in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

bpicolo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:42:14 +0000

> It’s optimized for projects—including games and entertainment—that combine code with large binary assets, and caters for the needs of developers and artists alike.

New comment by bpicolo in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

bpicolo — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:14:13 +0000

I mean, aren't you kind of proving the poster's point?

Fork away. If you want to put in the meaningful effort required to maintain and improve upon a project as significant as Godot, and feel that AI is a mechanism you want in order to do so, go for it. Clearly, the maintainers don't feel that that's the best approach to create the product they want to create, and they are not required to accede to the sense of entitlement of the community.

New comment by bpicolo in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

bpicolo — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:19:44 +0000

It’s temporary, yes. Basically just collateral to promise you’ll show up for the court hearings.

Often they’re paid through bondsman who finance bonds (you pay them a fee). Which also results in a bounty hunting industry for the people that do run away.

New comment by bpicolo in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

bpicolo — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:04:28 +0000

Yep, I straight up deleted my Nextdoor. Nextdoor itself is spammy and ad ridden. And most of the content in the community is also just spam anyway.

My neighborhood has a WhatsApp. I engage with it if I feel like it. Works great

New comment by bpicolo in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

bpicolo — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:08:03 +0000

You’re describing incidental complexity of running a container on AWS, though. Which you can also do with lambda because there are 15 different ways to do it.

Dead simple on GCP Cloud Run.

New comment by bpicolo in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

bpicolo — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:02:37 +0000

As much as we may all hate to admit it, vibecoding is very close to just being the new programming.

New comment by bpicolo in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

bpicolo — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:12:15 +0000

At Amazon managers absolutely are not in the loop for layoffs. I would very much doubt they are at meta.

New comment by bpicolo in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

bpicolo — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:30:12 +0000

EMs are never in the loop for layoffs for companies of this size, because the whole company would just get forewarning of the layoffs

New comment by bpicolo in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

bpicolo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:59:56 +0000

Watch some twitch while you monitor it - will magically go away I suspect

New comment by bpicolo in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

bpicolo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:49:14 +0000

Another funny thing about Mac networking.

There's a game I play (Old School Runescape) that does network ticks every .6s. Mac does some sort of aggressive optimization on the network hardware/software, so network this infrequent doesn't keep the layers "hot", and you end up getting delayed ticks regularly, meaning you learn what should be happening in the game .2-.5s late. This optimization for (I assume) battery life makes the software not work as intended.

Playing anything that streams, like video, or triggering TCP connections (e.g. curl) at a more frequent clip while the game is running fixes the problem.

No way other than hacks that I've found to fix it, and I have no idea how you could report this to the right team at Apple to get it actually fixed.

New comment by bpicolo in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

bpicolo — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:08:44 +0000

Don't give it write permissions?

You could easily make human approval workflows for this stuff, where humans need to take any interesting action at the recommendation of the bot.

New comment by bpicolo in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

bpicolo — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:21:50 +0000

The ground can already support the weight. Anything whatsoever in between the ground and the occupants is sufficient if your goal is to separate their feet from it.

> It's made from a renewable resource (wood) and there's some 400+ million metric tons of paper production yearly

They don’t mean production volume, they mean physically. You can’t increase the thickness of paper by 1000x to just make thicker, stronger, paper. It’s a different material entirely.

New comment by bpicolo in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

bpicolo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 01:00:23 +0000

It's equally possible that it's phishing of some sort instead of genuine recruiting, so do be careful

New comment by bpicolo in "Show HN: It took 4 years to sell my startup. I wrote a book about it"

bpicolo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:02:10 +0000

Going to be? Already is!

New comment by bpicolo in "Product and design are the new bottlenecks"

bpicolo — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:54:27 +0000

Hah, if only SaaSintegrations were the hard part. Try integrating with insurance carriers!

New comment by bpicolo in "Product and design are the new bottlenecks"

bpicolo — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:51:19 +0000

> The ideal team size now appears to be 2-3 engineers per project

That's pretty much always been true for greenfield that doesn't require large swaths of boilerplate (e.g. integrations)

New comment by bpicolo in "AI helps ship faster but it produces 1.7× more bugs"

bpicolo — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:02:10 +0000

Their incentives are perfectly aligned - you’re making more bugs, surely you need some AI code review to help prevent that.

It’s literally right at the end of their recommendations list in the article

New comment by bpicolo in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

bpicolo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:45:04 +0000

Algorithmic coding contests are not an equivalent skillset to professional software development

New comment by bpicolo in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

bpicolo — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:19:49 +0000

Amazing that 4 of the top 5 are renewables in China.

New comment by bpicolo in "Neopets.com changed my life (2019)"

bpicolo — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 02:13:23 +0000

That came later. Didn't have those earlier on.

Unless Extreme Potato Counter was sponsored by Big Potato...