Hacker News: brandonhorst

New comment by brandonhorst in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

brandonhorst — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:32:41 +0000

AirPods Pro :)

New comment by brandonhorst in "Just use a button"

brandonhorst — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:53:17 +0000

This is incorrect. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

New comment by brandonhorst in "Just let me select text"

brandonhorst — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:05:33 +0000

While I agree with you in general, keep in mind that there are plenty of languages where seeing the characters doesn't give you any info about how to type them. No copy-paste means you'd need to rely on OCR.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Retro Boy: simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust, can be played on the web"

brandonhorst — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:26:48 +0000

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

New comment by brandonhorst in "The gem Apple discontinued: the 11-inch MacBook Air (2019)"

brandonhorst — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:42:13 +0000

Everyone is lying to you. Assuming you're talking about the iOS Simulator, the MacBook Air will do you just fine.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes"

brandonhorst — Thu, 30 May 2024 14:34:23 +0000

I really love this. A book was recommended to me that I'm not going to have time to read, but this UI is an amazing way to figure out the main ideas and dive deeper into the interesting ones.

No idea if the things it's telling me are true or not, but that doesn't matter quite as much in this case.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Show HN: Term Typer – Learn a language by typing"

brandonhorst — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:22:36 +0000

I wonder how well this approach would work with handwriting and Hanzi/Kanji. Don't focus too much on learning, just write the characters and learn the meanings over and over again.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Show HN: A user-friendly UI for viewing and editing Markdown files"

brandonhorst — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 15:27:36 +0000

If you don't want the automation stuff, it's perfectly usable for free.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Ace of Aces: Why you should do maths as a game designer"

brandonhorst — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:58:50 +0000

I to remember having the exact same thought with the original Pokemon games. I could never wrap my head around how the battles could handle randomness.

New comment by brandonhorst in "GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates"

brandonhorst — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 19:17:57 +0000

It answers this in the 3rd sentence of the page.

"As with all our APIs, data sent in and out of the fine-tuning API is owned by the customer and is not used by OpenAI, or any other organization, to train other models."

New comment by brandonhorst in "AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs"

brandonhorst — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:46:22 +0000

It's nice that we named it so forward-thinking. Not a necessarily Completely Automated Public Turing test to Keep Computers Out.

New comment by brandonhorst in "‘Hot Ones’ Was a Slow Burn All Along"

brandonhorst — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:23:04 +0000

I'll advocate for Lex Friedman (https://lexfriedman.com) and say that you're actually talking about Lex Fridman. :)

New comment by brandonhorst in "Ask HN: Are things getting more convenient but less satisfying?"

brandonhorst — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 15:56:57 +0000

This is a false dichotomy. There is value in the normal social interactions of a workplace even if they don't become lifetime friends. Seeing people during the day, small talk, having relationships come and go - these are healthy and enjoyable things even if they never get deeper.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Moving a macOS window by clicking anywhere on it"

brandonhorst — Thu, 05 May 2022 17:29:53 +0000

You can do exactly this with BetterTouchTool. You can also set it up with Hammerspoon.

New comment by brandonhorst in "My macOS keyboard shortcuts"

brandonhorst — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 12:47:44 +0000

This is an easy fix: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39972335/how-do-i-press-...

New comment by brandonhorst in "What I learned from running a concierge search engine"

brandonhorst — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:06:00 +0000

The problem is that this then becomes a cache invalidation problem. Many of the examples presented will be outdated in 1 year, and completely wrong in 5. How can you know which answers need to turnover and when?

New comment by brandonhorst in "Please don't ask founders existential questions"

brandonhorst — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:38:00 +0000

> It is almost certain that if someone is smart enough to build a search engine while living off of ramen, they also know more about what Google is capable of.

I'm not sure this is a given. Tons of brilliant developers (myself included) build complex products without having ever considered the market, or just assuming that users will come out of the woodwork if it's technically awesome enough.

Seems to me that if a founder doesn't have immediate answers to some of these "existential questions", that's a red flag right there.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4"

brandonhorst — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 22:47:18 +0000

It's all based off the CoL in county of your primary residence. Has nothing to do with the proximity to an office.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell"

brandonhorst — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 19:49:24 +0000

I wrote and maintain Lacona, a Mac productivity App (https://lacona.app). The majority of my revenue comes from being a part of the Setapp subscription service.

New comment by brandonhorst in "Toki Pona: A Language with a Hundred Words (2015)"

brandonhorst — Fri, 29 Oct 2021 11:55:46 +0000

It would work fine as long as everyone consuming the shopping list has a reasonable idea what normal things your shopping lists. Things like "kili sike loje" (red round fruit) are ambiguous but are no doubt close enough to jog your memory enough to work.

The toughest part that comes to mind would be particular spices. You would probably need to start borrowing words to distinguish between things like thyme and rosemary ("namako Tin", "namako Loseli")