Hacker News: brundolf

New comment by brundolf in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

brundolf — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:06:19 +0000

The entire administration has been operating on empty threats (see Brendan Carr's FCC speech policing). But most companies don't call them out on it, they just roll over

New comment by brundolf in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

brundolf — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:31:03 +0000

I didn't even see it was a brand blog. Sheesh

New comment by brundolf in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

brundolf — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:57:57 +0000

What a weird hill to die on

New comment by brundolf in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

brundolf — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:22:07 +0000

One thing people have pointed out is that well-specified (even if huge and tedious) projects are an ideal fit for AI, because the loop can be fully closed and it can test and verify the artifact by itself with certainty. Someone was saying they had it generate a rudimentary JS engine because the available test suite is so comprehensive

Not to invalidate this! But it's toward the "well-suited for AI" end of the spectrum

New comment by brundolf in "Games Workshop bans staff from using AI"

brundolf — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:51:52 +0000

Very funny for this to come from the Warhammer studio, specifically

New comment by brundolf in "The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025"

brundolf — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:03:13 +0000

std::simd is so nice and easy to use, even as someone who's never done SIMD before. I wonder why it's stuck as nightly-only

New comment by brundolf in "The AirPods Pro 3 flight problem"

brundolf — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:39:54 +0000

I had something similar happen after sleeping a few times with my first-gen airpods pro. I think something must have gotten filled with earwax or something, because the noise cancelling got more and more broken and had more sudden sharp sounds until they were unusable

But since then I've had two pairs of airpods pro 2 and bought the 3s on the first day, and I've had no such issues with any of them, including sleeping, and flying twice with the 3's so far. YMMV

New comment by brundolf in "Flowistry: An IDE plugin for Rust that focuses on relevant code"

brundolf — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 17:46:37 +0000

Super cool! I assume it plays nice with rust-analyzer?

New comment by brundolf in "Zed is now available on Windows"

brundolf — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:14:00 +0000

I've heard that VSCode gets some special treatment and integrations with the typescript server that go deeper than normal LSP

New comment by brundolf in "Zed is now available on Windows"

brundolf — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:12:06 +0000

I had the same experience and the same outcome. Zed was super fast for editing but slow for rich features, which on the net slowed me down compared with VSCode

New comment by brundolf in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

brundolf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:33:18 +0000

Last week someone wrote a blog post saying "We dodged a bullet" because it was only a browser-based crypto wallet scrape

Guess we didn't dodge this one

New comment by brundolf in "Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments"

brundolf — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:44:34 +0000

I honestly don't think this administration wants economic allies

New comment by brundolf in "Dropbox Paper mobile App Discontinuation"

brundolf — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 03:03:22 +0000

I feel like Dropbox has never figured out how to expand beyond folder sync. Which, it's still a fantastic folder-sync client and I'm a very happy customer of that product. But I mostly just have to swat away all the other things that pop up because I don't need them. And folder sync seems like a dying market, as fewer and fewer people work with files on disk

New comment by brundolf in "iPhone Air"

brundolf — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:31:29 +0000

When Samsung came out with its ultra-thin phone earlier this year, reviewers said you can't really tell from pictures but it really does feel different in-hand, and is substantially lighter. This one is slightly thinner than Samsung's

Not enough for me to upgrade, but I would consider this one if I were buying this year

The rumors are also strong for a folding iPhone next year, in which case this may just be them using the same thinness work they already had to do for that. A foldable would prompt me to upgrade

New comment by brundolf in "Type-safe and user-friendly error handling in Swift 6"

brundolf — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:59:07 +0000

I like Rust's approach, where common "errors" (eg unexpected responses from other systems) have to be handled, while true unrecoverable errors don't affect the signature

New comment by brundolf in "Bear is now source-available"

brundolf — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 02:22:22 +0000

I got this confused with the Bear note-taking app for a minute (https://bear.app/), since it's in a closely adjacent domain and even has similar value statements. Unfortunate naming collision

New comment by brundolf in "Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person'"

brundolf — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:40:18 +0000

It's still remarkable because so many people with that amount of money are still on the grind, still chasing the siren's call, still feeling miserable because it's not enough, still feeling tiny because they compare themselves to the billionaires

Very few people get to that point and then choose happiness instead of ambition

New comment by brundolf in "Vibechart"

brundolf — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:39:27 +0000

It makes Apple's charts look rigorous and transparent

New comment by brundolf in "Vibechart"

brundolf — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:38:04 +0000

Scaling aside, "without thinking" vs "with thinking" will never not be funny to me

New comment by brundolf in "How we made JSON.stringify more than twice as fast"

brundolf — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:13:16 +0000

Yeah. I think I've only ever found one situation where offloading work to a worker saved more time than was lost through serializing/deserializing. Doing heavy work often means working with a huge set of data- which means the cost of passing that data via messages scales with the benefits of parallelizing the work.