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New comment by cachvico in "Small programming tricks"

cachvico — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:45:57 +0000

I find myself using ctrl-r less and less as I make sure that anything of value that I work out goes into a Makefile or the app tooling, for me this is the basis of the dev-ops approach to work (make sure everything is scripted, not worked out on the fly).

New comment by cachvico in "Small programming tricks"

cachvico — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:44:32 +0000

I'm struggling to comprehend how branches can be avoided (or why one would want to, as they are the cornerstone of programming). I can only think how to obfuscate them, which is rarely useful.

New comment by cachvico in "Foundation Model Engineering: From Theory to Production"

cachvico — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:27:15 +0000

Takes two seconds to see it too. Example:

> Here is a highly realistic PyTorch implementation of the EP Dispatch phase

No one in their right mind would use "highly realistic" here.

New comment by cachvico in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

cachvico — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:15:12 +0000

Vice City was released nearly 25 years ago! Also it's a game, so it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison. If you count the unique 'features' (or systems) of Vice City, you might find it's a comparable count to the number of features of a medium-sized mobile app.

New comment by cachvico in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

cachvico — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:06:09 +0000

I find it hard to believe that the output of modern compilers is objectively 'bad assembly'.

New comment by cachvico in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

cachvico — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:27:09 +0000

https://www.verity.news/ might be interesting for you; they try to show you both sides of the spin.

New comment by cachvico in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

cachvico — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:04:07 +0000

I use Chrome on my Android and Mac. For a while I've appreciated the seemingly built-in anti-hijacking measure that always does what I expect on the second Back press. (The first Back may pop up a subscription box for example, but the second will always return me to where I came from).

I actually felt that this was a solved problem, so I'm surprised to see so many people still suffer getting stuck in redirect loops.

New comment by cachvico in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

cachvico — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:19:13 +0000

Didn't they add name pronunciation guidance a few years ago?

https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/correct-siri-pronunciation-...

I'm curious though if that affects recognition as well as audio generation.

New comment by cachvico in "Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)"

cachvico — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:01:59 +0000

Floods - remove "Don't drown" and add "Stay out of the attic". Plenty have died trying to seek shelter in an attic.

New comment by cachvico in "Skip is now free and open source"

cachvico — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:09:14 +0000

And if we're talking Expo, that's only for prebuilds of course; once you've got the native app installed then you can absolutely code and see updates in near real-time on both Android and iOS devices.

New comment by cachvico in "Ski map artist James Niehues, the 'Monet of the mountains' (2021)"

cachvico — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:20:36 +0000

Quick plug for https://pistepal.app/ - that's my own contribution to the space. Features location sharing and nav/directions, and priced lower than the competition yet with perhaps a richer / more focussed feature set. Interested to hear feedback and ideas!

New comment by cachvico in "Archiving Git branches as tags"

cachvico — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:45:45 +0000

You can accidentally push to a branch. You can't accidentally push to a tag.

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:29:56 +0000

Hey Dan, I think you're going to love what I've built.

The next release (a couple of days out) displays the relative altitude for all of your buddies - so you can immediately see who's above or below you.

On the iPhone, that info also lives in a Live Activity on the lock screen so you don't have to take your gloves off to see that essential info! (Android lock screen support will be coming right after).

If you'd like to help test the feature out, I'd really appreciate it - just drop me a message via https://pistepal.app/support and I'll link you up with an annual subscription.

Cheers!

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:38:26 +0000

That's a great idea. A lock screen widget could work really well here, showing the relative elevations of your buddies. You'd have to take your phone out - but you wouldn't have to take your gloves off!

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:02:37 +0000

Specifically above or below? Or you're after "give me directions to my pals".. what's the use-case for above/below?

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

cachvico — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 07:30:06 +0000

https://pistepal.app/ - a ski map app - built at breakneck speed over the last few months. I believe this is the only ski map app that offers turn-by-turn navigation!

Screenshots in the App Stores, e.g. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pistepal/id6754510927

Still a little bit rough around the edges but hopefully will be / is in decent enough shape for the start of the ski season (just about happening now..)

Currently figuring out the right balance of free tier & daily trial. Priced at $10/month and therefore significantly undercutting the competition, hopefully this is enough to gain entry into the market. (May need a more generous daily trial though, admittedly 10 minutes is not really enough to actually try it out on the mountain).

Seems ad spend is necessary to get any kind of traction...

Feedback welcome!

New comment by cachvico in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

cachvico — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 00:08:38 +0000

Here's one - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pistepal/id6754510927

The app is definitely still a bit rough around the edges but it was developed in breakneck speed over the last few months - I've probably seen an overall 5x acceleration over pre-agentic development speed.

New comment by cachvico in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

cachvico — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:50:46 +0000

That's not the issue at hand here.

New comment by cachvico in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

cachvico — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:28:37 +0000

Add "Without compromising quality then"!

New comment by cachvico in "Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations"

cachvico — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:26:49 +0000

Terrible analogy. I don't commit jank. If the LLM comes out with nonsense, I'll fix it first.