Hacker News: cbhl

New comment by cbhl in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

cbhl — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:24:14 +0000

Looks like the docs start here: https://developer.android.com/tools/agents/android-skills#us...

There's a link to a repo or you can use the CLI tool to init the skills

New comment by cbhl in "Lunar Flyby"

cbhl — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:23:13 +0000

To be fair they "only" have a 20 Mbps laser uplink from the capsule to Earth, and that's shared between all the systems and uploading images/video.

New comment by cbhl in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

cbhl — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:40:37 +0000

it doesn't give a sense of how much the Neo moves the needle or grows the pie though. Mac and iPad are each 8% of Apple's business. iPhone is 50%.

for Apple to focus on fixing things in macOS again (as opposed to just backporting stuff from their other lines) Mac would need to grow by a lot.

New comment by cbhl in "Can you save on LLM tokens using images instead of text?"

cbhl — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:54:43 +0000

Shouldn't it be the other way around if the population is increasing? Every minute one is born = 1440 born/day, every minute and a sixteenth ~= 1335 dead/day for a net population increase of 105/day.

New comment by cbhl in "AI is making us work more"

cbhl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 17:04:36 +0000

https://archive.is/qb2h8

We tried Go's experimental Green Tea garbage collector and it didn't help perf

cbhl — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:09:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2025-09-26-greentea-gc-with-dolt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45441052

Points: 2

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New comment by cbhl in "How to Set $2,455 on Fire"

cbhl — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:20:54 +0000

The last time I played with NFTs it was about $50 USD just in processing fees to mint the token; not sure if that has changed since then. So it's not necessarily the case that the author is making a bunch of money off of this project; they might actually be just passing along costs.

New comment by cbhl in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

cbhl — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 23:56:33 +0000

Assuming that the boxes are 13.25oz/18.25oz, looks like an updated recipe could be:

- 2 boxes cake mix

- 3 eggs (rounding up from ~2.9 eggs)

- 1/2 cup neutral oil (rounding up from ~0.48c)

YMMV

New comment by cbhl in "Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line"

cbhl — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 01:34:22 +0000

Huh.

https://kaisercougarconnection.com/2784/news/musical-trains-...

My impression is that all of the Yamanote line stations are above ground -- I'd have expected it to be possible to have "one button plays the right sound at each station" if you used a standard phone's GPS to figure out which station you were at.

New comment by cbhl in "Connecting M.2 drives to various things (and not doing so)"

cbhl — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:58:54 +0000

For what it is worth, M.2 NAS devices with 4-6 slots can be had for ~$210 USD / ~$290 CAD or less: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/mini-nases-marry-nvme...

Why and how to write things on the Internet (2022)

cbhl — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 00:40:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.benkuhn.net/writing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44907415

Points: 1

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New comment by cbhl in "We keep reinventing CSS, but styling was never the problem"

cbhl — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 14:13:03 +0000

There _was_ an outlet for this during the era of Windows hegemony: the object and embed tags. You had your choice of ActiveX, Java, or Shockwave/Flash in the 90s to write applications that you could then embed in the web browser.

We stopped using these for a variety of reasons: they were difficult to make secure or cross-platform, GMail made building apps in JavaScript fashionable, and the iPhone (which explicitly would not support ActiveX/Java/Flash).

New comment by cbhl in "US to require up to $15K bond from visitors in new visa trial"

cbhl — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 20:54:22 +0000

FWIW, I was able to get the page to load. Here is the announcement in the Federal Register that the article links to:

https://federalregister.gov/d/2025-14826

New comment by cbhl in "Google failed to warn 10M of Turkey earthquake"

cbhl — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 02:03:13 +0000

For context, early 2023 would put the earthquake in question just after the first big layoffs at Google (see their 2023Q2 Earnings Release). And this would have probably been considered "legacy google assistant" stuff, not "new-top-priority AI" stuff.

New comment by cbhl in "SFStreets: History of San Francisco place names"

cbhl — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 18:09:03 +0000

Pastmaps might be what you're thinking of? They have an archive of the maps that the United States Geological Survey used to serve as their Historical Topographic Map Collection.

New comment by cbhl in "Show HN: ClickStack – Open-source Datadog alternative by ClickHouse and HyperDX"

cbhl — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:50:08 +0000

Looks like it is pointing there now; old link was https://clickhouse.com/use-cases/observability for posterity

New comment by cbhl in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

cbhl — Tue, 06 May 2025 21:14:43 +0000

To move clippy you want to drag the piece of paper on which clippy sits -- clicking clippy himself will hide and show the chat window.

New comment by cbhl in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

cbhl — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:44:38 +0000

That doesn't stop people from trying -- according to Yahoo Finance, FXI (iShares China Large-Cap ETF) was one of the most-traded (by volume) ETFs yesterday.

New comment by cbhl in "Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers"

cbhl — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:27:17 +0000

You should look closely at solar rate plans and interconnection fees in your area. If you're hoping to save money with solar, it's possible that you never recoup the initial investment because of the way the newer rate plans are structured (esp. for PG&E).

In the bay area, it might be cheaper to opt into 100% renewable rate plans from CleanPowerSF or Peninsula Clean Energy. (Silicon Valley Power is 100% renewable by default, IIRC.)

How to Get Promoted (2020)

cbhl — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:12:04 +0000

Article URL: https://spakhm.substack.com/p/how-to-get-promoted

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43613068

Points: 1

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