Hacker News: clarkdale

New comment by clarkdale in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

clarkdale — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:48:28 +0000

LLMs are trained on real life grammar written by humans. Sometimes the characteristic traits you see by LLMs are written again by human hands.

New comment by clarkdale in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

clarkdale — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:08:58 +0000

If the mechanic is under the hood all day, sounds like business is well and he can't support any more customers. Time to increase rates.

New comment by clarkdale in "What Is OAuth?"

clarkdale — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:25:37 +0000

Completely agree. OAuth, Auth0, Okta, OIDC.

New comment by clarkdale in "GitHub Agentic Workflows"

clarkdale — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:28:27 +0000

I feel like this solution hallucinated the concept of Workflow Lock File (.lock.yml), which is not available in Github Actions. This is a missing feature that would solve the security risk of changing git tag references when calling to actions like utility@v1

Scout Motors Selects Charlotte as Corporate HQ Location

clarkdale — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:21:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scoutmotors.com/newsroom/scout-motors-selects-charlotte-north-carolina-as-corporate-headquarters

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45913595

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by clarkdale in "[dead]"

clarkdale — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:54:57 +0000

Banner text reads:

The Radical Left Democrats shut down the government. This government website will be updated periodically during the funding lapse for mission critical functions. President Trump has made it clear he wants to keep the government open and support those who feed, fuel, and clothe the American people.

For information on recreation site status on National Forest System lands, please visit https://www.fs.usda.gov/visit.

New comment by clarkdale in "Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks"

clarkdale — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:11:13 +0000

By removing ellipsis in submission title, the sentiment feels more like "not another meditation" instead of the intent "oh no!: a meditation"

New comment by clarkdale in "Pico CSS – Minimal CSS Framework for Semantic HTML"

clarkdale — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 12:38:54 +0000

98.css has this with the details html element

New comment by clarkdale in "My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education"

clarkdale — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:01:05 +0000

I see Conway's Law at work here. The marketing department must have its own IT department separate from the IT that maintains the core website and business functions. It's impossible for them to get on the same web domain (much less build something in the phone apps). Instead, they built their own disparate site and experience.

New comment by clarkdale in "Show HN: I built a tool to manage and compare credit card rewards"

clarkdale — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 00:17:59 +0000

It could be factored in, but many restaurants near me add a fee for credit card use, usually 2% but I've seen as high as 3.5%.

The credit card rewards usually still make sense, but sometimes I pay cash even if I might lose 0.5% on it.

New comment by clarkdale in "What will enter the public domain in 2025?"

clarkdale — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 00:00:53 +0000

Maybe more helpful would be base 256 so it renders in ascii.

New comment by clarkdale in "FDA proposes ending use of oral phenylephrine as OTC nasal decongestant"

clarkdale — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:41:31 +0000

Only the second to last paragraph was necessary.

New comment by clarkdale in "Implementing Regular Expressions in TypeScript Types (Badly)"

clarkdale — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:52:48 +0000

Derivatives approach is great and works if you're matching on some pattern like \w+, but could it work with "or" characters like (abc|def) or patterns like [a-z]+\d+

New comment by clarkdale in "Toasts are bad UX"

clarkdale — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 12:00:31 +0000

I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think it's fair that you (a moderator) should be allowed to pin comments to the top. There may be dozens of helpful links sharing or clarifying context in the discussion. The community can use the upvote feature to sort comments.

Exceptions might be made in cases of misinformation or abuse.

New comment by clarkdale in "Show HN: Double – Design and invest in your own stock index"

clarkdale — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:17:06 +0000

Are you hiring?

New comment by clarkdale in "Do not try to be the smartest in the room; try to be the kindest"

clarkdale — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:48:14 +0000

"Being nice is the new punk"

I would say helping others is incredibly punk. Such as responding to chat messages requesting help in some particular coding problem. So many people will direct them to a support queue, but I love taking time to understand their issue and help them out.

New comment by clarkdale in "I'm puzzled how anyone trusts ChatGPT for code"

clarkdale — Wed, 08 May 2024 21:47:18 +0000

Sometimes I forget a parenthesis here and there.

New comment by clarkdale in "FCC votes to restore net neutrality rules"

clarkdale — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:16:43 +0000

This is why Netflix built fast.com

New comment by clarkdale in "Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher"

clarkdale — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 12:55:46 +0000

Absolute science like this, with x-ray imagery, does reveal, or rather, confirm what we needed to know. Independent verification is an important part of the process and shouldn't be discounted.

New comment by clarkdale in "4B If Statements"

clarkdale — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:30:41 +0000

You can improve this with tail recursion.