Hacker News: dan_sbl

New comment by dan_sbl in "Google employees internally share memes about how its AI sucks"

dan_sbl — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:35:47 +0000

> After this story was published Google's spokesperson reached out and asked us to publish a slightly different version of that statement. The new statement no longer stated that "it's critical that we maintain humans in the loop."

I'll let that stand on it's own.

Fixing Slow Dependabot Actions in Go Projects

dan_sbl — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:30:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clarityboss.com/blog/fix-slow-dependabot-go-modules-github

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48383789

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dan_sbl in "Restartable Sequences"

dan_sbl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:09:26 +0000

I definitely misread it, thanks for the empathy comment!

New comment by dan_sbl in "Matrix Multiplications on GPUs Run Faster When Given “Predictable” Data (2024)"

dan_sbl — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:14:28 +0000

> For example, when the GPU is fully idle, nvidia-smi tells me that it’s only pulling 88W of power.

I haven't used a non-laptop GPU in some time, but that is a crazy amount of "idle" power consumption. Is this normal for cards like this?

New comment by dan_sbl in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

dan_sbl — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:10:41 +0000

I believe they tried to inject some chemicals to slow the reaction, but the pump and/or valves failed and clogged.

New comment by dan_sbl in "Smartmedia Card Spec Opened, available free (2000)"

dan_sbl — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:52:51 +0000

My first MP3 player used it as well. I remember how much this memory card style felt like a 5¼ floppy disk, as opposed to most other formats at the time which were hard shell.

New comment by dan_sbl in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

dan_sbl — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:54:27 +0000

> As a side effect, Terms-of-service acceptance records were also reset, prompting users to re-accept on their next visit to the dashboard.

Don't get me wrong- the rest of this mess falls pretty clearly on Google Cloud, but this one feels like something Railway did to themselves.

Using HTTP/2 Cleartext for a server in Go 1.24

dan_sbl — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:40:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clarityboss.com/blog/go-http2-cleartext-h2c-cloud-run

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195698

Points: 111

# Comments: 15

New comment by dan_sbl in "What “Amazon Supply Chain Services” Tells Us About What Amazon Is"

dan_sbl — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:53:27 +0000

I wanted to find this interesting, but it has AI/LLM signs of writing all over it.

The dig in the middle - "you can skip the next part, but if you do skip, are you even a real reader? Not judging. Just saying" - ugh. Why would I bother reading every word if you likely didn't write every word?

New comment by dan_sbl in "Snowflake Postgres, Lakebase, HorizonDB: Picking the Lock-In You Want"

dan_sbl — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:35:58 +0000

This reads like LLM generated post. "actually" is in three of the headers, among other signs. https://tropes.fyi/

New comment by dan_sbl in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

dan_sbl — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:55:33 +0000

This is an Internationalized domain name (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name) - the actual domain shows up in browsers as マリウス.com but HN unfortunately doesn't decode or show it that way.

What If Ed Tech Peaked 200 Years Ago?

dan_sbl — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:22:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.educationdaly.us/p/what-if-peak-ed-tech-was-200-years

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063676

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by dan_sbl in "Using the Tiptap rich text editor with a Go back end"

dan_sbl — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:52:39 +0000

I wrote up our experience of how to get Tiptap to play nice with a Go backend server, along with a lot of inline code snippets and a gist with the backend code. Happy to answer any other questions I may have missed in writing it up.

Even if you don't use the Tiptap editor, hopefully the idea of a sidecar container is helpful to someone trying to solve a similar problem of allowing Typescript/Node code to interact with Go.

Using the Tiptap rich text editor with a Go back end

dan_sbl — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:52:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.clarityboss.com/blog/tips-using-tiptap-golang-backend

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048828

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by dan_sbl in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

dan_sbl — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:51:17 +0000

Wow, did not know this site was still online. I apparently have a user ID in the 200s, was an early sign up to the site. https://www.ticalc.org/community/directory/

New comment by dan_sbl in "Going Full Time on Open Source"

dan_sbl — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:01:10 +0000

Good luck, and I hope it works out! Make sure you are ready to ride the roller coaster of highs and lows, as there are going to be many. Remember that your time and experience are the most valuable things you have - make sure you're in control of both.

New comment by dan_sbl in "Faster continuous integration builds at Canva"

dan_sbl — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:55:56 +0000

> As mentioned before, the CI critical path is bound by its longest stretch of dependent actions. If one test consistently takes 20 minutes to execute and flakes, and has some logic to retry on failure, let’s say up to 3 times, it’ll take up to 60 minutes. It doesn’t matter if all other builds and tests execute in 30 seconds. That one slow, flaky test holds everyone’s builds back for up to 1 hour.

Honestly, really surprised to not see this mentioned til the end. Some of the other things in the article were almost jaw-dropping ($1+ million in instances savings, needing 48 cores to run CI, etc.), but having flakey tests regularly causing you problems, having to rerun extremely expensive jobs, is something that I would argue should have been addressed first, not last.

New comment by dan_sbl in "We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)"

dan_sbl — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 19:04:17 +0000

Like some other commenters here who started with Bootstrap/jQuery/etc., I feel stuck in the stone ages at times. My most recent content-based site uses Hugo (https://gohugo.io/), but I'm starting to tire of the magic and gotchas I keep running into.

Can someone that has used Astro and an older static site generator framework explain the pros/cons of Astro in that context?