Hacker News: dbdoskey

New comment by dbdoskey in "Show HN: ProofShot – Give AI coding agents eyes to verify the UI they build"

dbdoskey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:09:18 +0000

This is really cool. Have you thought of maybe accessing the screen through accessibility APIs? For Android mobile devices I have a skill I created that accesses the screen xml dump as part of feature development and it seems to work much better than screenshots / videos. Is this scalable to other OS's?

New comment by dbdoskey in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

dbdoskey — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:02:58 +0000

Actually they do change the native API quite a bit. Not in minor releases so much but in major releases

New comment by dbdoskey in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

dbdoskey — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 08:59:58 +0000

Thank you for sharing, this was very insightful.

Do you have another example of something like this that your team had to deal with that was not as easy, but "looked easier" for the users?

New comment by dbdoskey in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

dbdoskey — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:06:39 +0000

This article is about an Israeli developed system, so no US tax payer money was used. It is an off topic discussion to discuss your hatred for Israel. Maybe submit a different article about that, but it is off topic for this one.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

dbdoskey — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:02:10 +0000

None. The US money Israel receives is purely used for buying from US defense contractors. This is developed by purely Israeli defense contractors. The US leverages significant discounts on these Israeli developed systems compared to other countries.

Also, the amount Israel gets is in the same ballpark as Egypt and Lebanon, but interesting that that is never mentioned?

New comment by dbdoskey in "AI is forcing us to write good code"

dbdoskey — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:45:18 +0000

In theory, that is the benefit of having an agent that is limited to only doing the tests, and an agent that only does the coding, and have them run separately, that way to fix a test, you don't change the test, etc...

New comment by dbdoskey in "The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles"

dbdoskey — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:33:13 +0000

OpenAI is not profitable because it is spending resources into moving forward and training new models and creating new tools.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Mozilla shuts down even more Firefox services"

dbdoskey — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:36:41 +0000

There is nothing to defend there. They could have easily: * Made the donations go directly to funding the browser development. Right now I don't know if it even possible to donate purely just to browser development * They could have easily opened a services/consultancy arm, similar to igalia. A great and easy way to fund browser development. (How igalia has funded servo development in the past) * Create a for-pay enterprise support. In the past a lot of government organizations wouldn't use Chrome due to how the Chrome updates worked. They could have made a killing in government contracts just around that

And these are just a few simple income directions that are pretty common in other OSS projects. Instead they did braindead ideas like being a VPN reseller, giving away Pocket, and other things no one wanted or asked for.

New comment by dbdoskey in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

dbdoskey — Tue, 20 May 2025 05:59:13 +0000

If the WSL 1 ended up working, it would have been one of the best historical coincidences in MS's history. A long forgotten feature in the NT kernel, unique to pretty much any other OS out there, used to push it's dominance in the 90's, is revived almost 30 years later, to fight for relevance with Unix based OS, once again. To quote Gorge Lucas, It's like poetry, it rhymes.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel"

dbdoskey — Sun, 18 May 2025 15:07:04 +0000

That sidebar doesn't have the ability to do any actions on the browser tab, or have the data form the browser as a context in any way. It is just a simple iframe.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel"

dbdoskey — Sun, 18 May 2025 15:06:29 +0000

Thanks! Will track your project for the future. Looks very promising

New comment by dbdoskey in "Show HN: A web browser agent in your Chrome side panel"

dbdoskey — Sun, 18 May 2025 13:57:05 +0000

Looks amazing. Would love something like this in Firefox or Zen. Mozilla released Orbit, but it was never something that ended up really being useful.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Multiple security issues in GNU Screen"

dbdoskey — Tue, 13 May 2025 15:07:46 +0000

A similar process is happening with zellij and tmux. Since I switched over I feel that tmux is obsolete.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Leaving Google"

dbdoskey — Mon, 12 May 2025 10:46:18 +0000

Not exactly true, big tech did exist it was just different players. Sun was a strong player, as they were pushing Java, that was very popular in the enterprise world. Intel was considered a place that did a lot of interesting innovation. IBM/Oracle style players.

I think the big difference was that big tech was mostly on enterprise. The big shift to consumer focused big tech made a lot of the big tech more intersting place to work

New comment by dbdoskey in "Watching o3 guess a photo's location is surreal, dystopian and entertaining"

dbdoskey — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:18:32 +0000

This is IMHO where the interesting direction will be. How do we architecture code so that it is optimized around chatbot development? In the past areas of separation were determined by api stability, deployment concerns, or even just internal team politics. In the future a rep might be separated from a monolith repo to be an area of responsibility that a chatbot can reason about, and not get lost in the complexity.

New comment by dbdoskey in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

dbdoskey — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:24:20 +0000

That seems completely sane and fair

New comment by dbdoskey in "Effective Rust (2024)"

dbdoskey — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 20:19:34 +0000

(not OP) I love rust, bu I just think that using ' for lifetime was a huge mistake, and using <> for templates (rather than something like []) was a medium mistake.

There is something about how the brain is wired, that using ' for lifetime, just triggers the wrong immediate response to it.

Something like this would look so much nicer IMHO [$_], compared to this <'_>.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Andreessen Horowitz stands by decision to hire Daniel Penny"

dbdoskey — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 07:04:28 +0000

You are comparing a cold blooded killer, to someone who acted in self defense and was acquitted by a jury?

Are you pro rehabilitation to criminals who served their time? And yet you are against rehabilitation to people who have been judged online, and been acquitted by court, just because they fall on the wrong side of your political identity?

New comment by dbdoskey in "Goose: An open-source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions"

dbdoskey — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:38:57 +0000

You should try cline. I found it with Anthropic to be invaluable.

New comment by dbdoskey in "Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers"

dbdoskey — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 10:59:48 +0000

Completely false and simplifying a complicated history to present a very one sided view. The most fertile lands are in the west bank. They were under Jordanian control and could have been turned into an independent Palestinian state, but weren't. Israel "accidentally" got them in the 6 days war, and were happy to give them to Jordan back to "take care" of the Palestinian problem, but they refused. The places that Israel have the majority of the population in Petah Tiqwah, Tel Aviv and the region were swamp lands, filled with mosquitos, that were dried over many years and many deaths by Jewish farmers.