Hacker News: developerDan

New comment by developerDan in "The obscure trust looming over Anthropic's IPO"

developerDan — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:41:59 +0000

Last week a friend prompted it to fix a failing test case. The solution Claude came up with was to delete the test.

New comment by developerDan in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

developerDan — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:07:26 +0000

Being formulaic and bland is an important aspect of expecting someone to “do something different” or “shake things up”. If the owner of a film studio has so much green light power but the studio has primarily produced film following a single formula, which the audiences have grown bored with (hence bland), then how can there be an expectation of that owner suddenly doing something different simply because they bought another studio?

New comment by developerDan in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

developerDan — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:37:58 +0000

His running of Skydance says otherwise. The most formulaic and bland film studio there is.

New comment by developerDan in "Apple may soon track when Google promotes Chrome inside Safari"

developerDan — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:06:55 +0000

Microsoft does the exact same thing and tries to force Edge from the Outlook app. Maybe it’s finally time I find an alternative…

New comment by developerDan in "USPS Built an Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System Despite Injunction"

developerDan — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 01:25:47 +0000

> Is it actually exploited for fraud though?

We may never know, every single time I see or hear this comment there is never any data/proof to back it up.

Remember: nothing was wrong with how we vote in 2016 and this suddenly became an issue in 2020.

New comment by developerDan in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

developerDan — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 23:44:28 +0000

My company just had an RTO announcement and I kid you not the head of HR said “well I like working from the office” as if that’s a reason why we should as well.

New comment by developerDan in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

developerDan — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:29:52 +0000

Back before Apple allowed users to set the default browser I had a feature in my app that presented a list of installed browsers when a user opens an external link, giving them the option to choose where it opened.

New comment by developerDan in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

developerDan — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:39:54 +0000

Yes it’s economics, but that doesn’t exempt it from being “obscene” if that is how one sees it.

New comment by developerDan in "The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists"

developerDan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:49:54 +0000

It seems you find LoC as a measure of productivity. This would answer your question as to why the author does not find it makes them more productive. If total output increases, but quality decreases (which in terms of code means more bugs) then has productivity increased or has it stayed the same?

To answer my own question, if you can pump out features faster but turn around and spend more time on bugs than you do previously then your productivity is likely net neutral.

There is a reason LoC as a measure of productivity has been shunned from the industry for many, many years.

New comment by developerDan in "Legal win"

developerDan — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 05:23:39 +0000

The opinion that those who consume should contribute back is not wrong, and as an open source contributor I fully agree, but it should be understood that anything free is going to be taken. We are an imperfect people in an imperfect world, after all.

I don’t put old furniture on the curb with a FREE sign expecting someone to knock on my door and offer $100 for it. I expect it to be gone without a trace. If I want something, even if it’s 1% of the value, then I’ll have a yard sale. It’s no different here.

Licensing is a form of conveying expectations. Putting an MIT license in my repo conveys that I expect absolutely nothing in return, just like the free sign on the stuff I tossed out.

New comment by developerDan in "Tell HN: Notion Desktop is monitoring your audio and network"

developerDan — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:59:50 +0000

Delta Airlines has entered the chat.

As more and more companies start to use AI for “personalized”/targeted pricing, offers, advertising, etc. The more this exact type of data will be useful and therefore lucrative.

New comment by developerDan in "Let's knock down social media's walled gardens – Tim Berners-Lee"

developerDan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:31:23 +0000

> Social media is like fentanyl or cocaine for the masses… Ive seen people unable to get out of instagram. Their fingers are constantly twitching and scrolling. This is just like drugs and controlled substances.

Flying is such a wild experience as you can always see the person in front of you constantly scrolling. One time I saw a young gal pay $20 for internet on a 3 hour flight and would scroll Facebook for a minute or two, switch to Instagram for a minute or two, then back to Facebook… for 4 straight hours (boarding + flight + landing). I was genuinely appalled.

New comment by developerDan in "M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS"

developerDan — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 17:31:58 +0000

Not who you are replying to but my $30 wired Apple earbuds (came with my 6S) have outlived all of my co-workers half dozen $160 AirPods. That’s reason enough for a lot of people.

New comment by developerDan in "Automatic Content Recognition Tracking in Smart TVs"

developerDan — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 15:28:53 +0000

“Reality TV” is a prime example of racing to the bottom of mass produced trash.

New comment by developerDan in "iPhone 16's A18 Pro chip outperforms the M1 chip"

developerDan — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:44:52 +0000

All of this computing power and it will still barely be able to load web pages without an ad blocker.

New comment by developerDan in "Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business"

developerDan — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:22:55 +0000

> why don't more people bank _intentionally_ with credit unions, or at least local banks

Simply put, national access to those banks. Traveling business owners who deal with cash will have access to physical banking locations all over the country. You cannot deposit cash in San Francisco for a bank that is local to only NYC.

New comment by developerDan in "Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business"

developerDan — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 15:09:19 +0000

In regards to your question -

Credit cards typically come in two flavors: cash back and travel. Cash back is self explanatory, travel cards reward points instead (cash equivalent of 1 point is $0.01 at least for the US). These points can be transferred to other accounts to take advantage of things like reward seats on airlines.

New comment by developerDan in "Dumpster diving: As Americans worry about inflation, planet, some look to trash"

developerDan — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 02:44:26 +0000

Can confirm college campuses are a gold mine at the end of the spring semester. TVs, iPads, speakers, mini fridges, furniture galore mostly in like-new condition. I worked for the school while I was a student so I stuck around in the summers and had the opportunity to make a bit of extra cash dumpster diving once everyone was gone.

New comment by developerDan in "The Death of NYC Congestion Pricing"

developerDan — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:25:13 +0000

This is what frustrates me so much about American politics. Fear is the primary driver and prevents so much from happening. If it causes problems we can, gasp, undo the changes. If the tolls actually cause more harm there is a dead simple solution of: stop charging them. Instead NYC wasted hundreds of millions of dollars for literally nothing because of fear.

New comment by developerDan in "Swift Static Linux SDK"

developerDan — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 04:19:36 +0000

This is just a hunch but likely because of the application the two languages were originally designed for. Go is/was a purely backend lang (as I understand it) whereas Swift was built with the UI in mind which must be run on the main thread. So Swift has async/await for making clear boundaries between synchronous (aka UI) operations and asynchronous operations.

I’m am not well educated on the subject though so take that with a grain of salt.