Hacker News: dfee

New comment by dfee in "White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report"

dfee — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:08:46 +0000

where am i?

New comment by dfee in "The Token Compression Illusion: Why I'm Skeptical of RTK"

dfee — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:38:32 +0000

an agent harness built in rust with ratatui - checks out. i've built one myself. i don't maintain it, and continue to use opencode, but it was worth it to learn how agent harnesses work.

anyway, what's the real pitch on why i should move on from opencode to maki?

New comment by dfee in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

dfee — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:34:53 +0000

> It wasn't like college students were calling cabs to go to bars in 2013.

well, in 2009, we did.

New comment by dfee in "But yak shaving is fun (2019)"

dfee — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:21:23 +0000

the downside is mitigated by the amount of yak shaving you do. see?

New comment by dfee in "The history of butterfly swimming"

dfee — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:39:32 +0000

butterfly is interesting because it's faster than breaststroke (mentioned) but slower than freestyle. it also consumes far more energy than any other stroke.

to that end, i'm not sure why it exists, except that it's truly a unique style.

* i also still hold my high school's butterfly record, 20 years on.

New comment by dfee in "Show HN: Nxui – Copy-paste animated UI components for Vue"

dfee — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:16:11 +0000

this is on the front page, but the poster / author's comment is flagged / dead. i'm very confused.

New comment by dfee in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

dfee — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:14:55 +0000

agree. it's strange reading the loud voices that are counter to my lived experience. llms just have seemingly infinite depth - or can at least debug and execute without fatigue.

New comment by dfee in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

dfee — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:07:07 +0000

admittedly, i've not really cracked FE dev with LLMs at this point (and it's probably my big weakness). but, i'd heard somewhere that FE just isn't there yet - though i was suspicious of that claim.

i'm torn about sending screenshots to an LLM for debugging - seems imprecise. seems lossy, especially compared to inspecting the dom. however, it's always proved good enough (e.g. when messing with ratatui.rs and tui-pantry). similarly for web, maybe it's about decomposing into storybook. hmm. the next grand adventure i need to hack.

anyway, fascinating investigation of fable just automating that entire process and what it didn't automate, too.

* disclaimer: these are actually my hyphens.

New comment by dfee in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

dfee — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:44:27 +0000

the problem is scale. there's a tension between an individual developing technical skills (transfer cost is high, slow, expensive) and developing agent skills (transfer cost is low, instant, free).

so, just like a manager manages employees, or you consult a contractor, agents are a way of getting leverage over a system.

that said, if you want to learn to play saxophone, you're free to do so. just note your personal endeavors may begin to look more like hobbies than marketable skills.

New comment by dfee in "India's surprise baby bust"

dfee — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:46:04 +0000

both points are fair, but operate at different levels. the former: willpower. the latter: constraints.

and, the latter is indeed dependent on the former. but, arguing that humans have no free will is an argument that should be tried independently of rebutting the former comment.

New comment by dfee in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

dfee — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:44 +0000

if you require a stable energy source, neither wind nor solar (nor both) provide a complete strategy. they can be a part of a composite strategy, though.

for both wind and solar, they're also quite taxing on the environment during manufacturing. the "true cost" is rarely reported.

nuclear energy has a different set of problems (including social / political ones). here's that industry's take on the economics of wind energy: https://www.ans.org/news/article-638/the-economics-of-wind-p...

New comment by dfee in "Flipper Zero Zig Template"

dfee — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:09:48 +0000

downvoted to oblivion. huh. ok, let me give you a hint:

> A modern, production-ready template for developing Flipper Zero applications using the Zig programming language. This project provides a streamlined build system that integrates Zig with the Flipper Zero SDK, enabling developers to write type-safe, memory-safe applications for the Flipper Zero platform.

replace "Flipper Zero" (the seventh and eighth words) in the first line with:

  [Flipper Zero](https://flipper.net/)

New comment by dfee in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

dfee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:59:38 +0000

well, it seems to have transferred back to me (or at least i could login through another method). but, i can't reset the password right now ("Something went wrong, please try again"). though, it tells me that the password was last changed yesterday… hmm.

New comment by dfee in "Flipper Zero Zig Template"

dfee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:09:46 +0000

crazy that the readme doesn't link to the product.

https://flipper.net/products/flipper-zero

New comment by dfee in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

dfee — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:43:33 +0000

wtf. this prompted me to attempt to open the app on my phone, and then realize my account was likely compromised (i received a bunch of password reset prompts over the weekend and now my password doesn't work).

but, what now? how do i restore my account?

New comment by dfee in "Last.fm is now independent"

dfee — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:44:10 +0000

Unfortunately, unable to create an account on my laptop (WiFi) or phone (Verizon) - even in incognito.

> Your request was blocked

> To protect our website, our security firewall has flagged this request as potentially unsafe.

> Please try clearing your cookies and refreshing the page. > If the problem persists, try again later or on a different computer network.

> Error 406

edit: maybe they saw my message or fixed a bug? signup now works everywhere for me.

New comment by dfee in "Google changes its search box"

dfee — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:45:40 +0000

tried it out:

Search: "Hello world"

> AI Overview

> Hello! Wordle is the viral word-guessing game where you get 6 tries to uncover a mystery target word, using color-coded hints to guide your guesses.

New comment by dfee in "We let AIs run radio stations"

dfee — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:24:37 +0000

i'm surprised how negative of a reception Andon is getting here on HN.

keep hacking, Andon!

New comment by dfee in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

dfee — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:13:03 +0000

What's the local version of this? What's the best way to pull in my finance data locally, without clicking through to each portal? (USA)

New comment by dfee in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

dfee — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:46:38 +0000

[meta] this response was clearly not from an LLM. i wonder what sorts of distinctive styles could be telltales going forward.