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New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "The secrets of the Shinkansen"

dkdbejwi383 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:59:48 +0000

Transport for London (TfL) have a fledgling property development arm called Places for London which aims to try and replicate some of the successes of Japanese railway companies. They propose the mooted Bakerloo line extension is partially subsidised by over-station developments.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "They See Your Photos"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:42:32 +0000

Now combine it with ThisPersonDoesNotExist.com

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

dkdbejwi383 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:36:07 +0000

Such as?

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "The future of version control"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:38:03 +0000

Or even just "the branch you're on" and "the branch being merged into yours"

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Why does AI tell you to use Terminal so much?"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:32:21 +0000

Because it’s text.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Claude built a system in 3 rounds, latent bugs from round 1 exploded in round 3"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 09:00:23 +0000

You could probably replace LLM with "junior engineer" here as it sounds like you're basically a manager now. The big negative that LLMs have in comparison with junior engineers is that they can't learn and internalise new information based on feedback.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "You Just Reveived"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:54:53 +0000

What does SO stand for here? I assumed Significant Other but that doesn’t square with the story as surely you’d just ask

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Show HN: Better Hub – A better GitHub experience"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:53:12 +0000

The website doesn't tell me what it does or why it's better. It just wants me to sign-up and provide a bunch of permissions without first selling itself to me.

The landing page should clearly communicate what this does and contrast it with GitHub to make it obvious how it's better.

I guess the little embedded video might show some of this but it's not very clear. I just see someone faffing about and scrolling up and down randomly.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Roman industrial hub discovered on banks of River Wear"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:17:02 +0000

The vowel/diphthong in wear (as in wearing a towel, rhymes with “care”, “there”) and Wear (homophone with weir, rhymes with “steer”, “near”) are not the same in Australian English.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Valve's Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:29:31 +0000

Looking forward to the Steam Chully Bun

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 11:17:54 +0000

A lot of it comes down to differences between “ask” cultures and “guess” cultures, where if something is unknown we in the west may expect the person to ask for clarification, where as other cultures prefer to just guess, because doing _something_, even if it’s incorrect, is seen as better than not doing.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "I miss thinking hard"

dkdbejwi383 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:12:42 +0000

Fair enough but I am a programmer because I like programming. If I wanted to be a product manager I could have made that transition with or without LLMs.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital"

dkdbejwi383 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:59:01 +0000

The best part about London weather is that it’s rarely life threatening. No big storms, cyclones, floods or extreme temperatures.

To say it’s pleasant year round is probably a bit of a stretch for most.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

dkdbejwi383 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:14:37 +0000

It’s an LLM, there was no intention. It’s simply the favoured token given the training set and seed.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

dkdbejwi383 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:57:34 +0000

Cup of coffee

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Cloudflare was down"

dkdbejwi383 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:59:37 +0000

There is no language that makes it impossible to have any kind of bug ever. The safety languages like Rust offer is around memory, not bad configuration or faulty business logic.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:22:24 +0000

I'm not sure how you mean.

To my understanding, there's less surface area for problems if I have a wrapper over the one or two endpoints some API provides, which I've written and maintain myself, over importing some library that wraps all 100 endpoints the API provides, but which is too large for me to fully audit.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:18:17 +0000

If you aim for 100% coverage of the API you're integrating with, sure. But for most applications you're going to only be touching a small surface area, so you can validate paths you know you'll hit. Most of the time you probably don't need 100% parity, you need Just Enough for your use-case.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:06:52 +0000

If they have a HTTP API using standard authentication methods it's not that difficult to create a simple wrapper. Granted a bit more work if you want to do things like input/output validation too, but there's a trade-off between ownership there and avoiding these kinds of supply-chain attacks.

New comment by dkdbejwi383 in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

dkdbejwi383 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 11:00:12 +0000

Node itself is still fine and you can do a lot these days without needing tons of library. No need for axios when we have fetch, there's a built-in test runner and assertion library.

There are some things that kind of suck (working with time - will be fixed by the Temporal API eventually), but you can get a lot done without needing lots of dependencies.