Hacker News: draw_down

New comment by draw_down in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

draw_down — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:01:28 +0000

I would have been okay with this state of affairs if the Omarchy guy had good politics. But he has the bad politics so I’m outraged.

New comment by draw_down in "44% on ARC-AGI-1 in 67 cents"

draw_down — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:26:08 +0000

Well, I guess it would be nice if the graduation cutoff were above the level of “knows what rhabdo is”

New comment by draw_down in "The August 17 outage"

draw_down — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:25:49 +0000

Shyeah, all those successful requests were really helpful for showing me a page, which then failed when I tried to do anything by clicking the buttons on the page. I was completely unable to merge things for hours, for no lack of trying. GH was down.

New comment by draw_down in "Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons"

draw_down — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:46:30 +0000

They're taking patio11's advice!

New comment by draw_down in "Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI"

draw_down — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:50:39 +0000

My problem is it’s usually the second guy advancing this argument.

New comment by draw_down in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

draw_down — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:26:37 +0000

Plus, the interest and expertise and passion used to favor the red team, attackers. If you wanted to defend against them you had to get on their level, or hire someone on their level. Thats either expensive or requires a time investment that doesn’t make sense for someone who is trying to do much more than just defend against attackers.

Now it’s just as you said- asking AI to red team your app will get you pretty far.

New comment by draw_down in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"

draw_down — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:20:55 +0000

Sorry! Just yesterday many of us decided that AI scraping isn't a real problem, and anytime it is blamed, it's a cover for something else.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49005747

New comment by draw_down in "Show HN: Palmier Pro – Open-source macOS video editor built for AI"

draw_down — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:12:30 +0000

I don't work with video but this seems very nice, and your promo video is wonderful. Great work!

New comment by draw_down in "Why I Left Google DeepMind"

draw_down — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:14:57 +0000

> Jeff Dean ... and other senior employees pledged to “neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons.” Google signed the classified deal, yet they remain.

> I think he could have stopped the deal, yet he did not. He remains, yet I think he should not.

Is Jeff Dean still considered a saint at Google? If so, how come this doesn't change that? The amicus was enough?

New comment by draw_down in "Zig Creator Calls Spade a Spade, Anthropic Blows Smoke"

draw_down — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:55:07 +0000

I think it's weird to say crap like "So and so was a stinky manager" and then be like it's not a personal attack!

I liked Zed Shaw. I liked Ted Unangst. They made solid technical points and they were kinda mean about it. They didn't act like butter wouldn't melt in their mouths at the same time.

New comment by draw_down in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

draw_down — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:15:38 +0000

“Jarred was a stinky manager”. Is this professional criticism?

New comment by draw_down in "Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose – No Kubernetes Required"

draw_down — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:02:42 +0000

It’s white text on black bg for me. But to answer your question- reader mode!

New comment by draw_down in "Why Custom Attributes in .NET Give Me Nightmares"

draw_down — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:52:54 +0000

The language doesn't, but I'd say the language integration isn't the tricky part of this kind of cross-cutting-concern code. In JS you could imagine a function that decorates classes in some way, or React HOCs, etc. (We don't do HOCs anymore because we have a new kind of kludge, but we used to.)

The tricky part is as someone mentioned elsewhere in the thread: the attribute doesn't account for interactions well. You might want it to alter its behavior in different situations but the whole point is that it's cross-cutting and treats everything the same. (And I would say, even though I just called React hooks a kludge, that they are less cumbersome in this respect than HOCs were.)

New comment by draw_down in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

draw_down — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:54:46 +0000

Hmm, I think you’re not ever supposed to say anything negative about Ukraine.

New comment by draw_down in "UAE to leave OPEC"

draw_down — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:44:23 +0000

Sometimes foreign aid is good, other times it's bad.

New comment by draw_down in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

draw_down — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:19:48 +0000

Remember that webcomic of the org charts of different companies? Microsoft's was a bunch of separate groups with guns aimed at each other.

New comment by draw_down in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

draw_down — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:22 +0000

I was pleased to see Congaree on here. It really does suck that bad.

New comment by draw_down in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

draw_down — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:00:03 +0000

For #1, holding the option key makes the x immediately appear on all of the spaces.

New comment by draw_down in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

draw_down — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:13:16 +0000

Hope they don’t auto-close this one in two weeks

New comment by draw_down in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

draw_down — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:06:46 +0000

The dystopia of searching for video clips and finding them? What?