Hacker News: draw_down

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?

New comment by draw_down in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

draw_down — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:46:01 +0000

I’ve worked in two places now with Ruby Sorbet servers. Ruby always drives me nuts how things are just in-scope and we don’t know why or where they came from.

I certainly wouldn’t want to go back to working in dynamic languages without typing on top. That takes too much brain power, I’m too old for that now.

I would say Sorbet seems more “basic” than something like Typescript. It handles function calls matching signatures, potential nulls, making sure properties actually exist, that kind of thing. Whereas TS can get quite abstract, and at times you’re fighting to convince it that a value actually is the type you say it is.

TS is very powerful and expressive, to the point that it’s possible to do computation within type code. I’m not convinced I always need that power, or that it’s always more help than hindrance.

New comment by draw_down in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

draw_down — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:55:43 +0000

Oops you forgot this part:

> Here we account for the influence of three main natural variability factors: El Niño, volcanism, and solar variation.

Whoops! Whoopsies! Oopsy doodles!

New comment by draw_down in "MessageFormat: Unicode standard for localizable message strings"

draw_down — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:29:36 +0000

Indeed, if only it were as simple as “{n} rows”.

I18n / l10n is full of things like this, important details that couldn’t be more boring or fiddly to implement.

New comment by draw_down in "Fela Kuti First African to Get Grammys Lifetime Achievement Award"

draw_down — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:50:31 +0000

If I may suggest two artists besides the great Fela Kuti: William Onyeabor (try "Tomorrow") and Dizzy K Falola (try "Sweet Music").

New comment by draw_down in "Gas Town Decoded"

draw_down — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:26:18 +0000

I didn’t see the source graph thing, but the Grab episode always seemed odd to me. He wrote these breathless rants about how epic it all was, then quit after a year or so. I just figured the long hours eventually stopped being awesome.

New comment by draw_down in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

draw_down — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:14:20 +0000

Man we better hope the solution to that problem is working code. Otherwise we better start working the fryers or something.