Hacker News: dsauerbrun

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

dsauerbrun — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:54:41 +0000

one of the benefits of being on android and being able to sideload apps. Look up "revanced youtube" and you'll be able to turn off shorts.

ublock origin for blocking them on desktop. If you're on an iphone... uninstall youtube?

my quality of life has increased substantially... although sometimes the app bugs out and shorts still make it on my home page. I spend like 10 minutes scrolling through shorts and get a weird shock "how the fuck did I end up here?", restart the app and boom shorts gone again.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

dsauerbrun — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:03:11 +0000

https://www.climbcation.com/ a site to help you come up with good climbing trip ideas where you filter based on climbing type, time of year, location, and your climbing abilities.

Ask HN: How to craft an effective technical phone screen?

dsauerbrun — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:38:50 +0000

I'm going to work on building out a technical phone screen (ie. Interview before you're invited to a virtual on-site) soon targeted at full stack and backend product software engineers(mid-senior level) and wanted to see what topics/concepts have worked for folks in the past.

I'm also interested in experiences/questions that interviewees had that were enjoyable.

My initial thoughts are that I'm avoiding leetcode type questions and I'm going to try to craft a question based on a hard technical problem I experienced recently.

For example, loading up a bunch of data into memory and optimizing a slow function, then as a second part I would create some space constraints which would require some changes to the way the data is fetched.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243992

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New comment by dsauerbrun in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

dsauerbrun — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 00:50:58 +0000

Does my wife also get this so she can be on the other side? Nevermind... I don't need the sad reality of her trying to swipe left and telling me she thinks the app is broken.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot"

dsauerbrun — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:35:06 +0000

how do you and others get past all the permissions that onesec needs? They say everything remains on device; however, it's a closed source application so there's not really any way to confirm that besides looking at the packets that are going out of your phone.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Using an $8 smart outlet to avoid brainrot"

dsauerbrun — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:01:34 +0000

this seems like an interesting idea I'd like to try but all the permissions it needs is terrifying to me... I understand why it needs them but there's no way for me to verify that they aren't doing anything funny with that access.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs"

dsauerbrun — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 13:19:54 +0000

i'd disagree heavily with that... let's say you have an expense of an insurance policy that covers you for the next 10 years. You're paying for 10 years of service, that should be amortized over 10 years.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines"

dsauerbrun — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 07:06:11 +0000

I'm a bit confused.

The lossy timeline solution basically means you skip updating the feed for some people who are above the number of reasonable followers. I get that

Seeing them get 96% improvements is insane, does that mean they have a ton of users following an unreasonable number of people or do they just have a very low number for reasonable followers. I doubt it's the latter since that would mean a lot of people would be missing updates.

How is it possible to get such massive improvements when you're only skipping a presumably small % of people per new post?

EDIT: nvm, I rethought about it, the issue is that a single user with millions of follows will constantly be written to which will slow down the fanout service when a celebrity makes a post since you're going through many db pages.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "I built a platform for discovering and sharing Chrome extension collections"

dsauerbrun — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:46:08 +0000

I'm gonna need the remove youtube shorts one

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

dsauerbrun — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:59:45 +0000

the only safe option anymore is the cup and string

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Hezbollah hand-held radios detonate across Lebanon, sources say"

dsauerbrun — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:49:59 +0000

casualties refers to injuries as well as deaths. I think the citation they were looking for was for the ~2800 number. I don't think it's reasonable to say that 6/12 killed were civilians, so half of all casualties were civilian.

We dont know until we get more reports, like you said, it could be higher... but it could also be lower.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Denver gave homeless people $1k/mth. Year later, nearly half had housing"

dsauerbrun — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:27:16 +0000

I'd imagine they mean a room in a house... or someone's basement in englewood that's in a dumpy spot.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Please don't mention AI again"

dsauerbrun — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 14:08:53 +0000

whoa that's very cool. can you share some info about how you set up the integration in ha? would love to explore doing something like this for myself

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Why has LLM progress seemingly stalled around the GPT-4 level? Or has it?"

dsauerbrun — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 04:25:42 +0000

just watched the first 15 min. this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Why has LLM progress seemingly stalled around the GPT-4 level? Or has it?"

dsauerbrun — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:59:32 +0000

as a lowly application developer who is interested in how llms actually work, where's a good place to start? is there an article or book that most folks would recommend?

New comment by dsauerbrun in "The Time I Lied to the CTO and Saved the Day"

dsauerbrun — Fri, 10 May 2024 05:35:27 +0000

why is that an issue? just in case someone is peering over your shoulder? the pw will be sent in the request body as plaintext on a post...

New comment by dsauerbrun in "I love programming but I hate the programming industry"

dsauerbrun — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:38:10 +0000

pretty much the same analogy I always use to describe how I feel about the industry.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'"

dsauerbrun — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 13:17:37 +0000

gyms are typically softer to give their clientele a feeling of progress. this makes people feel better and want to come back. if you're stuck at v3 for several months you'd be more likely to give up telling yourself you're not cut out for climbing... at least that's my(and many others') theory behind soft gyms

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'"

dsauerbrun — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 13:15:00 +0000

the hell kind of gym are you at that Smith Rock grades feel comparable? that place is sandbagged as hell.

New comment by dsauerbrun in "Three American climbers solve the 'last great problem in the Himalayas'"

dsauerbrun — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 13:12:00 +0000

climbing ropes are typically measured in meters and come in increments of 10(ie. 50, 60, 70, 80). that's likely the reason they used metric for the rope length... however I will agree with you that it's a weird choice given this is meant for a mainstream audience