Hacker News: earleybird

New comment by earleybird in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

earleybird — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:14:16 +0000

someone vibed a production push

New comment by earleybird in "Simple screw counter"

earleybird — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:21:47 +0000

In a similar vein: https://www.youtube.com/@christopherhelmke

New comment by earleybird in "You are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer"

earleybird — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:46:27 +0000

It's running his Signal chats.

You didn't get the invite???

New comment by earleybird in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

earleybird — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:34:21 +0000

A question we all have to ask ourselves. What would I trade for efficiency?

New comment by earleybird in "Perfect Aircrete, Kitchen Ingredients [video]"

earleybird — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 04:01:55 +0000

Is that you Molesworth???

New comment by earleybird in "Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower"

earleybird — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:09:22 +0000

And still fatal

https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/pedestrian-dead-aft...

In this case it was a bicycle and not an ebike. That said, anecdotally, many ebikes I see regularly travel faster than the people powered versions

New comment by earleybird in "Cognitive load is what matters"

earleybird — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 19:21:39 +0000

The Amanda solution is the intuitively obvious to even the casual reader. The Einstein solution is quite succinct but takes years to understand all the nuance in the one liner. :-)

I appreciate both for different reasons.

New comment by earleybird in "Claude Code Checkpoints"

earleybird — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:01:27 +0000

Pretty much bang on. I do have to remind myself that discipline in commit messages helps future me.

New comment by earleybird in "Stackless Traversal (2018)"

earleybird — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 02:49:48 +0000

Admittedly only gave a quick skim but essentially looks like Deutsch-Schorr-Waite.

New comment by earleybird in "I Messed Up My Google PM Vibe Coding Interview"

earleybird — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:22:21 +0000

Thanks for the chuckle - you know there's more than one marketing guy out there who will say in all seriousness "I can do that for you" :-)

New comment by earleybird in "Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer [pdf]"

earleybird — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:15:10 +0000

I checked in with Scribble as he did the typesetting. He apologizes for the error but says working without opposable thumbs makes the work more challenging.

New comment by earleybird in "Introducing Qodo Gen CLI: Build and Run Coding Agents Anywhere in the SDLC"

earleybird — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 20:02:53 +0000

Not to be confused with the protocol :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Data_Link_Control

New comment by earleybird in "We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only nobody knew"

earleybird — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:46:47 +0000

LRP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

New comment by earleybird in "Klein Bottle Amazon Brand Hijacking (2021)"

earleybird — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:19:45 +0000

Say it aint so. I learned all about lasers from Britney.

https://britneyspears.ac/lasers.htm

New comment by earleybird in "Alberta separatism push roils Canada"

earleybird — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:46:35 +0000

Let's not forget the Salmon Arm salute :-)

New comment by earleybird in "AI Agents Must Follow the Law"

earleybird — Wed, 14 May 2025 23:54:52 +0000

The authors concoct a Rube Goldberg legal framework on the assumption that an AI agent is acting as an independent legal entity. A straightforward way would be to say that any AI agent is acting on behalf of someone and that someone is who shall be held accountable.

New comment by earleybird in "Cardiac: A CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation [pdf]"

earleybird — Wed, 14 May 2025 03:36:14 +0000

It give me the concrete basis for "being the computer" that I put to use a year or two later programming assembler on a PDP-8I

:-)

New comment by earleybird in "Design for 3D-Printing"

earleybird — Sun, 04 May 2025 19:25:10 +0000

"You still can't print a high-tolerance metal part at scale and cost-effectively..."

Dan Gelbart has a response (with caveats)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLgPW2672s4

New comment by earleybird in "Bonobos use a kind of syntax once thought to be unique to humans"

earleybird — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:08:01 +0000

From the early 1800's, created by a single person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary

New comment by earleybird in "Val Kilmer has passed away"

earleybird — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 05:39:30 +0000

It seems my hypocrisy knows no bounds

He had any number of great lines but this one I really enjoyed.