Hacker News: elendee

New comment by elendee in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

elendee — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:16:39 +0000

a TUI using react seems like something they would be particularly bad at; visual feedback (esp the very specific feedback we rely on during dev, with Inspector) is kinda the Moravecs Paradox hurdle for these things. Idk much about virology tools but I would imagine it's a very text-friendly environment, and it can probably find plenty of documentation on how to use the tools. I recently had Claude write my entire particle system for a virtual world I'm working on, in 3d. It did fine without ever "seeing" anything. There's still a lot of intervening steps between a virus being synthesized in real life and programming one, but I would bet the programming part is within reach.

New comment by elendee in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

elendee — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:32:24 +0000

my neigborhood is dense and -feels- like 50% immigrant, I could be wrong. The birthrate is high, the parents are working, and mobs of kids roam the street. Nature is healing.

New comment by elendee in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

elendee — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:33:09 +0000

Make a GPT filter / constitution. "1-10 how much does this post introduce useful, technical information in a clear and concise way that is likely written by a human".

Something like that. Of course adjust as needed to prevent gaming it. And AI will not always be "fair". But since it is a computer, it should be equally unfair to all.

New comment by elendee in "The wonder of modern drywall"

elendee — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:37:40 +0000

But the noise.. this has been a huge factor in my quality of life, having lived in both buildings. That issue trumps any advantage drywall has, and I spent about 10 years working with it as well.

I think the market forces have simply dominated our natural, economically inefficient, home-dwelling instincts. I think this article means well, but it is written from the perspective of a landlord basically.

New comment by elendee in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

elendee — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:36:20 +0000

you could sign into A and your friend could sign into B using the single sign in, but you wouldn't be able to message each other is the problem, there is no platform bridging the logic gap, so you would both need to have A and B open. (afaik. didn't read about Rocket yet)

New comment by elendee in "Date is out, Temporal is in"

elendee — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:08:03 +0000

I think the workflow your OP here and I use treats the timestamps (numbers) as the only value that matters. The "converted to" format is always just a temporary client side rendering, so the meticulous attention to conversions seems overkill. But I do see that there is tons of stuff about Date that is best ignored

New comment by elendee in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

elendee — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:21:51 +0000

the author asks one interesting question and then glides right by it. If the agents only need their own code, what should that code look like? If all their learning has come from old human code, how will that change in the future as the ecosystem fills up with agent code?

New comment by elendee in "A website to destroy all websites"

elendee — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:35:12 +0000

crux: "the internet feels bad". But, most of the internet is still there, so how could that be. I think more specifically, the current mode of attention capture feels bad - what the majority of people are interacting with feels bad. But those are not "the internet".

A resurgence of people learning LAMP stack is not going to address the Big Problem. I think we should be asking why algo-driven social media roflstomps the indie web, not how to get more web hosters into the indie web.

New comment by elendee in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

elendee — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:12:35 +0000

AI for decades has been the word to mean "frontier capability which is not fully developed yet". It is not a pitch for end users. Perhaps your product produces quality code. Perhaps it produces highly novel trip itineries. Say that, but don't say AI. The end user does not know the difference between a neural net and a for loop.

New comment by elendee in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

elendee — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:19:52 +0000

because it affects other people; it's not just shame for shame's sake, it's learning what effect we have on the people around us and how to navigate that. Guy who has lived with a lot of people here.

New comment by elendee in "Greenland is a beautiful nightmare"

elendee — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 03:46:50 +0000

federally subsidized solo mountain hiking for the un-initiated. I will pay the tax

New comment by elendee in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

elendee — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 14:39:43 +0000

Computers / the web are a fast route to information, but they are also a storehouse of information; a ledger. This is the old "information wants to be free, and also very expensive." I don't want all the info on my PC, or the bank database, to be 'alive', I want it to be frozen in kryptonite, so it's right where I left it when I come back.

I think we're slowly allowing AI access to the interface layer, but not to the information layer, and hopefully we'll figure out how to keep it that way.

New comment by elendee in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

elendee — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 05:23:22 +0000

I like the pushback because it means less competition in the native framework space

New comment by elendee in "New Date("wtf") – How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?"

elendee — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:00:56 +0000

personal take: store dates as bigints. rendering them is just a user interface issue. no need for Date parsing except to play nicely with legacy codebases. Milliseconds are your friend

New comment by elendee in "I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric"

elendee — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:37:20 +0000

I think there's a difference between software and scripts too. Unrepentant scripter4lyfe here

New comment by elendee in "I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric"

elendee — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:32:39 +0000

I sketched out an app like this but with the added feature that you have a slider to indicate your commitment level.

The event poster can set a collective-commitment-threshold which triggers once sufficient commitment is reached.

Currently working on another web app though...

New comment by elendee in "Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)"

elendee — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 02:00:43 +0000

Workspaces allow you to give Chrome permission for read / write access to given folders. You just set it once per project and then Chrome remembers.

Basically, you can press "ctrl S" for save, straight from the dev console. In FF, you have to manually designate the save location each time. It may seem like a small thing, but it's an entirely different workflow.

For frameworks that don't use plain stylesheets, it may not be useful.

New comment by elendee in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

elendee — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:12:17 +0000

this is blatant end-userism

New comment by elendee in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

elendee — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 06:01:31 +0000

sometimes people who operate within rules-based systems mistakenly project those same rules outside of the same systems which they are operating within

New comment by elendee in "Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)"

elendee — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 01:53:04 +0000

firefox doesnt have Workspaces. I do 100% of my CSS in Chrome Workspaces