Hacker News: eric_h

New comment by eric_h in "Claude Opus 4.7"

eric_h — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:24:00 +0000

Much like what Anthropic very recently did re: Mythos

New comment by eric_h in "Updating the Verge's Background Policy (2021)"

eric_h — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:25:59 +0000

Hah, did not realize it was from 2021 when I posted it as I came across it in my bsky feed. Still - I think the list of examples provided in particular is of interest now as tech companies' attempts to control "the narrative" remains an ever present concern in tech press.

Updating the Verge's Background Policy (2021)

eric_h — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:18:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/press-room/22772113/the-verge-on-background-policy-update

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065816

Points: 26

# Comments: 6

Swearing can boost performance by lowering inhibitions, study finds

eric_h — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 02:49:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/dec/18/swearing-can-boost-performance-lowering-inhibitions-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46321782

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by eric_h in "Things I want to say to my boss"

eric_h — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:31:53 +0000

Agreed. It really all is an obvious consequence of optimizing only the things that can be measured on a two dimensional graph, at the expense of all the things that can't (even though in the long term those complex, multidimensional things like culture and care and integrity do, indeed, "make line go up", though perhaps with a smaller first derivative)

New comment by eric_h in "Ruby is not a serious programming language"

eric_h — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:39:23 +0000

I think, ultimately, what is not serious here is the author of TFA. Ruby (and Rails) still work, the ecosystem is still healthy, and their dubious citations of ruby's shortcomings (twitter's fail whale? comparing it to perl?) are just that, dubious.

New comment by eric_h in "macOS Tahoe is certified Unix 03 [pdf]"

eric_h — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:37:51 +0000

and kind of a counter point to the GGGP's "Unix compliancy isn't what's keeping me on macOS, the Unix tools it has under the hood still is."

I certainly replace a large chunk of the "unix tools under the hood" with tools installed via homebrew.

Anthropic to pay $1.5B to authors in landmark AI settlement

eric_h — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:31:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/anthropic/773087/anthropic-to-pay-1-5-billion-to-authors-in-landmark-ai-settlement

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45214657

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by eric_h in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

eric_h — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:06:45 +0000

> I had a driver's license. I used it so little that I let it expire and I'm not in a rush to renew it.

Don't wait too long - I did that and had to take the test again! :)

New comment by eric_h in "Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event"

eric_h — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:34:07 +0000

Not to be too, um, dismissive, but one of the things we discussed in my 300 level class called _Artificial Intelligence_ in college 2 decades ago was regular expressions, so, that ship has sailed far over the horizon.

New comment by eric_h in "OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more"

eric_h — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 03:13:26 +0000

indeed, isn't hallucination one of the purported intended effects of a sensory deprivation tank?

New comment by eric_h in "U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users’ encrypted accounts"

eric_h — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:14:25 +0000

Their Irish tax haven is rather specifically _not_ in the UK.

The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real

eric_h — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:01:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/school-swatting-torswats-brad-dennis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42661846

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eric_h in "Passport Photos"

eric_h — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 21:58:13 +0000

this really makes me regret doing nothing like this when I recently had my passport photos taken.

New comment by eric_h in "Goldman and Apple 'illegally sidestepped' obligations to credit-card customers"

eric_h — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:20:47 +0000

The tight integration of the Apple Card with their hardware also means it makes their hardware (iPhones) better. They can lose money on the Apple Card and make money if it means some people like the integration enough to buy into the iPhone ecosystem (sign up for an Apple Card and get an interest free loan to buy an iPhone? I can see that getting new customers)

New comment by eric_h in "Building a robust data synchronization framework with Rails"

eric_h — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:08:09 +0000

I'm curious how you can find rails incredible while simultaneously hating ruby? Rails takes a lot of its inspiration from the language itself (internals relying heavily on metaprogramming, lots of exploitation of ruby's quirks all over the place). Like, what do you like about rails and what do you hate about ruby and how do those two things not overlap?

New comment by eric_h in "Cloudflare Is Breaking My SVGs?"

eric_h — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 15:41:04 +0000

It's been a while since that one's crossed my browser. This is the first time I've noticed the moderator's note at the bottom:

"Moderator's Note

This post is locked to prevent inappropriate edits to its content. The post looks exactly as it is supposed to look - there are no problems with its content. Please do not flag it for our attention."

New comment by eric_h in "iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max"

eric_h — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 03:43:20 +0000

Significantly less secure at that. I imagine GP has iMessage disabled on their computer because other people use their computer, and they don't want iMessages/SMS going anywhere other than their phone.

New comment by eric_h in "Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers"

eric_h — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 17:17:25 +0000

I recently switched to cursor, and am in the process of wrangling an inherited codebase that had effectively no tests and cursor has saved me _hours_ it's generally terrible at any actual code refactoring, but it has saved me a great deal of typing while adding the missing test coverage.

New comment by eric_h in "Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla"

eric_h — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 20:47:02 +0000

Indeed:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national...