Hacker News: ericyd

New comment by ericyd in "Nonna – TypeScript Dependency injection without the reflection tax"

ericyd — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:55:00 +0000

I feel like I haven't yet figured out the line to draw between disliking something because it's AI-generated and disliking something because it's lazy.

This line:

> Checked by a guardrail test, not just claimed.

Is such a meaningless statement to include in the marketing page, it immediately makes me feel like the entire effort was lazy because it seems like they didn't proofread their own page. I almost would rather they just have a page describing what they were trying to accomplish and the prompt they used to get there, and skip the ceremony of the generated library.

New comment by ericyd in "I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy"

ericyd — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 18:24:49 +0000

I thought for sure you meant Chinese as in Volvo. Damn, I sure was wrong.

New comment by ericyd in "Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

ericyd — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:59:26 +0000

Could you elaborate? This tactic feels identical to the way apple locks down apps to the app store, which requires paid developer accounts

New comment by ericyd in "What Is Gridifcation"

ericyd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:33:16 +0000

> What modern production calls “correction,” and mistakes for care, is really a form of epistemic violence against the record of human beings objectifying felt time for our understanding.

I hope this was written as tongue in cheek, otherwise wow, you are taking yourself too seriously.

New comment by ericyd in "Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin"

ericyd — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:01:43 +0000

Lol yes. Though i graduated in 2016 so no idea if that's the current location.

New comment by ericyd in "Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin"

ericyd — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:36:48 +0000

Studying geology in Portland as an undergraduate, I didn't appreciate how unusual it was to have widespread basalt formations. It's super common in the area due to some ancient flood basalt. I appreciate it more visually after leaving and getting some perspective from other landscapes.

New comment by ericyd in "Tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript"

ericyd — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:36:22 +0000

I would really love a "why" at the top of the readme

New comment by ericyd in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

ericyd — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:52:43 +0000

It is important to acknowledge and name corruption for what it is. It's just hard to continue to have novel reactions to it. It reminds me of an article I read once about cartel violence in Mexico, and how people typically become desensitized to the violence.

New comment by ericyd in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

ericyd — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:41:40 +0000

Isn't the opposite of acqui-hired just... not acquired nor hired?

New comment by ericyd in "Why are coding agents so dumb?"

ericyd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:25:26 +0000

Hard disagree: 1. Writing every piece of software you want to use yourself is unreasonable, 2. The power to change doesn't make it wrong to complain about valid shortcomings. If my ISP is unstable, I can probably change but it's still a reasonable human reaction to complain. "Never complain" is a nice philosophy but really hard to stick to forever.

New comment by ericyd in "Why are coding agents so dumb?"

ericyd — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:21:02 +0000

Aren't LLMs precisely "very good guessing machines"?

New comment by ericyd in "After bankruptcy, he was banned from betting sites. Then he discovered Kalshi"

ericyd — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:17:02 +0000

Strange response, do you believe that society has always had access to online gambling, in the same way that alcohol and drugs have been around forever?

New comment by ericyd in "Book of Shapes – Collection of minimal, generative and customizable SVG-patterns"

ericyd — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:31:41 +0000

Very nice collection!

New comment by ericyd in "America.gov goes crazy on "play Minecraft""

ericyd — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:13:58 +0000

this is incredible, thank you for your service

New comment by ericyd in "The GitHub wiki is an anti-pattern (2022)"

ericyd — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:11:24 +0000

I disagree, requiring code review for docs changes sounds great but in my experience it's extremely hard to get a human to review docs changes. Either you get a rubber stamp with no real review (zero added value, adds useless friction) or you spend days bugging people to actually review your changes. All for docs!

The counter-argument i envision is: "update your docs and code at the same time in the same PR!" That works great, until you want to document something that isn't precisely tied to a single piece of code. In fact I think the most useful docs describe high level systems rather than being associated with specific pieces of code. Use comments for that; in contrast, docs should be easily editable by anyone at all times, otherwise they never get updated (an evergreen problem in any scenario).

New comment by ericyd in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

ericyd — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:13:30 +0000

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New comment by ericyd in "Show HN: 1080p is 920px tall – 1k real browser viewports"

ericyd — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:29:45 +0000

There's some sort of browser automation software that defaults to this resolution and it's used by bots a lot. I used to work for a company that built a bot filter for form submissions largely based around this one data point.

New comment by ericyd in "RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree"

ericyd — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:57:22 +0000

> If it were possible to have such a simple pre-process step why wouldn’t the AI Labs upstream the optimizations themselves?

Not defending these tools, but one reason these might not be upstreamed is because it would negatively impact vendor margins, and they have no incentive to save their users money

New comment by ericyd in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

ericyd — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 02:56:36 +0000

I see it now, thank you

New comment by ericyd in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

ericyd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:57:39 +0000

> Researchers estimate roughly half of human crashes go unreported, and up to one-third of injury accidents, because drivers hope to avoid insurance price hikes. That potentially skews safety numbers in favor of human drivers.

I am not understanding the phrasing of this section. If humans under-report crashes, and autonomous vehicles accurately report crashes, then that would mean the rates are more favorable towards autonomous vehicles rather than humans, right?