Hacker News: evan_

New comment by evan_ in "Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet"

evan_ — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:22:44 +0000

If the AI (or the person) ran into a non-obvious constraint, or some externality, or there’s a plan that just isn’t implemented yet- then the comment wouldn’t be able to be divined by the AI. But yeah just pointing the AI at something and saying “write me docs” will get you something at best equally good as what’s going to be available.

New comment by evan_ in "Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet"

evan_ — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:31:14 +0000

I’ve left so many PR reviews in the last few months that are essentially “this looks good but delete 80% of the comments.”

New comment by evan_ in "You might want to build your WebApp in Canvas instead of HTML"

evan_ — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 11:39:10 +0000

Ah, so literally a word.

I was thinking you could probably get a fair bit of accessibility by using

s for your text rendering- or by maintaining a separate, hidden outline of DOM elements mirroring what’s on screen.

New comment by evan_ in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

evan_ — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:57:49 +0000

It does seem like they were treating it as a team-building exercise almost. Which just makes me wonder because my first impulse would have been to go to an escape room or ropes course or something like that.

New comment by evan_ in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

evan_ — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:31:37 +0000

Why should anyone who's not a Klingon care about "honor"?

New comment by evan_ in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

evan_ — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:28:15 +0000

Hopsburg Jaw

New comment by evan_ in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

evan_ — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:23:01 +0000

I assume this has been investigated but it's difficult to believe this stopped at one pair of critics. There are plenty of people online critical of eBay. Were they running similar campaigns on anyone else?

> Seven members of eBay’s security team, including former police captains, “worked together to harass and intimidate the Steiners”, according to prosecutors.

I hope someone's looking into the careers of the "former police captains" here. Again, difficult to believe they just woke up one day and decided to fly cross-country to vandalize someone's house with no prior history of intimidation.

New comment by evan_ in "US DOT deleting bike lane references"

evan_ — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:50:03 +0000

if a government spokesperson provided that statement 20 years ago the story would be about the unhinged partisan DOT spokesperson, what maniac hired them, why hasn't the whole office been fired yet, and how a bizarre grievance-based policy ever got out the door in the first place. Now the media gets crazier stuff than this on an hourly basis and they just shrug.

New comment by evan_ in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

evan_ — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:10:34 +0000

Maybe they could issue those disposable over-the-shoe booties they make you wear at home showings

New comment by evan_ in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

evan_ — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:06:40 +0000

somehow having a contact at a bank who works on the weekend is more difficult to believe than a random vendor

New comment by evan_ in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

evan_ — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:45:07 +0000

the giant cartoon dragon with a sign that says "retired" made me guffaw

New comment by evan_ in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

evan_ — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:46:09 +0000

Simply hosting the website wasn't costing that much

New comment by evan_ in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"

evan_ — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:13:54 +0000

I guess it's not like they have a really well-functioning garbage collection service

New comment by evan_ in "How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI"

evan_ — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:37:39 +0000

where'd they get so much broken glass that it would fill a hole anyway? They just have that much glass on hand?

New comment by evan_ in "Resetting Xbox"

evan_ — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:50:11 +0000

Only if you count the value of the games produced as $0

New comment by evan_ in "Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference"

evan_ — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:51:01 +0000

$500k is a heck of a lot closer to $0 than it is to $1B

New comment by evan_ in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

evan_ — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:20:40 +0000

> They obviously won’t face pushback entering the US from a legal standpoint

I suspect the current federal government might push back on a Mexican EV just for ideological reasons.

New comment by evan_ in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

evan_ — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:49:17 +0000

Aren't you in any way concerned that you can't give a real example of the sort of thing you're talking about, and have to make one up? This should be the wake-up call that makes you re-evaluate your priors.

The reality is that reactionaries often describe "useless" scientific endeavors like "condoms for worms" that end up being the only thing stopping parasitic screwworms from infesting the US cattle herd, which will end up costing us hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve- and spike the already-high cost of beef for decades.

New comment by evan_ in "Fox to buy Roku"

evan_ — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:26:17 +0000

It's the Murdoch one.

New comment by evan_ in "Large etchings of numbers signaling opposition to Trump appear on National Mall"

evan_ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:15:02 +0000

I'm impressed at how precise the construction of each numeral is for something that must have been done by hand, covertly, without much equipment- probably at night. By my estimate each numeral is at least 100' wide and 140' tall.