Hacker News: floren

New comment by floren in "Alien World Chemistry Found Inside Meteorite That Struck New Jersey Home"

floren — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:43:51 +0000

Next time, try a clever joke.

New comment by floren in "I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation"

floren — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:45:01 +0000

Although the questions sometimes trigger useful hallucinations (we were able to instantly disqualify tons from our last hiring batch due to a hallucinated Go stdlib call, their code didn't even compile), the other thing is that you can ask the candidate to talk about their code during an interview. I've seen plenty that submitted good answers but couldn't answer even basic questions about the code they wrote ("what does a sync.Waitgroup do?")

New comment by floren in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

floren — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:22:42 +0000

Yeah, for a long time I thought I disliked Rush because I only heard "Tom Sawyer" and "Closer to the Heart" on the radio. Turns out the best shit doesn't get airtime.

At least my hometown classic rock station would do a bunch of Zeppelin at 10pm, so I got exposed to their broader range.

New comment by floren in "Miss the old web? Join us haywood.computer"

floren — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 23:12:45 +0000

Or too little... aside from themes and music and a chatbox there's not much to it.

New comment by floren in "That post never existed. Stop listening to that thing"

floren — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:31:21 +0000

> Here's the example I throw out to people who have been in the Bay Area for a year or two. It's early in the year. You want to drive straight through the middle of Chinatown in SF. Why might that be a bad idea?

Well the answer is actually that it's always a bad idea to drive straight through the middle of Chinatown at any time of the year, because the streets are narrow and full of tourists.

New comment by floren in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

floren — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:38:57 +0000

Definitely not, I like IPv6.

New comment by floren in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

floren — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:25:42 +0000

if this wanton abuse of cat(1) doesn't stop, we're on track to run out of PIDs by 2031! Just because Unix makes it cheap and easy to fork doesn't mean you have to!

(who gives even a single shit, my god)

New comment by floren in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

floren — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:45:40 +0000

Oh yeah solar is getting good but the guys who come to your door and say they'll give you a $0 electric bill just sign here are peddling something that's maximally profitable for them

New comment by floren in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

floren — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:41:53 +0000

I've started telling basically that to the solar salesmen who come by every few days: if it was so great, you wouldn't have to pretend to be from PG&E or tell a bunch of half-truths about how utilities work.

New comment by floren in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

floren — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:57:43 +0000

A del.icio.us idea

New comment by floren in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

floren — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:05:52 +0000

It's so damn easy to hit "pause" on the kid by turning on the TV or handing over a phone, but the result is so apparent: demands for more phone or more TV.

New comment by floren in "I Like Small Keyboards"

floren — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:09:04 +0000

Same, I designed & built my own 108-key keyboard (no numpad, just a shitload of keys) and it's lovely. I'm very slowly binding functions to all the extras. https://jfloren.net/b/2024/10/23/0

New comment by floren in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"

floren — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 01:15:47 +0000

> SS No 7 only roughly maps into OSI model, the equivalent application layer would use MAP - Mobile application part.

Well yeah only the OSI stack actually maps onto the OSI model, or should be expected to

After 6 months of delays, Brilliant Labs delays smartglasses again

floren — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:53:46 +0000

Article URL: https://jfloren.net/b/2026/6/30/0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748872

Points: 3

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New comment by floren in "Is sunscreen the new margarine? (2019)"

floren — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:02:20 +0000

I'd rather look old than be one of those lunatics who goes for a summer walk in a longsleeve shirt, gloves, and a hat with built-in veil (a pretty common sight in the Bay Area)

New comment by floren in "Suspicious Discontinuities (2020)"

floren — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 04:00:40 +0000

12L is 1.2 million

New comment by floren in "Iran says it's closing Strait of Hormuz, accusing Israel, US of violating truce"

floren — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:35:37 +0000

Iran has figured out it can make the US president look like an idiot over and over at relatively low cost to themselves, since they're already so thoroughly excluded from the rest of the world.

New comment by floren in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

floren — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:41:02 +0000

Well, guess we'll have to wait a bit to see if we're in the weights... I got a 429, as I'm sure many others are (and thus mashing retry).

New comment by floren in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

floren — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:43:38 +0000

They now charge to list your car, even as a private party. I'm not sure it was the right choice because it drove so much traffic to Facebook Marketplace, which is an absolute disaster.

New comment by floren in "The Harajuku Moment (2024)"

floren — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:52:29 +0000

Doesn't help that he's a self-help author so he's always written like an LLM, even before LLMs.