Hacker News: frankfrank13

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

frankfrank13 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:25:38 +0000

please add a shareable score!

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Thomann takes legal action against Fender"

frankfrank13 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:15:20 +0000

Because strats sell. Oddly shaped guitars don't, or at least not for a long time, and would never break into the top 10 best selling guitar shapes.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

frankfrank13 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:46:09 +0000

Yeah fair, then you could set it higher, even 100. Or default it off.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Pull request limits are cutting down the noise"

frankfrank13 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:21:42 +0000

I think this is a really solid move. This gives OSS contributors a lot of flexibility. You could set the limit to 0, and manually add contributors. You could set it to 1-3 to allow people to get their foot in the door. But the de facto limit today is infinite, which is spammed. Imagine if GMail did this! If I don't whitelist or reply within `n` emails, youre done. I would KILL for that.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:22:00 +0000

Distribution. Cursor has enterprise contracts, SpaceX/XAi want them.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Waymo Premier"

frankfrank13 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:06:51 +0000

This is a huge difference between NYC and SF. There are certainly some in NYC who would prefer Waymo (direct route, no driver chitchat), but I don't think many New Yorkers would be proud of taking Waymo's. Most people feel embarrassed to admit they took an Uber somewhere!

Anthropic might like to buy your side project

frankfrank13 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:25:08 +0000

Article URL: https://frnkfrnk.substack.com/p/anthropic-might-like-to-buy-your

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48490801

Points: 1

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New comment by frankfrank13 in "Authentication issues related to API requests"

frankfrank13 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:29:56 +0000

One thing I hate about GH's status page: sure "auth" gets to live under API, so API gets the downtime report today. But all of my remote git ops are failing, because i was dumb enough to use the `gh` cli to auth. Their status pages are not well defined, but they treat them as such, leading to inflated uptime numbers.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Claude Fable 5"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:51:03 +0000

This makes it an instant non-starter for probably 95% of organizations. A lot of people are about to get in trouble for using it before realizing this.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Claude Fable 5"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:49:58 +0000

Not a lot of discussion on this, but there is no way to turn off data retention for this model. IME this is the first time Anthropic has released a model without allowing you to opt out.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "What I've learned about the trombone"

frankfrank13 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:45:11 +0000

I guess, but the sequence of positions 6->5->4->3->2-1 maps to valves

- 1+3 (6)

- 2+3 (5)

- 1+2 (4)

- 1 (3)

- 2 (2)

- open (1)

All I mean to say, sliding a little bit at a time up the slide is easy to map to "short slide higher pitch" in a way that valves don't

New comment by frankfrank13 in "What I've learned about the trombone"

frankfrank13 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:35:16 +0000

I loved playing trombone in school. It's such a simple mechanism, it invites a lot of curiousity, and this piece captures that well. Instruments like piano, violin, and guitar are very visual, essentially wysiwyg. Instruments like saxophones, clarinets, flutes, take a long to mentally map and reason through (this combination of keys achieves note X). Trumpets, and other 3 valve instruments map exactly to trombone positions! Eg. no-valves = 1st position, 1st valve is 3rd position, 1+2 is 4th position. But visually you don't see this, and it doesn't invite the curiousity. Trombone super unique in that you get a little wysiwyg, but you have to square that with embouchure. But learning trombone, and then mapping that knowledge to a euphonium, trumpet, tuba, etc, gives you a knowledge about that instrument (eg ok if note X is 1st valve, and note X+1 is 1+2, then i know adding 2-to-1 adds a half step, because position 3 is a half step from position 4).

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:15:31 +0000

Hilarious, "Designed for serviceability" is one of the headline features about 3/4 down

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-lapt...

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:13:26 +0000

Oh thank god it has a co-pilot button

New comment by frankfrank13 in "What color is your function? (2015)"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:57:10 +0000

My first ever EM showed me this piece ~10 years ago, and I still think about it a lot. One pattern I've adopted is to keep as much code to be synchronous as possible. On larger teams, especially when the slop-cannon is really going, I can at least depend on codeowners to tag me if someone tries to convert something to async (eg. adding a DB call somewhere), because they chain of things that need to be converted to async is so long. Then I can jump in and say "this entire chain of code is sync, if you want a DB call, do it somewhere else"

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Ferrari Luce"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:03:07 +0000

I could see this being true, except that other high end electrics (Porsche, Audi) have not sold well. So the theory would be:

> people want either $30,000 electric cars (Tesla), $100,000 electric cars (Tesla), or $500,000 electric cars (Ferrari)

I do think Ferrari is trying to expand their audience with the Luce, but not to Dubai housewives. Ferrari's are for Ferrari collectors. There exists the guy with a few already, who daily drives a Tesla. Probably hundreds of those guys! This is for them (IMO).

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

frankfrank13 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:39:47 +0000

I interviewed at a startup, really early stage, who claimed to be on track for $100k ARR. We all know "ARR" is bullshit, but I didn't suspect the ~$10k monthly to be bullshit. It turns out this was $10k pre-discount, and this product was ~FREE for YC companies, who made up ~100% of this companies customer base. So revenue was $0, or very close to it.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Googlebook"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:13:24 +0000

> Intelligence is the new spec.

I'm shocked, SHOCKED how bad google is at copywriting, and it clearly not mattering.

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

frankfrank13 — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:24:44 +0000

this makes me so scared to work on OOS. If people saw every random draft PR, branch, design doc I ever made, no doubt the community would be furious

New comment by frankfrank13 in "Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline"

frankfrank13 — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:12:14 +0000

Disneyland cast member says "world between worlds" == Disney will retcon the new trilogy. The rest is AI slop.