Hacker News: franky47

New comment by franky47 in "Spotify Silently Updates Itself (and How to Stop It)"

franky47 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:25:32 +0000

Do you not risk having a client app that falls out of sync with the server’s API endpoints?

Loved the headings btw.

New comment by franky47 in "Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin"

franky47 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:09:21 +0000

I’d love to see someone try.

Though using AI to build the devtools we used for signal analysis would have been helpful.

New comment by franky47 in "Show HN: I used AI to recreate a $4000 piece of audio hardware as a plugin"

franky47 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:34:12 +0000

I used to do that exact job 10 years ago (without AI, obviously). I figure that career would be very different now.

There was something exciting about sleuthing out how those old machines worked: we used a black box approach, sending in test samples, recording the output, and comparing against the digital algorithm’s output. Trial and error, slowly building a sense of what sort of filter or harmonics could bend a waveform one way or another.

I feel like some of this is going to be lost to prompting, the same way hand-tool woodworking has been lost to power tools.

New comment by franky47 in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

franky47 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:14:41 +0000

Especially when the "content" is a blatant AI summary:

> Duffer’s advice highlights a conflict between technological advances and creators' goals. Features like the ones he mentioned are designed to appeal to casual viewers by making images appear sharper or more colorful, but they alter the original look of the content. By asking fans to turn these features off, he is stressing the importance of preserving the director’s vision.

New comment by franky47 in "CIA Star Gate Project: An Overview (1993) [pdf]"

franky47 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:58:45 +0000

Disappointing they didn't have their research facility in Cheyenne Mountain.

New comment by franky47 in "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"

franky47 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:29:52 +0000

This is hilarious, thank you!

How did it match my facial hair in the XKCD, since HN is text-only? :mind-blown:

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/franky47

New comment by franky47 in "Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)"

franky47 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 15:19:24 +0000

That’s what CI is for.

New comment by franky47 in "GitHub no longer uses Toasts"

franky47 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 22:40:24 +0000

Refined GitHub [1] still does (for things like PR approvals & automations), and it feels odd indeed. Still worth adding on top of the stock UI.

[1] https://github.com/refined-github/refined-github

AI Slop PRs as an Attack

franky47 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:07:20 +0000

Article URL: https://tylur.blog/harmful-prs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46193062

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

TanStack AI Alpha: Your AI, Your Way

franky47 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:11:19 +0000

Article URL: https://tanstack.com/blog/tanstack-ai-alpha-your-ai-your-way

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46154530

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The first JPEG XL image hash quine

franky47 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:19:10 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/itszn13/status/1995577689085018320

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46113370

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Signing the Open Source Pledge

franky47 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:06:40 +0000

Article URL: https://nuqs.dev/blog/open-source-pledge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074342

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by franky47 in "Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons"

franky47 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:02:08 +0000

Sad, I wrote my first ever programs on Arduino, learned C++ through it, and did my first OSS contribution by creating the Arduino MIDI Library, ~16 years ago.

I wouldn't be where I am if it wasn't for Arduino. Thank you to the OSH community for making these boards open to all back then.

New comment by franky47 in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

franky47 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:26:24 +0000

I gave my kids (5 and 2) two Volcas (Beats & Keys) to play with. The Keys is a bit too advanced (too easy to get no sound at all, or something that sounds horrible), but the Beats is a wonderful machine for kids, as it's virtually impossible to make it sound bad. Also great to teach them rhythm.

UseExtracted: The Tailwind of Internationalization?

franky47 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 23:11:44 +0000

Article URL: https://next-intl.dev/blog/use-extracted

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45852394

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by franky47 in "URLs are state containers"

franky47 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:50:11 +0000

Except you hit limits when trying to share that URL. Eg: try pasting a URL longer than 4096 bytes in Signal or WhatsApp, and they don't render it as clickable.

New comment by franky47 in "URLs are state containers"

franky47 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 10:28:09 +0000

Thanks for mentioning it! (I'm the author)

New comment by franky47 in "Play snake in the URL address bar"

franky47 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:24:06 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Vercel domain uses nuqs [1] (I'm the author) for URL state, and I agree flooding the browser history is a bad experience.

Is there a way to update the URL (ie: keeping it reactive in the address bar) without creating those history entries, or to ask the browser to squash the last entry it created into the previous one?

[1] https://nuqs.dev

New comment by franky47 in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

franky47 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 06:52:34 +0000

Cursed alphabetical sorting of numbers:

8 5 4 9 1 7 6 3 2 0

Can you guess what it is?

New comment by franky47 in "A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails"

franky47 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:55:11 +0000

The reaction (removing the package) is also similar to an inexperienced developer when confronted to their first vulnerability report.

Assuming good intentions (debugging) rather than malice was at play, communication is key: drop the malicious version of the package, publish a fix, and communicate on public channels (blog post, here on HN, social media) about the incident.

A proper timeline (not that AI slop in the OP article) also helps bring back trust.