Hacker News: generalpf

New comment by generalpf in "CursorBench 3.1"

generalpf — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:03:10 +0000

The magic of distillation!

New comment by generalpf in "After 12 years of being a customer, Uber is dumping PagerDuty"

generalpf — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:25:25 +0000

Ex-PagerDuty here. Without weighing in on the criticisms of pricing and innovation with the product, I will say that the value of PagerDuty is its reliability in notifying you when it receives a signal from a system. Rebuilding the product isn't just asking an LLM to spit out a web app to do scheduling, it's in the notification pipeline (SMS, email, push notifications, Slack), maintaining all that and mobile apps too.

Just like Uber itself, this is one of those "I could replace this in a weekend" things that doesn't actually pan out that way.

New comment by generalpf in "OS9Map"

generalpf — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:46:01 +0000

16 MB RAM required, 32 MB RAM recommended... how refreshing! Great work.

New comment by generalpf in "SpaceX Is Buying Cursor"

generalpf — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:31:26 +0000

Cursor Remote Agents are important to our AI orchestration layer. It's possible that Claude can do this directly but Cursor Remote Agents made this laughably easy.

New comment by generalpf in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

generalpf — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:11:27 +0000

You can get any Uber driver to do it for you if you offer to buy them food too and do it off the books.

New comment by generalpf in "Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'"

generalpf — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:06:38 +0000

He is, but he's also describing reality.

New comment by generalpf in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

generalpf — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:27:15 +0000

I just got a Docusign and it didn't work in Firefox, I had to use Chrome. That's a huge blow right there. (I sent negative feedback about this to Docusign.)

New comment by generalpf in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

generalpf — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:29:05 +0000

>There'll probably be a startup tomorrow that digests user input and boils out the noise to provide a robust enough signal to guide some monitoring agent, and it'll help some cases, and train us to be even worse at others.

This sounds like Enterpret.

New comment by generalpf in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

generalpf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:39:13 +0000

Come on now, you're going to need Xcode at some point during development.

New comment by generalpf in "Android CLI: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent"

generalpf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:38:55 +0000

It does.

New comment by generalpf in "The Slow Death of the Power User"

generalpf — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:18:16 +0000

By default on a Mac, "smart quotes" is enabled that turns "" into “”. I don't think that's a sign of an LLM. I believe Microsoft Word on all platforms does this too.

New comment by generalpf in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

generalpf — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:25:15 +0000

Swift doesn't use a garbage collector.

New comment by generalpf in "Paul Hegarty's updated CS193p SwiftUI course released by Stanford"

generalpf — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:12:56 +0000

This is the course I used online to learn Objective-C and UIKit to make iOS applications, and now I am a Staff iOS Engineer. Nice to see him still doing this.

New comment by generalpf in "Wealthy foreigners 'paid for chance to shoot civilians in Sarajevo'"

generalpf — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:08:45 +0000

Mac and Dennis: Manhunters

(It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia S04E01)

New comment by generalpf in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

generalpf — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:22:04 +0000

It doesn't matter what Steve Jobs would or wouldn't do, Tim Cook took Apple to a $3T company and that's where we are.

New comment by generalpf in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

generalpf — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:46:27 +0000

Another Forbes 30 under 30!

New comment by generalpf in "FreeDroidWarn"

generalpf — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 16:22:21 +0000

You don't need this library, it's just an `AlertDialog` wrapper with a check in `SharedPreferences`. It's not particularly well-written.

New comment by generalpf in "I'm worried it might get bad"

generalpf — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:43:56 +0000

Referencing Marc Benioff making bold claims about AI isn't much evidence, he's pulling these numbers out of thin air. Despite claiming they won't hire software engineers in 2025, there are plenty of positions open at Salesforce for software engineers.

New comment by generalpf in "Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved"

generalpf — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:34:53 +0000

When did this guy stop writing about engineering and start running a tech gossip rag?

New comment by generalpf in "I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)"

generalpf — Thu, 08 May 2025 23:18:46 +0000

Nice to see PagerDuty mentioned here. I was on the mobile team at PagerDury that battled to get the entitlement to use Critical Notifications in the app. We were refused multiple times before we got the entitlement.