Hacker News: glhaynes

New comment by glhaynes in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

glhaynes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:51:55 +0000

I never saw that bug, I don't think, but there was one where it had to start the response before you switched away. That's thankfully been fixed for a few weeks.

New comment by glhaynes in "Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away"

glhaynes — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:16:11 +0000

Bummer of an experience. About a month ago I bought an unlocked 8a from a seller on Swappa and had no issue getting GrapheneOS (which works well!) on it.

New comment by glhaynes in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

glhaynes — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:49:02 +0000

It'd be interesting to prompt it to do the same job but try to be innovative.

To your point, yeah, I mostly don't want AI to be innovative unless I'm asking for it to be. In fact, I spend much more time asking it "is that a conventional/idiomatic choice?" (usually when I'm working on a platform I'm not super experienced with) than I do saying "hey, be more innovative."

New comment by glhaynes in "Codegen is not productivity"

glhaynes — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:39:59 +0000

Yes. I'll go down a wrong path in 20 minutes that'd have taken me half a day to go down by hand, and I keep having to remind myself that code is cheap now (and the robot doesn't get tired) so it's best to throw it away and spend 10 more minutes and get it right.

New comment by glhaynes in "“This is not the computer for you”"

glhaynes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:48:24 +0000

There is truly no space in my device repertoire for a Neo and I can say that with confidence because of how much time I've spent trying to find one.

New comment by glhaynes in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

glhaynes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:46:07 +0000

Apple's fault that they didn't bother to edit the text that says "No install fuss"?

New comment by glhaynes in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

glhaynes — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:38:05 +0000

> No install fuss — download and start designing immediately.

also

> Gatekeeper blocks the app immediately. You'll see either "TUIStudio cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" or "TUIStudio is damaged and can't be opened" on newer macOS after quarantine flags the binary. To get past it: right-click the .app → Open → Open anyway — or go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway".

New comment by glhaynes in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

glhaynes — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:33:14 +0000

If you're addressing this to me: you need to separate my description of how I perceive things from any effort/desire on my part to make that come to pass. I don't expect to stand to gain if AI continues to get better at coding — most likely just the opposite; this is the first time in my career that I've ever felt much anxiety about whether I'd be able to find work in my field in the future.

There are many others like me who share this expectation, and, while we certainly may be wrong, it's not because of some sinister plan to make the prophecy come true. (There are certainly some who do have sinister/profit-seeking motives, of course!)

New comment by glhaynes in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

glhaynes — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:36:35 +0000

It'd be interesting (earnestly!) to see someone make a solid case for AI reimplementation being bad but that the original (afaik) "clean room" project, Compaq's reimplementation of IBM's PC BIOS (something most people seem to see as a righteous move toward openness and freedom), was good.

New comment by glhaynes in "Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions"

glhaynes — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:41:06 +0000

An argument that I have some sympathy for, while still being moderately+ in favor of gun control (here in the USA where I'm a citizen).

It seems that gun control—though imperfect—in regions that have implemented it has had a good bit of success and the legitimate/non-harmful capabilities lost seem worth it to me in trade for the gains. (Reasonable people can disagree here!)

Whereas it seems to me that if we accept the proposition that the vast majority of code in the future is going to be written by AI (and I do), these valuable projects that are taking hard-line stances against it are going to find themselves either having to retreat from that position or facing insurmountable difficulties in staying relevant while holding to their stance.

New comment by glhaynes in "First MacBook Neo Benchmarks Are In"

glhaynes — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:22:17 +0000

You can also just not choose to enroll any fingerprints in Touch ID. It’s totally optional even if you have the hardware.

New comment by glhaynes in "Why Objective-C"

glhaynes — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:42:59 +0000

The "Swift has too many keywords now" meme makes me want to go insane. The vast majority of Swift code never runs into any of that stuff; so, what advocates of it are saying is in effect "we don't want Swift to expand into these new areas (that it has potential to be really good at) even if it's in a way that doesn't affect current uses at all."

That said, the Swift 6 / Strict Concurrency transitions truly have been rough and confusing. It's not super clear to me that much of it could have been avoided (maybe if the value of Approachable Concurrency mode had been understood to be important from the beginning?), and the benefits are real, but my gut feeling is that a lot of the "Swift is too complicated" stuff is probably just misplaced annoyance at this.

New comment by glhaynes in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

glhaynes — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:25:52 +0000

If you want a picture of the future of SWE, imagine a tiny paw mashing on a keyboard — for ever

New comment by glhaynes in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

glhaynes — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:28:09 +0000

So ask the AI to just translate one little chunk at a time, right?

New comment by glhaynes in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

glhaynes — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 17:15:18 +0000

This is so well-written with obvious care! Answers so much of what I've been wanting to know, as someone who's thinking about taking this plunge.

New comment by glhaynes in "Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler"

glhaynes — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:38:36 +0000

For Private Cloud Compute: “a new operating system: a hardened subset of the foundations of iOS and macOS tailored to support Large Language Model (LLM) inference workloads while presenting an extremely narrow attack surface.” https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

New comment by glhaynes in "Ask HN: COBOL devs, how are AI coding affecting your work?"

glhaynes — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:39:56 +0000

I'm not a Python programmer but I could've sworn I've repeatedly heard it said that LLMs are particularly good at writing Python.

New comment by glhaynes in "OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor"

glhaynes — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:31:18 +0000

I don't know… people were lonely before LLMs. And, they're right, this is a question one could easily paste into a frontier model and easily get back info that's way more useful than the significant majority of blog posts or replies would give! shrug But also I'd still like to hear what fooker has to say!

New comment by glhaynes in "OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor"

glhaynes — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:10:34 +0000

At the risk of getting further off-topic: what sort of system calls did they have you implement? I’ve never done but a tiny bit of kernel hacking and that sounds like a good exercise, but I’m not sure what would be a good first syscall to add.

New comment by glhaynes in "ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree"

glhaynes — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:20:37 +0000

https://bsky.app/profile/mikehixenbaugh.com/post/3mbvyvzviqk...

Hey, any thoughts on this short NYT video analysis?