Hacker News: gmmeyer

New comment by gmmeyer in "Show HN: Tired of duct-taping access control into agent prompts. Here's the fix"

gmmeyer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:40:27 +0000

this looks very cool, it’s genuinely hard to manage all my claudes sometimes and i’ve tried to build something like this as well, though with much less success

New comment by gmmeyer in "HubSpot Acquires Clearbit"

gmmeyer — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:00:05 +0000

It's very useful for b2b people to know who is looking at your website and who might be good targets to reach out to. Knowing that Steve the SVP at Databricks is looking at your website vs cookie 1234 is a pretty key differentiator

New comment by gmmeyer in "Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed"

gmmeyer — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 19:59:29 +0000

The question is "how long has it been since the big bang." It's an important and relevant question for cosmology and physics. It isn't really a stance on the "beginning of time," which may have started long before this moment, but it is the start of the universe as far as physics is concerned.

New comment by gmmeyer in "A not so unfortunate sharp edge in Pipenv"

gmmeyer — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 19:20:48 +0000

Every solution in the space is bad and it's a wonder that any python software is maintainable and I think the only real answer is everyone gets fucked all the time with these bugs and rough edges

I say this as someone who has done an unfortunately large amount of work in the python packaging and python package distribution space and still get bitten every few months

New comment by gmmeyer in "Pitchfork: Rack HTTP server for shared-nothing architecture"

gmmeyer — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:38:07 +0000

My personal experience is that the bulk of the time these rewrites don't end up delivering the performance increases that people expect because they don't really understand what's making the prior system slow and don't develop good enough requirements

This is not saying you shouldn't, it doesn't really matter to me. But I think a lot of the time this is driven by engineers who feel like they need to do this rather than a financial decision to save money

New comment by gmmeyer in "LastPass confirms hackers had access to internal systems for several days"

gmmeyer — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:08:04 +0000

You don't wanna get hacked but basically everyone gets hacked, so it's more of a question of "how well does your security and monitoring stand up to hacking?"

The big red flag here is that they didn't catch it for so long! How did they not notice?

New comment by gmmeyer in "The best and worst of 1994 and predictions for '95"

gmmeyer — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 06:13:39 +0000

it's funny that web browsers parse Ps in there

New comment by gmmeyer in "FOMO is disastrous for company strategies"

gmmeyer — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:43:45 +0000

that is not the part of the parent comment I’m taking issue with though!

New comment by gmmeyer in "FOMO is disastrous for company strategies"

gmmeyer — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 21:40:16 +0000

I can just go buy a meta headset on their store, it's been that way a while I dunno if I would say there's a shortage there lol

Other headsets are more difficult to buy yea but the meta one is very much available

New comment by gmmeyer in "Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed"

gmmeyer — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 03:20:21 +0000

I think it's a bug when I visit drudge in the browser it extremely does not take 7 seconds until it's interactive

New comment by gmmeyer in "The Web's Timeline"

gmmeyer — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:55:26 +0000

yea the webpage is wildly incorrect, wikipedia is right

New comment by gmmeyer in "Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard"

gmmeyer — Tue, 24 May 2022 16:51:26 +0000

I have the G915tkl and it still works perfectly over two years later. Wild that you had such bad experience with them!

New comment by gmmeyer in "Logitech MX Mechanical Keyboard"

gmmeyer — Tue, 24 May 2022 16:17:53 +0000

I have the gaming version of this keyboard and it's great: https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/gaming-keyboards/g9...

It never drops off, it feels great to type on. The lighting and everything is configurable, and will even light up the hot keys you need for a specific game!

It's a great experience. I have no interest in a customizable keyboard, I just want one that works.

New comment by gmmeyer in "On $600B of Y Combinator startup success"

gmmeyer — Wed, 11 May 2022 20:20:31 +0000

Hate to be pedantic but our star won't collapse it's not large enough for that, it will simply puff out and die leaving behind a very hot core called a White Dwarf

New comment by gmmeyer in "Give me back my monolith (2019)"

gmmeyer — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:24:43 +0000

IMO you should never create a new service unless it serves an engineer reason instead of an organizational one. There's a lot of tools to help out monoliths, and a lot of ways to make it easier to shard the monolith as well.

Some services need it, like a backend intake platform of some sort that needs to have radically different performance characteristics than a user facing frontend. But for most services it just does not make a lot of sense to do this.

New comment by gmmeyer in "In Defence of the Single Page Application"

gmmeyer — Thu, 05 May 2022 18:31:47 +0000

yea I agree, you should pick the right tool for the job but SPAs are probably overused

New comment by gmmeyer in "Natural Wine, Inherited Money, and the Delusions of the “Future-Rich Millennial”"

gmmeyer — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:55:27 +0000

Yeah it's a really reactionary attitude! Most people who say it though aren't really able to articulate the why it matters. Because they clearly at the same time think lots of poverty related issues, like homelessness, are issues we need to solve.

New comment by gmmeyer in "Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf"

gmmeyer — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:53:34 +0000

I've used Nix. It solves an interesting problem. It is so complicated as to be unusable by someone who is just looking for a quick and simple solution to something like a virtual environment

There's a reason why, despite being almost 20 years old, Nix has at best a small cult following. It just doesn't solve the problems that most people are looking to solve, most other solutions are simply easier and in many ways better

New comment by gmmeyer in "Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE"

gmmeyer — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:38:29 +0000

I think it's a 4chan board

New comment by gmmeyer in "Ask HN: How did my LastPass master password get leaked?"

gmmeyer — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:47:10 +0000

There was a 1password to lastpass importer at that time, I know because I used it