Hacker News: green_wheel

New comment by green_wheel in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

green_wheel — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:29:26 +0000

Yes!!! This!!!

New comment by green_wheel in "PostgreSQL is enough (2024)"

green_wheel — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:19:13 +0000

Why'd you go with swift for the backend?

New comment by green_wheel in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

green_wheel — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:27:18 +0000

I was told that there are lots of latitudes in North America where the sun is at too low an angle for your skin to make vitamin D for large parts of the year so you should take it during those times and then you should be fine during the summer if you get outside enough.

New comment by green_wheel in "Stop Using JWTs"

green_wheel — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:13:00 +0000

> The JWT specification is specifically designed only for very short-live tokens (~5 minute or less). Sessions need to have longer lifespans than that.

Citation needed. Where does it say this?

New comment by green_wheel in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

green_wheel — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:57 +0000

What's your role?

I'm a CSO.

Oh nice, Strategy or Security?

Stonehenge.

New comment by green_wheel in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

green_wheel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:23:27 +0000

> This time I’m doing things the right way by connecting my own domain to a mail host. I’m currently with Fastmail since they were by far the most popular option when I asked for suggestions on the fediverse.

Question for the general public: why Fastmail over Proton?

New comment by green_wheel in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

green_wheel — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:41:15 +0000

Working 90 hours a week in a 15 person startup is arguably further from what we were supposed to do than cruising at Google

New comment by green_wheel in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

green_wheel — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:54:58 +0000

I agree we weren't "meant" to live in nations of 350m people and have incredibly large and complex societies and institutions but we do and it's impossible without hierarchy.

New comment by green_wheel in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

green_wheel — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:14:47 +0000

Nondeterministic natural language compilers

New comment by green_wheel in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

green_wheel — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:41:44 +0000

Why do you use an AI assistant for the replies?

New comment by green_wheel in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

green_wheel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:11:33 +0000

Well artists, you guys had a good run thank you for your service.

New comment by green_wheel in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"

green_wheel — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 02:58:26 +0000

The metric is called fixation index

New comment by green_wheel in "Landmark ancient-genome study shows surprise acceleration of human evolution"

green_wheel — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:15:13 +0000

It seemed unlikely that ancestral populations had so many physiological differences, but not cognition. This seems like the last piece to compliment observed IQ differences between groups and levels of civilizational attainment.

New comment by green_wheel in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

green_wheel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:10:51 +0000

I wonder if the author would advocate for us to stop driving cars as well.

New comment by green_wheel in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

green_wheel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:01:58 +0000

I've tried to have sympathy for people who lose money gambling but I just can't. Maybe some argument can be made for the fool who loses money on something silly like a sports game, but people certainly not for people trying to make a buck off of death an destruction.

New comment by green_wheel in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

green_wheel — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:54:02 +0000

The cheap drones Iran makes get a GPS coordinate plugged into them and they fly there. Carriers rarely stay in the same place for long so they'd be effectively useless against them.

New comment by green_wheel in "LLMs can be exhausting"

green_wheel — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:43:28 +0000

You saw the em dash

New comment by green_wheel in "LLMs can be exhausting"

green_wheel — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:42:16 +0000

Yeah I thought the same thing. Kinda eerie reading all that about prompts when not that long ago it would all pertain to actual coding.

New comment by green_wheel in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

green_wheel — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:39:07 +0000

Having kids allows you to somewhat similarly step out of your usual behavior patterns. Obviously not in the "I'll spend two hours watching someone move porcelain cups around" sense, but today I spent an hour standing barefoot ankle-deep in a muddy puddle holding an umbrella over my kid as they played with a Lego figurine and a plastic cup. I got soaked, but it wasn't too cold and if standing outside feeling the rain on your face, watching the clouds pass, and listening to the birds doesn't make you feel alive I dunno what does.

New comment by green_wheel in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

green_wheel — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:58:10 +0000

#12 is so simple yet so true. Great list thanks for sharing.