Hacker News: hallway_monitor

New comment by hallway_monitor in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

hallway_monitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:06:04 +0000

I think you mean “completely” instead of “at all”. Also, very cool innovative tech you are working on!

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

hallway_monitor — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:45:37 +0000

This is the type of thing I have to fight against daily. You already have both action available - left click or middle click. Don't bloat your software with band aids for problems that don't exist - just train your users better.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

hallway_monitor — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:31:42 +0000

At what point does civil disobedience become justified? Expected even? Also let's be clear - this is not violence, not assault, it is simple destruction of property.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Expanding Project Glasswing"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:40:17 +0000

I don't think anyone is saying that. You will just need to be authenticated before giving any commands to the bank. Maybe some type of TOTP that you can use over the phone or in person.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:13:43 +0000

Yes, it is called paying for the use of copyrighted material which people put a lot of time and money into creating. Is this not obvious?

New comment by hallway_monitor in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

hallway_monitor — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:30:59 +0000

The only time I want to read something written by AI is when I am interacting with an LLM directly. I don’t know who these people are that think others want to read their slop. Even if the content is good, I can’t stand reading it.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 10 May 2026 13:36:54 +0000

Hobbies are great. Making a living is usually a separate endeavor. I don’t want to pay for an artisan spoon. There will be a limited market for artisan software. But make no mistake, we are entering the era of software mass production. Say goodbye to your chisels and rasps. If you want to make money you will need to operate the machine that builds the machine.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Spending 3 months coding by hand"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:49:11 +0000

Junior developers have always been a lot less effective than senior developers. We will need new senior developers so we will need to train junior developers. Maybe we train them by forcing them to do things the hard way. The slow way. By hand. Because if we let them do things the fast way they are going to cause some serious damage.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Claude Code Routines"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:22:04 +0000

My team was doing this until recently but I think in February, Anthropic made team accounts available for subscription instead of API billing. Assuming that is the cost you mentioned.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

hallway_monitor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:46:08 +0000

Exactly.... -> Unit tests. Integration tests. UI tests. This is how code should be verified no matter the author. Just today I told my team we should not be reading every line of LLM code. Understand the pattern. Read the interesting / complex parts. Read the tests.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Nebraska wildfires leave ranchers scrambling for forage"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:50:15 +0000

I’m not sure if these fires are correlated with the staff reductions in BLM. In the interview with a resident she doesn’t mention anything about that, just that last year was very wet which provided a lot of fuel and this hot dry spring has turned it into a tinder box.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Turns out your coffee addiction may be doing your brain a favor"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:41:47 +0000

This is an amazing explanation and I am going to keep it on hand for future use. In the first sentence causal is typoed as casual

New comment by hallway_monitor in "$ teebot.dev – from terminal to tee in 6 seconds"

hallway_monitor — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:23:01 +0000

Literally just say T-shirt. Nobody calls this a tee. Except if you are in a clothing store I guess

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:23:08 +0000

I hate to say it but you are right. It might be finally time to cut the gcord

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Every layer of review makes you 10x slower"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:21:02 +0000

I haven’t read this in years and it was delightful to see it posted here.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Clockwise acquired by Salesforce"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:13:57 +0000

I mean wow, talk about making it up in volume, but hell I would take it.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Push events into a running session with channels"

hallway_monitor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:10:33 +0000

Since we are apparently giving messaging platform reviews here, I feel exactly the same way about Microsoft Teams. It works great. It does everything I want. It doesn’t get in my way. 10 out of 10 keep up the great work guys!

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"

hallway_monitor — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:25:10 +0000

Pretty sure gait analysis is as good as facial recognition. Maybe wearing shoes with weird heights would confuse it

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)"

hallway_monitor — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:21:11 +0000

Love the last bit. Lack of accountability for corporations is a problem. That plus stiff penalties for executives or individuals using facial recognition without consent should put a stop to it pretty quickly.

New comment by hallway_monitor in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

hallway_monitor — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:54:19 +0000

Of all the silly things I’ve seen Europe do over the last 20 years, getting rid of nuclear plants has to be one of the strangest. Sure, we all want solar but it’s not there yet. Hidden forces here would not be a surprise.