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New comment by hamburglar in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

hamburglar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:36:18 +0000

Can you elaborate a little on what you asked Claude to do here? This is a pretty impressive one-shot.

New comment by hamburglar in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

hamburglar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:24:57 +0000

I think there’s a palpable difference but many young developers have no concept of why.

New comment by hamburglar in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

hamburglar — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:23:21 +0000

Reminds me of “pre-jit”

New comment by hamburglar in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

hamburglar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:03:53 +0000

Sure, but it turns out it isn’t guaranteed to listen. :)

New comment by hamburglar in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

hamburglar — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:02:09 +0000

I wrote a skill and included the instruction in Claude.md to always use this skill if it ever feels like grepping around in Unity files. It still took a lot of reminding it before it did it consistently. I’d interrupt it and say “it looks like you’re using grep for something you have an explicit tool for” and it would go “oh, my bad” and do it right. Took a few days to really sink in.

New comment by hamburglar in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

hamburglar — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:58:00 +0000

I work in Unity and I got frustrated with Claude constantly doing gross bash/grep/awk/sed/grep nested loops that took forever that I finally described (and had Claude implement and install) a tool that could, in a single pass, gather all this info from a Unity forest of scenes at once and answer all the questions Claude ever wanted to ask about a Unity project in a single pass that takes 50ms instead of 10 30 second iterations. It still took a lot of coaching to get it to actually use this tool, but it seems like I’ve convinced it.

New comment by hamburglar in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

hamburglar — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:08:45 +0000

Well one idea I had that changes the operational posture somewhat is to have the “reader” UX be a static page served completely from S3 and referencing other static S3 resources (the encrypted blob), then have the dead man’s switch “fail open” if the “user is not dead yet” signal goes offline. That way the company could almost run out of money and cease active operations but still have the data be readable by end users (with the keys, of course) for a long time. Having such a fallback plan in place gives confidence.

The other thing is being very transparent about the real world incremental cost of a user’s data. It slightly undermines the price point, but being able to say “look, incremental storage cost for your data over your lifetime is 33 cents. We have a bond that covers our current user base in perpetuity ten times over” is pretty compelling. You can say “yes, you’re paying way more than the incremental cost, but you’re paying for the care that went into making sure it’s got longevity.”

I can’t stress enough how happy I am for you that you built this thing that I consider a fabulous idea. I have an idea about how you can market it if you want to hear it. Let me know the best way to email you.

New comment by hamburglar in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

hamburglar — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:47:00 +0000

That’s great, and exactly what I was thinking. In fact, you have to wrestle with the fact that if it’s too cheap, people won’t trust it.

One thing I had been thinking about was that it’s important to be extremely open about the algorithms and infrastructure required, with a very transparent whitepaper on how it works (enthusiast level discussion of the technical details) and how you have designed the company to be extremely sustainable. I think your job is to convince people of two things: 1) this actually respects my privacy in a way I can verify myself (or lean on the technical expertise of other outside observers), 2) this company actually has a chance of surviving until I die.

If I can see those two things are true, a $199 lifetime purchase is a no-brainer (and that probably covers a dozen lifetime members’ operational costs). :D

New comment by hamburglar in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

hamburglar — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:41:37 +0000

I’d probably do more development in the meta quest virtual desktop environment if my primary occupation these days wasn’t writing software for the meta quest. It makes it difficult to iterate when you constantly need to flip to a mode where your monitors disappear.

New comment by hamburglar in "How Shamir's Secret Sharing Works"

hamburglar — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:23:01 +0000

I’ve been noodling over this exact business idea for a couple years! Part of my value prop was to make ops scale down to as close to zero as possible by having the encrypted data and most of the front end for accessing it live in S3 objects (or some similar mega-cheap object store). Aside from that, all you need is the dead man’s switch mechanism. And the secret fragments would live on QR codes that bring you to the static SPA with one of the fragments already loaded up, prompting you to scan more to complete the decryption.

Good work doing it. I guess now I don’t have to. :D You may have gained a customer from this HN thread.

New comment by hamburglar in "Show HN: Gaussian Splat of a Strawberry"

hamburglar — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:10:53 +0000

What makes you say this is using Gaussian splats? It looks like simple motion-based cropping to me.

New comment by hamburglar in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

hamburglar — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:12:34 +0000

One of the things I notice CarPlay has access to is the fan speed. In one of my vehicles, when I say “hey siri” it turns the HVAC fan down so it can hear me better. I’ve always wondered if the interface is the phone telling the car “hey make things quieter” or if it’s explicitly turning the fan down. It’s also interesting that this only happens in one of my cars. I assume it’s because the other car is a higher end vehicle and has a quieter fan.

New comment by hamburglar in "I’ve banned query strings"

hamburglar — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:55:44 +0000

My next website is going to have the path portion of the URL be a base64 encoded ASN.1 blob.

New comment by hamburglar in "CPanel's Black Week: 3 New Vulnerabilities Patched After Attack on 44k Servers"

hamburglar — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:05:23 +0000

Dismissing these as script kiddie attempts is no longer correct. This is a real industry now. It’s not like the large scale actors are going to pass up a valid unpatched vector just because it’s old hat.

New comment by hamburglar in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

hamburglar — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:02:01 +0000

I’m an fbi agent

New comment by hamburglar in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

hamburglar — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:59:35 +0000

Hasn’t the statement “I’m an fbi agent” been POSTed to a server several times in the course of this thread?

New comment by hamburglar in "Six Characters"

hamburglar — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:06:38 +0000

Interesting post. One detail I don’t see is how the ROE info actually tells you what currency to convert to. I see the exchange rate calculation but how do you know what the final units are?

New comment by hamburglar in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

hamburglar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:48:43 +0000

You said this analysis “isn’t strong enough” for an inadvisable scenario you completely invented.

New comment by hamburglar in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

hamburglar — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:57:06 +0000

The post is “here’s what I do”, not “here’s what you should do and then confront the team about the results.” It’s just showing you a quick way to get some insights. It’s not even guaranteeing it’s accurate, just showing you some things you might be able to draw some quick conclusions on.

I’m not sure why HN attracts this need to poke holes in interesting observations to “prove” they aren’t actually interesting.

New comment by hamburglar in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

hamburglar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:24:48 +0000

It’s ok. The pedantry was unavoidable.