Hacker News: hamdingers

New comment by hamdingers in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

hamdingers — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:32:46 +0000

I figure a big part of it is that SWE-Bench is the target benchmark for programming and it's all python.

New comment by hamdingers in "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different"

hamdingers — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:56:42 +0000

If you're a client using the same idempotency key for a materially different request you have a bug.

New comment by hamdingers in "Louis Rossmann tells 3D printer maker Bambu Lab to 'Go (Bleep) yourself'"

hamdingers — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:55:19 +0000

There's a wonderful Home Assistant integration that has all the monitoring features one could want.

New comment by hamdingers in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

hamdingers — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:51:15 +0000

Perhaps the fact that he brings petty interpersonal drama wherever he goes is the root of the complaint?

New comment by hamdingers in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

hamdingers — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:34:21 +0000

This is a feature. When I enable LAN mode I do not want Bambu to be able to control my printer.

It remains astonishing to me that this is controversial. Not everyone has the knowhow to block internet access to their printer, so having a toggle in firmware is terrific. I've verified after turning it on that it never phones home. Couldn't be happier.

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

hamdingers — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:46:59 +0000

We have different goals. I do this to strip unnecessary junk off of product page links I'm going to share, and your version now does nothing to (for example) Amazon PDP links. I understand it doesn't work for every kind of link and that's fine.

If I did want to support paginated/search pages, I would allowlist only `p` and `q` rather than specifically blocking one type of analytics.

New comment by hamdingers in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

hamdingers — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:56:20 +0000

It is curious how successful AI developers have been in trying to redefine "open source" as "the binary is free to download"

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

hamdingers — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:45:52 +0000

While I don't take the author's hard stance, I do hate gratuitous query params that result in links that are thousands of characters long.

I use this bookmarklet to strip query params before sharing a link:

    javascript:(()=>navigator.clipboard.writeText(location.origin+location.pathname))();

New comment by hamdingers in "AI slop is killing online communities"

hamdingers — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:10:10 +0000

HN front page is about 25% LLM written blog posts at any given time.

New comment by hamdingers in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

hamdingers — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:22:17 +0000

Since we're 10 years on at this point, I feel pretty confident saying the plateau to my eyes landed somewhere between the PS4 in 2013 and Pascal (GeForce 10-series) in 2016.

I've kept playing games and upgrading my GPU every other generation, and they're still fully utilized, but I can't really see where the additional compute and money is going. My biggest visual upgrade during that time was actually going from LED to HDR OLED which is something that requires virtually no additional processing power.

New comment by hamdingers in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

hamdingers — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:07:56 +0000

Maintenance should be amortized. The first time you do brakes and tires it will cost more than 5+ years of ebike maintenance. It adds nothing to the conversation to pretend otherwise.

New comment by hamdingers in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

hamdingers — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:43:59 +0000

A bicycle and moderate fitness is the ultimate in self-reliance but you never heard them promoting that either.

New comment by hamdingers in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

hamdingers — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:17:09 +0000

Odd if true. It's clearly a universal binary, not sure what's going wrong for you.

$ file steam_osx

steam_osx: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64]

steam_osx (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

steam_osx (for architecture arm64): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

New comment by hamdingers in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

hamdingers — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:41:02 +0000

You have an old Steam.app stub, download the latest one and rosetta will not be necessary.

If you had rosetta it would be able to self-update to the new universal binary, without it you have to do this one update manually.

New comment by hamdingers in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

hamdingers — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:12:20 +0000

And how we ended up feeding roughly a third of US-grown corn to cars.

New comment by hamdingers in "Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?"

hamdingers — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:16:34 +0000

Here's a CLI plugin that automates this: https://github.com/wowu/docker-rollout

New comment by hamdingers in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

hamdingers — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:41:21 +0000

All the top smartphone manufacturers hit that bar, at least for their mid and high end phones. The focus on apple is misleading and weird.

This will only impact bottom barrel phones.

New comment by hamdingers in "Grok 4.3"

hamdingers — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:33:02 +0000

That makes it more sad, to me. Someone with those credentials should be able to communicate with their colleagues effectively. I wonder if she used to be able to.

It appears Hacker News disagrees that social skills are valuable skills. Mea culpa, I should have guessed.

New comment by hamdingers in "Apple accidentally left Claude.md files Apple Support app"

hamdingers — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:22:44 +0000

Same here. I can see why LLM-driven voice assistants makes sense to product people in the abstract, but introducing non-deterministic behavior into a device I primarily use to help with timekeeping and control lights is nothing but a regression.

New comment by hamdingers in "Grok 4.3"

hamdingers — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:05:00 +0000

She does herself a disservice by outsourcing that skill. One day she might have to actually talk to one of these people.