Hacker News: holler

New comment by holler in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

holler — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:03:21 +0000

ahh yes, fresh off reading "Html For Dummies" I made my first tripod.com site

New comment by holler in "Be wary of Bluesky"

holler — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:46:57 +0000

MySpace was the last fun social network, bummer you missed it!

New comment by holler in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

holler — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:34:10 +0000

My first and only Waymo ride was super sketch. Car slowed down to ~5mph in a 35mph zone and stayed that way for 5+ minutes as other cars were swerving around us. Felt like it was going to come to a complete stop in the middle of the road, I prefer real humans.

New comment by holler in "Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction"

holler — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:30:42 +0000

Having worked in the space I have real doubts about that. Right now Claude and other top models already do a decent job at e.g. "generate OCR from this document". But as mentioned there are serious failure modes, it's non-deterministic, and especially cost-prohibitive at scale.

New comment by holler in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

holler — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:57:30 +0000

this. I don't know any non-tech people who use anything other than chatgpt. On a similar note, I've wondered why Amazon doesn't make a chatgpt-like app with their latest Alexa+ makeover, seems like a missed opportunity. The Alexa app has a feature to talk to the LLM in chat mode, but the overall app is geared towards managing devices.

New comment by holler in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

holler — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:37:02 +0000

Pretty sure but yeah it's possible, either way the traffic was moving fast and we slowed down to the point where it felt unsafe.

New comment by holler in "Waymo robotaxis are now giving rides on freeways in LA, SF and Phoenix"

holler — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:29:51 +0000

I had my first waymo ride in Austin recently and it suddenly slowed down to 20mph in 40mph zone for 5+ mins before returning to normal speed. Cars were passing around us and it felt like the car was glitching out, which felt very sketchy.

New comment by holler in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

holler — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:10:29 +0000

my thought exactly

New comment by holler in "Show HN: I built a simple ambient sound app with no ads or subscriptions"

holler — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 03:59:34 +0000

very nice! curious if you could comment on the tech stack, did you use swift or react native or something else?

New comment by holler in "ChatGPT Pulse"

holler — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:28:38 +0000

Yeah I was thinking, what problem does this solve?

New comment by holler in "Are we decentralized yet?"

holler — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:46:32 +0000

spot on, same reason irc never spread to the masses

New comment by holler in "Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea"

holler — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:08:06 +0000

Looks nice! I like how simple/clean it is. I spent 3+ months building a contenteditable component from scratch for https://sqwok.im, learned a lot and was fun but oh my did it get challenging, especially with cross-browser issues.

New comment by holler in "Litestar is worth a look"

holler — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 03:00:08 +0000

Same, I've built all my recent api's in Starlette alone and I find it excellent. It's clean, concise, well documented, and you can extend it as needed, supporting small -> very large projects.

New comment by holler in "The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production"

holler — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 17:47:10 +0000

that was a great read, thanks! - agentic noob

New comment by holler in "Svelte 5 is not JavaScript"

holler — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:58:23 +0000

Agree, overall ember has felt stable and only improved with age, unfortunately becoming increasingly niche.

At my company I mentioned using it in passing to our cto as we were discussing a project to move our core web app from angular to react, and he laughed saying "maybe if this was 10 years ago!".

New comment by holler in "Blue Origin New Glenn Mission NG-1 (video)"

holler — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 11:22:16 +0000

Starships first flight felt similarly slow, watched in person.

New comment by holler in "Modern JavaScript for Django Developers"

holler — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:36:25 +0000

DRF has been around a long time at this point, and that's been a common stack (albeit with other frontend frameworks 10 years ago).

In recent times I'm a fan of Starlette, which is what the popular FastAPI lib is built on top of, and created by same author as DRF.

New comment by holler in "Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease"

holler — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:13:12 +0000

Not true, you can find unsalted organic peanut butter w/o any other ingredients at WholeFoods and elsewhere.

New comment by holler in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"

holler — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 19:34:51 +0000

About six months ago I was auditing my bank statements and realized I've been paying Adobe ~$40 for the past 5-6 years or so, almost $3,000 for software I very seldom used if at all in recent times. Closed my account, downloaded gimp, and won't be using Adobe in the future.

New comment by holler in "Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers"

holler — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 20:41:26 +0000

2nd this, would be great with vi/vim bindings