Hacker News: hysan

New comment by hysan in "FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later"

hysan — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 02:06:16 +0000

I didn’t say it isn’t. Just that they aren’t really giving any details and more importantly, they aren’t giving info for what people who are stranded should be doing right now. (And now that I’ve settled down a bit, it’s odd that if it’s old hardware failing, how is it suddenly not failing? Was it just some systems, did they have replacements, or if it’s what the other commenters wrote, then did they just turn off the AI updates to stop overloading the hardware? Which would mean that hardware is fine. It’s just underprovisioned.)

New comment by hysan in "FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later"

hysan — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 02:02:32 +0000

Ah sorry for the misleading writing. My brain has been fried trying to work while also trying to dig up any useful info to help my wife who is stranded at the airport figure out what to do. I usually can last longer watching press conferences but this one was… just painful. Maybe someone else can give an update if they actually talk about what’s going on.

New comment by hysan in "FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later"

hysan — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 01:55:33 +0000

At the press conference (current, live), they are blaming old hardware that is failing. They’re in an endless loop of repeatedly saying that it’s Congress’s fault for lack of funding and that this is the result of old hardware. I just gave up on watching because they aren’t saying anything informative.

New comment by hysan in "FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later"

hysan — Sat, 14 Nov 2026 01:49:49 +0000

(Excuse my lack of composure. A bit stressed out.)

The press conference was started 10+ min late and the first 15 min was spent on blaming Congress instead of giving an update. Kinda frustrating for those who are affected and waiting to find out what they should be doing at the airport. The Q&A has been just an endless repeat of the same few lines of blame shifting. It’d be nice if they could actually give actionable updates.

New comment by hysan in "FAA issues national ground stop – lifted 4.5 hours later"

hysan — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 21:41:50 +0000

My wife's plane was about to take off (moving) but then stopped. I just messaged her to check once I saw the news. Sounds like the people onboard weren't given any info as to why. They're still on the runway waiting.

New comment by hysan in "Exact – a new cross platform UI framework"

hysan — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:20:20 +0000

Since there are no releases, I assuming this is still a WIP? It would explain why they list Linux and then don’t have any screenshots of it next to the other platforms. How it works is kinda light on details. I’m interested to learn more about the under the hood aspects of how they are translating everything to the different native toolkits.

New comment by hysan in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

hysan — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:33:57 +0000

> One thing I've noticed is that people will engage in thread arson to kill submissions they don't agree with. When I see some of these low value comments, I check their comment history and often they have reasonable comments on other things.

Interesting to see that others are doing this. I started this habit because I got curious to see what bad/downvoted/dead commenters would say elsewhere and noticed this same pattern. It’s not on all of them (some accounts seem to post comments that get killed in every thread they reply on which makes me think those are troll accounts), but it happens enough that it was noticeable. Not sure how I’d describe this category of user. They aren’t trolls but they are clearly doing this purposefully.

New comment by hysan in "Eating Fruit Skins"

hysan — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:45:41 +0000

I don’t know much about apple variety names, but if you love apples and plan to visit Aomori prefecture in Japan during apple season, I highly recommend stopping by a market or grocery. I used to live in northern Akita and there was a farmer from Aomori that would come by with freshly picked apples to sell at one of the supermarkets. They had many varieties and they all tasted amazingly sweet and unique. I have yet to find an apple anywhere close to those since moving back to the states. The most recent new variety that I tried that I liked was Kiku. It’s like a sweeter version of a Fuji apple with a very similar texture. Based on your preferences, I think this would a fun one to try.

New comment by hysan in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

hysan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:05:22 +0000

Fair. I should have reigned in my emotions and written that first comment with a lot less conviction and not jumped to my conclusion. It’s a topic I’ve been spending a lot of time learning about and got a bit too excited when a relevant thread popped up where I could chime in.

New comment by hysan in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

hysan — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:51:47 +0000

True which is why I said anecdata. But the point is that it’s a useful signal when it’s across enough sessions where it quotes back contradictions to you. If you’re willing to burn the tokens, the first thing it does is use a tool call to search your rules to see what it quoted wasn’t there. That leads to the LLM claiming two common conclusions (sometimes after a lot of back and forth) - it’s in the harness or it’s in the model. Over the 30+ sessions where I’ve tried this, the overwhelming claim was some variant of a harness instruction. It might not be there but given the consistency and how all my rule tests have failed in the same way that others describe, it at least makes it reasonable to conclude that it’s baked in somewhere and in a way where agent rules aren’t able to strongly affect the behavior. My bet would be on the harness because the class of undesired behavior follows that of a structured response.

New comment by hysan in "I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer"

hysan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:51:08 +0000

Relevant anecdata because I've burned many a Claude sessions on this.

If you're using Claude Code, then it's in the harness. At the close of many sessions, I would start a meta conversation over why the LLM would consistently break certain rules. What it found when debugging itself is that some of the "contradicting" rules that I had were in fact, not from my rules. Instead, the instructions from its own harness had phrases telling it to do things like that. When something contradicts, its own instructions would outweigh any custom ones you write. Every rule variant I had tested (including the one that says it overrides the harness instructions - and yes, I've actually tested all the ideas in your comment too) has ultimately been unsuccessful due to this according to the LLM.

New comment by hysan in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

hysan — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:59:49 +0000

I feel like the increased reviewing time is consistently understated. I’m just an IC, but it seems obvious to me that you cannot cut staff and achieve increased output. There literally aren’t enough eyeballs to go around reviewing code when everyone is 2-3xing their output. I spend so much more time reviewing code; reviews that are sorely needed because I regularly catch batshit insane “fixes” that work but would quickly turn the codebase into a mess (the most recent one being a multi-hundred line diff that I went and fixed in 2 lines in 15 min). Maybe I’m underthinking it but it seems obvious that you either maintain the same output with fewer staff or you gain increased output with the same staff. All the companies that are attempting to cut staff and gain increased output are chasing an impossibility and throwing away their opportunity to accelerate.

New comment by hysan in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

hysan — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:35:15 +0000

I’ve had a longstanding belief that big tech purposely over-employed because it denied resources to competitors. This gave them a velocity edge despite being big and bureaucratic. In the new AI world, denying resources doesn’t slow competitors down anymore because AI raises the productivity floor. Now that over-employment brings no competitive advantage, we’re seeing huge cuts.

New comment by hysan in "Judge rules DOGE cancellation of humanities grants was unconstitutional"

hysan — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:35:32 +0000

Probably nothing and it’ll also do nothing for the many people whose lives were drastically impacted by those cuts.

New comment by hysan in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

hysan — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:10:35 +0000

Turnstile feels bad as a user. Every site that I’ve seen it long will lock up Safari hard while it’s doing whatever it’s doing. But at least I haven’t run into more than 2 refresh loops.

Ask HN: Forced into Gemini on Google Account?

hysan — Sat, 02 May 2026 03:08:39 +0000

I got two emails from Google recently. One saying, “You’re now using Gemini on web” and the other saying, “Welcome to Gemini”

I never signed up for Gemini and I see nothing in those emails about how to disable or remove whatever it is that I supposedly signed up for. I did find others who have gotten the same thing out of nowhere and who have helpfully pointed me to a settings page to delete and turn off Gemini activity. However, I had done that and gotten that second email. Does anyone know why I’m getting these emails, how to unsubscribe to them, and how to get rid of whatever it is that I supposedly signed up for?

Other info - I don’t use Android. I don’t use Google as my primary search. I do use it as a fallback which is rare. All I really use Google for is Gmail and YouTube.

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New comment by hysan in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

hysan — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:52:01 +0000

Same. Google Maps quality has gotten noticeably worse these past 2 years for me. It routinely tries to navigate me to making impossible turns or taking weird and sometimes more dangerous routes just to shave off a potential minute. I started using Apple Maps at the advice of a colleague and it’s given better directions. This is all local. I have no baseline comparison for using maps while on trips.

New comment by hysan in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

hysan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:24:07 +0000

Took long enough. Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see them say how invested they are in tackling this. Promoting a rule is one thing, but everything SEO related becomes a cat and mouse game. I don’t have high confidence that this will work.

New comment by hysan in "Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK"

hysan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:45:08 +0000

Oh, so I’m not imagining this. Recently, I’ve tried to up my LLM usage to try and learn to use the tooling better. However, I’ve seen this happen with enough frequency that I’m just utterly frustrated with LLMs. Guess I should use Claude less and others more.

New comment by hysan in "A brief history of instant coffee"

hysan — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:25:08 +0000

Does it? It only takes like 2 min for my electric kettle to boil. If I was a more avid coffee/tea drinker, I’d get one of the always heated hot water dispensers that are common in Japanese households (def one of the appliances I miss since moving back to the US). Then you never have to wait.