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New comment by iaaan in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

iaaan — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:32:35 +0000

I get that they're pushing AI really hard, but the article bearing so many of the hallmarks of being AI-generated almost feels crass, like there are no humans at the company who feel strongly enough about this device to author 5-6 enthusiastic paragraphs about its features, they had to outsource to something that can somewhat convincingly mimic enthusiasm. Yet I'm supposed to care...

New comment by iaaan in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

iaaan — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:40:07 +0000

I evangelized localstack at my company a while back, but as we integrated it deeper into our CI test runs we started running into more and more things they don't support, and it feels impossible to get any attention from their support/devs despite being paying customers.

Their Cloud Pod and ephemeral instance features in particular feel pretty half-baked and not very useful at the moment.

Fun tangent: it's pretty easy to write a crack for the pro version; we actually used that for about a month as a pilot to confirm that it would do what we needed it to.

New comment by iaaan in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

iaaan — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:30:21 +0000

Not the person you replied to, but I immediately switched back to iTerm2 after finding that Ghostty broke SSH to nearly all my servers by having an odd custom terminfo thing or something. iTerm2 requires no extra configuration after install on my end, whereas I needed to change several things about Ghostty and the UX for changing settings is terrible.

New comment by iaaan in "What AI coding costs you"

iaaan — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:51:44 +0000

Yes! I love to code. I love the entire process end-to-end. I love doing all the things people say they prefer to hand off to LLMs. Makes me sad to see all the people allowing corporations to slowly rob them of all the little joys this field has to offer.

New comment by iaaan in "Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away.""

iaaan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:06:47 +0000

At that point, why not just pirate and cut out the used disk middleman since the original creators aren't seeing any money from the purchase at that point anyway?

New comment by iaaan in "Layoffs at Block"

iaaan — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:16:11 +0000

Seconded. My experience has been that -- even while still complying with lots of overhead (e.g. government regulations and compliance) -- smaller teams of 1-3 devs move waaaaay faster than teams of 4-10. Could definitely speak to the overall codebase quality or some other factor, but yeah.

New comment by iaaan in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

iaaan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:54:04 +0000

My spouse and I regularly import vintage toys and collectables from Asian countries. We've paid hundreds of dollars in tariffs on items that this point about manufacturing doesn't apply to at all

New comment by iaaan in "PgX – Debug Postgres performance in the context of your application code"

iaaan — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 02:32:06 +0000

If you use OpenTelemetry, it basically does exactly that and you can send traces to some self-hosted FOSS visualizer, like Jaeger. You can also easily get the UUID of the spans/traces and have your logger automatically put them in every log message.

New comment by iaaan in "Giving the Jakks Atari Paddle a Spin"

iaaan — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:44:18 +0000

As soon as I saw the title I hoped this would be a nicole.express link and it was. Every post is gold.

New comment by iaaan in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

iaaan — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:15:50 +0000

No heart attacks or strokes? I'm in the same boat (hereditary issue), and altering my diet has never had any substantial effect on my numbers. I'm not overweight and rarely eat red meat, but have had trouble keeping onto a primary care physician long term (the people I keep picking seem to move between clinics constantly) in order to retain consistent access to a statin prescription, but as I continue to age I've been getting increasingly anxious that my time is coming.

Show HN: Compression-Resistant Data Transfers

iaaan — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:09:22 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ianling/steg-experiments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45555690

Points: 29

# Comments: 6

New comment by iaaan in "Is it possible to allow sideloading and keep users safe?"

iaaan — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:48:45 +0000

Devil's advocate: it seems similar to reassigning a lease if you want out before it ends. Lease reassignment is a common clause in rental agreements, it sounds like Apple simply allows you to reassign your indefinite device rental, unlike, for example, Tesla.

New comment by iaaan in "The V Programming Language"

iaaan — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 18:31:12 +0000

As someone who does a lot of Go, glancing over Factor's syntax in your links makes my eyes glaze over. I'm sure it's perfectly understandable if you take the time to learn it, but languages like Go and Python have the benefit of being nearly immediately understandable for anyone with prior experience

New comment by iaaan in "Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?"

iaaan — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:05:10 +0000

See the documentary Hypernormalization for a more in depth look at this feeling

New comment by iaaan in "U.S. senators introduce new pirate site blocking bill, "Block BEARD""

iaaan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:37:02 +0000

It's incorrect. The copyright holder of any work is obviously well within their rights to yank it from shelves (physical or otherwise). That doesn't make piracy legal.

New comment by iaaan in "Learning basic electronics by building fireflies"

iaaan — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:53:15 +0000

The naive programmer in me wants to assume, "It can't possibly be that hard to simulate a circuit," and get to work on prototyping my own simulation engine but the fact that this apparently has not ben adequately solved yet gives me pause.

New comment by iaaan in "Scientists may have found a way to eliminate chromosome linked to Down syndrome"

iaaan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:19:13 +0000

Hear me out: what if instead of subtracting one we added another one to even it out?

New comment by iaaan in "US companies, consumers are paying for tariffs, not foreign firms"

iaaan — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:36:24 +0000

Ah, so a base-2 order of magnitude /s

New comment by iaaan in "WireGuard client for macOS doesn't support split tunneling so I made one"

iaaan — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:57:45 +0000

It's AI slop. Split tunneling is one of the most basic things you can configure in Wireguard.

New comment by iaaan in "Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers"

iaaan — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 20:39:02 +0000

I wonder if there are any known vulnerabilities in various torrent clients' handling of tracker responses, e.g. buffer overflows. One could potentially amass a pretty large botnet.