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New comment by iaaan in "French musician Kavinsky found dead"

iaaan — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:50:48 +0000

Maybe most recognizable: New Wave

New comment by iaaan in "Apple Upgrade"

iaaan — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:43:59 +0000

What I really want is a trade-in system that pays out closer to what I'd get selling my Macbook on Craigslist or something. I want to stay within Apple's ecosystem and upgrade regularly, but I'd end up having to shell out nearly full price every time to do so, so I don't upgrade and no money changes hands at all. If they weren't quite so greedy with it, they could easily extract hundreds from me per year.

New comment by iaaan in "Chatto is now open source"

iaaan — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:49:18 +0000

Yep, instantly lost all interest. I'm not sure how impressive it is that somebody vibecoded a browser-based chat app over the course of several months. I also don't know what difference it makes that the dev is a really cool guy, or whatever; I'm sure he is, but the usage of AI is unethical, plain and simple, and I won't support it at all whenever feasible.

New comment by iaaan in "Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep"

iaaan — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:07:31 +0000

Any idea how that works? Something with the microphone maybe?

New comment by iaaan in "I feel like giving up on coding"

iaaan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:08:54 +0000

> But some of us just want to get something out of our heads and built without months of back and forth with a developer.

A different perspective:

I'd like to still be employed 5 years from now in the field I've spent all of my adult life building a career in.

New comment by iaaan in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

iaaan — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:04:28 +0000

No it did not!

New comment by iaaan in "Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year"

iaaan — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:55:36 +0000

I've seen physical billboards in the Portland, OR area for OpenAI, so I guess that accounts for at least part of it. Not really sure what kind of return they're getting on those but apparently they can just do whatever they want, even if they're losing money.

New comment by iaaan in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

iaaan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:36:18 +0000

Anecdotally, 2012 is when I got back in to reading for pleasure, as a 16-year-old. I had no friends though, and thought someone cute might see me reading and become interested in me.

Prior to that, I stopped reading because video games were easy to get lost in endlessly. At the time, I recall I was probably playing a lot of League of Legends, TF2, Minecraft, and probably some others -- all of which I felt I could pretty much sink an infinite amount of time into, at the time.

New comment by iaaan in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

iaaan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:44:44 +0000

I, very genuinely, highly recommend reading the Wikipedia page about the Luddites if you feel confused. This is a class consciousness problem. People feel conflicted because they know they aren't acting in their own best interests when they use generative AI (i.e. it does not lead us, as a society, to a good place -- mainly due to our bought-out legislature).

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

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