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New comment by interstice in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

interstice — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:07:11 +0000

Scrabble is 250-280k uk edition - wouldn't want to go too much beyond that I suspect. Where'd 10 mil come from?

New comment by interstice in "Dune3d: A parametric 3D CAD application"

interstice — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:44:42 +0000

This thread has turned into a great resource! build123d has been my favourite conceptually so far (it's just Python) but vcad looks very clean too. I like the abuse of + and - in both of these for booleans.

New comment by interstice in "Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars"

interstice — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:11:55 +0000

I've had a few experiences in France, as recently as a month ago. Not speaking French (I do not) is not generally a problem, no one seems to mind. What some parts of Europe do mind is being too... How do I put this politely... Obviously from certain places with very little sensitivity for where in the the world they happen to be at the time. Often loudly.

New comment by interstice in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

interstice — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:55:45 +0000

Glad to know I'm not the only one that thinks along these lines, and presumably by extension that teleportation by delete and rebuild mechanics would be mass murder.

You might no longer be you in the sense of you behave quite differently, but I remember being 16 and I don't behave like that either. The discontinuity is the point, as you eloquently put it.

New comment by interstice in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

interstice — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:48:02 +0000

I've found recent versions of Claude and codex to be reluctant in this regard. They will recognise the problem they created a few minutes ago but often behave as if someone else did it. In many ways that's true though, I suppose.

New comment by interstice in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

interstice — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:44:58 +0000

Not get stuck on an incorrect train of thought, not ignore core instructions in favour of training data like breaking naming conventions across sessions or long contexts, not confidently state "I completely understand the problem and this will definitely work this time" for the 5th time without actually checking. I could go on.

New comment by interstice in "LLMs can be exhausting"

interstice — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:20:14 +0000

I've just come off a 2 month bender using Claude Code for, well, far too much. I had 5 instances running at once for days on end. It felt amazing, it felt like flying. And then something gave way and I couldn't focus on anything for 3 days. Diagnosed with ADHD some time ago I fell into this kind of trap well before LLM's, but not to this degree.

So I'm writing code by hand today and using Claude to track down type and dependency errors. It feels good, I might do this for a while.

New comment by interstice in "I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites"

interstice — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:18:29 +0000

It is the users responsibility to operate foot guns responsibly.

New comment by interstice in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"

interstice — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:50:00 +0000

Nzer but some cultural overlap between here and Aus, that’s far too advanced. Auckland for eg has almost unusable busses and trains but the answer to congestion is apparently to make it impossible to park in the cbd, rather than make any actual improvements.

New comment by interstice in "Llm9p: LLM as a Plan 9 file system"

interstice — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:39:47 +0000

Isn’t that just editing the main Claude.md? A bit loose but I’ve been getting Claude to edit its own settings a fair bit.

New comment by interstice in "Arabic document from 17th-cent. rubbish heap confirms semi-legendary Nubian king"

interstice — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:42:08 +0000

Like, modern and understandable? I ask because English from more than a few hundred years ago is basically gibberish so I’m curious about languages where that didn’t happen.

New comment by interstice in "VTT Test Donut Lab Battery Reaches 80% Charge in Under 10 Minutes [pdf]"

interstice — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:14:38 +0000

Would be nice if they added some more detail about the battery like dimensions and weight, or did I miss that part.

New comment by interstice in "Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation"

interstice — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:13:17 +0000

Not to mention so many ads it’s no longer usable.

New comment by interstice in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

interstice — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:06:03 +0000

I built one of these and I really wanted to love it, but in the end gave up because I just couldn't get comfortable with 3+ layers. On the lookout for a reasonably aesthetic TKL split - at least until I give in and make my own.

New comment by interstice in "Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed"

interstice — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:38:08 +0000

This is my favourite way to iterate, but the hard lesson is at some point after trying a bunch of things comes the Big Cleanup (tm). Is that a potential issue for this with Zig?

New comment by interstice in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

interstice — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:36:56 +0000

So if it can generate exactly what you had in mind based presumably on the most subtle of cues like your personal quirks from a few sentences that could be _terrifying_, right?

New comment by interstice in "I am happier writing code by hand"

interstice — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:47:21 +0000

Doesn't this mean the ones that should be really worried are the project managers, since the SWE has better understanding over what's being done and can now orchestrate from a PM level?

My Airships – My "No. 9," the Little Runabout

interstice — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:43:30 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/My_Airships/Chapter_22

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46933423

Points: 1

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New comment by interstice in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

interstice — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:45:12 +0000

Isn’t that carcinogenic?

New comment by interstice in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

interstice — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:35:45 +0000

The dropdown systems are something else, I spent almost as much time on that as I did on the rest of the interface when I tried Shadcn.