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New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

ioman — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:55:13 +0000

Mine was using VScode with copilot. Previously I had used tab completion and thought it was pretty neat. This time I began with the comment for a function I wanted to write. And the entire function just appeared below the comment. Written probably better than I would have. I remember saying, “uh-oh” out loud.

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: How to store and share passwords in a company?"

ioman — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:30:54 +0000

1Password has shared vaults, 1Password for Business has the concept of groups.

New comment by ioman in "[dead]"

ioman — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 02:05:14 +0000

Elon goes off on government subsidies, just not his.

New comment by ioman in "FreeBSD 14.0-Release"

ioman — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:31:44 +0000

Oh, look who has a fancy cable modem! Back in my day, we had to do it with 14.4 kbaud modems (really) after walking to school, uphill both ways in the snow (not really).

New comment by ioman in "Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac"

ioman — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:32:00 +0000

Further, apparently it's going to start up whenever I log in. Why?

New comment by ioman in "Show HN: Ollama – Run LLMs on your Mac"

ioman — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:30:38 +0000

Looks cool. I downloaded it, moved it to the applications directory and opened it. It's asking for Administrator access to install the command line. Why?

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?"

ioman — Sun, 21 May 2023 23:33:03 +0000

Went and checked my 1Password. Apparently, I have nearly 1,800! My oldest remaining password was created in 2010, so I've been using it for a while.

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?"

ioman — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 17:05:54 +0000

I have the same thing. However, my office is in my garage and it's quite cold in the winter. I have my smart plug set to start it up at 4:00 AM to warm it up for me.

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: What lesser-known accessories do you use with your computer?"

ioman — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:31:48 +0000

I've bought a Kinesis Advantage about every three years since 2003 (I think). Still the best keyboard out there despite being USB-A and the lack of bluetooth. I really want to like the Kinesis 360, but the lack of a function key row keeps me from buying one.

New comment by ioman in "Show HN: Duffel (YC S18) – A faster way to sell flights"

ioman — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:22:31 +0000

This is a market I wish I understood better.

If I understand this correctly, the target market is airlines that need to sell flights online and that don't have (or don't want) the staff to do it in house. According to Wikipedia, there are about 5,000 airlines currently. Large airlines seem unlikely to want to outsource this, but I'm guessing there aren't too many airlines that size (only about 300 use Sabre).

I wouldn't have thought there would be a market big enough for a startup like this, but I appear to be wrong. I'm guessing their biggest challenge will be customer acquisition. But as I said, this is a market I wish I understood better.

New comment by ioman in "Military shoots down another high-altitude object, over Lake Huron: officials"

ioman — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 23:42:47 +0000

I'm assuming that the cost of building and launching these balloons is lower that launching fighter aircraft to shoot them down with missiles. I wonder if we're about to see thousands.

New comment by ioman in "Morning exposure to deep red light improves declining eyesight"

ioman — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 13:57:00 +0000

You can find devices like this online by googling "670 nm led"

New comment by ioman in "Tell HN: AWS connectivity issues, but health dashboard says everything fine"

ioman — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 20:51:42 +0000

AWS is the 800 pound gorilla in the cloud space. Are any of the other cloud providers better with customer honesty?

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: How to make a photogenic server room"

ioman — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 04:35:57 +0000

Doors. Get doors on the racks and screen print them with the company logo. It looks sharp, doesn't cost much, and hides a multitude of sins.

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2022)"

ioman — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 15:03:23 +0000

CodexDF | Greater Seattle Area or REMOTE | Full Time | Multiple roles

We are a small, rapidly growing, high leverage team. Our expertise is in enterprise software, operations and most important, customer focused solutions for the complex tax and accounting challenges around digital assets. We move quickly and partner with some of the most innovative crypto funds, projects, and businesses around the world.

We are seeking engineers that ideally have a mix of large and small company experience, and who enjoys the agility and autonomy of a smaller company rapidly building innovative services.

We are not an exchange, trading platform, payment provider, NFT studio, Metaverse play, mining company, or wallet provider. We do not buy, sell, or hold crypto assets. We are building the world’s most sophisticated platform for digital asset tax and accounting compliance.

Open Positions:

  - Principal Architect, DeFi Data Model

  - Senior Software Engineer - Database Architecture

  - Senior Software Engineer – DeFi Analysis

  - Senior Software Engineer – Enterprise Account Model

  - Software Engineer – Web Product Development

  - Technical Product Manager

  - UX/Copy Writer

  - Senior DevOps Engineer

    https://codexdf.bamboohr.com/jobs/

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary

  • Great equity upside in an early-stage startup

  • 90% remote - generally 3 days/month in Seattle

  • Unlimited paid vacation and nine company holidays

  • We pay the entire portion (100%) of our employee premiums for medical, dental and vision and 75% of the premium for any dependents you elect to cover on your medical, dental and vision coverage.

If this opportunity is a match to your qualifications and interest, please email me at paulh asperand codexdf period Charlie Oscar Mike

        Codex DF is an equal employment employer.

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: Does anyone else miss TouchID?"

ioman — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:34:41 +0000

I don't miss it. I still use my iPhone 8. When it dies, I'll get an iPhone SE. I will keep TouchID until they pry it out from under my cold dead thumb.

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book?"

ioman — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 21:41:44 +0000

Pretty much anything by Neal Stephenson but especially:

The Baroque Cycle trilogy

Anathem

New comment by ioman in "Phone is still the best way to order pizza"

ioman — Sun, 30 Jan 2022 13:03:24 +0000

My local pizza place in Seattle has moved the technology the other way. Here’s the dialog when I call. “Pagliacci Pizza, how can I help you?” “I’d like to order a pizza” “Sure thing. Is this John Smith?” “Yes” “Do you still live at 1234 Main Street” “Yes” “Would you like to order the same thing you did last time?” “Yes” “Ok, it’ll be there in 20 minutes”

Even better, while you talk to the store you called, the order goes into some sort of pizza load balancer and gives the order to the least busy store with a good drive time to your house.

I’d seriously like to buy/have a beer for/with whoever designed it.

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: How do you avoid dopamine addiction on social media?"

ioman — Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:53:42 +0000

I mostly don't use Twitter, Facebook, or Reddit. I have reason to log into my Facebook account a few times a year. The only reason I log into Twitter is when I get a link to a Twitter thread, same with Reddit. I'm no paragon of restraint, I had to delete Universal Paperclip from my phone to quit playing it. I guess the easiest way to deal with any addiction is not to become addicted in the first place. Not great advice for people who are already addicted. . .

New comment by ioman in "Ask HN: Where are you getting your money's worth?"

ioman — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 13:19:23 +0000

Fast, excellent customer support.