Hacker News: isaacdl

New comment by isaacdl in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

isaacdl — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:19:32 +0000

Thanks for giving more information. Just as a comment on (1), a lot of people don't use X/social. That's never going to be a sustainable path to "improve this UX" since it's...not part of the UX of the product.

It's a little concerning that it's number 1 in your list.

OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads

isaacdl — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 19:11:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/02/openai-is-hoppin-mad-about-anthropics-new-super-bowl-tv-ads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903677

Points: 26

# Comments: 4

Tailwind lays off 75% of 4-person engineering team, citing brutal impact of AI

isaacdl — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:22:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/tailwind-engineer-layoffs-ai-github-2026-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827123

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

New comment by isaacdl in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

isaacdl — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:38:48 +0000

Anywhere we can read more about what a "harness issue" means? What was the impact of it?

New comment by isaacdl in "Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?"

isaacdl — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 18:52:08 +0000

Did you really mean 800/hr? Or is that a typo for 80/hr?

Local LLMs are how nerds now justify a big computer they don't need

isaacdl — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:12:04 +0000

Article URL: https://world.hey.com/dhh/local-llms-are-how-nerds-now-justify-a-big-computer-they-don-t-need-af2fcb7b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46618781

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by isaacdl in "I program on the subway"

isaacdl — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 21:56:43 +0000

> The ability to take a 30 minute meeting

At the small cost of making everyone around you miserable.

Bad Dye Job

isaacdl — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147150

Points: 19

# Comments: 2

New comment by isaacdl in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

isaacdl — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:27:18 +0000

FWIW, my print screen button does exactly the same thing, literally; it's opening the snipping tool in "select a region to screenshot" mode.

This is a setting in Snipping Tool (called "Use the Print screen key to open Snipping Tool").

When I encounter this bug, Win-Shift-S behaves identically (i.e. doesn't work).

New comment by isaacdl in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

isaacdl — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:21:53 +0000

I'm glad it's not just me struggling with the screenshot functionality. I've encountered the bugs you're describing, and recently, I've been encountering an incredibly frustrating one where hitting print screen just...doesn't do anything. The only way I've found to temporarily fix it is to manually open the Snipping Tool (via the Start menu) - then the print screen key starts working again for some indeterminate period of time.

New comment by isaacdl in "SpeedTest data shows Apple's N1 chip lifts the floor on iPhone WiFi performance"

isaacdl — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:40:26 +0000

They changed the headline on me after submission. I had to lightly edit (remove punctuation) to make it fit in the previous iteration.

SpeedTest data shows Apple's N1 chip lifts the floor on iPhone WiFi performance

isaacdl — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:46:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/testing-shows-apple-n1-wi-fi-chip-improves-on-older-broadcom-chips-in-every-way/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984166

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by isaacdl in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

isaacdl — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:45:13 +0000

This is really interesting. I'd considered a solo 401k at one point because a made a small amount of self-employment income in one year, but decided against it because it wasn't enough to be worth the hassle, and I didn't expect to keep having self-employment income. Now I wish I had gone through it, just so I'd have a place to roll over this old 401k. (Of course, now that I look, Vanguard doesn't do solo 401ks anymore and redirects to Ascensus, so might just be frying pan to fire anyway.)

New comment by isaacdl in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

isaacdl — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:08:50 +0000

I'd love to move the account (especially after this!), but unfortunately I can't because of what is basically an annoying side-effect. My current employer doesn't offer a 401k plan, and the only option I have for contributing to a Roth IRA is via backdoor contributions. Such backdoor contributions (which are basically an IRS-sanctioned loophole) have to start in a Traditional IRA account, and you cannot have any other/pre-existing Traditional IRA funds at the time of the contribution. So, I have nowhere to move the 401k funds besides an IRA account, but I have to leave my traditional IRA accounts empty so that I can do a backdoor contribution.

I wish the federal government would just get rid of the salary cap for direct contributions to a Roth IRA, since they basically already allow it via the obnoxious and convoluted path.

New comment by isaacdl in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

isaacdl — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:54:11 +0000

(Author of the comment you are talking about) To be clear, they DID link to the same FAQ, but hosted and branded on the new domain and name. I had to go digging to find the same info on the Guideline site I was already familiar with.

New comment by isaacdl in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

isaacdl — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:31:22 +0000

My guess is your different experience is precisely because you use Gusto as your payroll provider. My previous employer does not, or at least they did not when I was working there. This was truly the first and only email I've gotten about it, but I have always gotten regular transactional and notification emails from Guideline just fine, including yesterday with a confirmation that I'd changed my asset allocation!

New comment by isaacdl in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

isaacdl — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:24:08 +0000

I almost posted something this morning about this, because I received an email that really frustrated me. I have a 401k with Guideline from an old employer. The email was from Accrue , and said, in part:

> Login: Please visit my.accrue401k.com to log in. You’ll find that the 401(k) dashboard and user experience remain familiar. If you’ve set up your account, your same login credentials will provide you access into the dashboard. (Please note, Accrue does not currently offer a mobile app).

The my.accrue401k.com part was a hyperlink to that site. I've independently done some digging (and contacted my old employer to verify!) but this is precisely how a targeted phishing attack would work. Asking someone to enter their financial account credentials into a site they've never used or heard of, based entirely on an unsolicited email, is INSANE.

This email was the first time I've heard of Gusto, of Guideline being acquired, or of Accrue 401k (which apparently is the company created to hold Guideline's 401k accounts that are NOT affiliated with Gusto). Nice.

New comment by isaacdl in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

isaacdl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 21:13:56 +0000

I live alone, and just counted, I have 10 in regular use. A few more that can connect to WiFi but aren’t (why would I want my tower fans on the internet, anyway?)

I had probably 20 prior to swapping out some smart light bulbs and switches for Zigbee.

21 for an average household isn’t nuts.

New comment by isaacdl in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

isaacdl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:06:21 +0000

I don't think that's all that true for airliners. Pilots definitely practice for engine-out scenarios during all levels of training up to the airlines, but the ability of a plane the size of a 737 to safely land on anything but a runway is...limited. And if you're low, slow, and trying to go around, that's not a lot of time to glide to ground that is "level enough".

New comment by isaacdl in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

isaacdl — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:34:38 +0000

I do the same. You can still get neat 4-character domains for cheap in many TLDs (including .net, which just feels right for this purpose).