Hacker News: jgauth

New comment by jgauth in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

jgauth — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:05:38 +0000

I've seen this sentiment often. For example, in a discussion about slow nvm load times: "Does adding 0.5s delay to opening your terminal really affect your productivity?"

I agree that these small things are not bottlenecks to my productivity. I can work just fine despite them. However there is some intangible effect they have on my mindset when I'm working. The more "snappy" my computer feels, the easier it is to enter a sort of flow state. Small bits of friction here and there add up.

New comment by jgauth in "Show HN: Oxyde – Pydantic-native async ORM with a Rust core"

jgauth — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:47:34 +0000

This looks great, and like it could address a need in ecosystem. Also, the admin dashboard is such a great feature of django, nice job building it from the get-go.

New comment by jgauth in "Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations"

jgauth — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:02:19 +0000

I believe we already saw something like this happen with the PG&E power outage in San Francisco in December. The waymo post-mortem [1] describes the outage causing a backlog of RA requests, which seems to have resulted in cars blocking roads an intersections. I would imagine they've improved the system after that incident, however.

[1] https://waymo.com/blog/2025/12/autonomously-navigating-the-r...

New comment by jgauth in "Building a TUI is easy now"

jgauth — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:16:52 +0000

Charm looks good. What is the TUI library of choice for python these days?

New comment by jgauth in "Vouch"

jgauth — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:16:38 +0000

Cool to see you here on HN! I just discovered the openpilot repository a few days ago and am having a great time digging through the codebase to learn how it all works. Msgq/cereal, Params, visionipc, the whole log message system in general. Some very interesting stuff in there.

New comment by jgauth in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

jgauth — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:20:10 +0000

> Am I missing something here wrt Jellyfin clients?

Unfortunately, I don't think so. I had many issues with playback on ATV using Swiftfin. Infuse works very well, so it is worth the ~$15 yearly to me. I am hopeful that Swiftfin will improve over time, they have a few dedicated developers working on it.

New comment by jgauth in "State of the Fin 2026-01-06"

jgauth — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:04:58 +0000

Which app are you using on your TV? I've had success direct-playing 4K content with the jellyfin Android TV app. On AppleTV, Infuse works well. Infuse isn't free, but it is worth the money to me.

New comment by jgauth in "Code formatting comes to uv experimentally"

jgauth — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:04:11 +0000

This is cool. Is there a way to call ruff’s linter? Like `uv lint`, which would call `ruff check`.

To your analogy, it’d be like `cargo clippy`

New comment by jgauth in "Never write your own date parsing library"

jgauth — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:27:11 +0000

"The Hunt for Red October" had an interesting way of handling this with the Russian speakers. The movie starts with them speaking Russian with English subtitles, does a slow zoom into the Russian-speaker's lips, and switches to English mid-sentence.

New comment by jgauth in "Show HN: Subtrace – Wireshark for Docker Containers"

jgauth — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:12:45 +0000

Looks like it is for http requests only? If so, wireshark is not an apt comparison.

New comment by jgauth in "The Joy of Nand2Tetris"

jgauth — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:14:50 +0000

Do you have a recommendation for a book or course that teaches these things better? In particular FSMs.

New comment by jgauth in "WebSockets cost us $1M on our AWS bill"

jgauth — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:49:49 +0000

Did you read the article? It is about the CPU cost of using WebSockets to transfer data over loopback.

New comment by jgauth in "Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3"

jgauth — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 03:10:28 +0000

This update is great news. I was disappointed to see the issue that got raised last week, and I had started to consider looking for alternatives. I’m going to assume an honest mistake on their end and keep recommending their product. However, if they make a similar move again, I will assume the worst and move on.

New comment by jgauth in "Developing with Docker"

jgauth — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:26:17 +0000

> What if running the linters was as easy as: $ docker compose exec web /scripts/run-linters

This seems to ignore the fact that I also run linters in my IDE to get immediate feedback as I’m writing code. As far as I know there’s no way to combine these two approaches. Currently I’m just careful to make sure my local ruff version matches the one used in CI.

It may be possible with VS Code dev containers, but last time I looked at those I was turned off by the complexity.

New comment by jgauth in "DevToys v2.0 Preview"

jgauth — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 04:24:32 +0000

This looks like it could be a really great tool. I was excited to try it, but unfortunately the app is pretty unusable for me on Ubuntu. It has been frequently crashing with "an unhandled error has occured". When it's not crashing, it seems to be running at 5-10 FPS. It also seems to be hogging CPU, with some WebKit process running at 250+% CPU.

This is just a preview, so I'm hopeful the developers can work these issues out. Judging by their website, I could see this being a useful tool!

New comment by jgauth in "The Home Assistant Green is here"

jgauth — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:05:46 +0000

I recently discovered the home-assistant supervisor [1] repository. It's awesome to see such a well-designed, mature, and actively maintained open-source python application. I've found that there's no shortage of high quality python libraries and frameworks to learn from, but open-source applications aren't as common. I love coming across repos like this so I can study their design.

[1] https://github.com/home-assistant/supervisor

New comment by jgauth in "You can't optimize for rest (2021)"

jgauth — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:59:47 +0000

Can you describe more what you mean? Are you suggesting one could live by selling their home and purchasing a new one every 2 years, and doing something with credit secured by the home(s)? How does that relate to rest?

New comment by jgauth in "Taxonomy of Procrastination"

jgauth — Mon, 15 May 2023 18:24:26 +0000

What is a self discipline workout?

New comment by jgauth in "Software component names should be whimsical and cryptic"

jgauth — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 13:56:22 +0000

Where does Murphy come from?

New comment by jgauth in "Ask HN: Whatever happened to dedicated sound cards?"

jgauth — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 16:17:38 +0000

> No interference

This has not been my experience at all. For my 5" powered studio monitors, the _only_ way to get a interference-free signal from my desktop computer was with an optical cable to an external DAC.