Hacker News: joeframbach

New comment by joeframbach in "Replace axios with a simple custom fetch wrapper"

joeframbach — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:17:03 +0000

In the case of authentication redirect, any inflight request is going to fail and you're about to navigate in a few milliseconds, so I don't resolve those promises. Return new Promise(() => {}).

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

joeframbach — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:28:07 +0000

I figured out why it wouldn't work on my machine:

    @media (prefers-reduced-motion: reduce) {
        *, *::before, *::after {
            animation-duration: 0.01ms !important;
            animation-iteration-count: 1 !important;
            transition-duration: 0.01ms !important;
        }
    }

With reduced-motion enabled (which is basically required in Tahoe :eyeroll:), animations complete immediately and there is no chance to click the salt/water.

New comment by joeframbach in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:21:07 +0000

I've been involved in so many CRs where I've given feedback over 10 revs, then the submitter cancels the CR and files a new one, for the metrics.

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:12:56 +0000

The fact that there is an entire _industry_ of tools to patch every little shortcoming speaks volumes of Apple's usability.

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:50:47 +0000

Nah, I installed karabiner and set up command+q to require a three-second holddown to activate.

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:23:10 +0000

Is this where I can complain about command+q? All day every day I use command+tab/tilde/w/a/s, and smack in the middle of that is command q. It's like if automobile manufacturers decided to put a third pedal between the accelerator and the brake that immediately shuts off your car in the middle of the highway. And you can't disable it, instead you can map it to such helpful things like... invert colors.

New comment by joeframbach in "No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands"

joeframbach — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:59:18 +0000

I'm of the opinion that over-hiring was a strategic move to make hiring more expensive for competitors. Look up those popular profit-per-employee lists that circulate now and then. Spending $1 to make hiring $1 more expensive for your competition makes business sense. And even if Bob and Sue and Jim and Alice have redundant roles in the company, that's three competitors who couldn't fill that role. Does Google _really_ need a South Lake Union office location? Probably not, the entire building is likely redundant. But it siphons talent from the neighbors.

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

joeframbach — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:44:19 +0000

See also: Horcrux. https://github.com/jefdaj/horcrux

New comment by joeframbach in "A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study"

joeframbach — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:41:51 +0000

You realize you are responding to a brand new account posting an obviously AI-generated response?

New comment by joeframbach in "A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study"

joeframbach — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 15:21:46 +0000

Does the browser expose its accessibility tree instead of the raw dom element tree? The accessibility tree should be enough, I mean, it's all that's needed for vision impaired customers, and technically the ai agent _is_ a vision impaired customer. For a fair usage, try the accessibility tree.

New comment by joeframbach in "Bugs Apple loves"

joeframbach — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:49:43 +0000

esc is the dismiss-the-modal-and-lose-all-your-work key.

New comment by joeframbach in "Bugs Apple loves"

joeframbach — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:19:51 +0000

Yes, every time you send a message from an iPhone you MUST append a trailing space, just to be sure it won't fuck up the last word when it sends.

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same"

joeframbach — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:25:33 +0000

This concept is a duplicate :) we already had r9k

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities"

joeframbach — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:12:08 +0000

Please consider improving the color contrast. The text is gray-on-gray and impossible to read.

New comment by joeframbach in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"

joeframbach — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:07:45 +0000

So, the Powerbook Duo Dock?

New comment by joeframbach in "Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending"

joeframbach — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:31:39 +0000

Print out the invoice, write a check, and mail it in?

New comment by joeframbach in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

joeframbach — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:41:55 +0000

It probably wasn't the rmdir command that deleted the parent folder by itself, but the LLM did the traversal. The LLM probably did this:

    rmdir D:\dir one\dir two\file

Detected that it failed, then the LLM issued the traversal command

    rmdir D:\dir one\dir two

And so on...

    rmdir D:\dir one

And then that failed, so...

    rmdir D:\

New comment by joeframbach in "Fluid Glass"

joeframbach — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:17:59 +0000

I have accidentally swipe-navigated far more times than I have ever purposefully swipe-navigated (zero times), so I am astounded to see someone who hasn't rage-disabled that misfeature upon installation of the OS.

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Hacker News: joeframbach

New comment by joeframbach in "Replace axios with a simple custom fetch wrapper"

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

New comment by joeframbach in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

New comment by joeframbach in "I don't know Apple's endgame for the Fn/Globe key–or if Apple does"

New comment by joeframbach in "No one wants to admit the real reason corporations are laying off thousands"

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

New comment by joeframbach in "A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study"

New comment by joeframbach in "A verification layer for browser agents: Amazon case study"

New comment by joeframbach in "Bugs Apple loves"

New comment by joeframbach in "Bugs Apple loves"

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same"

New comment by joeframbach in "Show HN: I Ching simulator with accurate Yarrow Stalk probabilities"

New comment by joeframbach in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"

New comment by joeframbach in "Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending"

New comment by joeframbach in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

New comment by joeframbach in "Fluid Glass"

New comment by joeframbach in "Debounce"