Hacker News: kaiwn

New comment by kaiwn in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

kaiwn — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:36:00 +0000

Because it’s faster and cheaper, which are two very important metrics?

New comment by kaiwn in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

kaiwn — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:52:53 +0000

He’s not saying he accidentally skipped the prompt, he’s saying he didn’t get any.

New comment by kaiwn in "I tracked 7,700 UK petrol stations every 10 minutes for 3 months"

kaiwn — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:03:10 +0000

That’s… 3.3 r/s?

New comment by kaiwn in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

kaiwn — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:11:32 +0000

The buttons can’t be operated underwater. You’ve been lucky thus far. Casio asks you not to use the buttons underwater.

https://www.casio-intl.com/asia/en/wat/water_resistance/

> Even if a watch is water-resistant, do not operate its buttons or crown while it is submersed in water or wet.

New comment by kaiwn in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

kaiwn — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:10:11 +0000

2 mm thicker and 58 grams heavier than the latest iPhone.

New comment by kaiwn in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

kaiwn — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:23:57 +0000

Every anti-establishment person is the same nowadays. Turns out they didn’t hate the power, they hated not having it. I think it’s human nature.

New comment by kaiwn in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

kaiwn — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:19:18 +0000

This is so sloppy I really doubt this is an attempt at malware. It’s more likely the author is, uh, “socially unaware”.

New comment by kaiwn in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

kaiwn — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:37:51 +0000

Let me google the name of the author of this blog...

Oh...

New comment by kaiwn in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

kaiwn — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:00:03 +0000

lmao, I think I read it here and then I proceeded to think I came up with it myself. I’m a fraud. (I put “concrete” into the search field and found it)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47996022

New comment by kaiwn in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

kaiwn — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:41:46 +0000

Programming with Claude is still engineering. It is like designing a bridge, which remains engineering even when a worker pours the concrete instead of you.

In the past we were forced to pour the concrete ourselves. I understand how many of us enjoyed the sound and the smell of the concrete being poured. Myself, I’m happy to never get my hands dirty again, and focus on the actual engineering.