Hacker News: karl_gluck

New comment by karl_gluck in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

karl_gluck — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:18:39 +0000

You have said this in a few places throughout the thread. At this point, citation is needed.

I work for a real business and switched from API billing to max+overflow. It saves money. It’s crazy not to. What are you talking about?

New comment by karl_gluck in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

karl_gluck — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:14:56 +0000

Not the op, but it’s fairly easy to hit if you automate a kanban and have some stuff you want to get done. All those little “wouldn’t it be great if” tasks that show up after doing a big task become very doable, it just soaks your tokens.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Claude Code Routines"

karl_gluck — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:38:07 +0000

This is exactly why my preferred method at the moment is simple markdown files with instructions. At worst, a human could do it.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

karl_gluck — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:49:37 +0000

Yes, but at this point I'd almost rather have my CC info exposed than my personal info. There is law and consequence for fraudulent charges that protects me from loss (if not inconvenience) but there is basically no protection for playing fast and loose with my PII--in fact, it's the opposite! They sell it!

New comment by karl_gluck in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

karl_gluck — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:02:35 +0000

karlgluck.com

New comment by karl_gluck in "Things you can do with a debugger but not with print debugging"

karl_gluck — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 04:11:20 +0000

There was a time when I built games entirely using Visual Studio 6 Edit and Continue. These were the days when debuggers were reliable. Nowadays, I treat the debugger’s output like a best guess: it’s probably right about local variable values and the call stack, but it sometimes has nothing useful to say, and very occasionally is actively misleading.

New comment by karl_gluck in "An "oh fuck" moment in time"

karl_gluck — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:43:31 +0000

Thanks for this -- have been using Cody a lot and just tried Windsurf on my hobby project. So far it seems immediately like a step up. Has anyone paid for it? The free version is doing good work.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Facebook and Instagram's 'pay or consent' ad model violates the DMA, says the EU"

karl_gluck — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 16:22:27 +0000

If a company provides a service for free to enable selling something else, and that something else becomes illegal to sell, then it’s up to the company whether they want to keep offering the free service. They can’t continue doing things that are now illegal just because that’s how they made money in the past. No decision-making power has been taken away.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG"

karl_gluck — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 03:26:33 +0000

Congratulations! Happy to hear you describe making an indie mmo as fun and not that hard these days :)

Is there a way to interact or chat on mobile?

New comment by karl_gluck in "When do we stop finding new music?"

karl_gluck — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 23:25:46 +0000

Any recommendations?

New comment by karl_gluck in "A quick post on Chen's algorithm"

karl_gluck — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:47:11 +0000

Check out the Winternitz One-Time Signature

Sphere10.com/articles/cryptography/pqc/wots

Signing many things with one identity is possible by precomputing a Merkle tree, but this takes time and the signatures get big.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Stirling-PDF: local web application to perform various operations on PDFs"

karl_gluck — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 21:14:06 +0000

Google Apps Script can do all of this. Take the email body and put it into a Google doc, then export the doc as a pdf to drive and attach it from there to send.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Mortality patterns for patients hospitalized during cardiology meetings (2016)"

karl_gluck — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 14:39:05 +0000

Wow, the exact opposite of what I might have guessed from the title.

Does this mean percutaneous coronary intervention [PCI] is over-applied, or something else?

New comment by karl_gluck in "Shamir Secret Sharing"

karl_gluck — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:46:28 +0000

Another implementation:

https://github.com/karlgluck/ThresholdJS

This is a very straightforward encoding of a single 256-bit number.

New comment by karl_gluck in "Why Tcl?"

karl_gluck — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:50:49 +0000

This is a more interesting take to me than others since it seems you’ve actually learned it?

I see the response later that you’d rather use whatever the team already uses, but could you explain this very strong opinion?

I maintained a 200,000 loc TCL codebase running the front end for millions of lines of industrial C spread over hundreds of machines. It was glorious. After moving on, I’m still struggling to figure out why TCL is so unpopular outside that domain. Other comments seem to boil down to not understanding the language or how to apply it. So what’s your take?

New comment by karl_gluck in "Why Tcl?"

karl_gluck — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:29:16 +0000

Yeah—as a TCL fan, I agree. Comparing implementations of common coding tasks with other languages doesn’t highlight TCL’s strengths or, really, its purpose.

Personally, TCL fits a niche like QBASIC did. QBASIC was the shortest path from brain -> code drawing on a monitor. Literally 1 line to draw a shape, no initialization and not even an entry point function.

TCL similarly lets you just get on with what you’re doing when you need glue code, GUI’s, and DSL’s. It is easily (even trivially) able to do things that are just a pain in other languages, especially all at once:

- interop with native code (no limits on who calls who or in what order)

- define GUI’s that behave well without it being a huge pain to make anything non-trivial (lookin at you, UE5)

- create novel control flow that feels built-in

- implement an interactive GUI debugger with breakpoints & variable watch in ~200 LOC (saw this once, it’s amazing what you get “for free”)

- save or load a running program’s entire state, including code defined at runtime

- detour any function, allowing you to optimize or patch on the fly

- run from tiny, standalone executables so your users don’t have to install a ton of crap just to run your widget

There’s more but you get the idea. It’s been around for decades for a reason :)

New comment by karl_gluck in "Codespaces but open-source, client-only, and unopinionated"

karl_gluck — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 19:20:10 +0000

Same. I started building an automated solution for building gamedev environments in VM’s[1] but I can’t help but think there should be a better way.

[1] https://github.com/karlgluck/swiss-chocolatey-lab

Is Google Maps always listening?

karl_gluck — Tue, 09 May 2023 14:37:42 +0000

I was driving friends home from an event a couple days ago, and was navigating with Google Maps on an iPhone 7.

We were discussing a future trip to a local attraction with a unique name.

Without any action on our part, Google Maps popped up a green UI element with a timer button that I’ve never seen before. It prompted us to add a stop at the attraction we were discussing.

How the hell did this happen? I can only think of:

1- Microphone input was enabled. However, the phone was not touched since the start of the trip 30 minutes before. Was it listening the whole time? The attraction is one of the ones that shows a map ad no matter what you search for, so maybe they get special treatment?

2- One of the passengers had a Google Pixel of some sort. Maybe we accidentally triggered that phone and it coordinated GPS signals to show the prompt to the driver?

Regardless of how it was done, this was unsettling. It felt very invasive and I don’t trust this app any longer.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35874978

Points: 5

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New comment by karl_gluck in "Reflect – App for recording and connecting notes, ideas and contacts"

karl_gluck — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 16:29:41 +0000

For years I’ve been pouring through all the apps/platforms like this, but after being burned too many times I am (incredibly) reluctant to tie my second brain to a box that will lock itself unless I pay. Even if it’s just an interface, it’s too disruptive when my whole workflow is upended by a service getting bought/shutting down/“upgrading” to break old features/increases fees.

I see a “free trial”. That plus the landing page not mentioning open source, a permanent license, or common/interchangeable formats bounced me immediately, despite what I’m sure are some great capabilities that folks put a lot of time and work into. Maybe I’m missing something? Is that kind of app not sustainable so we don’t see them, or do I just not know where to look?

New comment by karl_gluck in "Universal flu vaccine against all known subtypes takes promising first steps"

karl_gluck — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:03:10 +0000

That’s what I thought too, until a friend sent me the paper “Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination” published a few weeks ago:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciimmunol.ade2798

From what I can understand, it seems mRNA vaccines can cause a non-inflammatory response to actual infection that prolongs the disease. I’m supportive of vaccination, but that doesn’t mean side effects can’t happen especially with new technology.