Hacker News: khy

New comment by khy in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

khy — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:56:20 +0000

That sun is very similar to the one from the background of this other top HN post about the OS museum: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195009

New comment by khy in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

khy — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:51:49 +0000

Could this open Cantor Fitzgerald up to class action law suits from consumers who ultimately paid the refunded tariffs?

New comment by khy in "How Samba Was Written (2003)"

khy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:33:51 +0000

I would say in this case it makes it enigmatic.

New comment by khy in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

khy — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:16:37 +0000

Tailwind Plus is great - I love the lifetime access, but I always wondered how sustainable that model was. Even without AI, how many of those memberships could they sell?

New comment by khy in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

khy — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:27:53 +0000

I've been using Claude Code in their iOS app (on a Pro account). I just point it at my GitHub repo, and tell it to work on one of the issues I created. It required very little setup beyond what I did for Claude Code CLI.

New comment by khy in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

khy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:14:50 +0000

> Any consolidation like this seems like a negative for consumers.

I tend to see much more discussion about how the main downside is for sellers of content. Why is this bad for consumers?

New comment by khy in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

khy — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:16:28 +0000

Watterson serves as one of the symbols of an era when selling out was considered a great sin. It makes me laugh how thoroughly that idea - that selling out is bad - has been defeated.

That being said, I'm sure he would've done it the same way today.

New comment by khy in "Phone numbers for use in TV shows, films and creative works"

khy — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:18:01 +0000

The Simpsons went more meta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qh1JlNaOxo

New comment by khy in "Bundler Belongs to the Ruby Community"

khy — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:03:37 +0000

> back when “Carlhuda” was a super-prolific author of Ruby libraries, including most of the work to modularize Rails for version 3

Wow, hadn't thought about that in a while. For a laugh, go back and take a look at some of the architectural choices they were replacing.

New comment by khy in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"

khy — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:20:41 +0000

All The Simpsons episodes are on my YouTube TV DVR, along with a lot of the shows my kids like (although really what they care about is a couple channels on YouTube proper), so even before this I was wondering why I was paying for Disney+ at all.

New comment by khy in "Crates.io phishing attempt"

khy — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 15:38:17 +0000

A little thing that doesn't help the situation is when legitimate emails link you to domains that aren't obviously controlled by the company.

For example, yesterday at work I got an onboarding email from Lattice (lattice.com) with a link to latticehq.com, which triggered my phishing instincts before I remembered that was their old domain.

New comment by khy in "Locality of Behaviour (2020)"

khy — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:15:02 +0000

It's kind of an expression of the success of an abstraction. If an abstraction is good (hx-get="/clicked"), it feels local. If an abstraction is bad (id="d1"), it's spooky action at a distance.

New comment by khy in "US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law"

khy — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 16:26:41 +0000

So a site just needs to generate enough content until its under that threshold?

New comment by khy in "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit"

khy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:59:07 +0000

Good bit of trivia:

> In 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired the trademark of Oswald (with NBCUniversal effectively trading Oswald for the services of Al Michaels as play-by-play announcer on NBC Sunday Night Football)

New comment by khy in "Malaya's Timeless Design"

khy — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:47:16 +0000

I get the sense that a lot of science in the 19th century was done by the idle rich.

New comment by khy in "Gene Hackman has died"

khy — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:41:28 +0000

Just came across this, which I enjoyed: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wes-anderson-difficulty-working...

New comment by khy in "Wonder is acquiring Grubhub"

khy — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 20:22:52 +0000

A Wonder just opened near my house, and the "different restaurants" seem to really be just different sections of a large menu with distinct branding. I.e., there is a single physical kitchen that makes food from the different "restaurants".

New comment by khy in "Show HN: Node.js ORM to query SQL database through an array-like API"

khy — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:50:04 +0000

Scala has a library called Slick which takes a similar approach: https://scala-slick.org

The DSL is nice for simple querying and for composing queries based upon user input. But, for anything slightly complex, I found it's better to just use regular SQL.

New comment by khy in "The Art of Finishing"

khy — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:18:51 +0000

I think every project passes a threshold after which the time invested will only be considered worthwhile if you ship it.

Before this threshold, you're learning new technologies, trying new techniques, and generally developing skills that could be applicable elsewhere. After this threshold, you're becoming an expert in the project itself, which will all be for naught if you don't finish it.

So my advice would be give up on projects that are near that threshold, and only continue beyond if you intend to finish it.

New comment by khy in "Antarctic English"

khy — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 02:54:50 +0000

Seems more like professional jargon to me.