Hacker News: kingds

New comment by kingds in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

kingds — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:04:38 +0000

this thread is a disaster hackernews is dead.

New comment by kingds in "OpenCode 2.0"

kingds — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:31:50 +0000

it feels like a clear improvement across the board but a heads up: i got bitten by upgrading - since all tool calls now go through the background process, the sandbox that i use to wrap the TUI process quietly became useless. took me a day or two to realize that web fetches, etc. which should have been blocked were succeeding.

New comment by kingds in "Compression is prediction"

kingds — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:03:49 +0000

https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html

New comment by kingds in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

kingds — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:42:12 +0000

it does seem to be very much bottlenecked by performance, yes. very slow to start up, for example.

New comment by kingds in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

kingds — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:47:04 +0000

I'd argue PayPal was a successful business, not a successful piece of software.

New comment by kingds in "Sora 2"

kingds — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 19:51:02 +0000

sorry but it's funny that you mention "heart and soul" while sharing some of the most soulless videos i've ever seen.

New comment by kingds in "Why fastDOOM is fast"

kingds — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:52:10 +0000

> I was resigned to playing under Ibuprofen until I heard of fastDOOM

i don't get the ibuprofen reference ?

New comment by kingds in "Apple's Software Quality Crisis"

kingds — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:40:14 +0000

it's comically bad. the UI is a mess, the search functionality is broken, you can't resize the window horizontally. it's feels like a hello world first project in a new language type of app.

also - it's such a bummer that they have decided to shit the bed so hard on software at a moment when their hardware lineup is arguably at its pinnacle. like, the hardware has been firing on all cylinders since M1 but the software degradation is making it less and less pleasant to use.

New comment by kingds in "Xcode Constantly Phones Home"

kingds — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 06:44:03 +0000

apple’s software is shockingly awful across the board these days.

New comment by kingds in "Two Grand Canyon-size valleys on far side of the moon formed within 10 minutes"

kingds — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 16:22:13 +0000

2200 would improperly add an extra significant figure, "about 2000" would be okay.

New comment by kingds in "macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes"

kingds — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 15:00:37 +0000

right, seems like sort of a no brainer that if a minor version bump of an OS completely breaks JDK8, that’s on the OS developer.

macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes

kingds — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 14:32:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.oracle.com/java/post/java-on-macos-14-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39726292

Points: 235

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New comment by kingds in "Write for others but mostly for yourself (2022)"

kingds — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 06:36:01 +0000

> My recommendation is that you don’t look at blog writing as just something people do to work on their “personal brand”. It can definitely help with that, but first and foremost it is a tool that people can use to up their game and take their knowledge and critical thinking to the next level.

These both seem like extremely bleak, unimaginative ways to view writing.

New comment by kingds in "The built environment and the determination of fault in urban pedestrian crashes"

kingds — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 04:56:26 +0000

the simpler explanation is that speeding just isn’t as dangerous to pedestrians as distracted driving and sketchy intersections are, which certainly tracks with my experience as a pedestrian.

cars traveling in a straight line at any speed are pretty safe as long as they stop when they are supposed to.

edit: my second paragraph above is sort of stupid and makes the wrong point. my point, which i think is in line with this paper, is that it’s important to differentiate between “speeding” and “speed”. drivers are responsible for the former, DOTs are responsible for the latter, and the latter has more of an impact on pedestrian safety.

New comment by kingds in "Vision Pro Review: Apple's First Headset Lacks Polish and Purpose"

kingds — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 04:51:46 +0000

it’s insane to argue that the iPhone 15 isn’t radically different from the iPhone 1. since 2007 smartphones have become capable of replacing so many of the separate gadgets people used to have. cameras and mp3 players (and phones!!) are basically a thing of the past thanks to the iPhone. i’m bearish on Apple Vision but if Apple can improve it at the same rate as the iPhone it will be here to stay imo

New comment by kingds in "As I retire, my goal now is to release 40+ years of source code"

kingds — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 07:30:39 +0000

doctors are all completely insane and should never be trusted. the process of getting into and through medical school has a selection bias towards type-a sociopaths. and whoever makes it through that wringer and gets board certified has to be constantly on guard for malpractice lawsuits. half sarcastic but mostly i do believe this lol

New comment by kingds in "Fine, I'll run a regression analysis but it won't make you happy"

kingds — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 19:41:39 +0000

in what ways have we not already returned to normality?

New comment by kingds in "Locals have been sounding the alarm for years about Lahaina wildfire risk"

kingds — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 06:54:15 +0000

what does “to be very clear” mean in this context? your article doesn’t clarify anything lol

New comment by kingds in "The End of the Googleverse"

kingds — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 03:40:09 +0000

yes! try to learn anything related to home maintenance and it feels like youtube is your only option. and you are stuck trying to scrub through a 20 minute video to find the 10 second slice on info you’re looking for.

New comment by kingds in "The New York Times attacks e-bikes while ignoring the real danger all around us"

kingds — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 14:37:11 +0000

i think you’re misunderstanding what GDP (gross domestic product) means. it’s basically a measure of the total revenue in a country’s economy. it has nothing to do with “productivity” in the sense of efficiency.