Hacker News: knoebber

New comment by knoebber in "Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science (1999)"

knoebber — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:36:02 +0000

Grinnell 17' here. At first I didn't enjoy intro with Racket. But by the end I changed my mind and it ended up being one of my favorite courses. In retrospect that class easily had the most impact on me during my CS major... I still have quite a few functional programming habits. These days I like to code in elixir for side projects, which has quite a few similarities.

Anyways, cool to see another alum here! I hope the department keeps it around for a while longer :)

New comment by knoebber in "Women who make Samsung semiconductors are striking"

knoebber — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:31:38 +0000

I assume 'work life balance'

New comment by knoebber in "Show HN: I made a Note-Taking app for people who keep texting themselves"

knoebber — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 15:06:42 +0000

Like any good yakshaving programmer, i built/use my own note taking / TODO app. Now I want to implement a feature where I can send a SMS to my app, and it will save the text/media to my database. Seems like a lot less friction than using the UI on my phones browser if I just need to save a quick note.

New comment by knoebber in "How I've Learned to Live with a Nonexistent Working Memory"

knoebber — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 00:20:23 +0000

the act of writing it down probably makes them remember it.

New comment by knoebber in "PayPal is planning an ad business using data on its shoppers"

knoebber — Tue, 28 May 2024 17:33:56 +0000

I’m surprised they weren’t doing this already . This is standard for CC companies afaik.

New comment by knoebber in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

knoebber — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 17:40:29 +0000

Fair criticisms, but at the end of the day, Kagi offers a better search experience then all the alternatives for a fair price, so I pay for it. I don't really need to have 'faith' in it, though I do hope it sticks around.

Also, can't wait to get my tshirt! (closed beta user here)

New comment by knoebber in "Millions in California could lose their AT&T landlines. Here's why"

knoebber — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:01:29 +0000

I live about 180 miles north of silicon valley. The only utility I get here is high speed internet via a radio receiver in a redwood tree[0]. I just tested and I'm getting 20mb down/30 up, 30ms ping. Plenty for wifi calling, video calls, etc. I'm surprised your WISP has such poor performance?

[0] https://furtherreach.net/

New comment by knoebber in "Millions in California could lose their AT&T landlines. Here's why"

knoebber — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:47:52 +0000

Yeah, I believe they send DSL through the same lines that they don't want to support anymore.

New comment by knoebber in "A response to "Erlang – overhyped or underestimated" (2010)"

knoebber — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:20:52 +0000

> *90% of all internet traffic goes through Erlang controlled nodes (Cisco)

(source: https://erlangforums.com/ )

Seems like a pretty good outcome to me?

New comment by knoebber in "Millions in California could lose their AT&T landlines. Here's why"

knoebber — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 04:12:44 +0000

Not useful for people who live in areas without cell service. These folks will have no way to make calls from home if ATT pulls out.

New comment by knoebber in "jQuery 4.0 99% Complete"

knoebber — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:32:04 +0000

I think the main use case today is the dom traversal API. It makes operations like "add the 'error' class to all elements in the form" simple:

    $('#some-form').find('input').addClass('error')

Obviously you can do this in vanilla JS, but it's more cumbersome so you'll probably end up rewriting your own less complete version of jquery. There is some value to using a well worn library with public documentation that other developers can find/extend instead of a home grown solution.

With that said, I wouldn't use it for a green field project. For sites that require lots of interactivity I would pick a modern front end framework that doesn't require this kind of manual dom traversal (probably phoenix/liveview).

New comment by knoebber in "Dead grandma locket request tricks Bing Chat’s AI into solving security puzzle"

knoebber — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:10:58 +0000

Please drink a verification can

New comment by knoebber in "Flameshow: A terminal flamegraph viewer"

knoebber — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:19:01 +0000

from the README:

> Currently it only supports Golang's pprof dump, I am working on supporting more formats

New comment by knoebber in "Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke"

knoebber — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 21:06:32 +0000

Anecdote: I had serious wrist/hand pain after using a mechanical keyboard for years. I changed to a low profile keyboard, and I don't have pain anymore. Who knows, maybe it was coincidence.

New comment by knoebber in "Remote workers are increasingly less productive, anxious, depressed and lonely"

knoebber — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 16:56:32 +0000

Lol, if you say so.

New comment by knoebber in "Scripting with Elixir"

knoebber — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:06:53 +0000

two reasons:

1. you prefer functional style languages, such as elixir 2. you want to avoid `pip install` ing dependencies

New comment by knoebber in "Show HN: Gat – cat alternative written in Go"

knoebber — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 22:54:16 +0000

Has anyone made a "cat" like tool that uses treesitter under the hood?

New comment by knoebber in "The Vindication of Ask Jeeves"

knoebber — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 22:56:48 +0000

I'm a happy paying user... I almost never have to !g. I tried DDG before kagi, and it just seemed like a worse version of google to me. I definitely prefer the kagi results.

New comment by knoebber in "Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?"

knoebber — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:55:46 +0000

https://dotfilehub.com

No JS, and easy to self host. It’s a place to put your dotfiles. It comes with a CLI loosely based on git for editing, versioning, pushing, and pulling.

New comment by knoebber in "Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system?"

knoebber — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 15:57:51 +0000

we don't want to: 12 is more divisible than 10