Hacker News: landonxjames

New comment by landonxjames in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

landonxjames — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:15:21 +0000

I have noticed this as well. I frequently have to tell it that we need to do the correct fix (and then describe it in detail) rather than the simple fix. And even then it continues trying to revert to the simple (and often incorrect) fix.

Getting started with Claude for software development

landonxjames — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:46:45 +0000

Article URL: https://steveklabnik.com/writing/getting-started-with-claude-for-software-development/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46545525

Points: 2

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New comment by landonxjames in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

landonxjames — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:33:42 +0000

This is infuriating to me. I manually manage my music library and have for years. I buy the iPhone with the most storage so I can keep my entire library with me locally. This used to work great, but has degraded over the last decade. Now when I drag new music to my phone in iTunes nothing happens for minutes, and then if I get lucky it finally starts transferring, but some times nothing happens at all and I have to retry.

Recently when I load new music onto my phone I find that random unrelated album art has been mangled or switched with other albums from other artists. And some music, which exists on my phone's hard drive, is now greyed out and when clicked says "This item is not currently available in your country or region." I am considering switching back to a iPod with an upgraded drive and giving up on keeping music on my phone completely.

New comment by landonxjames in "William Gibson Reads Neuromancer (2004)"

landonxjames — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:32:32 +0000

There was a fantastic soundtrack created for this audiobook in the 90s by the industrial group Black Rain. https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/neuromancer

New comment by landonxjames in "When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support?"

landonxjames — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:52:01 +0000

I have used Jco quite a bit (and contributed a few times) to build out simple utilities binding Rust code to JS [1][2]. I think it is great and the Component Model is the most exciting step towards real useful polyglot libraries I have seen in years. I wish it were better publicized, but I understand keeping things lowkey until it is more fleshed out (the async and stream support coming in Preview 3 are the real missing pieces for my usecases).

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/aws-wasm-checksums [2] https://github.com/landonxjames/aws-sdk-wasi-example

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

landonxjames — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 22:33:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44213118

Points: 3

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New comment by landonxjames in "How we’re responding to The NYT’s data demands in order to protect user privacy"

landonxjames — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 04:51:53 +0000

Repeatedly calling the lawsuit baseless feels like it makes Open AI’s point a lot weaker. They obviously don’t like the suit, but I don’t think you can credibly argue that there aren’t tricky questions around the use of copyrighted materials in training data. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous.

Northwest Vowed to Pioneer Green Energy. Almost Every State Is Beating Them

landonxjames — Mon, 12 May 2025 18:18:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-washington-green-energy-bonneville

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43966000

Points: 4

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New comment by landonxjames in "Let's Write a Reverb (2021)"

landonxjames — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 01:15:17 +0000

Not sure about Neural DSP or reverbs in general, but real-time neural network based DSP seems very possible. The open source Neural amp modeler[1] would be a good place to start diving in.

[1] https://www.neuralampmodeler.com/the-code

New comment by landonxjames in "JetBrains releases RustRover IDE for Rust development"

landonxjames — Sat, 25 May 2024 03:33:11 +0000

I like rust-analyzer in VSCode, but I've found that it does seem to struggle with large projects that have multiple nested Cargo workspaces. IntelliJ with the Rust plugin has handled that (admittedly niche) case better so far. I still prefer VSCode though so I just open each workspace in an individual window and it works more or less as expected.

New comment by landonxjames in "Tesla's 2M car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny"

landonxjames — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:02:32 +0000

I believe 2014 is the model year of that Tesla, it seems like that particular crash was in 2018. https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/320/

Man raped in jail after AI technology wrongfully identifies him in robbery

landonxjames — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 04:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article284595930.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39186346

Points: 31

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New comment by landonxjames in "Bach’s Accidental Masterpiece"

landonxjames — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 21:15:31 +0000

https://archive.ph/Vyy7X

New comment by landonxjames in "I decided to stop working on Mighty"

landonxjames — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 16:43:27 +0000

According to the final tweet in that thread [0] it seems like they are pivoting to a sort of AI generated art based social media platform. I’m curious why they think this has the potential to be a “mass market changing” business since the social media world seems pretty over saturated already

[0] https://twitter.com/suhail/status/1591831193598963713

New comment by landonxjames in "Stable Diffusion: Is Video Coming Soon?"

landonxjames — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 19:07:09 +0000

I recently saw a Twitter thread from last year where someone made a comic book with AI generated backgrounds. The characters were added in later, but it stuck with me as a very cool future use case

https://twitter.com/ursulav/status/1467652391059214337

New comment by landonxjames in "Ask HN: Boring but important tech no one is working on?"

landonxjames — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 20:43:58 +0000

I saw a talk by an engineer from Parallel Systems [0] and they seem to be doing some very cool stuff for the future of rail. Autonomous Electric rail cars and some other interesting things

[0] https://moveparallel.com/

North Carolina Looks to Remove Public EV Chargers, Probably to the Trash

landonxjames — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 05:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a40543385/north-carolina-wants-remove-free-public-ev-chargers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32042229

Points: 29

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Boeing CEO ready to cancel 737 Max 10 unless Congress acts

landonxjames — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 04:01:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boeing-ceo-threatens-to-cancel-737-max-10-unless-congress-acts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32031506

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by landonxjames in "Tao: A statically-typed functional language"

landonxjames — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 14:46:16 +0000

Came across this post [0] by Graydon Hoare (original author of Rust and member of the Swift team) in an HN comment the other day. Lots of interesting discussion about future paths for language design work, including some discussion of Effects Systems.

Curious how Tao is pushing the limits on that front?

[0] https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/253769.html

NFT Scammer 'John Hit Piece' is selling NFT's of albums scraped from Spotify

landonxjames — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 23:48:10 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/si8aht/nft_scammer_john_hit_piece_is_selling_nfts_of_all/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30171469

Points: 4

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