Hacker News: latortuga

New comment by latortuga in "Men who stare at walls"

latortuga — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:49:59 +0000

It's funny you said "shower-thinking" because showers are one of the few places where it's not practical to use a device and you really are alone with your thoughts. A normal day to day activity that is the same sort of "stare at walls" state that the OP describes.

New comment by latortuga in "What is jj and why should I care?"

latortuga — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:56:25 +0000

Yeah we moved on from SVN to git because SVN branches were truly a pain in the ass to work with. I truly do not have any rough edges or big pains in my day to day git workflow.

New comment by latortuga in "Show HN: Sub-millisecond VM sandboxes using CoW memory forking"

latortuga — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:53:12 +0000

Similar to sprites.dev?

New comment by latortuga in "EVi, a Hard-Fork of Vim"

latortuga — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:56:49 +0000

I'll field this one as someone who has used regular ol' Vim for ~18 years and never switched. Why switch if your tool is working fine? I use vim literally every day all day long and it does everything I need it to do. Switching has a cost and there's no reason to pay it if it's working fine.

New comment by latortuga in "“Are you the one?” is free money"

latortuga — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:56:30 +0000

Because when it's true, you also learn about any prior match ups involving those two people.

New comment by latortuga in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

latortuga — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:11:30 +0000

It's always fun to open the front page of HN and see a familiar face. I went to college with this guy! Congrats on shipping Mahmoud!

New comment by latortuga in "Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study"

latortuga — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:38:23 +0000

Be careful, they add SLS to several versions of their products in the US.

New comment by latortuga in "Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study"

latortuga — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 06:37:15 +0000

I found out the hard way that my mouth really doesn't like having SLS in it because I bought the wrong version of Sensodyne once. The "Pronamel" version is the only one I'm sure doesn't have SLS.

Regular Sensodyne in other countries has novamin though, and does not have SLS. I've brought home a few tubes from traveling and it seems to work just as well as the US version - I don't get sensitivity back when using it.

New comment by latortuga in "AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks"

latortuga — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 16:03:01 +0000

Ugh this just makes me wonder how long it will be before we start seeing responses to AI chat like "please watch this 30s ad / drink a verification can to get your answer". I have to believe that ads are coming.

New comment by latortuga in "The time is right for a DOM templating API"

latortuga — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:24:45 +0000

Seems like a comment comes up about XUL every few years and I can't help but be sniped by it. A xulrunner app was my first job out of college in '08, good memories, fun dev environment!

New comment by latortuga in "Are Plants Farming Us?"

latortuga — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 03:56:32 +0000

Love this book and immediately thought of the same section!

New comment by latortuga in "Student refines 100-year-old math problem, expanding wind energy possibilities"

latortuga — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:24:08 +0000

This reminds me of the old story about being able to capture just 1% of a market to create a successful startup and how you always have to remember, there are numbers less than 1.

New comment by latortuga in "Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website"

latortuga — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 03:55:26 +0000

Underrated joke, did not expect a Title Fight reference when I opened this thread!

New comment by latortuga in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

latortuga — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:44:19 +0000

I don't think this is their first live event. They have hosted a pro golf promotional match and they had a live pro tennis match between Nadal and Alcaraz off the top of my head.

New comment by latortuga in "AI makes tech debt more expensive"

latortuga — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:28:57 +0000

Louder for the people in the back. I've had this notion for quite a long time that "tech debt" is just another way to say "this code does things in ways I don't like". This is so well said, thank you!

New comment by latortuga in "Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles"

latortuga — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:37:48 +0000

My daughter will be bummed about this news, though I'm glad at least a few are surviving. I don't get why they'd make this content and then just kill it. Is this like "we don't want to support the feature anymore" kind of thing? That doesn't really make sense though because they're leaving some around. Disappointing.

New comment by latortuga in "M4 MacBook Pro"

latortuga — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:30:37 +0000

The new mac mini also has an M4 Pro that goes up to 64GB.

New comment by latortuga in "The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy"

latortuga — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:52:57 +0000

> You can use US bank accounts and other institutions.

Recently found out that this is more and more difficult because most banks are requiring 2FA with a US phone number which is difficult to get if you don't live in the states.

New comment by latortuga in "A road safety plan that will lead to cars communicating with each other"

latortuga — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:27:35 +0000

> If you actually want practical and safe self driving cars widely deployed

I can't speak for everyone in this thread but personally this sounds like a nightmare. If we're dreaming about possible future worlds that are better than what we have, I'd rather have less or no cars. Much cheaper to maintain, not hackable.

New comment by latortuga in "AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point"

latortuga — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:14:29 +0000

Snarky but possibly true reply: perhaps someone had AI ~write~ hallucinate this article for them.