Hacker News: lelandfe

New comment by lelandfe in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

lelandfe — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:48:07 +0000

I hate that there's no "stop asking me" button.

I get those regularly in Chrome

New comment by lelandfe in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

lelandfe — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:44:36 +0000

I experience this as me being a ridealong on my friend's random diatribe. Oftentimes it feels like something he just learned and needs to tell someone about.

I believe REAMDE included an entire page dedicated to the virtues of lashing tires to fishing craft.

New comment by lelandfe in "Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System"

lelandfe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:09:20 +0000

Already started, Robert Moses style.

> The Coastal Endurance Array off the Pacific Northwest is the first to go, and removal operations at that site are already in process according to the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI).

> Instead of abandoning the buoys and subsea landers in place, NSF will allocate ship-days to physically remove OOI equipment

https://maritime-executive.com/article/trump-administration-...

New comment by lelandfe in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

lelandfe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:59:49 +0000

I felt similarly. But I'm also usually the only person Tim Pope'ing my commits.

If you police atomic feature branch PRs instead of atomic feature branch commits, though, things actually work out OK.

(By the way, the even more compelling next step to your argument is: pull requests aren't artifacts! I've worked on projects that have emigrated from GitHub, and was left with just the commit log)

New comment by lelandfe in "Anthropic confidentially files to go public"

lelandfe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:37:59 +0000

Main thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358646

New comment by lelandfe in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

lelandfe — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:43:48 +0000

If you squash merge PRs, this is equivalent to merging master back into your feature branch before merging to master.

I do that a lot to avoid commits mutating mid-review, so you avoid having to force push over reviewed commits (which is a sin)

New comment by lelandfe in "Re: [PATCH] OOM_pardon, a.k.a. don't kill my xlock (2004)"

lelandfe — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:51:24 +0000

I never pay for the OOF insurance, it seems like a waste of money and I've never met anyone that's had it happen.

New comment by lelandfe in "The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI"

lelandfe — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:28:25 +0000

Ask on sprint planning if time can be set aside to spike out a proof of concept, and then you go do that prototyping in the sprint.

Has this (for me, normal) process really been that arduous in your past jobs? It's a slam dunk to leadership, as we do this to corral time wasted.

New comment by lelandfe in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

lelandfe — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:43:38 +0000

I will answer my question as you answered a different one:

No, you do not become a really good FE dev from having used websites with AI in the mix.

Why should chess be different?

New comment by lelandfe in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

lelandfe — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:14:30 +0000

You use websites a lot.

Should AI make you really good at frontend development?

New comment by lelandfe in "Searching for Birds"

lelandfe — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:31:21 +0000

Nifty nested taxonomical Voroni diagram egg, too.

New comment by lelandfe in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

lelandfe — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:57:55 +0000

I recommend just clicking and dragging the actual scrollbar on desktop for this one. Wild

New comment by lelandfe in "Legislation Killed Would Have Effectively Blocked Police LPR, Including Flock"

lelandfe — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:20:00 +0000

Synthesize no longer: https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-rea...

New comment by lelandfe in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

lelandfe — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:02:55 +0000

Look up Xania Monet. AI artist “signed” to Warner Bros with a multimillion contract after “she” charted on Billboard.

There’s an appetite for this.

New comment by lelandfe in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

lelandfe — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:18:29 +0000

So if these do not work, to what do you attribute the rising positive rate?

New comment by lelandfe in "Ferrari Luce"

lelandfe — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:47:28 +0000

It looks like a BMW concept car honestly, like something I'd see at an auto show. Nothing reminds me of Ferrari.

New comment by lelandfe in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

lelandfe — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:22:03 +0000

Nice, new to me. Similar in meaning to "cut the Gordian knot"

New comment by lelandfe in "Microsoft Copilot Cowork Exfiltrates Files"

lelandfe — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:29:41 +0000

While debugging in Cursor a couple weeks ago, Opus 4.6 chirped it had discovered that my token, when base64 decoded, had a date that was in the past - perhaps expired?

And it was expired!

And I was happy. And some time passed - and I realized it had read my .env file and performed operations on my API keys.

That these models do all this stuff already makes me assume any skill take over is simply trivial.

New comment by lelandfe in "Magnifica Humanitas"

lelandfe — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:52:16 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/utah-approve...

> The Stratos artificial intelligence datacenter footprint will cover more than 40,000 acres (62 sq miles) over three sites in Box Elder county in north-western Utah. The facility will require about 9GW of power, which is more than the entire state of Utah currently consumes

Sure hope your rosy inflection point happens real soon.

Otherwise, the direction this is taking us is pretty obvious.

New comment by lelandfe in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

lelandfe — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:01:35 +0000

The amount of behind the scenes work to get that set up seems impressive.