Hacker News: levl289

New comment by levl289 in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

levl289 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:09:25 +0000

I don’t want to be taxed for someone else’s burrito taxi.

New comment by levl289 in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

levl289 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:23:06 +0000

It is a tool in a tool box. If a technician avoided a tool outright, I would (and do) question their biases.

New comment by levl289 in "macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review"

levl289 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:12:47 +0000

> I’m not a particularly big fan of generative AI. I do not use and have never used it at any stage of the research, outlining, or writing process for any article I’ve ever written, except for the times when I’m testing it so I can write about it.

This is wild from a "tech" site. I used to read their articles fairly religiously, but this bent by their writers and commenters is really telling, and a signal to start looking elsewhere.

New comment by levl289 in "Maybe We Shouldn't Be Reviewing All This Code"

levl289 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:03:22 +0000

Code review for CRUD apps is largely something you can hand off to a council of sub agents. Code review for a system whose business logic is not obvious within the codebase? Currently none of the prescribed steps in TFA solve for a peer looking at it with fresh eyes.

New comment by levl289 in "AI, ex-Soviet engineers, and the Holy Grail of rocketry"

levl289 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:01:58 +0000

very insightful response - linked article didn't discuss anywhere near this level of technical tradeoff detail.

New comment by levl289 in "Self-host your mail server"

levl289 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:56:12 +0000

I've got a private github repo where all of this is documented. I intentionally kept everything that's secret out of there. Will turn it public, now that I think about it. Thanks, friend!

New comment by levl289 in "Self-host your mail server"

levl289 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:33:18 +0000

I'd run my own email server since the early 2000's - in several forms over time. A VA Linux 2U rack server that I got from work (noisy, overkill), a personal Mac Mini (Frankenstein macport upgrade-resistant), and now a single-node k8s instance with everything neatly managed (an excuse to really dive into k8s from the ground up).

I use dyndns to handle IP changes (incredibly rare with Frontier FIOS, actually). I use mailhop.org to handle secondary MX records in case my machine is down (as well as mail filtering) Everything else is postfix, spamassassin, dovecot imap

It's not a trivial system, and it took a while to get everything working how I wanted. It's a terrific learning opportunity, but it's by no means simple to mentally model the process of all that happens inside.

New comment by levl289 in "The primary purpose of code review is to find code that will be hard to maintain"

levl289 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:33:33 +0000

OP is Short-form false-dichotomy. Thank you for this perfect response.

New comment by levl289 in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

levl289 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:23:46 +0000

How does starlink compare? Beginner sailor here, and I thought this was a solved problem, now.

New comment by levl289 in "Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now"

levl289 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:39:15 +0000

> it's the crappy version of XNU/Darwin/NextStep that comes with them

What's the issue(s)?

New comment by levl289 in "Does Postgres Scale?"

levl289 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:19:07 +0000

Yep, this is what I think about when “scaling” is mentioned. Maybe I’m too distributed-compute brained, but throwing CPU at a db isn’t what I was hoping would be the answer.

New comment by levl289 in "MacBook Neo"

levl289 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:16:37 +0000

Does the Wacom show the actual result of the writing, or do you need to look at the screen? This feels like a bad solution to needing an electronic notepad.

New comment by levl289 in "MacBook Neo"

levl289 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:02:36 +0000

The pen. 95% of the way our son does assignments now.

He’s off to university in Fall ‘26, and I’m waffling between getting him an Air and keeping his current iPad, or getting a neo and new iPad. Probably go the former because of the long term cost effectiveness of the Air.

New comment by levl289 in "Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples"

levl289 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:45:42 +0000

I’ve had my shoulders “cleaned up” arthroscopically, and the pain is still a major preventer of movement. I would love to stay on the mats longer with something that doesn’t harken to medieval times. So excited at this prospect.

New comment by levl289 in "iPhone dumbphone"

levl289 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:58:13 +0000

Literally got my current job through a mufo on X, so I feel obliged to stick to it for the same reasons. That being said, I’ve curtailed a lot of my time on it and other social media. The results have been positive.

New comment by levl289 in "Claude Code IDE integration for Emacs"

levl289 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:19:10 +0000

Avante - https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim. Admittedly I haven't had time to keep up with it's changes and as a result have gone back to VS Code + Copilot, but it's very well integrated last I did use it.