Hacker News: lowmagnet

New comment by lowmagnet in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

lowmagnet — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:33:48 +0000

I always point out the operational word is "premature".

New comment by lowmagnet in "Using go fix to modernize Go code"

lowmagnet — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:46:41 +0000

I just searched for `for` loops with `:=` within and hand-fixed them. I found a few forms of the for loops and where there was a high number, I used regexp.

This tool is way cooler, post-redesign.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)"

lowmagnet — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:07:07 +0000

the sibling answer but with `-a` before command name, will display all path hits for a command.

New comment by lowmagnet in "[dead]"

lowmagnet — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:48:57 +0000

I'm actually more excited about 1.26 mainly because of the streamlining of a lot of out-of-my-control systems. I love that I can new() an expression.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

lowmagnet — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:31:51 +0000

I rented one of these in the form of a Hyundai Sonata, and their lane follow is amazing. Included in the cost of the car, does radar cruise and all the rest. Free for the life of the car.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One"

lowmagnet — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:54:34 +0000

Gotta maintain The Machines of Loving Grace.

New comment by lowmagnet in "U.S. carbon pollution rose in 2025, a reversal from prior years"

lowmagnet — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:42:16 +0000

Tom Cotton, (R) Arkansas is proposing a bill to shield households from increases in power costs in their region if datacenters are taking excessively in their grid sector. It *ALSO* allows for private power plants to bypass the EPA regulations public power grids are subject to.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest"

lowmagnet — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:34:38 +0000

This was performance art.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Goscript: Transpile Go to human-readable TypeScript"

lowmagnet — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:17:42 +0000

Wait, go isn't human readable?

New comment by lowmagnet in "FTX whistleblower Caroline Ellison set for early release next month"

lowmagnet — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:21:46 +0000

he was just murdered instead

New comment by lowmagnet in "I have to give Fortnite my passport to use Bluesky"

lowmagnet — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:29:42 +0000

It says so in the first paragraph that it's a subsidiary of Epic Games that does verification.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments"

lowmagnet — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:42:51 +0000

It does a pretty good job of caching and that does help speed up builds. I also run all of my end to end tests from it because I can coordinate secrets and clusters of containers through it.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Dagger: Define software delivery workflows and dev environments"

lowmagnet — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:40:19 +0000

I use it to do builds in our monorepo. We got onboard before the LLM trash features. The base design is ok but there's things I'd do different today if I knew the build stuff would fade away for the LLM push.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence"

lowmagnet — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:34:25 +0000

We still do slavery and it's even kept in the 13th amendment as a punishment.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?"

lowmagnet — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:24:24 +0000

There are countless examples of people finding evidence of ancient peoples who were capable of great engineering feats like pyramids and other structures with simple tools and techniques. To state that aliens must have played in their construction is, to put it mildly, arrogant. (I'm a lot of cases, culturally chauvinistic and/or racist)

New comment by lowmagnet in "Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests"

lowmagnet — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:09:07 +0000

Flock doesn't fight crime, it documents the travel of people without a reason.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Go subtleties"

lowmagnet — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:00:24 +0000

They just need to be context aware, or call context-aware things.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe"

lowmagnet — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:47:03 +0000

When said app authors use a private library that a Apple asked them to not use, is it really wrong to blame them?

New comment by lowmagnet in "Track which Electron apps slow down macOS 26 Tahoe"

lowmagnet — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:45:02 +0000

It made my menu bar transparent until you click an item in it, rendering it useless on my black background.

New comment by lowmagnet in "Be careful with Go struct embedding"

lowmagnet — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 03:52:32 +0000

I have code that wouldn't work without embedding. Basically, I have a type that annotates any AWS paginate and is capable of streaming all the results as a sequence. It embeds the original client so you get all the functionality of the client, but it also wraps the functions that support a pagination. I can't think of an easier or clearer way to do it.