Hacker News: mcintyre1994

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Phoenix LiveView 1.2"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:18:18 +0000

I haven’t used it for anything in production so I haven’t seen these issues, could you give a bit more detail? I’m mostly wondering why you’d have any more websocket messages that you respond to than you would APIs if you were using any other approach. Does LiveView itself respond to certain messages bypassing your app?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:42:12 +0000

Ah okay thankyou! Is the MCP server manually configured, or is there documentation on the suggested way to tell an agent to use sem? My guess was that setup was how to do that.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:47:46 +0000

This looks really neat, but I see its diff output as complimentary to git and wouldn’t want to replace git diff. Is there a way to just install the CLI and MCP server but not override git diff?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:41:40 +0000

I’m guessing they have no functional human support for the people who had their accounts stolen. I get the impression Meta didn’t know this was happening until they were contacted by the media.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:29:18 +0000

I get what you mean but SpaceX owns xAI, which is objectively a company that trains models and has massive distribution by owning X.

I don’t think their models are competitive with Google, and Google obviously has the best distribution imaginable, but they definitely are a competitor.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:06:19 +0000

Arguably the old fashioned ones where the CEO doesn’t have special shares that give them a voting supermajority?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:29:29 +0000

Based on Accenture acquiring them, I’d guess the actual business wasn’t really interesting to Netflix. And that leaves the infrastructure, where the value they get is it being Netflix infrastructure. I can see why they spent the money on a really good brandable domain instead.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:10:43 +0000

I’ve never seen Claude do that. It makes the new tests pass by fixing previously unknown bugs in my experience.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:50:23 +0000

I’d guess that 2 is a huge part of the answer to 1 here - Elixir makes real-time multiplayer easy.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:23:51 +0000

A few UK banks detect that you're on a phone call and show a message like "we've never called you" or "we are not calling you right now" in their app, I think that's really smart.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:48:39 +0000

I think that was a lot more justifiable when Twitter reliably let logged out users read tweets. X seem to tweak it all the time, or maybe it’s just broken a lot, but sometimes I can’t even load a tweet in a browser that isn’t logged in.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:30:12 +0000

It would be weird if Anthropic were genuinely using it as they say they have been for years but everyone else was a fake customer.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:51:57 +0000

They didn’t. The first is from the Stainless blog post, the second is from Anthropic’s.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:31:27 +0000

Maybe Svelte does it much better, but there were tonnes of scope-css-to-react-component approaches before Tailwind too.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:19:19 +0000

> Can't wait until we learn to harness it to supercharge the most important and valuable thing we do as a human society in modern times: stuff increasingly intrusive ads in front of everyone at all times.

Wasn’t it used for that before anything else? Google invented transformers and had LLMs internally before chatgpt got released. Presumably they were using them for ads, because their public demos were insane things like talking to the moon.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:21:20 +0000

This is also what Claude does on web when you ask for html (it creates it as an artifact), so the model is probably really well trained for it.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "A web page that shows you everything the browser told it without asking"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:02:01 +0000

> Your device carries these typefaces, of the seventeen commonly probed by fingerprinting checks. The specific combination of fonts on your device is nearly unique

Is this actually true? Because I don’t even know if I have any control over this on iOS, and if I do then I’d guess almost nobody diverges from the default?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:29:40 +0000

Won’t eBay shareholders own most of the combined company though? They won’t all be able to exit at the sale price.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"

mcintyre1994 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:54:12 +0000

Wonder if it’s on their list of extensions to spy on!

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:05:04 +0000

More likely is that they took a bunch of good usernames to sell - if you pay for their most expensive subscription one of the features is that you can rent a better username now.