Hacker News: noisy_boy

New comment by noisy_boy in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

noisy_boy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:33:10 +0000

There is no such setting I can see in Family Link. Not per-device setup, Family Link.

New comment by noisy_boy in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

noisy_boy — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:51:03 +0000

If they were actually serious, they would add an option in the Family Link app to set time limit for shorts for children.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Stop Flock"

noisy_boy — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:47:19 +0000

Given the teacher to student ratio: this kills the teacher.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

noisy_boy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:40:07 +0000

Just switched from Backblaze to Cloudflare R2 (using restic). Now it makes me think if I should check for such issues with R2 as well.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

noisy_boy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:17:23 +0000

I think PMs fail to understand categories of change in terms of complexity because they focus on the user facing surface and deal in timelines. A change that brings in a big feature can be straightforward because it perfectly fits the existing landscape. A seemingly trivial change can have lot of complexities that are hard to predict in terms of timelines.

There is also the angle of asking for estimate without allocating time for estimation itself.

For lack of a better word, I think it should drive from "complexity". Hardness of estimate should be inversely proportional to the complexity. Adding field to a UI when it is also exposed via the API is generally low complexity so my estimate would likely hold. We can provide estimate for a major change but the estimate would be soft and subject to stretch and it is the role of the PM to communicate it accordingly to the stakeholders.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

noisy_boy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:15:02 +0000

In this day and age of code-in-bulk enabled by AI, they will find someone who does in a blink of an eye.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

noisy_boy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 16:50:53 +0000

Spacebar should launch. I should be able to use arrow keys to speed it up.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

noisy_boy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:02:19 +0000

The right hand wrist area is the best we have ever made though.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

noisy_boy — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:16:00 +0000

Interchangeable wrist area as an accessory for only 79.99$

New comment by noisy_boy in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

noisy_boy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:52:30 +0000

I feel like MCPs are encapsulation of multiple steps where the input to the first step is sufficient to drive the flow. Why would I spend tokens for the LLM to do reasoning at each of the steps when I can just provide the input + MCP call backed by a fixed program that can deal with the overall flow deterministically. If I have to do the same series of steps everytime, a script beats LLM doing the each step individually in terms of cost and time. If the flow involved some sort of fuzzy analysis or decision making in multiple places, I would probably let the LLM carry out the flow or break it into a combination of MCP calls orchestrated by the LLM.

In my case, my MCP is setup with the endpoints being very thin LLM facing layer with the meat of the action being done by helper methods. I also have cli scripts that import/use the same helpers so the core logic is centralized and the only difference is that thin layer, which could be the LLM endpoint or cli's argparse. If I need another type of interface, that can also call the same helpers.

New comment by noisy_boy in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

noisy_boy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:24:36 +0000

The gold standard, which I haven't been able to achieve, is to be able to do a pi-hole/adguard style centralized control where I can allow youtube but block youtube shorts. All solutions I have seen talk about on-device setup which isn't an option given that I don't want to manage it on a per-device basis.

New comment by noisy_boy in "A truck driver spent 20 years making a scale model of every building in NYC"

noisy_boy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:56:59 +0000

Maybe after a few thousand buildings, he built specialized tools to quickly build the templates in bulk. Still incredible.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

noisy_boy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:58:16 +0000

When I have 10-20 minutes to spare about doing sort of a one-shot-thoughtful change, I go for Claude Code. Problem is that a) I'm waiting for quite a while and b) My waiting isn't always fruitful because it does get things wrong in which case I correct it and off it goes for another 5-10 minute expedition.

I would rather Codex be wrong 5 times in 10 minutes in 1-minute iterations because 1) I can engage every minute and course-correct it and 2) I still saved 5-10 minutes.

New comment by noisy_boy in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

noisy_boy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:43:20 +0000

No different than when all Bobs had access to similar power drills.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

noisy_boy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:39:16 +0000

Would you trust a guy who controls a magical orb that answers everyone's questions for free and satisfactorily enough that people basically pay money to talk more to it, to use it responsibly? I won't.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

noisy_boy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:30:43 +0000

The only issue I have, with this amazing piece of software that I heavily use across multiple devices, is management of sync failures and exclusions via the UI. I have been using it for long enough to know the tips and tricks but it would be great for the web UI to allow easy management of conflict issues and the ability to mark files/folders as exclusions in a friendly manner.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

noisy_boy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:12:33 +0000

I just saw it this weekend; "It is quite late and we have accomplished a lot. Get some rest and we can pick it up later". Not bad advice but then not it's place. Also trying to steer me away from a tough issue towards a low hanging fruit.

New comment by noisy_boy in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

noisy_boy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:21:27 +0000

You can see public housing data in some countries. E.g. the housing development board in Singapore allows you to see rental data down to the physical building you stay in.

New comment by noisy_boy in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

noisy_boy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:10:31 +0000

How is that Bob's problem?

When he said we need more time to do this properly, he was labelled slow. They pushed him to use AI all day long and told at the all hands that there will be programmers who use AI and those who don't will be left behind. So he said fuck doing it right for the project, let me do it right for myself.

Now he got his promotion, they will hire 3 people in a cheaper location to handle various issues that are coming up (product will always have bugs you see). Given his excellent speed of delivery, they will report to him.

Good for Bob.

New comment by noisy_boy in "iNaturalist"

noisy_boy — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:41:26 +0000

Love the owl website. Feedback/suggestion: when I clicked on use my location, it should show me all matches in a given radius of that location instead of waiting for me to fill something in the search box. The browser asked for permission and I allowed to share my location.