Hacker News: oefrha

New comment by oefrha in "Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota"

oefrha — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:12:58 +0000

My status line shows 5h and 7d quota usage among other things like model, context usage, git branch, etc. Unfortunately the whole status line disappears half of the time from CC’s broken ass UI.

New comment by oefrha in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

oefrha — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 18:47:40 +0000

Sounds reasonable given the recent YOLO GC debacle https://discuss.python.org/t/reverting-the-incremental-gc-in....

New comment by oefrha in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

oefrha — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:19:57 +0000

> Nobody nowadays goes "you are an expert software engineer. make no mistakes"

You know what, I checked Opus 4.8's instructions to a review subagent the other day and it literally opened with

> You are a senior infrastructure/security engineer doing a thorough, adversarial code review...

I didn't say anything like that myself.

New comment by oefrha in "The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America"

oefrha — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:22:46 +0000

I’d be shocked if the Pentagon isn’t running an AI propaganda mill targeting .

New comment by oefrha in "Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells"

oefrha — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:04:04 +0000

Apparently https://github.com/scanaislop/aislop with AGENTS.md is not AI slop, but projects of mine last modified before 2016 all contain critical AI slop. So very accurate.

New comment by oefrha in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

oefrha — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:38:57 +0000

> when was the last time you heard about the Chinese space stations outside China?

Last year, when negative news of delayed astronaut return was all over American news, e.g. [1][2]. Apparently makes American astronauts onboard Boeing ship being stuck in space less embarrassing.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/science/space/china-space...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/china/china-shenzhou-20-a...

New comment by oefrha in "Hacker News front page as a site"

oefrha — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:50:12 +0000

Using text-align: justify for questionable aesthetic purpose here really hurts readability, especially on a narrower viewport like the 1026px viewport of Safari with sidebar on an iPad Pro 12.9’’ (although it’s probably more of a problem of the four column layout on that specific narrow viewport; three should be better).

New comment by oefrha in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"

oefrha — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:49:23 +0000

Yeah it’s smarter than that, but as a daily user of git absorb it still gets things wrong fairly often though—like a couple times a week often for me. Plus the changes it can’t absorb automatically (e.g. a lone doc change it can’t find peers for).

New comment by oefrha in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

oefrha — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:24:45 +0000

I think there’s something very wrong with every single walk of society, and academia’s problems are far from the most grave. If I’m given the choice again, I take a rotten academia over fucking ad machines and quants that do no good / actively do harm in this world (both industries try to hire me and the likes of me) every time, even when I know I’m gonna leave at the end.

New comment by oefrha in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

oefrha — Sun, 24 May 2026 07:28:32 +0000

Sounds like the bitter words of someone who got pushed out. I know the type, I’m no longer an academic myself. Sorry it didn’t work out for you, not sorry to claim that the overwhelming majority of the most important advancements are still made by people with PhDs, however many unsuccessful ones there are.

New comment by oefrha in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

oefrha — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:23:06 +0000

If you mean “intelligent” Americans who work on fucking blood sucking ad tech or garbage financial engineering rather than pushing the boundaries of science and technology, sure.

New comment by oefrha in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

oefrha — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:02:15 +0000

Go to any top STEM PhD program and do a headcount. I don’t know what’s going on now thanks to this wave of xenophobia and funding cut madness, but back when I was in one (Princeton Physics, that was last decade), everywhere I go it was at least 50-50 in terms of international representation. You can also count the massive number of clearly foreign born faculty. It could not be more obvious.

Edit: And before you mention O-1 and friends for highly accomplished individuals (maybe that's not affected for now? Honestly have no idea), this kind of policy has wide ranging second order effects even if it doesn't affect top talent directly. Like I said I was U.S. educated myself, once I would encourage bright minds from elsewhere to pursue a higher education in the U.S., now I heavily advise them from even setting foot in the U.S.

New comment by oefrha in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

oefrha — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:41:03 +0000

Not really, it this is too be believed

> At the post office, a friendly staff member confirmed it could be sent, helped me package it up securely

It's actually at least half a case of not blindly trusting AI, and pressing until a positive answer is given:

> I asked ChatGPT how to send the laptop, and it gave me a spiel about finding a reliable freight service or courier.

> (Later) I should have listened to ChatGPT.

New comment by oefrha in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

oefrha — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:47:47 +0000

Wait, how the hell can Australia Post charge you the full AUD 111.60 for a failed shipment when it seems to be the fault of the clerk who approved the shipment against their own rules? And sounds like the package didn’t even leave Australia so even if you should pay for the full mileage it would be 20% at most?

New comment by oefrha in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

oefrha — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:43 +0000

Failed businesses also tend to provide lower returns on capital, and that’s totally backed up by data. Doesn’t mean the “purpose” of those companies was to provide lower returns on capital.

New comment by oefrha in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

oefrha — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:37:19 +0000

> allow ticket resale only through the official platform and cap it at the original sale price.

That obviously doesn’t work because money can still change hands outside the official platform, unless you mean resale to a random buyer selected by the platform, in which case the resale is not terribly different from a refund and restock for any event where scalping is a problem.

You simply can’t stop scalping if you allow resale. Heck, people even attempt to scalp things where there’s no official resale mechanism (e.g. I change my id at this second, you immediately change yours).

New comment by oefrha in "Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)"

oefrha — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:14:04 +0000

By excellent do you mean bearable? macOS’s SMB stack is certainly not excellent.

New comment by oefrha in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

oefrha — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:18:56 +0000

Well having backups help, but I certainly can’t migrate my infra to rsync.net on moments’ notice (or ever since rsync.net does storage and nothing else) so my customers aren’t affected.

New comment by oefrha in "Show HN: Semble – Code search for agents that uses 98% fewer tokens than grep"

oefrha — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:28:21 +0000

I found judicial use of rtk on specific commands that you know can be improved with rtk, e.g. go test, pnpm test (vitest), etc. to be worthwhile, at least in CC. But using their default setup which is to prepend rtk to everything is more trouble than its worth. I have a custom-built hook that prepends rtk based on a hierarchical whitelist.

And you should disable the savings reporting feature since it’s worse than useless—it breaks sandboxing and always reports ~100% savings for me because rtk obviously doesn’t know about the head/tail the agent pipes into.

New comment by oefrha in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

oefrha — Sat, 09 May 2026 14:10:05 +0000

Using apps based on Google Play Services may be impossible on those phones out of the box (not sure), but websites have no such dependency and most people don’t give a crap about push notifications from PWAs anyway so whether FCM works with the device matters little. Also doesn’t the web push API support different push services at registration time so those devices’ browsers can register their own vendor push server? (It’s been a while since I implemented web push myself, memory is fuzzy.)

This is blocking access to websites wholesale, so it’s on a whole different level.