Hacker News: onelesd

New comment by onelesd in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

onelesd — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:24:31 +0000

Sam playing the regulatory capture game.

New comment by onelesd in "Tax Wrapped 2025"

onelesd — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:13:13 +0000

we need to kill off fire departments. my house has never burned down and i will never get my money's worth.

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

onelesd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:11:29 +0000

data can also be treated as signal. for example, if they know you are claiming a different income than is verifiable it signals something - good, bad, or indifferent - that they will use in algorithms.

New comment by onelesd in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

onelesd — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:29:10 +0000

i would happily pay. i already pay for monarch.

New comment by onelesd in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

onelesd — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:29:16 +0000

it means the person/people firing you are so far removed from impacting the business they don't know why you were hired in the first place or why they are firing you now.

New comment by onelesd in "Magit Is Amazing"

onelesd — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:22:06 +0000

are you talking about the diff hunk view? you can generally just smash Esc to back out of everything in lazygit

New comment by onelesd in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN?"

onelesd — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:41:43 +0000

i forget where i found this in an HN comment, but you can use this in uBlock Origin under Filters:

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  news.ycombinator.com##table:style(background-color: #120F0D)
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New comment by onelesd in "Why I hate the index finger (1980)"

onelesd — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 19:37:31 +0000

This article is giving Kurt Vonnegut and I love it.

New comment by onelesd in "No evidence social media time is correlated with teen mental health problems"

onelesd — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:01:50 +0000

My own (anecdotal) experience tells me that increased social media use is directly proportional to increased bad feelings. Common sense tells me that increased bad feelings over time leads to bigger, worse bad feelings.

New comment by onelesd in "OpenAI to become for-profit company"

onelesd — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 22:57:48 +0000

Sam and all the others. At this point, there should be required courses in college to teach this seemingly required skill to future corporate USA.

New comment by onelesd in "The secret inside One Million Checkboxes"

onelesd — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:51:03 +0000

I had to do similar during the first summer of COVID to get my boat onto Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe (and most lakes in CA) requires boat inspections immediately prior to getting onto the water (mostly to prevent Quagga contamination). Those inspections had to be scheduled online during COVID, and there was similar supply & demand to what you describe for parking, so I wrote a bot that notified me (also via Pushover) when a slot became available.

Once I got the reservation I had to tow the boat 9 hours, praying the whole time I didn't have a drop of water on the boat, for which most inspectors will immediately fail you and send you away. The inspection crew there turned out to be pretty awesome though, and they actually washed my whole boat down with hot water which apparently kills any (baby? egg? idk) Quagga muscles.

New comment by onelesd in "Unified Grid: How we re-architected Slack for our largest customers"

onelesd — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:59:21 +0000

Ctrl-A and Ctrl-E work. On macos w/ Karabiner you can remap Home and End to those for the Slack app.

New comment by onelesd in "Why Copilots and chatbots are particularly bad for modern web dev"

onelesd — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 15:17:43 +0000

I guess it depends on how and why they are used by the developer. Most of the code I write isn't bleeding edge stuff, and using a copilot as a thought partner is pretty useful.

New comment by onelesd in "2023 planetary heat uptake from termination shock of inadvertent geoengineering?"

onelesd — Thu, 30 May 2024 22:28:25 +0000

Neal Stephenson wrote a book in 2021 aptly named "Termination Shock" where sulfur is intentionally added to the atmosphere to influence the climate.

New comment by onelesd in "Why Elixir (2014)"

onelesd — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:20:42 +0000

Here's a nice series of articles if you haven't seen it before, which can help you to reduce your compilation times: https://medium.com/multiverse-tech/how-to-speed-up-your-elix...

New comment by onelesd in "Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS"

onelesd — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 15:34:43 +0000

try hammerspoon. it isn't a tiling window manager, per se - it's more of an all-purpose desktop extension framework. it is fully customizable, has a well-documented API, and a large community.

for window arrangement the hs.grid component is plenty for me. see an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJ0477KFp8

New comment by onelesd in "SMS phishing is way too easy"

onelesd — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:09:32 +0000

Telecoms lobby against this because they generate big revenues servicing SMS spammers whom end-users aren't able to effectively block since the ID is trivially spoofed.

New comment by onelesd in "Lessons learned as a software developer turned project manager"

onelesd — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:46:09 +0000

If your org has a software consultancy sales arm, you can make this shift by becoming a solutions architect. You'll get to work with sales and product to create solutions for prospective clients. A good product person will jump at the opportunity of a dedicated architect to help them with the tech portion of pitch decks.

New comment by onelesd in "I'm all-in on server-side SQLite"

onelesd — Tue, 10 May 2022 21:28:12 +0000

Instead of running each small write query as the event occurs (a vote), collect them in memory and at some time interval (1m, 5m, or whatever your UX will tolerate) write them to the DB in batch with one (or a few) writes.

New comment by onelesd in "UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg"

onelesd — Tue, 10 May 2022 21:18:27 +0000

Ha! I fell into the same trap. I meant crypto is not a low-risk investment.