Hacker News: oops

New comment by oops in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

oops — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:53:42 +0000

That’s interesting to hear as for me Claude has been quite good about writing code that fails fast and loud and has specifically called it out more than once. It has also called out code that does not fail early in reviews.

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

oops — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:39:25 +0000

> I feel like you can't really be considered a staff/principal if you can't already tell ahead of time where the perf bottleneck will be just on experience and intuition.

I feel like you can’t really be considered a Dunning-Kruger if you can’t already tell ahead of time where the perf bottleneck will be just on experience and intuition.

New comment by oops in "Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)"

oops — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:53:07 +0000

Healthcare, education and childcare are either free or affordable in almost all developed countries.

Even in places where these services are expensive, it does not seem to be because the workers are highly paid.

New comment by oops in "Will AIs take all our jobs and end human history, or not? (2023)"

oops — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:21:39 +0000

I imagine personal trainers and childcare workers would see a drop in demand and perhaps also an increase in supply if a bunch of people suddenly lost their jobs to AI.

New comment by oops in "City Weather Explorer (3D comparison)"

oops — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:25:19 +0000

Nice! The visualization makes it easy to compare when cities are in the same hemisphere. It would be cool if there was an option to align the seasons when comparing cities in different hemispheres.

New comment by oops in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

oops — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:02:18 +0000

Nice observation ;-) If I'm reading the underlying data[0] correctly, it looks like the threshold for DEHT is significantly lower in the Vanilla tests (<4,500ng) vs the Strawberry tests (<22,500ng)

0: https://i.imgur.com/L1LVar1.png

Edit: I guess that should impact the Substitutes category, though, and not the Phthalates category.

New comment by oops in "What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive"

oops — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:10:07 +0000

> Smartphones, with screens, are not going away because people have plenty of uses for screens from photos to videos to texting, etc.

I agree but for the sake of discussion: could smart glasses fill this role?

New comment by oops in "Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?"

oops — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 15:36:44 +0000

I don’t disagree with anything you said and I don’t think anything you said disagrees with my original comment :)

I actually said in my comment that exploring a new language is one area I find LLMs to be interesting.

New comment by oops in "Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?"

oops — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:13:05 +0000

My experience so far has been: if I know what I want well enough to explain it to an LLM then it’s been easier for me to just write the code. Iterating on prompts, reading and understanding the LLM’s code, validating that it works and fixing bugs is still time consuming.

It has been interesting as a rubber duck, exploring a new topic or language, some code golf, but so far not for production code for me.

New comment by oops in "Launch HN: Regatta Storage (YC F24) – Turn S3 into a local-like, POSIX cloud FS"

oops — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:41:05 +0000

Congrats on the launch!

Could a Regatta filesystem offer any advantage over ClickHouse's built-in S3 and local disk caching features in terms of cost or performance?

New comment by oops in "50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Paid Scientists to Point Blame at Fat (2016)"

oops — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:08:43 +0000

Auto industry with the creation of suburbs and jaywalking laws.

New comment by oops in "Fixing a bug in Google Chrome as a first-time contributor"

oops — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 20:03:22 +0000

> I've found no other mention of this on the internet

Here's one! (different character, but same issue it seems?)

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1cbarz5/ele...

> and I'd love to to hunt this down and fix it but have no clue where to start. I guess the first step would be to consistently reproduce the bug...

I am not familiar with Chromium at all, and I also don't run Linux on the desktop as I'm guessing from your video you do (?) so take this with a grain of salt...

I would start looking at the focus and key event handlers. e.g. maybe log the contents of pressed_keys and/or step thru the code from the beginning of the focus handler. It looks like this might be the place:

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/01ab59ae08a38a361d...

https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/de351fd416ec36beeb...

Even if you can't repro it, you may be able to figure out the issue by just reading thru that code with some theories in mind. e.g. Since pressing another key seems to fix it, maybe look at what the code is doing there... my guess is the release event fixes whatever corrupted state it is in upon focus.

New comment by oops in "Don’t try to sanitize input, escape output (2020)"

oops — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 06:44:09 +0000

Yes I love seeing < in my database. Every time I see it I think oh boy how many cycles will I save when I display this in HTML!

New comment by oops in "Show HN: I built a JavaScript-powered flipdisc display"

oops — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:56:12 +0000

> Each pixel is either on or off.

Or traveling. I imagine if you wanted to you could position the disc at any point between “on” and “off” by constantly flipping it back and forth.

New comment by oops in "Ask HN: How to prove we aren't the source of a noise complaint?"

oops — Tue, 28 May 2024 22:05:11 +0000

The measurements taken by the watch can be viewed over time in the Health app on iOS. Try image searching for "Environmental Sound Levels" "iOS" "Health" to get an idea of how it looks. e.g. here is a screenshot: https://www.idropnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Apple-H...

It sounds like this iOS app can write noise levels to the Health app too: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/niosh-sound-level-meter/id1096... so maybe that could let you test drive this if you don't already have the watch.

New comment by oops in "Ask HN: How to prove we aren't the source of a noise complaint?"

oops — Tue, 28 May 2024 21:42:32 +0000

The Apple Watch Noise app measures loud noises. The Health app on iOS has a section called Environmental Sound Levels that shows the measurements over time on a chart. This of course doesn't help if you can also hear the noises, but it sounds like that is not the case?

New comment by oops in "Ask HN: What would you spend your time working on if you didn't need money?"

oops — Tue, 28 May 2024 15:41:49 +0000

See Selection bias https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

New comment by oops in "Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation"

oops — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 12:09:02 +0000

> which is arguably worse because not only can you not access your phone backups but your email, calendar, drive, etc. is gone too

Some people use iCloud for email, calendar and storage so for them I imagine losing access to Apple ID would be just as bad.

New comment by oops in "Ask HN: How do you test performance of navigations between pages?"

oops — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 17:15:47 +0000

All the most popular e2e testing frameworks and synthetic testing services will allow you to script interactions like page transitions.

For example here is a WebPageTest article on measuring performance of page transitions:

https://www.catchpoint.com/blog/how-fast-is-your-web-app-how...

New comment by oops in "Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history"

oops — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:46:13 +0000

What are some of the issues?