Hacker News: open592

New comment by open592 in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

open592 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:46:27 +0000

This story has been played out numerous times already. Anthropic (or any frontier lab) has a new model with SOTA results. It pretends like it's Christ incarnate and represents the end of the world as we know it. Gates its release to drum up excitement and mystique.

Then the next lab catches up and releases it more broadly

Then later the open weights model is released.

The only way this type of technology is going to be gated "to only corporations" is if we continue on this exponential scaling trend as the "SOTA" model is always out of reach.

New comment by open592 in "1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March"

open592 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:52:09 +0000

I checked with their "AI chat" about whether I could lock in current prices by renewing early but they said they would not allow this. I'm kind of surprised that there is no option to do this (I see Jetbrains as an example of a company which makes this very easy)

I've been a 1password customer for many years, so I'm a bit bummed out about this.

New comment by open592 in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

open592 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:54:45 +0000

Sorry for the late reply, this was for when you're adding a renovation for instance and there is a section for "notes" - you can hit `ctrl+e` and it will open in an editor.

Looks like it doesn't register `$VISUAL` but does use `$EDITOR` not sure if that is a `xdg-open` behavior though.

New comment by open592 in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

open592 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:53:08 +0000

This is awesome, love the sense of humor and just downloaded it and started adding data.

Only small piece of feedback is that I would use `$VISUAL` when opening the editor. When I tried to use `Ctrl+e` it opened nano which I haven't used in ages.

Edit: Oh looks like you use `$EDITOR` - I just didn't have that set. Awesome!

These are the projects which make me love Show HN!

New comment by open592 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

open592 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:08:05 +0000

Gemini flash thinking:

> Unless you’ve discovered a way to wash a car via remote control or telekinesis, you’re going to have to drive.

> Walking 50 meters is great for your step count, but it leaves your car exactly where it is: dirty and in the driveway. At that distance, the drive will take you about 10 seconds, which is probably less time than it took to read this.

New comment by open592 in "CSS Grid Lanes"

open592 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 03:31:19 +0000

You can edit the "products" represented in the table and add "Ladybird" to the list. [1]

Their result is: 1974740 / 2152733 (91%)

They also have their own dashboards tracking this [2]

[1] https://wpt.fyi/results/?product=ladybird

[2] https://grafana.app.ladybird.org/public-dashboards/2365098a1...

New comment by open592 in "consumed.today"

open592 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:58:18 +0000

Should have turned down the volume on my phone.

New comment by open592 in "How older parents divorce affects their adult children"

open592 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:16:45 +0000

My reaction to be thrust into this responsibility is different if my parent just up and left vs died.

It’s my responsibility into the later and me assuming their responsibility in the former.

New comment by open592 in "2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results"

open592 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:51:50 +0000

Stack overflow is built using C# and I remember there being a large Microsoft stack developer community on SO back when I used it. That might skew the results

New comment by open592 in "2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results"

open592 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:45:54 +0000

For some context on demographics of this survey: I signed up for SO in about ~2011 and haven’t participated in SO since about 2015. But I have generally positive sentiment towards the survey so I do it every year.

A lot of comments in this thread make the assumption that the only respondents are people who actively use SO but that isn’t true. I just get notified about the survey through email every year and respond.

New comment by open592 in "Zig's New Async I/O"

open592 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 01:51:53 +0000

Large breaking change:

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24329

New comment by open592 in "Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS"

open592 — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:22:18 +0000

They include the kernel config here[0]

> Containers achieve sub-second start times using an optimized Linux kernel configuration[0] and a minimal root filesystem with a lightweight init system.

[0]: https://github.com/apple/containerization/blob/main/kernel/c...

New comment by open592 in "Redesigned Swift.org is now live"

open592 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:38:48 +0000

The speed is less correlated with the language it’s implemented in, and more with the amount of man hours spent building and optimizing it.

Vapor is a very small project, and thus is slower then other larger more mature projects.

New comment by open592 in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

open592 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:17:14 +0000

The question then becomes whether or not it's possible (or will be possible) to effectively use these LLMs for coding without already being an expert. Right now, building anything remotely complicated with an LLM, without scouring over every line of code generated, is not possible.

New comment by open592 in "Snowflake to buy Crunchy Data for $250M"

open592 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 22:11:57 +0000

With Neon going to Databricks, the pool of potential buyers dramatically shrank.

New comment by open592 in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket on July 8"

open592 — Fri, 23 May 2025 00:21:03 +0000

I'll always remember finding that Pocket had exposed their Redux dev tools to production and they had a "dev panel" you could open that allowed you to bypass all the payment walls (for example switching fonts, layouts, etc). Never used Pocket though, so it didn't do much for me besides being fun to find.

New comment by open592 in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

open592 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:15:06 +0000

> i.e. if you wag your tail chasing a bad end for 15 mins, this is a fail in an interview

In all pair programming interviews I have run (which I will admit have been only a few) I would fail myself as an interviewer if I was not able to guide the interviewee away from a dead end within 15 minutes.

If the candidate wasn't able to understand the hints I was giving them, or just kept driving forward, then they would fail.

New comment by open592 in "Getting to 2M users as a one woman dev team [video]"

open592 — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 15:27:59 +0000

From a long time ago (~2009) but this comment instantly reminded me of the gem which was Plenty Of Fish

https://highscalability.com/plentyoffish-architecture/

"POF has one single employee: the founder and CEO Markus Frind. Makes up to $10 million a year on Google ads working only two hours a day. 30+ Million Hits a Day"

New comment by open592 in "Automating My /Now Page"

open592 — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 18:22:28 +0000

Looks like https://fresh.deno.dev/

New comment by open592 in "Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall"

open592 — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:31:52 +0000

Andreas has been talking about liking and exploring Swift since before he started working on Jakt [0] and if you look at Jakt you will clearly see it is heavily influenced by Swift.

[0] https://github.com/SerenityOS/jakt