Hacker News: phildenhoff

New comment by phildenhoff in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

phildenhoff — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:07:18 +0000

Rocket lab used to be a New Zealand source of pride, having started there. From the press release, now it’s American. What happened?

New comment by phildenhoff in "Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike"

phildenhoff — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:14:31 +0000

What would have happened, in that first story, if he had left the ship and swam to a passing boat? Or swam to shore? He was apparently able to leave as later in his imprisonment, the boat drift closer to shore and he swam from there. Why not just leave?

New comment by phildenhoff in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

phildenhoff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:02:45 +0000

I don't think this car is designed for them, similar to how trucks are not designed for urban areas. Not every car has to cater to every demographic.

New comment by phildenhoff in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

phildenhoff — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:28:50 +0000

If you have a charger at home, or at work, why does it matter if you have to charge it daily or weekly? Yes, for some lifestyles, range matters. For others, a 125 km range is perfectly acceptable

New comment by phildenhoff in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?"

phildenhoff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:49:42 +0000

Hey -- we've loved using Conductor here at Digits. I've been using it since February and only recently swapped to using Orca for Remote SSH and perf improvements. Looking forward to your general release of Conductor Cloud!

I've been wondering, since you're building desktop software, how do you get AI to test your changes? Boot the whole app? Run the frontend/UI with a mock backend?

New comment by phildenhoff in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

phildenhoff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:47:11 +0000

How often do you use it?

Immediately I started thinking how nice it would be to use natural language to have LLMs generate a deterministic filter for stories matching content I DO care about, filtered from New. Instead of filtering it out.

New comment by phildenhoff in "Quality in the Age of AI Slop"

phildenhoff — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:56:48 +0000

I think this is an excellent consideration of how the principles of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance can apply to programming. I've always strived for Quality in my work, and I struggle today to balance that Quality with speed as I leverage coding agents more and more. I'm able to build whatever I want -- the gap is my domain expertise and taste. Before, my domain was "building and maintaining excellent software" but, these days, that's not enough.

New comment by phildenhoff in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

phildenhoff — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:25:26 +0000

Do you manually translate or translate with an LLM? While reading, I was wondering how common these kinds of written tics are in languages outside English.

New comment by phildenhoff in "Kasane: New drop-in Kakoune front end with GPU rendering and WASM Plugins"

phildenhoff — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:18:52 +0000

Nice project! Curious why build a new front end instead of fixing (?) the behaviour in upstream Kakoune? I think the original author’s still working on Kakoune

New comment by phildenhoff in "Hacking Tauri for Designer"

phildenhoff — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:05:26 +0000

Having built some stuff with Tauri, being able to debug using Chrome instead of a Safari/Webkit console would be _so nice_.

New comment by phildenhoff in "NPMX – a fast, modern browser for the NPM registry"

phildenhoff — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 05:53:05 +0000

But it is a browser -- just not a web browser

New comment by phildenhoff in "Canada has one city with good weather and it's too tiny"

phildenhoff — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:25:57 +0000

I would not recommend driving over the Juan de Fuca strait

New comment by phildenhoff in "Canada has one city with good weather and it's too tiny"

phildenhoff — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:32:20 +0000

> 90,000 people live in the core, which is about the maximum daytime population of Disneyland. More people live in the greater capital district (400,000), but because Victoria is subject to very particular microclimates, the further you get from the city itself, the worse the weather becomes

True, but outside of the City of Victoria is Saanich, the largest municipality of the 13 that make up the Capital Regional District. Saanich has roughly the same climate and another ~110k.

Also, anecdotally, despite the smaller population, Victoria is a tourist destination and swallows cruise ships worth of passengers with ease. If you want to visit, come visit. You'll find all the amenities you need.

New comment by phildenhoff in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

phildenhoff — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:18:18 +0000

They created a fascinating tool -- I'll be following your progress to see what you build!

New comment by phildenhoff in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

phildenhoff — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:51:24 +0000

I agree that it shouldn't mysteriously be a pointer all the time, but using a pointer for the cursor is a preference, not a standard. In native apps (outside the web), the cursor is often not turned into a pointer when hovering clickable content.

New comment by phildenhoff in "Qntm's Power Tower Toy"

phildenhoff — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 08:13:47 +0000

I hope qntm has the chance to traditionally publish Ra and have it edited as well. I enjoyed the book a lot, but felt it needed a solid once over.

Really enjoyed the novel though! Planning to reread it in the spring.

New comment by phildenhoff in "Show HN: I created a cross-platform GUI for the JJ VCS (Git compatible)"

phildenhoff — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:48:48 +0000

For those coming to this thread after it was scrubbed, the author unfortunately felt they had to shut the project down after being pressured by their employer. The name is redacted and the website shut down.

For what it's worth, commentary from others on the JJ Discord suggested that this could not be a legally binding requirement as the author is located in California. California has laws that prevent employers from controlling employees inventions outside of work hours when using their own devices: https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/labor-code/lab-sect-2870/

New comment by phildenhoff in "Kagi Reaches 50k Users"

phildenhoff — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:47:41 +0000

Why not set it up as your default search engine? That’s what I did. Hard to forget when it’s the default

New comment by phildenhoff in "By default, Signal doesn't recall"

phildenhoff — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:23:25 +0000

Are you upset about DRM in general? Or that Signal, by default, prevents Windows from capturing the Signal window when it screenshots the screen every few seconds?

because it sounds like Windows is the problem here, doing this screenshotting at all. And Signal allows you to disable the anti-screenshotting measure

New comment by phildenhoff in "Postman for MCP"

phildenhoff — Sat, 17 May 2025 05:12:38 +0000

andes314, can you expand on how you see this as Postman for MCP?