Hacker News: philote

New comment by philote in ""Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot""

philote — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:08:38 +0000

Just curious, what metrics would you use to track how well your results are?

New comment by philote in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

philote — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:39:57 +0000

I took a Computer Science class decades ago that used that book as the core of the class material. I don't remember a single thing about that class now except that I hate that book and the professor bragging about designing cockpit instruments or some such. I learned more out of a cognitive psych class.

New comment by philote in "We cut our Mongo DB costs by 90% by moving to Hetzner"

philote — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:56:00 +0000

https://github.com/dcramer/mangodb

New comment by philote in "Steam Machine"

philote — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:34:30 +0000

I use Xreal Air Pros for gaming and sometimes working if I'm mobile. Resolution isn't great, but I find them better than looking at a small-ish laptop screen or the Steam Deck screen. You can definitely read text on them, but maybe not small text. It also helps to have prescription inserts.

And now I'm curious if the Steam Frame allows inserts or fits well with glasses on.

New comment by philote in "This website has no class"

philote — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:03:31 +0000

It depends, the frameworks I've seen require a ton of boilerplate (ie. the things tools like create-react-app sets up for you) and have quite a learning curve. Using what you already know is simpler, and some of us know vanilla html, css, and js. It also very much depends on what you're making. Many sites don't necessarily need much interactivity or to constantly receive updated data.

New comment by philote in "Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file"

philote — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 12:53:44 +0000

Yeah, sounds like Tiddly Wiki or similar except with the need for a backend component.

Edit: actually it looks more like a library/framework to make such apps. And now I'm not sure if it needs a backend component or nodejs or not.

New comment by philote in "The HTML Hobbyist"

philote — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:55:54 +0000

I think the answer to "classic mode" browsing is at the bottom of the site: web rings.

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

philote — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:04:43 +0000

From what I've heard anecdotally, there have been a bunch more PRs and bug reports generated by AI. But I've also heard they're generally trash and just wasting the project maintainers' time.

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

philote — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 19:01:51 +0000

It's hard to take a developer seriously when they don't document their code and think unit tests are a waste of time.

New comment by philote in "You're not a senior engineer until you've worked on a legacy project (2023)"

philote — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:39:16 +0000

I always pick apart previous teams' work.. it's how I learn. I question most every decision because I'm curious why they made those decisions. And it lets me think about how I'd do it better. And yes, I know that many poor decisions are not necessarily the developer's fault. It could be bad specs, lack of time, etc.

New comment by philote in "Show HN: Reactive Signals for Python – inspired by Angular's reactivity model"

philote — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:08:05 +0000

For those of use that haven't use Angular, can you explain what this is doing? And what's it do that we can't already do with asyncio? Also, it's weird you have to call `asyncio.sleep(0)`. Seems like you should be able to `await count.set(5)`.

I did look at the repo, but I couldn't easily understand the use case and what exactly it's doing from examples alone.

New comment by philote in "I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project"

philote — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:42:55 +0000

Babies also aren't rectangles.. you could lay a row shoulder to shoulder, then do another row upside down from the first and their heads would fit between the heads of the first row, saving space.

Edit: it also doesn't account for the fact the moon is more or less a sphere, and not a flat plane.

New comment by philote in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

philote — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 16:05:59 +0000

Smaller instance can become big. Say you set up a small instance and invite your family. Then family members want to invite their family, or friends, or whomever. How do you manage that?

I think the answer is what we see with Mastodon, etc. and that's federated/distributed social networks.

New comment by philote in "The zoology and biochemistry of xenomorphs from the Alien franchise"

philote — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:57:19 +0000

I think you're missing the entire point of the article. It's attempting to classify a fictional, alien species with a real taxonomy (the only one we currently have available to us).

And yes, "just because they superficially resemble some arthropods in some features doesn't make them an arthropod".. but at the very beginning they point out they cannot use DNA sequences to help classify, so they are only using known physical characteristics.

New comment by philote in "How I ship projects at big tech companies"

philote — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:02:43 +0000

That sounds great for moving fast, but not so great for sharing and keeping info about these projects. If/when someone quit, how would their projects get split up for other devs to maintain?

New comment by philote in "The Doodle Theorem, and Beyond (2016)"

philote — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:09:45 +0000

I skimmed it, but couldn't find what the "doodle theorem" is. It's only mentioned in the title.

New comment by philote in "Automat"

philote — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:04:11 +0000

Yeah I had no clue what this site was until reading the comments. I saw you could move things on the page around, then gave up because I had no idea what the point was. I didn't even find the github link until I saw your comment and decided to play around more.

New comment by philote in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

philote — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:41:04 +0000

I have Xreal glasses, and it's handy to be able to pin a window to a physical spot (well, direction in this case). I used that feature to have basically a virtual TV on my laundry room wall while I watched a video on how to fix my dryer as I was fixing it. But if I'm playing a game or watching other content, I don't want to have to focus on a single spot, so I have the window always in front of my face.

New comment by philote in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

philote — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:49:45 +0000

I think employers with remote employees can also do a better job in many cases with getting people to socialize. It's definitely easier to socialize when in the office, but several remote jobs I've had didn't really do much for this even though everyone was remote. I feel managers of remote employees need to do more online social events, have a water cooler chat, etc. in order to get team members to talk to each other. I'm currently on a team that doesn't do this well, and it's very isolating to barely know and talk to your teammates.

New comment by philote in "Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail"

philote — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:46:25 +0000

If they're shipping notebooks to production and having so many crashes, I'd question that they even know how to do Python.