Hacker News: pico303

New comment by pico303 in "Bye, Bye GitHub"

pico303 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:09:05 +0000

Heck, if I just want effective, I guess I can also email or text patches.

New comment by pico303 in "Bye, Bye GitHub"

pico303 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:07:21 +0000

The problem is nothing competes with GitHub.

I know, GitLab. Gitea. Bitbucket. They have some features, but it’s like suggesting I drive a Nissan Sentra because my BMW breaks down once in a while.

New comment by pico303 in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

pico303 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:03:21 +0000

The solution for smart TVs is to not connect it to the Internet and attach an Apple TV. Sure they’ve gotten expensive, but how much is your privacy worth?

New comment by pico303 in "SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop?"

pico303 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:14:32 +0000

Reminds me of the time our “security” team fought with me for a year to fix an issue in a third-party dependency that was failing their scanners. The issue was only a problem for and intentionally left in to not break support for Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP, neither of which anyone at the company had used in 10 years, and everyone using this software was on a Mac anyway.

My condolences to anyone who’s got to deal with all these slop-y CVEs on one side and brain dead security teams on the other.

New comment by pico303 in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

pico303 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:42:05 +0000

There’s red flags I look for in articles like this, and a FreeBSD partition on your MacBook Pro is one of them. Tells me the author is probably hypercritical of MacOS because it’s not a GPL OS. That’s fine, but as someone who likes MacOS, I don’t share the pessimism.

Snow Leopard was a great experience for me. So much more stable, and the OS felt tighter, like lots of the little wonky things got sorted out. It well deserves its credit and more operating systems should focus on bug fix releases once in a while.

New comment by pico303 in "Sam Neill has died"

pico303 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:20:26 +0000

One of my favorite actors of all time. If you haven’t seen it, watch The Dish.

New comment by pico303 in "TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants"

pico303 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:54:24 +0000

If they’ve never completed a single project in 20 years, yes.

New comment by pico303 in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

pico303 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:48:49 +0000

I found a local store that specializes in used movies on DVD, BluRay, 4K discs and video games from Atari to PS5. I’ve started picking up hard copies of everything so I’m (a) not tracked and (b) can’t have my stuff taken away.

New comment by pico303 in "TerraPower in deal with Meta for eight Natrium 345 MW nuclear plants"

pico303 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:20:55 +0000

Their first demonstration reactor is scheduled to go online in 2031. But they’re going to build 8 production reactors, with all the regulatory hurdles, in any reasonable length of time? Right.

The headline should probably be, “Meta invests in nuclear startup” and leave it there. My guess is this deal is quietly swept under the rug when the first reactor fails to go fully online by 2032.

New comment by pico303 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

pico303 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:13:27 +0000

Not a phone, but I use my old first gen AirPods Pro with my Windows laptop for work just fine using Bluetooth. I haven’t had any problems at all with them.

One thing I did was completely remove them from my Apple account and factory reset them, so they didn’t try to join my iPhone or my personal laptop. Maybe try that to see if it helps with your issues?

New comment by pico303 in "Halt and Catch Fire"

pico303 — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:32:30 +0000

Don’t forget Fire in the Valley.

New comment by pico303 in "I switched from Mac to a Lenovo Chromebook"

pico303 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:33:05 +0000

Or just develop your app on macOS and run it on Linux. I’ve been doing that ever since OSX came out and had no problems. Worst case these days I have a virtual machine build an app or library for x86, but I still do all the dev on the Mac.

I find people who make these complaints about Linux just like Linux better. Totally fine. From my perspective, sure, some things are slightly different or need a homebrew install, but there’s plenty about Linux that’s as big or bigger pain as some of the stuff on the Mac.

That said, if Liquid Glass is the complaint and your solution is a Chromebook, wow. Just, wow.

New comment by pico303 in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"

pico303 — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:30:48 +0000

If you're having meetings about meetings, you're not doing scrum or agile. You're probably trapped in "agilefall."

New comment by pico303 in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

pico303 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:53:19 +0000

I think you’re missing the underlying point. The Zig team is focused on the contributor and their relationship to the project, not on the correctness of the work. People, not product. Yes, an LLM can help you better understand your code and pick up on things you may have missed before you submit your change. But I think they look at it as you’ve then robbed the Zig team of that interaction with the contributor. They lost the opportunity to learn about how that person thinks, and that person lost the opportunity to be mentored and learn from other members of the Zig team. Sure, your code is better, but did you or the team grow from the experience or simply churn out more code?

I’m not saying whether or not that’s good or bad. I agree with their approach, but that’s just my opinion and who am I to say what’s right or wrong? I think there’s value to LLMs as a tool to search and learn, but I’m also worried that LLMs make it really easy to focus on only the result and not the process. That process can be really valuable in building good teams, while LLMs can be really good at churning out an assembly line of code.

New comment by pico303 in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

pico303 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:54:49 +0000

And here I thought I was doing well at 47979. That was January 2009, so not too bad.

New comment by pico303 in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

pico303 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:54:32 +0000

Not to mention a culture of basically one-line packages ad infinitum. I downloaded a JS tool the other day to generate test reports and it had around 300 dependencies.

Needless to say I’m running all my JS tools in a Docker container these days.

New comment by pico303 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

pico303 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:44:48 +0000

I have no information to back this up or suggest this isn't anything but anecdotal, but from my perspective, we have a Federal government that stopped promoting the well-being of its people. We've twisted the message and convinced people that promoting business and wealth at the cost of everything else is good for everyone. So we drop every social safety net in favor of unregulated growth, which leaves the poor and middle class struggling to get by with a promise of good fortune sometime in the future, while the wealthy ride high on the hog.

We've been running this race, reaching for a carrot that's always poised just out of reach for 30 years, and I think we're all just getting really tired of it.

New comment by pico303 in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

pico303 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:18:31 +0000

I’ve been using Macs for development for 20 years, and even on a small laptop screen I don’t expand windows to fill the screen. So I guess, yes, there are a few weirdos out there at least?

New comment by pico303 in "Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]"

pico303 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:00:02 +0000

The Neutrino collector bit was interesting, but the best part of this video is seeing the joy in her eyes educating the rest of us about science again.

New comment by pico303 in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

pico303 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:36:12 +0000

I didn’t want to be that guy, but pretty much same boat. M3 Max, no issues, no reboots except for updates. Everything seems fine.

I wonder if there’s an issue with older M-series chips? I would image development is done on the latest and greatest, and maybe they’ve unintentionally missed something in the older architectures?

Is the UI great? Eh. But having to work with Windows in my day job, maybe I’m more patient with my Mac?