Hacker News: rblatz

New comment by rblatz in "Goodbye to Sora"

rblatz — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:14:14 +0000

So much that they walked away from a billion dollar deal with Disney by dropping Sora.

New comment by rblatz in "Claude struggles to cope with ChatGPT exodus"

rblatz — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:27:26 +0000

AI consumes entire data centers of compute. You aren’t tucking a few racks into a corner of a data center, you are building entirely new ones. There will be whole devoted teams.

New comment by rblatz in "I fixed Windows native development"

rblatz — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:40:39 +0000

Just ship a self contained build?

New comment by rblatz in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

rblatz — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:57:08 +0000

Ok that works for STL files, but printers don’t print STL files they print g code. G code is generated by slicers, and depending on your printer and settings the g code will be different.

Is this law obligating printer manufactures to lock down their printer to slicers that can do the STL naughty check?

New comment by rblatz in "Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?"

rblatz — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:17:11 +0000

Is the answer to buy a travel router and give it the same SSID as another network, either work or home? Or is this doing something more sophisticated than SSID snooping?

New comment by rblatz in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

rblatz — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:27:50 +0000

Some states handle this by requiring cars over a certain age to be emission checked before you can renew its registration. Failing cars have to be fixed and rechecked before you can get your tags.

New comment by rblatz in "Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable"

rblatz — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:10:07 +0000

My Samsung frame does that too, some TVs ignore the off CEC command. It might be a setting you can control on the tv. Last time I checked the frame did not have that option.

New comment by rblatz in ".NET 10"

rblatz — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:00:36 +0000

I avoided Blazor, despite multiple people on my teams pushing for it. It always felt like it fit in the same space as web forms and silverlight. A product created to fill a gap of developers that wrote desktop apps and don't want to learn how to write front end code for the web. Plus it binds you to the product lifecycle of a .net side project that likely will be abandoned.

While Blazor has some cool stuff built in, the cool stuff never felt worth the risk of building a product around it.

New comment by rblatz in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

rblatz — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 19:19:03 +0000

I think it’s less about managing the environmental impact of landfills and more about eventually the concentration of desirable materials in landfills may end up higher than in known natural deposits. Or at least easier to refine and separate.

New comment by rblatz in "Claude’s memory architecture is the opposite of ChatGPT’s"

rblatz — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 04:33:16 +0000

The models aren’t static, we have to build validation sets to measure model drift and modify our prompts to compensate.

New comment by rblatz in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

rblatz — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:56:20 +0000

NPR had 3 stories last week in their NPR News Now Podcast about K-Pop Demon Hunters. Like I said it has 4 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 all in the top 10. It's the best performing movie ever on Netflix with over 236 million streams. It was so successful they actually did a run of showings on over 1,700 screens topping the box office charts for that week and grossing over 18 million in a weekend.

I'm not sure what else it would need to do besides dominate the music, box office, and streaming charts to be considered a success. It was widely covered in the news media as well. I predict that Rumi is going to be maybe the most popular costume with kids this year. My daughter and all her friends all claim they're going to be Rumi for halloween.

Stranger Things was huge, and maybe it's trailed off over the years. It never was quite as big as say Game of Thrones, but it was probably at least same tier as a Ted Lasso.

Wednesday is big as well, but hasn't dominated the work conversations as much as other shows, but I've heard it routinely mentioned in media. Wednesday Addams is also predicted as a top costume this halloween. The Wednesday dance was definitely a huge cultural meme last season.

But I guess to your point, there isn't something as big as a Game of Thrones out there right now on Netflix. But they have hit a pretty hot streak recently.

New comment by rblatz in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

rblatz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 05:42:43 +0000

Netflix is right in its prime right now, K-Pop Demon Hunters is a smash hit and probably the biggest cultural thing going on right now, it has like 4 songs from it in the top 10. Wednesday is coming back this weekfor the end of season 2. Stranger Things is wrapping up in November,

New comment by rblatz in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

rblatz — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 01:12:31 +0000

Copilot replacing intellisense is a huge shame. Why get actual auto complete when you can get completely hallucinated methods and properties instead.

New comment by rblatz in "macOS dotfiles should not go in –/Library/Application Support"

rblatz — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:56:24 +0000

The spec from Apple could be clearer, you have to read the tea leaves and both sides have enough ammo to argue for their interpretation. But as someone who doesn’t care either way where these are stored I think that makes me a bit more objective than people who strongly have an opinion that they are looking to justify.

I think the Application support people have a stronger argument. Nowhere does it say store it in ~/.config for CLI tools. Also it seems weird to store user preferences in two different locations based on if it’s a CLI app or a GUI app. What if you have both interfaces?

I’m not saying that Application Support is the better solution, and if people feel that there should be a distinction between CLI apps and GUI apps they should push for Apple to update their standards. Repeatedly harassing an open source maintainer to relitigate an issue they’ve already decided on is counter productive and a waste of the maintainer’s time. I would be frustrated if I was him as well.

New comment by rblatz in "AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents"

rblatz — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 03:06:06 +0000

We are going the opposite way, putting instructions in md files and putting instructions in the Claude.md file when it should read those instructions.

New comment by rblatz in "Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code"

rblatz — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:28:04 +0000

While I prefer Cline/Roo at work where I have multiple API plans for AI models, for personal I have Claude Pro and that really only works with Claude code. The benefit is that I can use it on a $20 a month plan.

New comment by rblatz in "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"

rblatz — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:14:55 +0000

The service itself is a several week endeavor to do properly, you have to understand the impact of all the pushed passes on the QR code generator, put together telemetry, dashboards, and alerting for the new service. Depending on their infrastructure that could be difficult to spin up. You have to do a design and review with the team so this isn’t just understood by one person and can be supported by a team. Documentation, ADRs, etc. setting up processes for managing the cert chain over the long term. And you probably want to keep parity between the iOS and android apps, so you need to understand that work.

Then yeah, it lowers engagement with the app, which is probably tied to someone’s bonus.

New comment by rblatz in "Blurry rendering of games on Mac"

rblatz — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:19:35 +0000

Most of the time I just get function signatures that are already exposed via intellisense.

Sometimes they actually have examples of how to use it, but most are just Javadoc level, and of minimal use.

New comment by rblatz in "Blood oxygen monitoring returning to Apple Watch in the US"

rblatz — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:40:29 +0000

iPhone can control Apple TVs, and is able to detect which device you are nearest to and auto select it (if you have multiple)

Also all my TVs also have apps that function as a remote control.

Interestingly enough my main TV an LG has a remote that controls the tv using RF. I don’t even know if it would work with an IR blaster.

New comment by rblatz in "It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean)"

rblatz — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:18:43 +0000

If a contractor installed exactly what he asked for, an RJ45 jack which would be unusable for his needs he would have no grounds to stand on to demand it be corrected without paying more. By specifying the technically correct name as well as the colloquially recognized name he is being precise and accommodating.