Hacker News: robertclaus

New comment by robertclaus in "Show HN: Leaves – A text-UI disk usage treemap visualizer"

robertclaus — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:20:49 +0000

Ooh, this is nice. I loved windirstat back in the day.

New comment by robertclaus in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

robertclaus — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:02:11 +0000

There are simple "ORM"s that just map classes to tables and columns to attributes. Basically focused on serialization instead of query generation. I find those to be a good balance.

I watched a flat earth convention

robertclaus — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 02:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://theconversation.com/i-watched-an-entire-flat-earth-convention-for-my-research-heres-what-i-learnt-95887

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48782218

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by robertclaus in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

robertclaus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:16:30 +0000

The lack of real effort bothers me more than the content itself. We can't be bothered to even proofread children's books anymore?

New comment by robertclaus in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

robertclaus — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:11:16 +0000

I suspect most of the critique even back then was around teaching from static written text, not the writing itself. In my experience that aligns well with modern education theory.

New comment by robertclaus in "Elevated error rate across multiple models"

robertclaus — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:36:57 +0000

Good opportunity to do some planning work.

Ask HN: Why do we use depth first search on comment threads in HN?

robertclaus — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:57:47 +0000

When I read the comments on a HN post I generally want to get a sense for how the community is reacting to the content and whether I missed any interesting implications. However, almost always I have to scroll through a long comment thread about one response before seeing another separate response. Is there a setting for this or a reason I'm overlooking that HN shows comments this way?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48636078

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by robertclaus in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

robertclaus — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:38:15 +0000

I bet there's an awful lot of servers out there that will happily take CORS requests from any host because someone didn't understand why their second domain couldn't talk to the same API.

New comment by robertclaus in "Midjourney Medical"

robertclaus — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:43:04 +0000

Isn't this how MRIs and stuff already work, they just use waves with much more appropriate wavelengths...?

New comment by robertclaus in "Openrouter Fusion API"

robertclaus — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:31:07 +0000

Conceptually this is wrapping an agent harness in an LLM call API. I wonder if this format is more digestible than the agent building tools the big labs are rolling out.

Fable in a Data Analyics Harness

robertclaus — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:54:57 +0000

Article URL: https://chris-parmer.com/first-look-at-fable/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48480109

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Data Viz and Table Design from the Letterpress Era

robertclaus — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:22:38 +0000

Article URL: https://chris-parmer.com/data-viz-from-the-letterpress-era/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416292

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by robertclaus in "MCP is dead?"

robertclaus — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:25:44 +0000

A CLI or authenticated web endpoint requires somewhat arbitrary terminal or code access. MCP wraps the functionality in a way that doesn't require nearly the same permissions. Doesn't that enable a whole different class of users?

New comment by robertclaus in "The worst job interview I ever had"

robertclaus — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:35:06 +0000

I think the post said early stage startups... So maybe both?

New comment by robertclaus in "What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?"

robertclaus — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:45:01 +0000

Interesting how much the post sounds like an AI prompt itself. Are we all going to start talking like that? Think hard, make a plan, and only reply after deep consideration.

New comment by robertclaus in "GitHub Is Down"

robertclaus — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:14:59 +0000

There was a post from Github a few weeks ago showing commit volume exploded from linear to exponential growth about 6 months ago. I don't know for sure, but I think they weren't ready for the scale out. Whether that means actual scaling issues or cost cutting because of the scale out, who knows.

New comment by robertclaus in "Men who stare at walls"

robertclaus — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:16:11 +0000

I was taught to aim for "mind blanking" when meditating, so does seem like it!

New comment by robertclaus in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

robertclaus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:54:36 +0000

We get our physical media movies from the library now.

New comment by robertclaus in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

robertclaus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:41:58 +0000

Feels like this is missing some of the key points of using generic bucket storage for me: 1. Archive pricing for really large old documents. 2. Cross-provider backups; especially for critical documents.

New comment by robertclaus in "Show HN: I made open source, zero power PCB hackathon badges"

robertclaus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:55:05 +0000

How much did they end up costing? We do a similar PCB medallion every year for another event and haven't been able to get quite that fancy due to cost. We usually only manage to get some LEDs and a processor in our lower budget range.