Hacker News: rrradical

New comment by rrradical in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

rrradical — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:17:45 +0000

I thought 'stacking' PRs was useful in two circumstances.

1. The PRs are across different related repos, so they literally can't be combined into one PR.

2. You want to keep producing work while the first PR is in review. So you stack subsequent PRs onto the same branch. Basically just pipelining.

But this feature doesn't seem to hit either use case, and instead just seems to be a different form of stacking commits into a single PR. The standard advice has always been to make atomic and meaningful commits (using e.g. rebase to tell a nice story for the reviewer). And reviewers can go through commit by commit if they like.

What am I missing?

New comment by rrradical in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

rrradical — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:38:42 +0000

I've always wondered why I can't pay some small fee (20 cents? $1?) to read an article. Why it have to be an entire subscription? If I put $20 / month into an account and then spend that bit by bit on high quality articles from different sites I'd gladly do that.

New comment by rrradical in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

rrradical — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:59:48 +0000

Well it was definitely a bug. It worked in some cases (I think it even worked in google at first, and then a few days later it manifested). And the feature was advertised, even though, again, they never claimed the software to be release quality.

But my point is that, similar to security, you don't want to build this kind of feature piece meal. Either the containers are fundamentally walled off or they aren't.

New comment by rrradical in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

rrradical — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:31:09 +0000

I tried Orion about a year ago. I tried using the profile sandboxing. Logging into my google account in one profile also logged me in in another profile.

I can definitely excuse some bugs (there were crashes for example that I didn’t overly mind; I understand I was using prerelease software). But something like account containers should be built fundamentally to disallow any data sharing. If data sharing is a bug, and not fundamentally disallowed by the architecture, then it’s going to happen again later.

So for that reason I’m not bullish on orion.

New comment by rrradical in "Silly job interview questions in Haskell"

rrradical — Fri, 23 May 2025 03:49:26 +0000

As a haskell programmer, all of that was easily readable.

A Catalog of Aesthetics

rrradical — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:42:47 +0000

Article URL: https://cari.institute/aesthetics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43016543

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rrradical in "ChatGPT Pro"

rrradical — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 21:38:42 +0000

So the AI wrote a bug; but if humans wouldn’t catch it in code review, then obviously they could have written the same bug. Which shouldn’t be surprising because LLMs didn’t invent the concept of bugs.

I use LLMs maybe a few times a month but I don’t really follow this argument against them.

Differential Learning

rrradical — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 18:34:53 +0000

Article URL: https://perceptionaction.com/dl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41917278

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rrradical in "Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills"

rrradical — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 19:46:38 +0000

I'm having a lot of trouble understanding your definition of work. Even if you meant perform- most athletes have to perform continuously outside out of games in order to earn minutes in game. And touring musicians are performing way more hours than you cite.

Imagine if programmers were like NFL players, constantly measured on their performance against their peers.

New comment by rrradical in "Can we stop the decline of monarch butterflies and other pollinators?"

rrradical — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 22:57:28 +0000

FYI to anyone out there considering this- don't plant tropical milkweed:

"Another problem with tropical milkweed is that it harbors a one-celled parasite, Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, called OE for short. Because tropical milkweed does not die out in winter, the parasite does not die back either. Monarchs with large numbers of this parasite – which coevolved with monarchs and does not infect other species – are born with crumpled wings and cannot fly; the less infected are smaller, have shorter lifespans, fly poorly or are unsuccessful at mating. Only the healthiest butterflies reach overwintering areas in Mexico; butterflies with this parasite do not survive long migrations. "

https://www.cambridgeday.com/2024/08/03/more-abut-monarch-bu...

New comment by rrradical in "MeshAnything – Converts 3D representations into efficient 3D meshes"

rrradical — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:56:38 +0000

I believe also quads also deform better during animation.

New comment by rrradical in "I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it"

rrradical — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:07:56 +0000

I switched from opengl b/c I was tired of staring at a black screen with no debugging information (sure...glGetError) when I tried to implement a non-trivial feature. After tons of work to learn vulkan and getting it up and running, I still think it was worth it.

New comment by rrradical in "Tell HN: Reddit killed its compact mode on 2024-04-01"

rrradical — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:04:51 +0000

https://new.reddit.com/

New comment by rrradical in "Two-Thirds of U.S. Adults Would Rather Wait to Watch Movies on Streaming"

rrradical — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 04:48:38 +0000

Can't believe no one has yet mentioned the full volume commercials they play beforehand. I'm not talking about trailers, which are benign or even enjoyable sometimes. But you used to be able to arrive a little early and chat with your friends before the trailers start. Now they blast ads at you. Who would even buy those ads? People know not to show up on time to avoid them, so it's a mostly empty theatre anyway.

New comment by rrradical in "QMK and Keyboards"

rrradical — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 19:38:43 +0000

I feel like it took a month to get fully used to and then I haven’t looked back. I did have an RSI motivation.

New comment by rrradical in "Home schooling's rise from fringe to fastest-growing form of education"

rrradical — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:58:21 +0000

I was (non-religiously) home schooled and very much benefited from it. I was able to spend a lot more time reading books than I would have in school. I was able to learn about computers, programming, etc. I did get some socialization through other kids in my neighborhood and events with other home school families. I started in back in school around high school and, although it was a bit of a transition, I enjoyed it (and don't regret homeschooling either).

It probably wouldn't work well for every kid and every family. Personally, I found the structure of elementary school very constraining and was glad to get out. I'm sure there are pros and cons to both approaches.

I think relative to my peers I'm generally able to be a bit more self motivated. And I think schools generally teach you to solve problems using only the information on the page in front of you, whereas the real world is much messier than that.

New comment by rrradical in "Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)"

rrradical — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 19:29:46 +0000

U-turns are not perfectly safe. Last week I saw a U-turner almost a hit a biker as they backed up after not being able to complete the turn in one pass. Can they be done safely? Sure. But that's not the same as perfectly safe.

New comment by rrradical in "Don’t build a general purpose API to power your own front end (2021)"

rrradical — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 17:09:42 +0000

Your first point is addressed in the article. For the second point, my experience is that the backend probably needs some work in that case anyway. If the backend is well designed, then only the presentation API endpoint needs to change. So a BE engineer is doing the tweaking instead of a FE engineer; not a big deal. Less of a big deal if there's no line drawn between FE and BE engineers.

New comment by rrradical in "Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida"

rrradical — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 21:24:06 +0000

Oh interesting. Japanese is like this. Many years ago it absorbed Chinese nouns, but more recently it has absorbed many English nouns.

Some Americans learning Japanese will regret this last part- wishing that the language stayed “pure”, as if it were ever actually pure, whatever that means.

New comment by rrradical in "Johnny Decimal"

rrradical — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:38:05 +0000

I imagine you could just reply to the old thread with the new category.id. Or only reply to yourself if it's only your organization system. Email search should include the email bodies.

(I'm not a user of this; just guessing)