Hacker News: runjake

New comment by runjake in "Honda Civics and the Evil Valet"

runjake — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:27:00 +0000

You could, but if this unit is anything like it is in my CR-V, and its most likely the same, it's an ancient slow OMAP processor and 4GB of RAM (IIRC).

Edit: Looks like a Tegra 3 in this one, but my bet is meager RAM.

New comment by runjake in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

runjake — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:33:20 +0000

For those who don't know what broxit is talking about, they're referring to something like --minimum-release-age/minimumReleaseAge in many pieces of software and package managers to reduce vulnerability to supply chain attacks. Often times, such attacks are detected within a few days of compromise.

Here's Bun's, as an example: https://bun.com/docs/pm/cli/install#minimum-release-age

New comment by runjake in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

runjake — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:33:17 +0000

For others curious about the open face mod, apparently it's this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VisionPro/comments/1t37xvi/psa_you_...

New comment by runjake in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

runjake — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:44:54 +0000

Me neither, but I see a lot of foldables in the wild and I'm far from any tech hotspots, like the Bay Area and Austin.

New comment by runjake in "US Military Personnel in Israel Found Secret Spyware on Their Phones"

runjake — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:47:55 +0000

Judging by the past, probably zero days. Presumably they’re also using stingray type devices to further surveil or provide additional attack vectors.

New comment by runjake in "Tell HN: Helium is the best browser I ever used"

runjake — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:26:57 +0000

I tried to daily drive Helium on my Mac but it crashed too much (multiple times a day, as recently as a couple weeks ago). It also scores much lower on EFF's Cover Your Tracks website versus Brave. Looks interesting and I like the relative minimalism, though.

New comment by runjake in "Apple WWDC 2026"

runjake — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:33:44 +0000

It's just being pitched this way by marketing and the C suite. If it were really a snow leopard release, someone should have informed the engineers they were supposed to be improving resiliency and fixing bugs, because this is news to them. cough

New comment by runjake in "Ask HN: What is the AI setup for an experienced dev starting on a new project?"

runjake — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:39:52 +0000

My sweet spot is the Codex app running separately from whichever IDE I'm using (VSCode or nvim). Codex is pointed at whatever work folder I'm working on.

New comment by runjake in "Ask HN: How did you discover Hacker News?"

runjake — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:33:09 +0000

A pg essay almost two decades ago, when the site was still called Startup News.

New comment by runjake in "Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?"

runjake — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:32:04 +0000

I thought Practical SQL was very good at explaining both the how and the why with practical real-world examples.

https://nostarch.com/practical-sql-2nd-edition

New comment by runjake in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

runjake — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:44:01 +0000

Depends on the workload.

The M3 Ultra is no slouch. It sits at the top with best processors on both single-core and multi-core x64 processors.

Meanwhile my mini PC with a Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, which is nowhere near an M3 Ultra, feels much snappier using it as a day to day desktop in both Linux and Windows. I think this speaks more to the sluggishness of the macOS experience rather than hardware performance.

But, then I start doing something data/gpu/local LLM intensive and my M3 Max shines.

New comment by runjake in "Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com?"

runjake — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:14:54 +0000

No, because the notification timing is not reliable. It can vary a lot depending on the load on that microservice at any given time. Also, how would you handle dits, dahs, and gaps?

New comment by runjake in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

runjake — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:08:49 +0000

> the reality is that crime is decreasing

This is the problem with assuming stats == reality. The ground reality often does not match the overall stats.

Overall, crime seems to be decreasing. But this doesn’t help in areas like mine, where the population is growing, taxes are increasing, and crime is rising, yet budgets for adequate LE/justice resources seem to be decreasing or not keeping pace with crime growth. This seems to be fairly common in growing areas of the western US.

New comment by runjake in "32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building"

runjake — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:38:15 +0000

Crucial has "good" prices for DDR5 6000mhz memory on Amazon. The downside is you have to wait for shipping -- I had to wait a couple weeks. I bought when these were $300 and equivalent memory prices were like $500 at the time.

Been solid so far for 6-ish months.

https://www.amazon.com/Crucial-6000MHz-Overclocking-Desktop-...

New comment by runjake in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

runjake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:04:48 +0000

I'm not qualified to answer, but I regularly hear the following in the US:

- Not enough (LE|DA|jail) funding or staffing or space.

- "We want to focus on violent crimes". I have a whole rant about this, watching violent criminals/rapists going through revolving doors.

- Use of diversion and "restorative justice" programs, which clearly do not work for certain classes of criminals with very long rap sheets, but here we are.

New comment by runjake in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

runjake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:10:57 +0000

If you're wondering what is being discussed in the meetings about whether or not more surveillance should be deployed, at the city and county levels, this is it.

Crime isn't being prosecuted, the criminals know it, and this breeds more crime (and more criminals). Even when they are imprisoned and incarcerated, they're probably in jail for somewhere between 24 hours and a few weeks. They know pretty much everyone else in jail, so it's almost like going to a camp reunion for them.

There used to be BOLO "be on the look out" lists with grids of mugshots passed around various informal circles so that businesses and organizations can better protect themselves from crime. But, mugshots are no longer public, so they can't even do that anymore. It ends up creating more profiling of a person based on their appearance.

And... more surveillance.

New comment by runjake in "Microsoft to Ship Coreutils with Windows"

runjake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:51:05 +0000

s/to ship/has shipped as a preview/

Install it with: winget install Microsoft.Coreutils

Homepage: https://github.com/microsoft/coreutils

New comment by runjake in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

runjake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:07:28 +0000

Those people don't think they're spamming. They're caught up in their own hype and think they're offering the opportunity of a lifetime -- even though they don't know what they want, exactly.

A good general tip is that every email should begin with a "bottom line, up front" (BLUF).

Tell people what you want, need, or recommend first. Then provide supporting details.

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

runjake — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:53:15 +0000

I try to avoid Microsoft products these days (modern dotnet is pretty nice though), but from my past experience, I believe every bit of this and have run into all of these with other software, including the requiring of multiple versions of MSSQL Embedded, which is just unholy.

New comment by runjake in "Surface Laptop Ultra"

runjake — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:39:30 +0000

... yet they still struggle to try and port their code to a newer .net version that does run on ARM. And do a bunch of other work tasks that can utilize this hardware.

(But, you bring up a great point, regardless!)