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New comment by sampullman in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

sampullman — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:15:33 +0000

I used the IRS free fillable forms this year and it was much easier than I expected, including contractor, investment income, and foreign income declarations.

New comment by sampullman in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

sampullman — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:29:11 +0000

bia hơi is pretty light

New comment by sampullman in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

sampullman — Tue, 19 May 2026 06:32:43 +0000

You adjust pretty quickly. Taking away compiler error messages would be fun though.

New comment by sampullman in "How Claude Code works in large codebases"

sampullman — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:19:31 +0000

There's a bunch of stuff I include, depending on the project. Some general ones are commenting style and coding standards. In theory it should be able to do it without that by looking at the repo style, but I haven't found that to be the case (especially with overly verbose/repetitive comments).

A specific example in another project is the testing/verification procedure. It's a wasm/WebGPU and the test harness is fairly complex. There are scripts to handle it, but by default Claude will churn for a while to figure it out and sometimes just give up. It definitely saves a lot of tokens/speeds things up.

New comment by sampullman in "I hate soldering"

sampullman — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:11:54 +0000

How ofter are you switching tips? It's been a while since I did any real soldering, but I don't remember often needing to switch in the middle of a session.

New comment by sampullman in "A lost ancient script reveals how writing as we know it began"

sampullman — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:06:45 +0000

To make this claim, wouldn't you need to understand the meaning of the script? It's probably not about monads, but you don't know for sure.

New comment by sampullman in "The locals don't know"

sampullman — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:54:26 +0000

Why? I don't have a porch at home, and it's too hot to sit outside and read.

New comment by sampullman in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

sampullman — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:32:46 +0000

Did you reply to the wrong submission?

New comment by sampullman in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

sampullman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:11:12 +0000

So you think the Vaporfly prototypes Kipchoge wore in 2018 placebo'd him into crushing the world record by 78 seconds?

New comment by sampullman in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

sampullman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:05:01 +0000

You don't need to be competing on the world stage to enjoy some of the benefits of Alpha flys or those pumas. 500 for the new Adidas does seem a little silly though.

New comment by sampullman in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

sampullman — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:46:02 +0000

I usually don't mind, but tend to split reviews into two types. Either I understand the context and can quickly do an in depth review, or I have to take some time to actually learn about the code by reviewing the surrounding systems, experimenting with it, etc. But in both cases I would at least run the code and verify correctness.

I think it becomes a chore when there are too many trivial mistakes, and you feel like your time would have been better spent writing it yourself. As models and agent frameworks improve I see this happening less and less.

New comment by sampullman in "OpenAI's response to the Axios developer tool compromise"

sampullman — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:47:27 +0000

I drag a tiny fetch wrapper around with error/json handling, timeouts and basic interceptor support. It doesn't cover everything axios does but it's nice enough and I haven't had to touch it in a couple years.

For reference: https://github.com/sampullman/fetch-api/blob/main/lib/fetchA...

New comment by sampullman in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

sampullman — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:46:39 +0000

I usually get it a few seconds ahead of time at least, in Taipei. I figured it's more related to the proximity than anything else.

New comment by sampullman in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

sampullman — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:53:23 +0000

You might be surprised, there are plenty of low effort attacks out there that just install a crypto miner and phone home periodically without doing much to cover it up.

New comment by sampullman in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

sampullman — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:07:03 +0000

For that I'm not so sure. I tried both early 2025 and was disappointed in their ability to deal with a TCA based app (iOS) and Jetpack compose stuff on Android, but I assume Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 are much better.

New comment by sampullman in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

sampullman — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:54:28 +0000

That's interesting, I actively use both and usually find it to be a toss up which one performs better at a given task. I generally find Claude to be better with complex tool calls and Codex to be better at reviewing code, but otherwise don't see a significant difference.

New comment by sampullman in "America Is Now a Rogue Superpower"

sampullman — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:59:19 +0000

It's not possible in Taiwan's current political/social climate. I'm not so confident to say 50 years, but 20+ feels conservative.

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

sampullman — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 05:48:31 +0000

Agreed, I've blocked all notifications for years. Maybe it got worse recently, but I thought they were annoying since at least Big Sur.

New comment by sampullman in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

sampullman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:39:33 +0000

That's a good point, I'm not 100% sure it's worth throwing away the potentially beneficial uses. There might not be a solution that's both feasible to implement and avoids banning useful things. In the end I usually come back to it being the parent's responsibility to monitor usage, limit screen time, etc., but it hasn't been working so well in practice.

New comment by sampullman in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

sampullman — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:01:09 +0000

I think there's a little more nuance than that, but it seems roughly correct.

Wouldn't it be better if apps/websites targeting kids didn't use A/B testing to be more addictive?