Hacker News: samschooler

New comment by samschooler in "UAE to leave OPEC"

samschooler — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:31:57 +0000

Thanks! I think he's better than a lot of opinion creators, but does make me look at his videos with more skepticism.

New comment by samschooler in "UAE to leave OPEC"

samschooler — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:15:31 +0000

Do you have a reputable sources to back up your claims here? Johnny cites sources pretty consistently.

New comment by samschooler in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

samschooler — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:05:53 +0000

Here's another launch video uncut: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWm1pXNAOh6/

New comment by samschooler in "A retro terminal music player inspired by Winamp"

samschooler — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:10:16 +0000

The project is cool, the demo song is iconically AI not great, sorry.

New comment by samschooler in "American aviation is near collapse?"

samschooler — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:08:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

New comment by samschooler in "AI coding is gambling"

samschooler — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:50:27 +0000

I'm not saying I have a system. I'm saying there are levels to this stuff. It's not a binary "gambling" or "not gambling".

New comment by samschooler in "AI coding is gambling"

samschooler — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:00:19 +0000

I think there are levels to this.

- One shot or "spray and pray" prompt only vibe coding: gambling.

- Spec driven TDD AI vibe coding: more akin to poker.

- Normal coding (maybe with tab auto complete): eating veggies/work.

Notably though gambling has the massive downside of losing your entire life and life savings. Being in the "vibe coding" bucket's worse case is being insufferable to your friends and family, wasting your time, and spending $200/month on a max plan.

New comment by samschooler in "IMG_0416 (2024)"

samschooler — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:34:04 +0000

If you haven't seen http://astronaut.io/ its this but in a great form factor.

New comment by samschooler in "Show HN: Formally verified FPGA watchdog for AM broadcast in unmanned tunnels"

samschooler — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:32:32 +0000

I did a more aggressive internet search. This seems not possible given physics, as well as not documented (at least in the US) in the CDC Mine Accidents Database [0], which has been recording mine accidents since before the discovery + invention of AM radio.

Edit: The physics

- (lambda) = c / 1,620,000 Hz = 185 m :: 1.62 MHz is what I derived as a near max possible accidental frequency able to be produced by AM equipment

- 185 m / 2 = 92.6 m :: this is half a wave length

In order to resonate (let alone have enough power to "cook", which I didn't even look at because the wave can't even resonate), a tunnel must be at 92.6 m (fundamental) or 185 m wide or tall (2nd harmonic). Most tunnels are ~5m/3m wide/tall at most.

Dusted off my physics from my minor in college so someone feel free to correct me.

[0]: https://wwwn.cdc.gov/NIOSH-Mining/MMWC/MineDisasters/Table

New comment by samschooler in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

samschooler — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:54:30 +0000

I would say it's the market and sentiment around SAAS right now. See HubSpot, Atlassian, Salesforce, etc. tickers.

New comment by samschooler in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

samschooler — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:40:39 +0000

The series of posts is wild:

hit piece: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

explanation of writing the hit piece: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

take back of hit piece, but hasn't removed it: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

New comment by samschooler in "Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%"

samschooler — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:13:31 +0000

16 St. is way better than it was. If you haven't been down there, go walk around at lunch sometime, there are a bunch of normies down there now. Yeah its all chains still, but it's not actively hostile like it was a few years ago.

New comment by samschooler in "Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%"

samschooler — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:10:20 +0000

To call it a park is a stretch. It's a dilapidated golf course, and last I checked it can't be open over night because of liability? Like I'm happy it's open, but I would say it's a far cry from being on the same level as Cheeseman or City :/

New comment by samschooler in "Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%"

samschooler — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:56:04 +0000

* now is spending 70 million of public funds to make it a park https://denverite.com/2025/11/05/park-hill-park-bond-funding...

New comment by samschooler in "Downtown Denver's office vacancy rate grows to 38.2%"

samschooler — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:55:20 +0000

That whole situation was bad. I don't think anyone is happy with that situation. A developer was going to give us (some) affordable housing, and a "free" park. Instead now we're paying 70 million for the same park.

New comment by samschooler in "Show HN: An iOS budget app I've been maintaining since 2011"

samschooler — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:45:17 +0000

I've also been blocked on my home network (CO, USA). Any insight into how your block system is working?

New comment by samschooler in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

samschooler — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:21:36 +0000

Honestly if it were up to me, yes I'd love Firefox to stay in the niche, but they have to follow the market if they want to stay relevant. I just hope they can push more adoption.

New comment by samschooler in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

samschooler — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:52:00 +0000

I'm going to chime in here, I think 1. This is great and Mozilla is listening to it's core fans and 2. I want Firefox to be a competitive browser. Without AI enabled features + agent mode being first class citizens, this will be a non-starter in 2 years.

I want my non-tech family members/friends to install Firefox not because I come over at Christmas, but because they want to. Because it's a browser that "just works." We can't have this if Firefox stays in the pre-ai era.

I know Mozilla doesn't have much good will right now, but hopefully with the exec shakeup, they will right the ship on making FF a great browser. While still staying the best foil to Chrome (both in browser engine, browser chrome, and extension ecosystem).

New comment by samschooler in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

samschooler — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:32:13 +0000

So cozy. I love this.

One nit: the contrast in dark mode at least on the marketing site is a bit off (But I'd love to fix it myself if it was open source :) )

New comment by samschooler in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

samschooler — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:27:59 +0000

I have a roomba i3, it's blocked at the network level, but it is connected to my home assistant instance. It can clean and map rooms but doesn't communicate with the cloud because of the network blocking.