Hacker News: sandblast

New comment by sandblast in "Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?"

sandblast — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:22:20 +0000

Who is “they”, you think, if not the Chinese or US labs?

Anna’s Archive still doesn't have everything — I suspect all these books described are not in this great dataset.

New comment by sandblast in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

sandblast — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:44:46 +0000

You describe mobile handheld scanners that are a form of self-checkout in some stores, but not the norm. Most of the commenters here probably associate self-checkout with a station with touchscreen, scanner and bagging area.

New comment by sandblast in "Show HN: iPhone app takes simultaneous images from 2 lenses, fuses into 1 photo"

sandblast — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:28:11 +0000

Instead of explaining why your app needs it, you decided to hand-wave "everyone does this". Peculiar.

New comment by sandblast in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

sandblast — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:46:42 +0000

It is not. You got it backwards.

New comment by sandblast in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

sandblast — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:16:49 +0000

What is that car, and could you make a video of it?

New comment by sandblast in "So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI"

sandblast — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:06:21 +0000

"Domain-verifications" is an invitation for everyone else that might need it to use the same standard and convention. "Discord-domain-verification" is not, it's what feels like polluting the global namespace with the company name that might cease to exist in a few years.

At the very least, it should be "domain-verification-discord", "-google" and so on. Maybe even "-com.discord", "-com.google"? And the first part clearly standardized and registered, instead of one entity using "domain" and another one "site".

New comment by sandblast in "So You Want to Define a Well-Known URI"

sandblast — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 07:55:15 +0000

No, in fact I don't. But this post wouldn't be of any help anyway. It feels like it's about nothing, there is no substance, just stating some obvious facts. Without examples that lead to some real recommendations, this whole expertise claimed by the author is of no use.

New comment by sandblast in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

sandblast — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:17:21 +0000

> brain the size of a galaxy

Wow, aren't you humble.

New comment by sandblast in "Show HN: Stop AI scrapers from hammering your self-hosted blog (using porn)"

sandblast — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 21:52:08 +0000

Are you sure the counter is not broken?

New comment by sandblast in "The Whole App is a Blob"

sandblast — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:07:55 +0000

It looks like the developer was so hooked on the idea of making it minimalistic, he forgot to make it a language-learning app. So it's a blob with a backstory. Design with no substance.

New comment by sandblast in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

sandblast — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:58:45 +0000

Maybe you'll appreciate having it pointed out to you: you should work on your usage of "where" vs "were".

New comment by sandblast in "Mistral 3 family of models released"

sandblast — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:07:09 +0000

XD XD

New comment by sandblast in "Await Is Not a Context Switch: Understanding Python's Coroutines vs. Tasks"

sandblast — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:41:55 +0000

For the JS developers: similar useful behavior (and more!) can be implemented in JS using the wonderful Effection library.

https://effection-www.deno.dev/

New comment by sandblast in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

sandblast — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 11:18:00 +0000

Source?

New comment by sandblast in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

sandblast — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:36:45 +0000

I was just asking to know your thought process, but this discussion probably won't lead to anything anyway — in my view a person's stance on vaccines, gay rights, what have you, doesn't make you any worse developer. If the technology is sound — which I can vibe-check (by a glimpse on how the code is maintained, documented etc.) — I have no reason to peek into one's private views. Your opinion is different, I still don't fully understand it, but we'll just have to agree to disagree.

New comment by sandblast in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

sandblast — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:10:50 +0000

> I am not sure I run a single piece of software where this is done.

And yet you run it. Have you vibe-checked every such software? Did that bring you enough information about individuals creating it? If not, if there are no readily available signs, have you vetted their own, private beliefs otherwise — in order to ensure they don't clash with your own?

What if Linus Torvalds turned out to be secretly a Nazi pedophile for the whole time? Would that make you stop using Linux?

New comment by sandblast in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

sandblast — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:08:08 +0000

False dychotomy — there are more options than "protecting anonymity" and "revealing identity so that credentials can be vetted". He just writes what he believes under his own name, it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with establishing his authority.

New comment by sandblast in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

sandblast — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:05:19 +0000

"By design", for me, doesn't say that it can't be changed — maybe the design was wrong, after all. Would it be a major hurdle or create some problems if fixed today?

New comment by sandblast in "Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay"

sandblast — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:29:58 +0000

Can you share the link?

New comment by sandblast in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

sandblast — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 12:58:58 +0000

Aren't these bugs that could be "simply" reported and fixed? Or maybe those would get a label "not a bug" attached by the TS creators for some reason?