Hacker News: sbrother

New comment by sbrother in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

sbrother — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:18:10 +0000

Following since I just reproduced the crash on my own system (Chrome on Ubuntu)

New comment by sbrother in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

sbrother — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:54:55 +0000

> people like everything about Go except the language itself.

Thanks for putting so succinctly exactly how I feel about Go!

New comment by sbrother in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

sbrother — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:01:23 +0000

Ooo, does everywhere in Sugarhouse have access to this now? We've been up in Park City relying on wireless point-to-point but are about to move back down to the valley and that is very exciting.

New comment by sbrother in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

sbrother — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:50:03 +0000

My version of fizzbuzz (I'm in backend/ML/NLP) is counting how many times each word appears in a string. Literally `return Counter(text.lower().split())` but it's totally fine if you want to do it in a for loop or whatever, as long as you can fluently write an incredibly simple function.

Half of the people I screen fail it. It's crazy.

New comment by sbrother in "MacBook Neo"

sbrother — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:37:36 +0000

Does that include VAT? Also the USD has been getting weaker quickly so I wouldn’t be surprised if the differential there is even larger than when they settled on pricing.

New comment by sbrother in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

sbrother — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:00:17 +0000

> you can get very nice displays for less than half the price that are 98% the same on specs.

Can you recommend any displays with PPI and brightness equivalent to the studio display, with 120Hz+ refresh rates? I was waiting for this announcement to buy a studio display because I thought they might bring 120Hz to the base model, but $3300 is a lot to spend on a single display. I have an original studio display and a high refresh rate 4K OLED monitor, and they are both compromises unfortunately.

New comment by sbrother in "Instant AI Response"

sbrother — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:07:45 +0000

Do we understand how to scale up the hardware to the point it can run a frontier model? Because this is insane. It will be a game changer for agent systems making 10-100+ calls.

New comment by sbrother in "Facebook is cooked"

sbrother — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:42:19 +0000

Similar experience for me and at this point it's just a collection of private chats. Different groups use different platforms (mine are on iMessage, Whatsapp, Signal, Slack, and.. actually Messenger although apparently Facebook is taking that away soon). It kind of feels like real-name social media is a failed experiment at this point.

New comment by sbrother in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

sbrother — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:16:03 +0000

Amazing. Thank you.

New comment by sbrother in "Voxtral Transcribe 2"

sbrother — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:54:40 +0000

Do you have experience with that model for diarization? Does it feel accurate, and what's its realtime factor on a typical GPU? Diarization has been the biggest thorn in my side for a long time..

New comment by sbrother in "Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?"

sbrother — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:32:58 +0000

Seriously. I didn't even realize this was a wide issue, but I couldn't find a school enrolment email I was looking for this morning, and found it in the spam folder. The fact that I basically never have to do this is actually amazing.

New comment by sbrother in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

sbrother — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:50:01 +0000

I've heard this, and I've even seen it in plenty of poorly performing businesses, but I've never actually seen it in a highly performing, profitable tech company. Other than at the new grad level but it's treated as net-negative training while they learn how to build consensus and scope out work.

Not coincidentally, the places I've seen this approach to work are the same places that have hired me as a consultant to bring an effective team to build something high priority or fix a dumpster fire.

New comment by sbrother in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

sbrother — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:26:39 +0000

1. Uh, isn't 2000 like extremely fucking good?

2. I played a chess bot on Delta on easy and it was really bad, felt like random moves. I beat it trivially and I am actually bad at chess, ~1000 on chess.com. I wonder if this one is different?

New comment by sbrother in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

sbrother — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 00:04:50 +0000

Can you independently set desktop wallpapers on the two screens? I know this seems nitpicky but it's literally impossible with Ubuntu/Gnome as far as I know; I have one vertical and one horizontal and have to just go with a solid color background to make that work.

New comment by sbrother in "How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI"

sbrother — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 15:00:17 +0000

Funny enough this sounds like my experience with ex-Amazon SWEs

New comment by sbrother in "In Defense of Matlab Code"

sbrother — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:46:18 +0000

> People usually use C++ or Julia. All of the fastest answers are in Julia

That's surprising to me and piques my interest. What sort of pipeline is this that's faster in Julia than C++? Does Julia automatically use something like SIMD or other array magic that C++ doesn't?

New comment by sbrother in "An SVG is all you need"

sbrother — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:13:26 +0000

I once built a music game that basically ran entirely on SVG. We hacked Musescore to attach the same UUID to both the note head in SVG and the MusicXML object in two different output modes, and then used that to synchronise the sheet music scrolling with a MIDI stream. If you're interested you can see it in action in our failed Kickstarter video from like eight years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgbB5Q4-dgY

New comment by sbrother in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

sbrother — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:01:57 +0000

How is their managed Kubernetes product nowadays? I've realized all I really use on GCP and AWS is managed Kubernetes and Postgres, and I feel like I must be overpaying particularly for GPU instances.

New comment by sbrother in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

sbrother — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:29:44 +0000

Fair, but then that functionality should be built into the flagging system. Obvious AI comments (worse, ones that are commercially driven) are a cancer that's breaking online discussion forums.

New comment by sbrother in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

sbrother — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:26:20 +0000

I strongly agree with this sentiment and I feel the same way.

The one exception for me though is when non-native English speakers want to participate in an English language discussion. LLMs produce by far the most natural sounding translations nowadays, but they imbue that "AI style" onto their output. I'm not sure what the solution here is because it's great for non-native speakers to be able to participate, but I find myself discarding any POV that was obviously expressed with AI.