Hacker News: scottgg

New comment by scottgg in "An ARM Homelab Server, or a Minisforum MS-R1 Review"

scottgg — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:12:58 +0000

site down for me; here's an archive link:

New comment by scottgg in "2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web"

scottgg — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:48:14 +0000

Lastfm stopped me moving from Spotify to Apple Music; none of the iOS scrobblers seem to consistently catch all listens.

New comment by scottgg in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

scottgg — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:26:35 +0000

Heat pumps are so _ordinary_ here (Central Europe), im always a bit surprised how skeptical folks in the US and UK seem to be about them

New comment by scottgg in "Harnessing America's heat pump moment"

scottgg — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 16:23:07 +0000

Sounds like it wasn’t sized well?

New comment by scottgg in "Can we know whether a profiler is accurate?"

scottgg — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:55:42 +0000

Thanks! I didn’t realise it’s common for CPUs to rock dedicated hardware for this.

New comment by scottgg in "ChatGPT Atlas"

scottgg — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 04:29:13 +0000

This’d be a great way to hedge against folks like cloudfront aggressively restricting your training scraping too! Endpoints everywhere

New comment by scottgg in "Can we know whether a profiler is accurate?"

scottgg — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 04:28:12 +0000

Do you have a source for “with very little observer effect”? I don’t know better, it just seems like a big assumption the CPU can emit all this extra stuff without behaving differently.

New comment by scottgg in "New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules"

scottgg — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 07:28:08 +0000

There’s quite some fresh gerrymandering going on, and because folks already “tolerate” this, it’s just incremental heat in the pot.

New comment by scottgg in "Tangled, a Git collaboration platform built on atproto"

scottgg — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 07:58:53 +0000

I am obliged to use a public GitHub org for work. Is it “blessed path” to try do the CR part in tangled and sync back to GitHub? I would love to profit from my nice jj habits at the review stage!

New comment by scottgg in "Zürich voters ban noisy leaf blowers"

scottgg — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:53:36 +0000

The showering thing is an urban legend; you can have landlords try and enforce it, but it infringes on your basic right to enjoy your property iirc and is unenforceable.

The glass thing is accurate tho!

New comment by scottgg in "The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review"

scottgg — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:44:44 +0000

As a jujutsu fan, I like to prepare a nice clean commit history for my reviewers to probably ignore. But I kind of assume - there’s _some tool_ we could use - perhaps on top of GitHub - to make stacked reviews not suck, either actually stacked PRs or just incrementally reviewing a nicely divided branch PR. I thought it might be graphite but it seems that needs some whole other tooling _stuff_ on top? Any recommendations ?

New comment by scottgg in "Models of European metro stations"

scottgg — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 10:17:14 +0000

The public transport coverage especially with tram in Zürich is already amazing

New comment by scottgg in "The case against social media is stronger than you think"

scottgg — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:30:03 +0000

Moreover it’s not even possible for us to engage in _honest debate_ about the impact of social media anymore.

Absolutist positions without nuance are the norm, and the folks who control these platforms control to a very large extent the narrative to push surrounding them, both directly through the platforms themselves and indirectly through lobbying and the obscene pool of capital they have siphoned off.

New comment by scottgg in "Garmin beats Apple to market with satellite-connected smartwatch"

scottgg — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:24:44 +0000

Not op but I also have a varia and feel safer for it. Living in Switzerland, cycle a lot on public curvy roads in the alps. Often I don’t hear someone coming if I’m focusing on something else important - like traffic in the other direction - or I don’t realise there’s actually more than one car about to overtake which the Varia also shows. Generally turning your head around to check is a bit dodgy!

New comment by scottgg in "What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?"

scottgg — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:02:35 +0000

There’s an OTel SIG to do something similar / based on orchestrion and some other prior art - so just a matter of time !

New comment by scottgg in "What Are Traces and Spans in OpenTelemetry?"

scottgg — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:01:07 +0000

You could use span links for this. The idea is you have a bunch of discrete traces that indicate they are downstream or upstream of some other trace. You’d just have to bend it a bit to work in your probably single process batch executor !

New comment by scottgg in "Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code"

scottgg — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 19:16:31 +0000

Didn’t know about roo! But I’m with you; I don’t see why folks are investing their efforts in building more of these shiny wrappers, and what their expected end game could be.

New comment by scottgg in "Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code"

scottgg — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:56:38 +0000

I’m assuming/hoping this is gonna end up as regular plugins for existing IDEs

New comment by scottgg in "WHY2025: How to become your own ISP [video]"

scottgg — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:33:16 +0000

This is great! I wonder how much the presenters country - the Netherlands - has made this easier with the peering. It’s hard for me to imagine just asking big serious networks to patch you in down here in Switzerland is likely to fly.

New comment by scottgg in "Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs"

scottgg — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:10:27 +0000

WallabyJS does something along these lines, although I don’t think it is contextually understanding which tests to highlight

https://wallabyjs.com/