Hacker News: seabass

New comment by seabass in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

seabass — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:13:56 +0000

Heartily second that! It was cool to see a combination of DOM, SVG, and canvas visualization all in use for this post.

New comment by seabass in "MacBook Neo"

seabass — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:23:01 +0000

And the battery or SSD?

New comment by seabass in "Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts"

seabass — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 01:53:43 +0000

A few weeks ago Apple had a tiny (<10MB) update for media codecs ready to install on my MBP. I expanded the details for that software update and saw that if I had run it, it would also have downloaded and installed Tahoe. Apple is burning so much trust right now with these dark patterns.

New comment by seabass in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

seabass — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:04:16 +0000

A thousand and one paper cuts. I feel like this shortsighted decision making will cost Apple so much trust in the long run.

New comment by seabass in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

seabass — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:48:13 +0000

Feels short sighted. Every such change gets me closer to ditching the ecosystem altogether.

New comment by seabass in "Show HN: I built a clipboard tool to strip/keep specific formatting like Italics"

seabass — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:48:10 +0000

Wish this were built into the OS! Love the idea

New comment by seabass in "Exe.dev"

seabass — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:16:42 +0000

Definitely going to give this a try. One thing I'm curious about--where are the servers? And if I want to choose hosting geographically close to me, how do I do that?

New comment by seabass in "Public Makes Millions on Plunging Crypto"

seabass — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 20:07:51 +0000

How much is “the public” making? The title of the post says millions. The title of the article says trillions. The second paragraph of the article says not trillions. Sheesh

New comment by seabass in "Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser"

seabass — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:37:31 +0000

I love squoosh! It’s been one of the few PWAs I have installed and actually use regularly.

Does anyone know if their optimization methods still best-in-class these days? It’s been good enough for all my practical needs, but I know it’s been around for a while and there may be better techniques for some file types now.

New comment by seabass in "Patterns.dev"

seabass — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 03:02:59 +0000

Ah I think I understand now. The return type of createBook is true | Book, which is likely a mistake, but happens to work because when you attempt to spread a boolean into an object it removes itself. But if you were to edit the example to have a stable return type of Book then it would no longer save memory, so perhaps that was intentional?

New comment by seabass in "Patterns.dev"

seabass — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:55:01 +0000

Love this! Just wanted to note that I think there’s a mistake on the flyweight pattern page’s example. You’re using getting a boolean with Set.has but treating it like a Book (as if you had used Set.get). I also don’t really understand how this saves memory if you’re spreading the result into a new object, but maybe someone here can enlighten me!

New comment by seabass in "Avería: The Average Font (2011)"

seabass — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:47:17 +0000

I’m surprised by how good it looks. This is really cool! I do feel like the Q and 4 characters need a little manual tweaking since the blur+threshold technique leaves some artifacts in the corners but those are such minor issues given how readable this font is overall. Love it.

New comment by seabass in "Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)"

seabass — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:29:49 +0000

It has a bunch of human imperfections, and I love that. The lowercase lists and inconsistent casing for similarly structured content throughout, the grammar mistakes, and overall structure. This article has a totally different feel compared to the newest ones. When you say it’s very similar, what are you picking up on? They feel like night and day from my perspective.

New comment by seabass in "Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)"

seabass — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:31:02 +0000

You can compare the writing style from the earlier articles like this from 2020, pre-GPT.

https://andreacanton.dev/posts/2020-02-19-git-mantras/

New comment by seabass in "Always be ready to leave (even if you never do)"

seabass — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 18:46:26 +0000

Strongly disagree. If you read enough of it the patterns in ai text are so familiar. Take this paragraph for example:

> Here’s what surprised me: the practices that made my exit smooth weren’t “exit strategies.” They were professional habits I should have built years earlier—habits that made work better even when I was staying.

“It’s not x—it’s y.”, the dashes, the q&a style text from the parent comment, and overall cadence were too hard to look past.

So for a counterpoint about the complaints being tedious, I’d say they are nice to preempt the realization that I’m wasting time reading ai output.

New comment by seabass in "Ratatui – App Showcase"

seabass — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:52:00 +0000

Looks really cool! Love the artwork. Right now the video in the readme doesn’t render on github, though. I had to manually download the mp4 from your demo folder to view it.

New comment by seabass in "Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app"

seabass — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:12:32 +0000

I’d expect that the “shut up and do as I say” approach would add more combativeness to the ai, increasing the likelihood that it refuses. Instead, bringing your initial request into a new chat context that hasn’t already been poisoned by a refusal would probably work.

New comment by seabass in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

seabass — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:46:27 +0000

I'm curious how you build something like this. I see file types in the network tab which, as a web dev, I've never worked with before. ktx2 and drc extensions, for example. I'm also seeing some wasm and threejs. Is there an engine that outputs these things or is it more of a manual process to bring everything together?

New comment by seabass in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

seabass — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:43:35 +0000

On the other hand, I'm so glad it didn't. I enjoyed a few minutes of exploration before realizing what I was meant to be doing.

New comment by seabass in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

seabass — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:23:22 +0000

Really beautiful! Love the artwork and the fact that this runs so well in the browser. Was surprised to realize it was multiplayer!