Hacker News: seabass

New comment by seabass in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

seabass — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:17:00 +0000

The circular cost indicator near the context usage indicator was also removed. It is so much easier to accidentally leave an expensive model enabled now and not realize it until you have blown through the included credits. And it is hard to imagine that that wasn’t the point of the change.

New comment by seabass in "Show HN: 18 Words"

seabass — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:40:44 +0000

It’d be fun to get to try all the words. Maybe finishing the whole game as fast as possible could be the goal, rather than hitting 30s per word?

New comment by seabass in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

seabass — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 01:18:29 +0000

This is so fun! It would be cool to reuse the replay functionality in order to see how the top scorers managed to get such good scores.

New comment by seabass in "Show HN: Y – A malleable coding-agent desktop app built with Electron"

seabass — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:15:59 +0000

An app ui that can be modified by end users is a really cool idea. I hope to see that in more apps!

New comment by seabass in "Software is made between commits"

seabass — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:51:18 +0000

The way you use commits sounds like how I tend to use stacked PRs at work. Good commit hygiene is hard to enforce at a team level, but for whatever reason at the PR level people are happy to write good descriptions and keep the sets of changes tidy.

New comment by seabass in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

seabass — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:43:18 +0000

Have to love their demo use case: React -> Solid migration

New comment by seabass in "Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets"

seabass — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:40:27 +0000

The video you linked is currently private

New comment by seabass in "I’ve banned query strings"

seabass — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:46:18 +0000

This is rad and made me smile

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.