Hacker News: seemaze

New comment by seemaze in "Running a law firm on Free software"

seemaze — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:07:43 +0000

I mean, the first sentence of TFA reads "..a small English law firm, focussing on Internet, telecoms, and tech law". Seems well suited to deploying 'pretty unique IT' with minimal effort.

I assume deliverables are indistinguishable from any other firm, it's not like they are submitting a brief in OpenDocument Format.

New comment by seemaze in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

seemaze — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 03:18:54 +0000

>you can also use a smart agent to ask another smart agent

What's the best method to have a 'smart' agent just.. ask itslef?

New comment by seemaze in "University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk"

seemaze — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 17:32:04 +0000

While I am fully sympathetic to the bot scraping problem and support high quality public data on an open internet, I can't help but think the whole system needs a re-architecting.

Can we re-deploy the internet as statically hosted data available through a defined api? Something like DNS for data; eventually consistent and evenly distributed. Either the data is open and ubiquitous, or closed and inaccessible.

New comment by seemaze in "A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines"

seemaze — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 04:22:15 +0000

Cowboy coffee. Simple, bur effective.

New comment by seemaze in "A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines"

seemaze — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:48:43 +0000

Well, it was paywalled, but that's beside the point. The point is that this marketeering contraption solves a problem that the marketeers created.

Coffee was enjoyed for hundreds of years before plastic was invented. The answer is not to get rid of the plastic, but get rid of the machine.

New comment by seemaze in "Adding Window Functions to a Spreadsheet"

seemaze — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:20:52 +0000

Imagine a world where we starting teaching SQL in primary school..

New comment by seemaze in "A wave of plastic-free coffee pods and machines"

seemaze — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:14:35 +0000

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but even the $10k slayer espresso machine has a plastic water resevoir. Granted the brewing assembly is mostly plastic free.

While I sympathize with the sentiment to eliminate plastic from the transport chain for anything ingestible, it's practically impossible in the modern world.

Simple is usually best; glass or ceramic pour over, stainless press, or even the traditional South American coffee sock[0]

[0]https://perfectdailygrind.com/2016/01/coffee-sock-old-school...

New comment by seemaze in "Antimony: CAD Software Evolved from Lisp Machines and Not Drafting Tables (2015)"

seemaze — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:42:12 +0000

>Antimony is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool from a parallel universe in which CAD software evolved from Lisp machines rather than drafting tables

That's an ironic take in that the most prolific CAD software in use, AutoCAD, has supported a a lisp dialect, named AutoLISP[0], natively as an alternative runtime for more than four decades. It is so prolific in the CAD industry, that other vendors have even adopted compatibility with the language.

It is heartening to see CAD referenced in relation to drafting tables. I spend much of my time trying to educate new CAD users about the different solutions offered between the 'drafting table' metaphor and the 'world model' metaphor present in most CAD applications.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoLISP

New comment by seemaze in "Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half"

seemaze — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:14:38 +0000

About five years ago, I swapped my gas domestic hot water to a heat pump unit and my electric bill actually went down. Just being able to patch and insulate the roof exhaust from the gas unit saved more in spaced conditioning than the added (but minimal) electric load from the new heat pump itself.

New comment by seemaze in "Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half"

seemaze — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 16:08:23 +0000

BTU's are BTU's regardless of their source. It sounds like your brand new house was not built to spec, or poorly designed. Any certified ASHRAE technician should be able to meet the required demand load with properly sized equipment. The consequences of fuel type should manifest in differences of up-front and ongoing expense, not comfort.

New comment by seemaze in "US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears"

seemaze — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:11:56 +0000

According to industry leaders, that would be a terrible allocation of resources[0]. Those wafers belong in a datacenter!

[0] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/open...

New comment by seemaze in "Northflank Breached"

seemaze — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:05:18 +0000

I don't think the blame lies with the intelligence of the Azure team. I would argue that there exists structural flaws in the business incentives which deprioritize 'users' from 'customers', along with the stark lack of consequences for security failures.

New comment by seemaze in "Show HN: Auto Dismiss Mac OS "Allow to find devices on local networks?""

seemaze — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:29:23 +0000

It's a couple hundred lines of code. You could just, like, read it.

New comment by seemaze in "Edit an SQLite database in your browser"

seemaze — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:27:28 +0000

I wish there was a link to the repo included on the website. I assume that it is this one..?

https://github.com/sharma3361/editsqlite

New comment by seemaze in "Everything Rhymes with Porcelain"

seemaze — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:02:48 +0000

Posted two weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50118828

New comment by seemaze in "Expanding our partnership with GSA to bring Claude to all levels of government"

seemaze — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:05:34 +0000

s/a/s/g

New comment by seemaze in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

seemaze — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:02:26 +0000

GORILLA.BAS

New comment by seemaze in "A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting"

seemaze — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:52:46 +0000

Great human writing should be celebrated now more than ever. Just a nerd who likes to read.

New comment by seemaze in "Ghostty 1.4"

seemaze — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 03:47:54 +0000

Did you configure emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise as CTRL..?

https://xkcd.com/1172/

New comment by seemaze in "Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update"

seemaze — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:35:48 +0000

It's handy to open a TTY connection in the browser, or to delegate your tailscale MFA account as remote authentication.