Hacker News: sgarman

New comment by sgarman in "6 years of CS2 skin market data, indexed S&P-style (open methodology)"

sgarman — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:07:20 +0000

How useful is pre 2025 data after Valve made such large changes to how skins work? https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/1oe5x07/counter_s...

Did you have to account for this or not really?

New comment by sgarman in "AI slop is killing online communities"

sgarman — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:23:50 +0000

The fact that reddit enabled hiding your posts is crazy to me. In a time where knowing who's engaging in a community is more important than ever (am I talking to a bot or a troll?) reddit removes even more options to validate.

New comment by sgarman in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

sgarman — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:13:38 +0000

A 10x engineer who doesn't even know what tools they are using?

New comment by sgarman in "I'm Too Lazy to Check Datadog Every Morning, So I Made AI Do It"

sgarman — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:30:58 +0000

I don't understand the workflow of having multiple new bugs everyday that need fixed. Is there bad code being shipped? Are there 1000 devs and it's just this persons' job to fix everyone's bugs? Is this an extremely old and complicated codebase they are improving? Not trying to be snarky - I just don't understand how every day there is new bugs that are just error messages.

If there are new bugs every day that need fixed is the AI really good enough to know the fix from just an error?

New comment by sgarman in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

sgarman — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:10:57 +0000

Mongodb is webscale.

New comment by sgarman in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

sgarman — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:58:42 +0000

Bros trying to bring thin clients back again.

New comment by sgarman in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

sgarman — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:09:05 +0000

My biggest feature use of Discord is the drop in / out voice with PTT. I couldn't quite tell if this feature exist.

New comment by sgarman in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

sgarman — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:06:26 +0000

Well they sold some retirement accounts to Ascensus which you have to have your own account and login for so maybe they will move your 401k too some day and you will be in the same boat as these guys.

New comment by sgarman in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"

sgarman — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:00:09 +0000

Based on the video and rivian history I think they wanted to redesign from the ground up a bike to match the packaging success they had at rivian and companies like lucid vs how legacy automakers approached it. The problem is the current laws about bikes and ebikes limited them and they had to make many tradeoffs which is what we are looking at. I guess we will find it if it was worth it to go ground up vs more off the shelf. As a rivian owner I'm concerned about repair-ability and maintenance.

New comment by sgarman in "Merlin Bird ID"

sgarman — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:33:09 +0000

I was thinking of trying to run this at home: https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

New comment by sgarman in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"

sgarman — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:37:47 +0000

I tried to reach out to coinbase customer support to see if I was impacted. Once I wasted my time with the AI bot and got a human they were unaware of the breach. I was the first person to inform them about it.

New comment by sgarman in "Guide to mechanical keyboards"

sgarman — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:38:34 +0000

Ten years ago I used to be really into all the mech keyboard stuff. Then I bought a topre realforce and have been using it ever since. The hobby part of the keyboards is neat but as far as "good" keyboard I haven't seen anything that would cause me to switch.

New comment by sgarman in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"

sgarman — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 18:53:56 +0000

https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

New comment by sgarman in "The danger of the mediocre success when testing startup hypotheses (2023)"

sgarman — Mon, 13 May 2024 17:38:34 +0000

VC's have twisted the idea of what a success is for normal entrepreneurs because it doesn't fit VC's 100 failures, 1 unicorn model.

New comment by sgarman in "PostgreSQL and Its Annoying Crosstab"

sgarman — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:51:00 +0000

OP says it needs to be a function in sql and backslash commands are psql commands not queries. Probably would not suite their case.

New comment by sgarman in "Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores"

sgarman — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:15:11 +0000

Skit or ad?

New comment by sgarman in "[dead]"

sgarman — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:17:40 +0000

Are you on comcast? I think there is something going on with comcast.

New comment by sgarman in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

sgarman — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:20:07 +0000

Yeah, this is still my top requested feature. I have two phones, one is data only sim. I just want to be able to signal from both of them just like how I can on my mac and PC.

New comment by sgarman in "Passwordless: a different kind of hell?"

sgarman — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 18:11:38 +0000

I use 1password but opt out of this feature. Just as described in the article masterpassword creates a single source of failure so I don't personally want to put more eggs in that basket.

New comment by sgarman in "Resend Security Incident"

sgarman — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 22:55:50 +0000

They say so much in their article but never dive into how this happened, seems like the most important part? User error? Configuration error?