Hacker News: sgarman

New comment by sgarman in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

sgarman — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:41:16 +0000

I have a 7S and it still gets updates regularly.

New comment by sgarman in "Kaiser nurses say AI, workplace surveillance are making their jobs, care worse"

sgarman — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:04:38 +0000

I agree. The last 5 years especially.

New comment by sgarman in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

sgarman — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:14:15 +0000

Not an AI defender but this doesn't sound all that different than before where people were just arguing for their understanding of the issue. No one knows everything and has perfect alignment with reality. I'm with the other guy who responded, test it, else y'all just guessing and arguing who's better at guessing.

New comment by sgarman in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

sgarman — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:24:37 +0000

Reading a review from Roger Ebert provided a lot of value to me - I knew generally his likes and dislikes and could use that information relationship to contextualize the review. I think reviews break down when you move from individual to aggregates. What does 34% really mean, maybe 90/100 reviewers hate horror, are under 25, all from a specific city? I really don't agree with your take that on reviews but I do think reviews in aggregate - where there is no relationship to the reviewer -- are problematic.

New comment by sgarman in "Salesforce to Acquire Fin (formerly Intercom) for $3.6BN"

sgarman — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:45:06 +0000

That new salesforce powered heroku status dashboard is a labyrinth of sadness.

https://status.salesforce.com/products/Heroku

New comment by sgarman in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

sgarman — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:45:30 +0000

Mine literally come from the verified coinbase phone number and say coinbase and everything. If I didn't know for sure they are not calling me I'd think it was real 100%.

New comment by sgarman in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

sgarman — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:24:26 +0000

I'm a total noob in this space but I'm using pacman, paru, yay, shelly. Are those different than "userspace package manager" or are these not relevant because it's Arch?

New comment by sgarman in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

sgarman — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:04:25 +0000

Homeassistant already has tons of integration into power providers and easily let's you pipe in local data if you have it. In addition - can it be a product if anyone can just type what this guy did into an LLM? What's your moat if anyone can just replicate it?

New comment by sgarman in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

sgarman — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:14:53 +0000

Is this totally true? There is advertising, marketing spend and retail shelf space. Surely it's more complex than "solves users problem at price point."

New comment by sgarman in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

sgarman — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:58:54 +0000

So how long can you collect $0 of rent on your $5000 building before the bank realizes?

New comment by sgarman in "Remove-AI-Watermarks – CLI and library for removing AI watermarks from images"

sgarman — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:00:36 +0000

I think the issue is it was never definitive. This is a great way to show people that.

New comment by sgarman in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

sgarman — Sun, 17 May 2026 04:38:35 +0000

https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/

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.