Hacker News: sh1mmer

New comment by sh1mmer in "Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows"

sh1mmer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:10:46 +0000

They might need to do some vibe refactoring.

Claude Code login fails with OAuth timeout on Windows

sh1mmer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:04:23 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/44257

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676521

Points: 222

# Comments: 304

New comment by sh1mmer in "GB Renewables Map"

sh1mmer — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:01:24 +0000

Are those gas plants not peakers? It seems wild to me there is 5gw of curtailment while there is 16gw of gas going. Surely the grid could use some more storage capacity.

New comment by sh1mmer in "DoorDash and Waymo launch autonomous delivery service in Phoenix"

sh1mmer — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:14:31 +0000

It would be interesting to see if this could be combined with those little sidewalk bots to do the last mile, effectively having the Waymos act like buses for the bots.

New comment by sh1mmer in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

sh1mmer — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:39:02 +0000

I’m curious about how you confirmed some things you wrote were in the dataset.

New comment by sh1mmer in "Mikeal Rogers has died"

sh1mmer — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 22:48:29 +0000

When Node was just getting big I met Mikael for the first time at some Node event or another. It’s hard to overstate or forget how welcoming he was, always excited to see folks, and the one getting the energy of the room going.

The more time I spent with Mikael the more I saw him doing all the small things that needed doing for a community, or an event. Even just hanging out Mikael was always so considerate and tried to make things special for everyone.

He will be missed.

New comment by sh1mmer in "Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition"

sh1mmer — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:16:22 +0000

Also “England” but the shape is the UK.

Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?

sh1mmer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 17:20:26 +0000

I am replacing some old outdoor lights and I want to get LED lights that I can program? Any suggestions on the best ones? Ideally replaceable/extendable light strings with some kind of programmable controller that has usb/wifi. If it has an app my family can use that’s a plus.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42341809

Points: 251

# Comments: 115

Ask HN: Are Nest Having an Outage?

sh1mmer — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 03:00:13 +0000

Our thermostat keeps reporting a power outage and stopped cooling but nothing has changed.

I’m seeing some other reports on Reddit of similar issues.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41125777

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by sh1mmer in "Math is running out of problems"

sh1mmer — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:54:05 +0000

I think this is a great point. The author seems to have a selection bias. All the “great” problems in maths are the ones that have remained hard to solve.

All the stuff in the middle has been solved and then taught and is no longer “interesting”. Or, are we build on those results the new problems are a bit further from the fundamentals so you have to look in specific more specialized domains to find new areas.

What the author seems to forget is that most of the stuff we take for granted now were at one point the cutting edge of maths and obscure to all but the leading mathematicians of the time.

New comment by sh1mmer in "Math is running out of problems"

sh1mmer — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:51:12 +0000

Is that based on the average level of maths at the time? I would argue that there are far more mathematicians now who understand the results from that period now than there were then because our mathematical literacy, especially in higher education and in the developing world has increased significantly.

The fact that those results are easier to understand is because of our increased literacy. Trigonometry was the cutting edge of maths at one point and math literacy was even less then. Now it’s material for tweens.

New comment by sh1mmer in "Google Gemini tried to kill me"

sh1mmer — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:33:27 +0000

I think this is one of those examples where many people wouldn’t think about botulism because both garlic and oil are common and store safely out of the fridge uncombined.

Things like meat people might be more skeptical about, but imo this goes back to do Google, et al really trust their LLMs to give definitive answers on food safety. If it were me this would be one area I’d have the LLM refuse or hedge all answers like with other sensitive topics.

New comment by sh1mmer in "Google Gemini tried to kill me"

sh1mmer — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:29:51 +0000

Actually the first hit [1] on Google I got for “is it safe to infuse garlic oil without heating” is this article from OK state saying that it’s only safe without heat if you use citric acid.

Of course, the incorrect Gemini answer was listed above that still.

[1] https://news.okstate.edu/articles/agriculture/2020/gedon_hom...

New comment by sh1mmer in "Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it"

sh1mmer — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 23:53:21 +0000

If the phone was locked, passcoded, remote erased and sim-locked how did they know her number? I’m not doubting the story I’m just curious how they figured that out.

New comment by sh1mmer in "AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board"

sh1mmer — Mon, 27 May 2024 03:00:55 +0000

Sam Altman holds.. no degree? So presumably using their academic qualifications as a basis for their eligibility for the board of OpenAI is as silly as using Mr Altman’s?

Would you give him the benefit of the doubt as an “AI expert” because of his well know work experience at YC? Without discussing their careers at all this comment seems at best unhelpful.

New comment by sh1mmer in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

sh1mmer — Fri, 24 May 2024 01:03:04 +0000

You mentioned RLCDs does this mean the screen technology is in the same family as transflective screens?

I have a OLPC and a Toshiba R500 which have this kind of screen and they sorta kinda do work in sunlight but less so now than the newer super bright iPad screens.

I’m curious if you think you have this down if that means there is a road to color in the future.

New comment by sh1mmer in "LCD displays still don't match the responsiveness of clunky CRT screens (2019)"

sh1mmer — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:02:20 +0000

And the great big thunk if you had a model that supported degaussing.

New comment by sh1mmer in "A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's"

sh1mmer — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:58:05 +0000

Just looking at Austin area I was pretty surprised to see that the price varied from $3.89 to $5.39 between South Austin and Round Rock (North Austin). But also even a $1 difference from McDonalds in Round Rock on opposite sides of the free way.

I don’t really eat at McDonalds but surely people who do would notice these kinds of differences right away.

New comment by sh1mmer in "I built an offline smart home"

sh1mmer — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 04:02:28 +0000

> after bedtime, the lights still come on when someone goes in the bathroom, but very dim, etc.

I’d be curious to hear more about this. Most of the “smart” light solutions I’ve tried struggle to go directly to a specific lighting level without some bright flash as they activate.

What brand switches/lights are you using to do this with?

New comment by sh1mmer in "GTA 5 source code leaks online"

sh1mmer — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 19:30:01 +0000

After reading this I assumed he used some kind of remote server he had access to. Eg phone is the Bluetooth keyboard, fire stick provides an internet connection and a browser, and remote server provides the full Linux environment to do whatever actually hacking with.