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New comment by sha16 in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

sha16 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:09:48 +0000

I wanted to write an app like this. Here's what I think would be useful for some people to compare: more checkboxes that represent typical daily activities like "how much energy does driving to the grocery store (x miles away) use" or "how much energy does idling in my car for 30 mins use", "how much energy does riding the bus/trolly/etc use", "how much energy does keeping my place warm vs kind of chilly", and also "how much energy does a cargo ship use to cross the pacific" or "how much energy does it take to source, manufacture, package, transport, and stock a pack of bubblegum". I think that would help people realize the largest components of their footprint and also how it relates globally.

New comment by sha16 in "Why Nextcloud feels slow to use"

sha16 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 01:45:22 +0000

It's also slow for bulk operations like "mv somefolder/ ..." - it processes each file one at a time rather than a batch operation (I tried it out recently and this was one thing that stuck out).

New comment by sha16 in "The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe"

sha16 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 16:08:26 +0000

> Stage 1: Denial (2018-2020) "Memory is cheap, optimization is expensive"

I'm not sure if this first premise is right. Optimizing later on makes sense to me and isn't that expensive IMO (this can vary though)

New comment by sha16 in "My website is one binary (2022)"

sha16 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:49:08 +0000

I was using Python's Pelican static site generator for some time until I wanted to further customize the template fragments of a theme. Started running into issues and even helped fix a bug with the build command. Eventually I couldn't be bothered and wrote my own static site, except with Nextjs instead of plain HTML. Didn't take long and I don't have to mess around with awkward jinja templates anymore.

New comment by sha16 in "Mistral OCR"

sha16 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:09:43 +0000

I wanted to apply OCR to my company's invoicing since they basically did purchasing for a bunch of other large companies, but the variability in the conversion was not tolerable. Even rounding something differently could catch an accountant's eye, let alone detecting a "8" as a "0" or worse.

New comment by sha16 in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

sha16 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:04:04 +0000

When I first started using Cursor the default behavior was for Claude to make a suggestion in the chat, and if the user agreed with it, they could click apply or cut and paste the part of it they wanted to use in their larger project. Now it seems the default behavior is for Claude to start writing files to the current working directory without regard for app structure or context (e.g., config files that are defined elsewhere claude likes to create another copy of). Why change the default to this? I could be wrong but I would guess most devs would want to review changes to their repo first.

New comment by sha16 in "Ask HN: How can I grow as an engineer without good seniors to learn from?"

sha16 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:11:41 +0000

One of my best contributions was a 1 line fix in one of Microsoft's repos. It took me a day or two to understand the code and what it was doing but it was well worth it.

New comment by sha16 in "GitHub cuts AI deals with Google, Anthropic"

sha16 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 23:24:16 +0000

Whatever the motive, it's probably a smart move

New comment by sha16 in "Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video]"

sha16 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:44:57 +0000

But did they consider a giant spider web?

New comment by sha16 in "AlphaCodium outperforms direct prompting of OpenAI's o1 on coding problems"

sha16 — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:34:35 +0000

I think Claude trades quality for speed. From what I've seen it starts generating almost immediately even with a large token window. For smaller changes it is usually good enough, but larger changes are where I bump into issues as well. I'll stick to using change [somefunction] rather than change entire file.

New comment by sha16 in "Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor"

sha16 — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 04:53:51 +0000

I started writing my resume in LaTeX years ago. There are a couple templates on Overleaf that are very similar, there seems to be a convergence on the standard "engineering resume".

I made https://resumai.co/convert to allow others to use the template. It works fairly well with most inputs. It's a free tool!

New comment by sha16 in "Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years"

sha16 — Tue, 21 May 2024 19:10:03 +0000

This does not bode well for my hopes of LibreOffice getting my favorite features from Excel.

New comment by sha16 in "Show HN: Bleuit – A Recursive Reddit"

sha16 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 21:10:15 +0000

Thanks! Create a channel and/or post sometime!

New comment by sha16 in "Show HN: Bleuit – A Recursive Reddit"

sha16 — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 00:28:58 +0000

Yeah I just launched it and didn't want it to be a blank page when people looked. Try adding a post!

New comment by sha16 in "Show HN: Bleuit – A Recursive Reddit"

sha16 — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 00:25:06 +0000

Just visit bleuit.io/c/somechannel or bleuit.io/c/cats/gifs and if it doesn't exist it will show a form to create it. There should be a welcome modal explaining it

Show HN: Bleuit – A Recursive Reddit

sha16 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:23:56 +0000

Hi, I wanted to make a social media website that did things a little differently. I'd describe it like something between reddit and Hacker News, but with a different approach to browsing and submitting content. I learned nextjs in the process of this so it is pretty plain and simple. However if there's interest I might spend more time on it. Thanks for checking it out!

See here for more on how it works - https://bleuit.io/about

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37529814

Points: 9

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New comment by sha16 in "I built Excel for Uber and they ditched it"

sha16 — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 22:05:37 +0000

> “take this [the spreadsheet] and put it in on the website [Wesley].”

This should be taught in classrooms.

New comment by sha16 in "Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news"

sha16 — Thu, 11 May 2023 21:32:12 +0000

Nice work on the app! Reminds me of a news aggregator I worked on (inshapemind). What's your tech stack like?