Hacker News: smt88

New comment by smt88 in "Ask HN: What software feels exceptionally polished?"

smt88 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:59:00 +0000

I find 1Password to be very smooth and intuitive to use (ignoring its sometimes unfortunate iOS integration, which is Apple’s fault).

New comment by smt88 in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

smt88 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:21:55 +0000

Keep in mind they’re doing real-time logistics and messaging, as well as type-ahead search and managing ads and promotions

New comment by smt88 in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

smt88 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:16:17 +0000

One assumes they mean 100,000s (plural) concurrent users actively building carts

New comment by smt88 in "We're spending 24 hours using local LLMs to search for the meaning of life"

smt88 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:10:57 +0000

This is like saying, "We're spending 24 hours using local LLMs to search for my favorite color". The answer is subjective and meaningless.

New comment by smt88 in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

smt88 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:17:23 +0000

Yes we do because a human literally had to write it. That’s at least one human pass and fact-check.

New comment by smt88 in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

smt88 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:28:35 +0000

The problem is that we don’t know if a human fact-checked it before release or if we’re the first humans reading it closely.

New comment by smt88 in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

smt88 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:23:54 +0000

I wouldn’t call it enshittification because there’s no business purpose to it.

It’s more like Applification. Apple removes every hint the user needs to know how to use its UIs in the name of “simplicity,” which makes them undiscoverable and complex.

New comment by smt88 in "Anthropic's open-source framework for AI-powered vulnerability discovery"

smt88 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:19:03 +0000

Yes, obviously. Infosec has always been plagued by this. How many services make you pay for SSO?

New comment by smt88 in "Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever"

smt88 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:46:43 +0000

I didn’t read TFA because it’s paywalled. The question asked by the headline is fair, but the next sentence is too credulous and is actually false. There’s a reason this was published as “opinion”.

New comment by smt88 in "Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever"

smt88 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:31:41 +0000

A) I can't read the article because it's paywalled.

B) Regardless of what story it tells, the article is an opinion piece by a journalist and a cardiologist, not authorities on the topic, and has a misleading title: that "answering [the] question [of whether Blue Zones are real]" is harder than ever. It's not.

New comment by smt88 in "Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever"

smt88 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:44:21 +0000

Why would it be my personal opinion? Do you think I was the one who did the research debunking them?

If you're too lazy to Google it for yourself, here's a history of the Blue Zone research, how the original "researcher" is profiting off of it, and the careful work that has been done to debunk it: https://www.science.org/content/article/do-blue-zones-suppos...

New comment by smt88 in "Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever"

smt88 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:04:00 +0000

Blue zones have been utterly, thoroughly debunked. There’s no reason to still ask this question in 2026 unless a new/unusual population or lifestyle is emerging.

New comment by smt88 in "What Efforts to Cancel Richard Stallman Ought to Teach Us About the Media"

smt88 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:42:31 +0000

You can look at Trump’s comments about his own daughter to confirm that he’s at least attracted to underage girls.

He was also credibly accused of raping minors multiple times, although those accusers were too afraid (justifiably so) to let us see those accusations play out in court.

New comment by smt88 in "AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year"

smt88 — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:38:44 +0000

I didn’t say there was no age fraud. I just said this method of determining age is nonsense, which it is.

New comment by smt88 in "AI will be used to estimate age of asylum seekers from next year"

smt88 — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:53:57 +0000

It is similar, in the sense that pseudoscience is being used to potentially ruin people’s lives.

Nothing magically happens to teeth when someone turns 18.

Wisdom teeth develop during teen years and may erupt as early as 16, as late as 25, or not at all.

New comment by smt88 in "Claude Code – Everything you can configure that the docs don't tell you"

smt88 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:09:31 +0000

A few thoughts on this:

- it’s against HN guidelines to comment on downvotes

- comments are supposed to be substantive, further the discussion, and inspire curiosity (and I think the joke failed at all of those)

- it’s not a great joke, just a shallow pun

I’m guilty of often downvoting jokes on HN that are just jokes with no substance, partly because they end up causing confusion and noise, and they make the discussion less interesting. Reddit is a great place for those.

New comment by smt88 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

smt88 — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:01:06 +0000

white collar*, not color

What does ICP mean?

New comment by smt88 in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

smt88 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:18:12 +0000

I’ve never seen a gray bubble and have received incoming messages from all different types of accounts

New comment by smt88 in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

smt88 — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:13:20 +0000

What do you think “fails” means exactly? How does Texas fail in a way that doesn’t harm innocent people in both Texas and the rest of the country/world?

Texas is larger (in both population and economy) than most countries in the world.

New comment by smt88 in "Improving C# Memory Safety"

smt88 — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:17:30 +0000

C# is like Rust in the sense that a regular (web, desktop, etc.) developer probably won’t need unsafe, but it’s useful for lower-level work in libraries and CLI tools, especially where performance is important.