Hacker News: snarfy

New comment by snarfy in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

snarfy — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:51:59 +0000

My Claude name is dude. It has worked well.

New comment by snarfy in "Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK"

snarfy — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:04:19 +0000

A friend commented that since the sensor is not center vertically on the monitor, VRR will win by default.

New comment by snarfy in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

snarfy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:38:11 +0000

## HARD RULE - design scope must always be maintained and no function should ever be longer than XXX lines and no class should have more than Y methods. Create new classes and subclasses and refactor until the criteria are met.

You'd be surprised how readable this makes the code when XXX is about the size of your vertical screen and Y is relatively small.

New comment by snarfy in "GPT-5.6"

snarfy — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:08:24 +0000

My code was always plumbing. Glue stuff together. Connect data model to api.

I'm still using my brain, just doing a lot more plumbing now and reading a lot more code than writing. Depressing in some ways and exciting in others. At the end of the day it's not going way. It's disruptive and better to embrace it.

New comment by snarfy in "It seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history"

snarfy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:54:03 +0000

I read non-fiction all day long. I'm sure you do too. Even as a kid I was never really interested in fiction. I'd rather read the encyclopedia.

New comment by snarfy in "Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks"

snarfy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:20:55 +0000

The file on the floppy the scripts looked for to know it was on the last disk of the set

https://irrlua.sourceforge.net/install.end

New comment by snarfy in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

snarfy — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:35:00 +0000

I want to play with openclaw for continuous workflows without burning my cloud credits. Do I want this?

New comment by snarfy in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

snarfy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:07:21 +0000

If they are going digital only then they are competing with Steam. They will lose.

New comment by snarfy in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

snarfy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:34:58 +0000

They could allow AI PRs, but then have another AI PR reviewer reject them if they do not match the definitions for `to-the-point` `no-bullshit` commits.

New comment by snarfy in "Microsoft reveals why Windows 11 keeps saying a file is in use after closing app"

snarfy — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:58:50 +0000

But they can't be bothered to tell which process is holding it, not even a damn PID. C'mon guys, bare minimum here, and this issue has been there for decades.

It's great you added file locksmith to powertoys but that should be a built in OS feature for many, many years now.

New comment by snarfy in "Why does kinetic energy increase quadratically, not linearly, with speed? (2011)"

snarfy — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:05:19 +0000

When you push something you don't change its velocity - you change its acceleration.

New comment by snarfy in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

snarfy — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:05:07 +0000

When the AI bubble pops.

New comment by snarfy in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

snarfy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:37:18 +0000

As an outsider not paying too much attention, how do you beat the ledger problem? Crypto only works if there is a ledger. I don't want a ledger of every transaction I made. Seems like an insurmountable fundamental privacy issue.

New comment by snarfy in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

snarfy — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:39:19 +0000

When the AI bubble pops those hardware prices will pop too.

New comment by snarfy in "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

snarfy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:04:00 +0000

> Windows 3-era UI pieces still hanging around the Control Panel

odbc data sources

New comment by snarfy in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

snarfy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:03:20 +0000

I can't even consider them after diesel gate. When I start thinking about it, it's quite sad how many car brands are terrible. I own two Mazdas. Still terrible but the least I could find.

New comment by snarfy in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

snarfy — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:39:02 +0000

When I used them the main issue was latency spikes due to their IP ranges getting DDoSd. They host a lot of shady/spam sites.

New comment by snarfy in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

snarfy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:18:24 +0000

Microsoft has Copilot and Windows. Look what happened.

New comment by snarfy in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

snarfy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:36:25 +0000

I like the capabilities of C++ and imgui but didn't want to deal with C++ anymore so I had AI do it.

imping - PingPlotter-like app. They didn't have a Linux version and I'm a paying customer, so I vibe coded this one: https://github.com/zenakuten/ImPing

utcolor - text colorizer for Unreal Tournament 2004 https://github.com/zenakuten/utcolor

utquery - Unreal Tournament 2004 Game Browser tool https://github.com/zenakuten/utquery

utstatsdb - This is an old project that did not work anymore with modern php+mysql. I had claude fix it. https://github.com/zenakuten/utstatsdb

New comment by snarfy in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

snarfy — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:08:49 +0000

Like I said, this is the direction I'm given. :|