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New comment by soanvig in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

soanvig — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:05:26 +0000

Fun game. Can somebody run an agent against those questions to see how it performs? :)

New comment by soanvig in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

soanvig — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:09:56 +0000

Wow, stupid idea is hard to legislate. Nobody could predict that.

It reminds me of clients wanting some stupid feature from app developers which does not fit into anything, and makes no business sense, and therefore creates only problems.

New comment by soanvig in "How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)"

soanvig — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 08:37:20 +0000

Reminds me of slovakian mountain carriers https://regiontatry.sk/en/mountain-load-bearers/

New comment by soanvig in "I miss thinking hard"

soanvig — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:42:32 +0000

you forget about fake sleeping being loaded with fake dopamine hits before sleep AND broken sleep schedules; and eating fake ultraprocessed food instead of wholefoods.

New comment by soanvig in "I miss thinking hard"

soanvig — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:39:04 +0000

That's weird as I do the opposite: think by myself, then look for help if I don't know.

New comment by soanvig in "Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle"

soanvig — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:57:28 +0000

I want to read the rest of the migration story

New comment by soanvig in "Coding is when we're least productive"

soanvig — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:28:50 +0000

Oh, that must be fun to be hired by the client directly... I wish each my programming job was not an ivory tower :(

New comment by soanvig in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

soanvig — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:13:09 +0000

> much longer than the lifespan of websites

But browsers (and browser technologies) have documented track of being fully backward compatible up to the beginnings of WWW, and it's not going to change.

Which actually is much much better than any other environment you can imagine - unless of course you use (and want to use) that one frozen in time 25 year old PC. And pray nothing breaks (y2k bugs and whatnot).

If the software is open source (and works offline) you can have it functional in 10 or 20 more years. And it will be "locally-installed software you own" you want.

New comment by soanvig in "Grid: Free, local-first, browser-based 3D printing/CNC/laser slicer"

soanvig — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:04:51 +0000

But you have to get the software somehow? Once you get it, it works offline. The same here I guess: once you download the source code/binaries into browser's cache (that can store things indefinitely) it's offline.

New comment by soanvig in "The Value of Things"

soanvig — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:45:20 +0000

Wonderful comment.

New comment by soanvig in "Is the RAM shortage killing small VPS hosts?"

soanvig — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:08:13 +0000

Graphic cards prices normalized quite quickly after crypto boom. Before going nuts for AI training of course.

New comment by soanvig in "Making Google Sans Flex"

soanvig — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:26:05 +0000

Too bad Pixel support for factory-broken screens sucks so my "well designed" Pixel has green vertical line in the middle of the screen. So detrimental to my sense of aesthetics.

New comment by soanvig in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

soanvig — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 00:36:31 +0000

Sometimes "branded" names are a good thing.

For example, naming some application modules strictly after what they do is super tedious, and uses words that are already reserved, therefore creating ambiguous nomenclature. Maybe I have various sort of permissions in my system but naming that particular permission system some greek god name creates a clear and shared meaning across the team (both business and technical), and mind you that that's what communication is all about - a shared meaning. Nothing else.

P.S. (I'm deliberately not going into discussion about bad things with that approach)

New comment by soanvig in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

soanvig — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:00:39 +0000

I think because it's 10% income before cost deduction

New comment by soanvig in "Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices"

soanvig — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:42:11 +0000

> Dollar General’s lawyers argued that “it is virtually impossible for a retailer to match shelf pricing and scanned pricing 100% of the time for all items. Perfection in this regard is neither plausible nor expected under the law.”

Can you explain to me how USA is called civilized? How somebody can say things like that, and how a shop is even allowed to have an error margin

New comment by soanvig in "Stop Calling It Vibe Coding"

soanvig — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:51:45 +0000

Very Inefficient But Entertaining coding

New comment by soanvig in "Tsdown – The Elegant Bundler for Libraries"

soanvig — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:25:07 +0000

What's the point of bundling libraries? Bundling applications, ok, but libraries? Unless they are dynamically imported straight into browser, then it doesn't matter for any use case I can figure.

New comment by soanvig in "Sophist"

soanvig — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 08:11:03 +0000

It's enough though if you study fallacy of argumentation. It should cover all sophist techniques.

New comment by soanvig in "consumed.today"

soanvig — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:28:58 +0000

Dude eats pretzels every day. Must be a huge fun.

New comment by soanvig in "This map is not upside down"

soanvig — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:22:10 +0000

Print regular map in a design you like and hang it upside down. It's literally that. Or if you want to be strict you can use "flip" function in image editing tool. You can compensate me for saving your money