Hacker News: splap

New comment by splap in "Quick impressions: A week of using Codex more than Claude"

splap — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:20:02 +0000

I find claude often comments about what the code *does not* do. Relevant at the moment, but doesn't belong in the codebase.

New comment by splap in "The old SF tech scene is dead. What it's morphing into is more sinister"

splap — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:30:14 +0000

dotcom was more SV than SF

New comment by splap in "Phone searches at the US border hit a record high"

splap — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:00:04 +0000

only 3% of us citizens had a passport back in 1989!

passport to resident ratio usa, 1989-2023:

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/44102530-5b24-467a-8510-c...

New comment by splap in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

splap — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:13:17 +0000

for the history on Boeing's rot and the issues with this plane, this book is great:

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

New comment by splap in "United Airlines inspections find loose bolts on several 737 Max 9 aircraft"

splap — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 00:12:33 +0000

for the history on Boeing's rot and the issues with this plane, this book is great:

Flying Blind: The 737 MAX Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

AT&T to Accelerate Open and Interoperable Radio Access Networks (Ran)

splap — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 18:50:12 +0000

Article URL: https://about.att.com/story/2023/commercial-scale-open-radio-access-network.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535248

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by splap in "AirPods causing tinnitus?"

splap — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 20:07:50 +0000

I started getting spasms of my tensor tympani muscle around the time I began using AirPods with noise cancellation. Could hear it clearly and had a doc visually confirm.

Correlation not causation, but weird enough that a stopped using them.

Plain Kubernetes Secrets are fine

splap — Sun, 22 May 2022 16:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macchaffee.com/blog/2022/k8s-secrets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31470147

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by splap in "Google doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied"

splap — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 16:09:45 +0000

I have a couple of these nest speakers. They are are wildly unreliable - buyer beware.

Google’s recruiting system is famously brutal. Many workers think it’s failing

splap — Fri, 08 Oct 2021 17:59:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.protocol.com/workplace/google-recruiting-process-jobs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28802144

Points: 55

# Comments: 96

New comment by splap in "IBM is splitting itself into two public companies"

splap — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 17:46:17 +0000

Anyone know what effect this will have on folks drawing a pension from IBM?

New comment by splap in "I Miss Rails"

splap — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:50:26 +0000

That's what we do. Rails mostly just a json api, with a React front end. Devise handles auth. Useful gems in models and services, sidekiq doing its thing... Happy with the setup.

New comment by splap in "Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption"

splap — Sun, 11 Nov 2018 22:01:49 +0000

same here. using gcloud, not web console

The Beginning of a Wave’: A.I. Tiptoes into the Workplace

splap — Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/workplace-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17736129

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by splap in "Reid Hoffman and Brian Chesky on Handcrafting and Scaling Airbnb [pdf]"

splap — Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:11:30 +0000

It isn't. Audio production was done by respected pros.