Hacker News: stavros

New comment by stavros in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

stavros — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:01:24 +0000

That happened to me too, turns out my desktop was software accelerated because I had screwed up the GPU config somehow. I asked Claude to fix it and it did.

New comment by stavros in "A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W"

stavros — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:56:22 +0000

Yes, this is true, but I think over Thread it's also fairly complicated, as a protocol. I'm not very familiar with it, though, admittedly.

New comment by stavros in "A Matter Wi-Fi Light Bulb in Rust on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W"

stavros — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:44:11 +0000

I don't know, I think the downsides outweigh the benefits. I don't want to have to secure a bunch more IP-based devices that can talk to my computers. I'd rather they were separated at the radio level, like Zigbee.

New comment by stavros in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

stavros — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:32:50 +0000

You can't offer a workable solution to an excuse. Nobody pushing this wants to protect the children, therefore offering a solution that will protect the children is irrelevant.

New comment by stavros in "Dopamine Fracking"

stavros — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:23:59 +0000

I used to think this, and I only took photos of places (without me in them). Then I realised that the value of the photo is to remind me of what I was doing, how I was feeling, etc, not just that I was in the place. I agree that faking smiles makes the photo worth less, but just don't fake anything.

New comment by stavros in "Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank"

stavros — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:20:35 +0000

Yes but that's not what this is for, it's for boiling the frog of enforcing ID checks online.

New comment by stavros in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

stavros — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:33:21 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFDiuBomSuY

New comment by stavros in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

stavros — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:10:00 +0000

Yeah, that's the Linus "hard R" (he thought "hard R" referred to "retard"), but it's just wrong. "Hard R" is "nigger", in opposition to soft r ("nigga"). I don't think there's even a question, that's how hard/soft has always been used. Anything else is just confusion, I think.

New comment by stavros in "Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months"

stavros — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:40:35 +0000

Yeeeah I'm pretty sure I've never seen a hard R on a PR.

New comment by stavros in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"

stavros — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:39:29 +0000

I use OpenCode with a three agent combo (architect, developer, reviewer), as I've found it's crucial that different models write the code vs review it.

More details here:

https://www.stavros.io/posts/how-i-write-software-with-llms/

New comment by stavros in "India's surprise baby bust"

stavros — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:22:13 +0000

That's the same question I have as well. We're a cancer that's spreading on the earth and we're worrying we aren't spreading fast enough. Yeah, I get that we want to support the aging population, but at this point we're doing it at the expense of humanity as a whole.

New comment by stavros in "Ask HN: Time loop and partial blackhole?"

stavros — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:19:00 +0000

I am not a physicist, and actually know nothing about physics, so take these with a grain of salt:

1. Time runs slower the faster you go, stopping when you reach c. Going back in time would require you to travel faster than c, which the laws of physics generally frown upon.

2. No, I'm not sure there's an intuitive explanation here but motion doesn't slow down in high gravity, time itself does.

New comment by stavros in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

stavros — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:52:24 +0000

Hell, even Greenpeace had a huge campaign against nuclear, ensuring we burn coal for decades more than we should have.

New comment by stavros in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

stavros — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:40:58 +0000

Let me rephrase: I don't want Claude's thoughts.

New comment by stavros in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

stavros — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:51:41 +0000

If I wanted Claude's thoughts, wouldn't I ask it myself, though?

New comment by stavros in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

stavros — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:48:12 +0000

"Falling" means that something goes towards the earth. "Soaring" means the opposite. "Grades soar" means that grades went up "Falling grades means that grades are going down". "Falling grades soar" is just meaningless writing.

New comment by stavros in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

stavros — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:54:34 +0000

It refuses to use an API token? In my experience, it's more than happy to read out my secrets from .envrc files "just to check".

At least it feels a lot of remorse over its mistake until I reset the session.

New comment by stavros in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

stavros — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:33:02 +0000

If you don't want the car to be sending data, you can remove the SIM from under the armrest.

New comment by stavros in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

stavros — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:43:10 +0000

Some men can. Unfortunately, a full head of hair looks better the vast majority of the time.

New comment by stavros in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

stavros — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:09:10 +0000

I'm not entirely sure! It might have thinned a bit, but it also depends on my haircut, angle, and light.