Hacker News: steve918

New comment by steve918 in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

steve918 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:34:50 +0000

I know this is about the Japan and not the US, but software patent law has been incompatible with traditional IP protection in the US for a long time and it really doesn't make sense in the current age.

New comment by steve918 in "Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory"

steve918 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:30:53 +0000

I wonder if you think other OSes are any different?

TempleOS is the only thing that comes to mind that doesn't fit your description and it's not practically useful.

Any sufficiently large codebase is a mix of ideas and concepts implemented by different people with different priorities over a large timespan and if you can fit the entire thing in your head it's not very interesting or complex.

Navigating the Storm: Driving AI Agents

steve918 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:26:46 +0000

Article URL: https://stevenosborn.com/post/navigating-the-storm-diving-ai-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45823859

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Pushing AI Coding to Its Limits: Writing a Programming Language in a Week

steve918 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:57:38 +0000

Article URL: https://stevenosborn.com/post/pushing-ai-coding-to-its-limits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715830

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by steve918 in "Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used"

steve918 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 00:54:23 +0000

Oh my lord. I'm sorry fellow tortured soul.

New comment by steve918 in "Anti-*: The Things We Do but Not All the Way"

steve918 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:56:03 +0000

Only one drawer? I think I have a problem. Maybe I'm a hoarder.

New comment by steve918 in "Age Simulation Suit"

steve918 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:48:51 +0000

If you preorder I can get you the same thing for half the price. It just sometimes takes a few years for delivery.

The Power of "Huh?": Better Engineering Onboarding

steve918 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 18:11:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.casemark.com/post/power-of-huh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426813

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by steve918 in "Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds"

steve918 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 09:34:03 +0000

This isn't surprising at all if you have every had an interaction with Fedex.

New comment by steve918 in "PHP 8.4"

steve918 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:59:42 +0000

Python's packaging system is worse, but Javascripts packages / standard libraries are far worse than Python.

In python managing packages is a pain and there are too many package manager options, but for the most part there are good libraries, and chances are you don't even need one because the standard libraries are so good and mature.

In Javascript NPM is really all you need (even if yarn is a bit nicer), but you're gonna need to install 50 packages just to get a basic boiler plate app going and the quality of said packages is not always great.

New comment by steve918 in "K1 Buys MariaDB"

steve918 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:31:42 +0000

This code base has been sold like 3x now and is still around.

New comment by steve918 in "Algorithms we develop software by"

steve918 — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 21:13:43 +0000

I like the "gun to the head" heuristic but I would probably rephrase it to be something like "If you only had 24hrs to solve this or the world would come to an end".

New comment by steve918 in "Canada's maple syrup reserve hits 16-year low"

steve918 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:03:47 +0000

The thing is the production was already artificially limited by the government. So as the article says one way to increase production is just to allow for additional production.

New comment by steve918 in "Punk is dead and so are we"

steve918 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 15:59:22 +0000

No, it's mainstream pop culture. As the author alludes it's trendy even for straight people to emulate gay culture.

New comment by steve918 in "AWS is estimated to make $400M to $1B with the new IPv4 charge"

steve918 — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 20:10:11 +0000

So what's taking you so long?!

Amazon claims bogus gift card purchase emails were for awareness

steve918 — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 14:49:46 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/amazonprime/comments/16wmrhc/three_gift_card_emails_in_a_row_randomly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37726429

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by steve918 in "When did Postgres become cool?"

steve918 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 02:05:21 +0000

Nobody seems to have mentioned the MySQL licensing kerfuffle that got it pulled from most main stream Linux distros. For some of us this was the nail in MySQL coffin at a time when Postgres was becomming easier to manage.

New comment by steve918 in "I spent $855.77 on Google Ads and got my ads banned 5 times"

steve918 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:21:48 +0000

Facebook ads are like 90% scams. I don't even understand how any of them get accepted. It's also night and day difference from Instagram which is also owned by Meta, I don't get it.

New comment by steve918 in "The ancient Roman secret to concrete resilience in seawater (2017)"

steve918 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 16:20:04 +0000

The problem with modern concrete falling apart prematurely is usually the use of rebar as a reinforcement.

New comment by steve918 in "Arduino Uno R4"

steve918 — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 21:26:36 +0000

and the weird staggered header design was a mistake from the very first boards that has just continued to carry on through the years.