Hacker News: tadfisher

New comment by tadfisher in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

tadfisher — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:25:01 +0000

    git request-pull

Docs: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull

Generates a pretty email requesting someone to pull commits from your online repository. It's really meant for Linus to pull a whole bunch of already-reviewed changes from a maintainer's integration branch.

The rough equivalent to GitHub's "pull request" is the "patch series", produced by:

    git format-patch

Docs: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch

Which lets you provide a "cover letter" (PR description), and formats each commit as a diff that can be quoted inline in an email reply for code review.

New comment by tadfisher in "How Close Is Too Close? Applying Fluid Dynamics Research Methods to PC Cooling"

tadfisher — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:37:18 +0000

Yes, positive pressure is also essential for keeping dust off components, which becomes insulating if left unchecked. Make sure intake fans have filters and you're golden.

New comment by tadfisher in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

tadfisher — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:56:59 +0000

New AI data center builds are being specified in gigawatts, my friend.

New comment by tadfisher in "OpenAI puts Stargate UK on ice, blames energy costs and red tape"

tadfisher — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:51:14 +0000

Note that they themselves described that amount as "committed capital", not something you or I would consider "funding" if we were to raise for a typical startup.

If there are strings attached, such as "will be able to navigate red tape to get X number of DC sites approved", then the number depends on OpenAI's ability to execute.

New comment by tadfisher in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

tadfisher — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:26:57 +0000

Quarter-pound

New comment by tadfisher in "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"

tadfisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:34:29 +0000

This is not an expectation, no. Libraries are managed via Gradle or whatever build system you use. Android-specific host tools are Gradle-managed, installed via the sdkmanager tool, or managed via other means; I maintain a repository to install them via Nix [0], and many Linux distributions package them. The Android Studio IDE is not required, and doing so would pretty much break everyone's CI setup.

[0]: https://github.com/tadfisher/android-nixpkgs

New comment by tadfisher in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tadfisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:53:03 +0000

Luckily we don't have to use the poor as a crutch for this argument. Public camera networks capture everyone sleeping on the sidewalk, regardless of their income level.

New comment by tadfisher in "Expanding Swift's IDE Support"

tadfisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:43:51 +0000

That's just untrue on the face of it. All of the build tools are open and cross-platform. Is there a specific piece of Android Studio that you require for Android app development?

New comment by tadfisher in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tadfisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:57:26 +0000

Your question was:

> In what way do cameras make life harder for regular people?

I provided an example. Are you only accepting peer-reviewed studies?

New comment by tadfisher in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tadfisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:36:06 +0000

"Police used AI facial recognition to arrest a Tennessee woman for crimes committed in a state she says she’s never visited": https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/us/angela-lipps-ai-facial-rec...

New comment by tadfisher in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tadfisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:32:59 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. I will ask my local city council to spend the money elsewhere.

New comment by tadfisher in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

tadfisher — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:30:49 +0000

...and now you have actual domestic surveillance bots, instead of the silent CIA Blackhawks we used to joke about.

New comment by tadfisher in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

tadfisher — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:13:11 +0000

I moderate a medium-sized development subreddit. The sheer volume of spam advertising some AI SaaS company has skyrocketed over the past few months, like 10000%. Comment spam is now a service you can purchase [0][1], and I would not be surprised if Z.ai engaged some marketing firm which ended up purchasing this service.

There are YC members in the current batch who are spamming us right now [2]. They are all obvious engagement-bait questions which are conveniently answered with references to the SaaS.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/DoneDirtCheap/comments/1n5gubz/get_...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/AIJobs/comments/1oxjfjs/hiring_paid...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/1sdyijs/no_code...

New comment by tadfisher in "Show HN: TTF-DOOM – A raycaster running inside TrueType font hinting"

tadfisher — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:11:07 +0000

You are (or I suspect your LLM is) not correct about Doom using a raycasting engine. Wolfenstein fits that description, yes. Doom rather famously introduced BSP for level data and it draws sorted polygons front-to-back without ray-marching.

New comment by tadfisher in "Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter"

tadfisher — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:11:13 +0000

> Every article is researched, written, and edited by AI agents, with editorial oversight from the founding team.

Proceeds to not name the founding "team"

New comment by tadfisher in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

tadfisher — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:54:40 +0000

Oh dang, this is exactly what I've been looking for. Thank you.

New comment by tadfisher in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

tadfisher — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:52:55 +0000

That "guide" is kinda shit, there is massive work to do for an actual attestation implementation that replaces Play Integrity and supports the various backend frameworks.

New comment by tadfisher in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

tadfisher — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:51:02 +0000

I'm in the US, not facing a mandate, but I want an open-source alternative to Play Integrity to use in the financial sector. There should be no excuse for anyone not supporting GrapheneOS. I've asked on Google's issue tracker and they are not interested in opening the program to non-OHA ("Google Play Approved") participants.

New comment by tadfisher in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

tadfisher — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:43:25 +0000

Are you interested in a community-maintained alternative to Play Integrity? I work in the finance sector and it's increasingly likely I'll have to implement attestation at some point. Graphene's examples are adaptable, but we need a DB of open Android distribution keys and effective admin to support adding and revoking, possibly something like the LVFS system for Linux firmware.

New comment by tadfisher in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

tadfisher — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:35:02 +0000

The Jevons paradox says otherwise. As producing apps becomes cheaper, we will not be able to help ourselves: we will make them larger until they fill all available space and cost just as much to produce and maintain.