Hacker News: tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tardismechanicHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:42:55 +0000<![CDATA[The Palomar Lights]]>Article URL: https://comics.phillyharper.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193487

Points: 31

# Comments: 17

]]>Tue, 19 May 2026 14:05:34 +0000https://comics.phillyharper.com/tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193487https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193487<![CDATA[CLI-Anything]]>Article URL: https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anything

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360545

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:00:32 +0000https://github.com/HKUDS/CLI-Anythingtardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47360545<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built"]]>See also (the confusingly named) playwright-cli

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

Different from the cli used for running tests etc that comes bundled with PlayWright

Sample use:

  playwright-cli open https://demo.playwright.dev/todomvc/ --headed
  playwright-cli type "Buy groceries"
  playwright-cli press Enter
  playwright-cli type "Water flowers"
  playwright-cli press Enter
  playwright-cli check e21
  playwright-cli check e35
  playwright-cli screenshot

]]>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:42:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964775tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964775https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46964775<![CDATA[Whenwords – A relative time formatting library, with no code]]>Article URL: https://github.com/dbreunig/whenwords

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577319

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

]]>Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:52:36 +0000https://github.com/dbreunig/whenwordstardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577319https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577319<![CDATA[OpenAI in talks to sell around $6B in stock at roughly $500B valuation]]>Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/openai-6-billion-stock-500-billion-valuation.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44928655

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

]]>Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:38:52 +0000https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/openai-6-billion-stock-500-billion-valuation.htmltardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44928655https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44928655<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "UN report finds UN reports are not widely read"]]>r/nottheonion

]]>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:03:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784683tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784683https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44784683<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Million Times Million"]]>I'm sorry it had to be done https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIB5HEcZBs8

]]>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:49:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511531tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511531https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44511531<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Show HN: A different kind of AI Video generation"]]>This is amazing!

I wonder if OpenAI Structured Output [1] could be leveraged to constrain generation to required JSON Schema (and then convert to XML later)...

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/structured-outputs

]]>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 19:00:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415434tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415434https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44415434<![CDATA[Working Through the Fear of Being Seen]]>Article URL: https://ashley.dev/posts/fear-of-being-seen/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762846

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 22 Apr 2025 14:45:24 +0000https://ashley.dev/posts/fear-of-being-seen/tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762846https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43762846<![CDATA[Agriculture in Ants]]>Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_ants

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43329014

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 03:57:57 +0000https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_antstardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43329014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43329014<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Beautiful, boring, and without soul"]]>> What could be more important in life than how you make people feel?

Food, water, shelter, survival, comfort, security.

Is this a joke?

]]>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 22:27:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108561tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108561https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43108561<![CDATA[The three wides of the Bangladesh Premier League]]>Article URL: https://wickets.substack.com/p/threewidesofthebpl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742838

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:18:59 +0000https://wickets.substack.com/p/threewidesofthebpltardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742838https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42742838<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Ask HN: What are the best books you've ever read?"]]>The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself - Michael Singer

It had such a deep impact on me that I ended up using it as a "holy" book to take my oath of Canadian citizenship.

]]>Wed, 07 Aug 2024 00:34:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41177041tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41177041https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41177041<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Show HN: We made glhf.chat – run almost any open-source LLM, including 405B"]]>In case you were wondering, it supposedly stands for Good Luck Have Fun.

It's in the title which is not immediately visible on mobile.

]]>Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:09:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053792tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053792https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41053792<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Amazon has a secret workaround to scrape GitHub for model training"]]>https://archive.is/2024.06.14-142849/https://www.businessins...

]]>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:35:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682867tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682867https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682867<![CDATA[Amazon has a secret workaround to scrape GitHub for model training]]>Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-secret-workaround-scrape-microsoft-github-ai-training-data-2024-6

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682850

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

]]>Fri, 14 Jun 2024 17:33:45 +0000https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-secret-workaround-scrape-microsoft-github-ai-training-data-2024-6tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682850https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40682850<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software"]]>Not possible on H1B - moving right along...

]]>Sat, 04 May 2024 04:06:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40254721tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40254721https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40254721<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "Oh Frick Go Back: GUI Tool to Removes Ads from Various Places Around Windows 11"]]>I don't get it. Why is it called that?

]]>Thu, 02 May 2024 20:51:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241226tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241226https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40241226<![CDATA[New comment by tardismechanic in "How HEAD works in Git"]]>If you don't understand something simply, you don't understand it at all.

- Einstein (probably)

Git is waaaaaaay to complicated for my needs. I need a minimal subset of git that does (and only does) trunk based development.

https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/

]]>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 02:45:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39649009tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39649009https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39649009<![CDATA[BBC News anchor apologizes for accidentally flipping the bird on live TV]]>Article URL: https://twitter.com/BBCMaryam/status/1732672525107114470

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38583326

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Sat, 09 Dec 2023 16:42:11 +0000https://twitter.com/BBCMaryam/status/1732672525107114470tardismechanichttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38583326https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38583326