Hacker News: thfuran

New comment by thfuran in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

thfuran — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:55:37 +0000

Unfortunately, some markdown renders differently when copied in vs when typed directly in teams.

New comment by thfuran in "Tailslayer: Library for reducing tail latency in RAM reads"

thfuran — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:33:55 +0000

Yeah, it improves mean (but not median) access time by using more memory.

New comment by thfuran in "Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?"

thfuran — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:14:50 +0000

Why not? Because you can get stronger guarantees of correctness and consistency out of a typical code formatter, which will also probably run about a million times faster.

New comment by thfuran in "Does coding with LLMs mean more microservices?"

thfuran — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:22:31 +0000

Why would you use an LLM to format your code?

New comment by thfuran in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

thfuran — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:58:18 +0000

Google no longer cares much about quotes. Sometimes it’ll take them seriously and sometimes not.

New comment by thfuran in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

thfuran — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:49:11 +0000

Even if the Apollo program was similarly politically motivated, it at least was seriously cutting edge science and engineering. I mean, there were many people born before the Wright brothers’ first flight watching the moon landing on TV. Basically repeating Apollo 8’s much less iconic flyby decades later is obviously going to be less impressive.

New comment by thfuran in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

thfuran — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:31:08 +0000

I guarantee you that a lot more people would be willing to put up with it for $10 million a year.

New comment by thfuran in "VR Realizes the Cyberspace Metaphor"

thfuran — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:52:13 +0000

The last one is AR not VR, and I agree it's much more likely to go mainstream.

New comment by thfuran in "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE"

thfuran — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:34:48 +0000

You think it’s unreasonable to believe that expectation of privacy ought to apply differently to the general population than it does to government officials carrying out their duties? Would you also say it’s inconsistent for me to support FOIA without wanting my personal communications to be subject to it?

New comment by thfuran in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

thfuran — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:53:43 +0000

Brightening the image may make the iso noise easier to see, but it doesn't create it.

New comment by thfuran in "Critics say EU risks ceding control of its tech laws under U.S. pressure"

thfuran — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:59:49 +0000

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/fossil-fuel...

New comment by thfuran in "European alternatives to Google, Apple, Dropbox and 120 US apps"

thfuran — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:51:44 +0000

Why would you knowingly generate invoices that are sometimes wrong? That’s probably illegal and certainly going to be a pain in the ass. Why make a critical business function dependent of the availability of an external service when you could easily do it locally?

New comment by thfuran in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

thfuran — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:08:57 +0000

>vs. something inherently sinister

This is inherently sinister.

New comment by thfuran in "Which European countries have the best salaries after taxes?"

thfuran — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:07:36 +0000

The further you go in that direction, the more you have to include personal circumstances and values and the less useful it is for general comparison. Of course, the whole premise of looking at just average net income is a bit odd, so looking at expected quality of life makes more sense anyways.

New comment by thfuran in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

thfuran — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:55:34 +0000

>"Reaching your own stuff" is already a solved problem, too. Tailscale/Headscale

IPv6 predates those by decades.

New comment by thfuran in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

thfuran — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:41:53 +0000

What makes you think that’s AI-written?

New comment by thfuran in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

thfuran — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:34:43 +0000

Sure sitting around a campfire and whittling away at something now feels more like mucking about than chore, because it is. You don’t actually need whatever it is you’re whittling. It would probably be less relaxing if your survival depended on your handiwork.

New comment by thfuran in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

thfuran — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:09:10 +0000

I don’t think this search will really reveal speed of execution and feature set rewarded over quality either.

New comment by thfuran in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

thfuran — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:00:21 +0000

>I can look past some of the stupid shit he says. He gets freedom of speech too

That just means it’s legally permissible, not reasonable, respectable, or conscionable. Do not look past the things he says.

New comment by thfuran in "AI Isn't Lightening Workloads. It's Making Them More Intense"

thfuran — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:31:43 +0000

That principle deserves to be violated. Invalid input is invalid. Rather than everyone everywhere trying to handle it and producing subtly different implicit extensions of whatever standard they’re nominally ingesting, everything should reject it so the producing system is forced to correct itself.