Hacker News: tonypapousek

New comment by tonypapousek in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

tonypapousek — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:41:02 +0000

Thanks for the share, crazy that 1-2mm polyethylene is all it takes to cap a landfill.

Practical Engineering put out an excellent video on landfills a couple years back, well worth the watch for the visualizations alone.

https://youtu.be/HRx_dZawN44

New comment by tonypapousek in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

tonypapousek — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:34:01 +0000

Not sure they count as “products” in this context, but TypeScript and Playwright are still nice.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Claude Tips for 3D Work"

tonypapousek — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:48:39 +0000

> in-distribution for training data

Engineers are an opinionated bunch, safe to say at least a small chunk of us will disagree with what goes into the training pile.

For me, it's preferring Deno-style pinned imports vs traditional require() or even non-versioned ecmascript import syntax.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Changes to OpenTTD Distribution on Steam"

tonypapousek — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:43:43 +0000

> If you already own OpenTTD on Steam, nothing changes. You’ll continue to receive game updates as usual. If you ever need to re-download the game, the game will remain in your Steam library.

This part of the announcement was nice, too. It would suck if existing users had it deleted from their libraries.

New comment by tonypapousek in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

tonypapousek — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:48:33 +0000

It’s a shame of bulk of that training data is likely 2010s blogspam that was poor quality to begin with.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Xous security focused open source on 22nm custom silicon"

tonypapousek — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:35:01 +0000

His talk at Teardown last year was excellent; I’m glad to see development is still going strong.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

tonypapousek — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:08:43 +0000

Rectangle is a must-have, it’s the very first thing I install after getting brew configured on a new Mac.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Microwave Oven Failure: Spontaneously turned on by its LED display (2024)"

tonypapousek — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:37:30 +0000

Prev discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41480038

New comment by tonypapousek in "Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags"

tonypapousek — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:24:17 +0000

https://archive.is/2026.02.11-194917/https://www.bloomberg.c...

New comment by tonypapousek in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

tonypapousek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:20:08 +0000

Hacking together a little 3d snake game for my steamdeck, heavily “inspired” by that spherical snake post last week.

Never published to Steam before, it’s been a fun learning process.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Unifi Travel Router"

tonypapousek — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:16:25 +0000

I’m in the market for a solid travel router, and my home network is all Unifi gear. This is a no brainer, especially with the built-in Teleport support.

New comment by tonypapousek in "There's no such thing as a fake feather [video]"

tonypapousek — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:41:52 +0000

I’d suggest against being anywhere near a mcnuggets happy meal, then.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Show HN: GitForms – Zero-cost contact forms using GitHub Issues as database"

tonypapousek — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:31:03 +0000

Yes, but a language model patted them on the head and said this was a good idea, may as well make it mission-critical infrastructure.

New comment by tonypapousek in "History of Declarative Programming (2021)"

tonypapousek — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:24:22 +0000

> Note that this material is here for reference and for sampling. Reading all of TBoS through this website is possible but not the intention. If you like the material and want to read the book conveniently then do buy either the latest hardcopy or e-version.

Unfortunately, I don’t think one can be linked given the author’s note.

New comment by tonypapousek in "iPhone Typos? It's Not Just You – The iOS Keyboard Is Broken [video]"

tonypapousek — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:03:50 +0000

Apple's apathy and general disdain for paying customers.

New comment by tonypapousek in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

tonypapousek — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:21:48 +0000

poorly

New comment by tonypapousek in "Framework Laptop 13 gets ARM processor with 12 cores via upgrade kit"

tonypapousek — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 20:58:34 +0000

> The Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus and Snapdragon X Elite have proven that ARM processors have earned a place in the laptop market

That’s a strange revision of fairly recent history. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Apple’s the one that proved out laptop ARM at scale.

New comment by tonypapousek in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

tonypapousek — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:36:35 +0000

While your end goal is admirable, it’s more fun to share new experiences with others.

Also, there’s a lot of really good albums from the past 70 years you’d be missing out on.

New comment by tonypapousek in "`satisfies` is my favorite TypeScript keyword (2024)"

tonypapousek — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:34:51 +0000

In my personal projects, I’m a fan of using satisfies to check Zod definitions against the interfaces they validate.

I find the base interfaces easier to read at a glance than derived types, especially in an editor’s hover view.

Though, nullable fields might get weird, iirc.

New comment by tonypapousek in "California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations"

tonypapousek — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 01:26:01 +0000

Personally, I can’t wait to be killed by a cold, uncaring robot. Let’s goooo