Hacker News: valvar

New comment by valvar in "You can't unit test for taste"

valvar — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:10:52 +0000

TDD is perfect for bugs; codify a replication first, then fix it.

New comment by valvar in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

valvar — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:22:57 +0000

Just leave it at home.

New comment by valvar in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

valvar — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:19:17 +0000

Why wouldn’t inference just keep getting better and cheaper as hardware and algorithms improve?

New comment by valvar in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

valvar — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:30:26 +0000

Try Cerberas

New comment by valvar in "Leaving Substack"

valvar — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:02:02 +0000

It's hard for SaaS platforms to monetize, that's what's wrong with it

New comment by valvar in "Coding in Vision Pro"

valvar — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:56:35 +0000

Interesting. I'm also nearsighted, so I've always assumed that I don't need glasses when wearing VR headsets. It's easier to just take them off before putting on the headset (MQ3) and I've not noticed a difference in clarity — but I do experience eye strain and visual exhaustion if I wear the headset for too long, so it might be worth comparing longer sessions with and without glasses.

New comment by valvar in "Low Latency, Low Loss, and Scalable Throughput (L4S) Internet Service: RFC 9330"

valvar — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 07:32:10 +0000

Nothing's stopping users who want an AI summary from feeding the content into their favourite GPT. But it's not contributing anything meaningful to a HN discussion.

New comment by valvar in "Beg Bounties (2021)"

valvar — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 22:40:40 +0000

Is there no way to contest such a warrant? What about compensation for the loss of utility caused by the confiscation?

New comment by valvar in "Does Go Have Subtyping?"

valvar — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:33:02 +0000

Yes, as everyone knows, you are only entitled to an opinion about software if you are also a successful business entrepreneur without external funding.

Good type systems increase velocity by leaving less room for error, so that you don't have to waste half your time debugging and fixing issues that could have been easily prevented. They also provide helpful structure and an IDE experience (the right values, functions, actions, etc are actually suggested for you wherever you are) that really does speed up development a lot.

There's of course always a trade-off: bad type systems can get in your way with boilerplate that you have to wrangle. But I don't think that's the typical experience.

New comment by valvar in "Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end"

valvar — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 16:08:38 +0000

What are they going to be watching if you don't restrict them, and what will it do to them? Why not just talk about it with them?

New comment by valvar in "Numbered block parameters in Ruby"

valvar — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:17:55 +0000

Boilerplate

New comment by valvar in "Drinking diet sodas daily during pregnancy linked to autism in male offspring"

valvar — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 16:56:05 +0000

Yes?

New comment by valvar in "Why many business owners would love it if you stopped using your credit card"

valvar — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:44:49 +0000

I imagine handling cash probably has hidden costs that are comparable to the swipe fees, though.

New comment by valvar in "Tailscale Kubernetes Operator"

valvar — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 14:28:44 +0000

Is "stupid" really one of the words that the Ministry of Truth no longer permits us to use?

New comment by valvar in "Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month"

valvar — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:53:05 +0000

https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools

New comment by valvar in "Google settles account settings lawsuit less than one week after being filed [pdf]"

valvar — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 12:22:53 +0000

Yes, it's very simple. Just open the app info (by long holding the app icon and pressing the little "i"), then select "disable" and confirm the dialogue. Or did you mean something else?

New comment by valvar in "Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp"

valvar — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:23:47 +0000

Why would that be "pretty cool"?

New comment by valvar in "Prettymapp – Create maps from OpenStreetMap data in a Streamlit webapp"

valvar — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:21:53 +0000

Probably just an honest mistake. But they should definitely look into fixing that.

New comment by valvar in "Mexico’s underground vanilla economy"

valvar — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 02:42:35 +0000

They were questioning the story, not the intelligence of the farmers.

New comment by valvar in "Gut–brain axis study shows autism-associated molecular, microbial profiles"

valvar — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:28:26 +0000

It certainly has a heritable component. When people say "the way you're born", do they mean something non-genetic? What would that be?