Hacker News: vosper

New comment by vosper in "Giving up on smart rings"

vosper — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:18:26 +0000

I doubt AI hallucinations had anything to do with it

New comment by vosper in "Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama"

vosper — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:14:07 +0000

Pretty much my experience too. Using Sol in VSCode I just give it the problem and let it go. I don’t even look at or think about context. Works well for me.

New comment by vosper in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

vosper — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:51:10 +0000

How has it been trashed? Does the Bun software not work anymore?

New comment by vosper in "An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm"

vosper — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:37:48 +0000

Passive house thinking comes from an era of peak oil concerns, no solar, and no heat pumps. None of those conditions holds anymore. Further, passive houses are notorious for overheating and because they’re so airtight they require expensive mechanical ventilation and make-up air systems unless you want indoor air pollution problems.

People building houses today are much better served by spending their money on solar + battery + heat pumps than going passive.

New comment by vosper in "Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?"

vosper — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:22:55 +0000

Spotlight is much improved in Tahoe - faster and with better results.

New comment by vosper in "Clicks Communicator"

vosper — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:58:39 +0000

Maybe dictation is the way to go? It’s a quick way to interact with agents and works really well.

New comment by vosper in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

vosper — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:27:39 +0000

It’s a long way short of evidence, though. It might be right, but it might just be food for confirmation bias, too.

New comment by vosper in "Researchers discover molecular difference in autistic brains"

vosper — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:30:36 +0000

To the level of a clinical diagnosis, yeah it seems quite likely to me that most people can’t discern autistic spectrum behaviour in their peers. I bet most people couldn't even accurately say what those behaviours would be.

New comment by vosper in "Sandbox: Run untrusted AI code safely, fast"

vosper — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 23:25:48 +0000

If you have a link to your project that you could share I'd be interested in following it - this sounds like something I might want to use one day.

New comment by vosper in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

vosper — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:01:26 +0000

Starlink on flights could put an end to this

New comment by vosper in "Chainalysis Successful Deanonymization Attack on Monero"

vosper — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 17:35:38 +0000

You said

> As it stands, any private transaction on the Zcash chain stands out like a sore thumb

Is that actually still the case or has the change to defaults made anonymity more common?

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

vosper — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 22:32:07 +0000

Yes, to me this is a biggest feature of Typescript: A little goes a long way, while the advanced features make really cool things possible. I tend to think of there being two kinds of Typescript - Application Typescript (aka The Basics, `type`, `interface`, `Record`, unions etc...) and Library Typescript which is the stuff that eg Zod or Prisma does to give the Application Typescript users awesome features.

While I aspire to Library TS levels of skill, I am really only a bit past App TS myself.

On that note I've been meaning to the the Type-Level Typescript course [0]. Has anyone taken it?

https://type-level-typescript.com/

New comment by vosper in "Why top firms fire good workers"

vosper — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:03:14 +0000

Why would a manager who’s able to claim the credit of their reports in order to advance their own career then PIP the best ones? Wouldn’t they keep them around to keep claiming credit from?

I’m not doubting your story (I’ve never worked in India) I just don’t understand the incentive to fire a good worker in this scenario.

New comment by vosper in "Google Antigravity"

vosper — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:27:26 +0000

Horse racing didn’t go away and there are more people who race horses professionally than who race cars.

New comment by vosper in "Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997"

vosper — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 01:17:01 +0000

> The ugly glass UX, the weird floating controls, the always on display, blah blah

I'm on the "some like it" boat, to my surprise. I think the glass effect is eye-catching in a good way, and is much-less of a readability issue than I had expected. I often notice how cool it looks over my rotating background photos. I also love the always-on display because I don't have a watch.

New comment by vosper in "Scheme Reports at Fifty"

vosper — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 23:07:13 +0000

Sure but no-one uses Shen... or do they? Someone want to tell me they're a Shen user and why it's great?

New comment by vosper in "How to turn liquid glass into a solid interface"

vosper — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:18:50 +0000

Who are today’s innovators in the backpack space?

New comment by vosper in "Study finds gaps in evidence for air-cleaning technologies to prevent infections"

vosper — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:21:16 +0000

Your HEPA filters must be real ones. HEPA is just an acronym anyone can slap on anything, there's no accreditation.

Recent testing on the Vacuum Wars channel showed big differences between filters from the vacuum manufacturer and off-brand "HEPA" filters. Probably the same applies everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAIYRykQkMk

New comment by vosper in "95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend"

vosper — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:47:58 +0000

AI reads them and identifies trends and patterns, or answers questions from PMs or others?

New comment by vosper in "Vendors that treat single sign-on as a luxury feature"

vosper — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:51:22 +0000

> mostly nothing to do with technology or with support costs

Support costs aren't zero though. I work for a company with a lot of corporate customers and we get loads of SSO support tickets. People are always misreading the docs, (mis)configuring things against our recommendations, migrating systems, merging systems (due to acquisition etc)...