Hacker News: yard2010

New comment by yard2010 in "Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died"

yard2010 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:53:33 +0000

This is heart breaking. I can't imagine going through all of this. I wish the best for his family now <3

New comment by yard2010 in "U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels"

yard2010 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:58:24 +0000

To anyone not knowing this dude - I really recommend reading josh.mn - the posts are interesting and well written, personally I love the philosophy of it. To Josh - you're such an inspiring person, thank you

New comment by yard2010 in "Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI"

yard2010 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 16:10:45 +0000

You are absolutely right to push on this

New comment by yard2010 in "My temporary PHP fix from 2014 has nearly 20M installs. Today I'm deprecating it"

yard2010 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:01:27 +0000

Reading this threw me back to 2014 - how was working for AOL back then?

New comment by yard2010 in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

yard2010 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:05:21 +0000

Thank you so much for doing this, for years you make me feel like home, or the year 2010. Please don't ever stop!

New comment by yard2010 in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

yard2010 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:32:37 +0000

I ended up adding -ai to every search in the browser level to turn this crap off. I couldn't find a way to disable it otherwise. I did it after it hallucinated the world cup games schedule which made my friend send wrong events to everyone after he "looked it up". Can't stop this from him, but at least this honest mistake won't happen to me.

New comment by yard2010 in "Programming is Art"

yard2010 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:41:27 +0000

Half assed fun fact: there was this painter I can't recall his name, the one that painted that girl with the head scurf. He might have used camera obscura and traced the picture. To me it feels like our times. There's a new tool that can be used along with the tools we have been using for decades to create something magical.

New comment by yard2010 in "AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems"

yard2010 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:10:52 +0000

I've been thinking about this lately - is it like using 3rd party libs to achieve stuff faster? As much as I would lovr to hand craft the datetime logic in my app, I might as well use luxon and invest this time somewhere else. Only now with llms, you get virtually infinite 3rd party libs you can use, you create them on the fly. So if you have strong engineering values, I would say simply it boils down to "contracts over programs", you can still be in touch with the logic that glues it all together and treat some logic as a blackbox the same way we do with 3rd party libs?

New comment by yard2010 in "Fastpotify"

yard2010 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:30:34 +0000

While moving from spotify to youtube music a few years ago I bought a vinyl player to listen to full albums and fell for it. Then when I moved to curate and self host my collection with Plex and Plexamp I realized I'm not using the player anymore since I'm using Plexamp to listen to albums. Plexamp is not perfect and not open source unfortunately, but it's a really good non-enshitified product.

I had to migrate away from youtube music since the experience was infuriating me every time. I love making playlists on the go. In youtube music after adding 30 tracks to the play queue, tapping 1 track accidentally deletes the play queue and plays this track. This made me feel bad every time it happened.

I don't see how it is just accepted to lose progress in 2026 as if we're using win95. It feels like 80% of the sw I use provides a caveman UX, not leveraging the tech, leaking implementation details and being constrained by technical reasons. On the other hand, working on Prepbook[0], I realized how hard it is to create the perfect experience and how it's even harder to justify it financially.

I'm doing discovery by talking to people, I love it. Every time I listen to Monolink I recall my co worker that just said "check out monolink" when he heard I love Ott. I love that it makes the experience about connection to people as well.

[0] https://prepbook.app

New comment by yard2010 in "No AI Fridays"

yard2010 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:52:40 +0000

Lead, follow or get out of the way

New comment by yard2010 in "No AI Fridays"

yard2010 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:43:08 +0000

Dam everything about it sounds like a fairy tale. Way to go. That's so inspiring

New comment by yard2010 in "Glacier Mice"

yard2010 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 19:47:24 +0000

Why don't you use it anymore?

New comment by yard2010 in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

yard2010 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 17:56:10 +0000

Not GP but I feel like that's kinda their point - the fact that we still have this platform to collaborate in such an organic way is truly remarkable and must not be taken for granted.

New comment by yard2010 in "Migrating to HTTPX2"

yard2010 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:29:24 +0000

Tangibly related, did you know that odd versions of node don't get LTS, I found it odd at first

New comment by yard2010 in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

yard2010 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:25:22 +0000

It still haunts me, that dot they slipped in, in one of the commits, every time I merge a PR

New comment by yard2010 in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

yard2010 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:21:45 +0000

> Amazon's search effort was shut down the week of October 29, without any measurable success. Major Cynthia Ryan later said it had been more of a hindrance than a help. She said that persons purporting to have seen the aircraft on the Mechanical Turk or have special knowledge clogged her email during critical days of the search, and for even months afterward. Many of the ostensible sightings proved to be images of CAP aircraft flying search grids, or simply mistaken artifacts of old images. Psychics flooded the search base in Minden with predictions of where the aviator could be found. One man from Canada was particularly persistent with daily calls to Ryan. Ryan noted that every message, letter, or phone call was taken seriously, which swamped the USAF specialists assigned the task of reviewing every one of them without regard to apparent plausibility. In retrospect, the crowdsource effort was "not ready for prime time", according to Ryan

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New comment by yard2010 in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

yard2010 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:12:03 +0000

Hey I just wanna say, way to go, I loved your post. I like how you went on what I think is a good combination of DIY and paying people to do stuff. This is really relatable, I feel like most of the decisions in projects are deciding on what to focus on when.

New comment by yard2010 in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

yard2010 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:08:33 +0000

I just want to take a minute and be grateful for getting the chance to live through the 90s again. I always felt a bit sorry for myself being a child through the og 90s. Now I feel like in a decade or so into the future I will look back and be happy I got to live in the naïve days of windows 95 again, as an adult this time. I really appreciate it.

New comment by yard2010 in "The August 17 outage"

yard2010 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:09:07 +0000

Thank you so much for this gem, this sent me through the rabbit hole and I'm fascinated by the level of engineering in this book. I love how big complex systems are engineered. It feels like anything is possible when you have a solid plan and you keep improving it step by step. So inspiring.

New comment by yard2010 in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

yard2010 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 07:37:55 +0000

It's quite ironic that an AI hallucinated magic mushrooms use.