Hacker News: yawn

New comment by yawn in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

yawn — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:19:29 +0000

> Many people still think AI images output the wrong number of fingers on a regular basis.

There's literally an image of a dude with 3 fingers in the Composite Party Photo.

Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?

yawn — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:50:31 +0000

I have been advising people I know to block, then delete and report junk (iOS) to unwanted texts. Others have argued with me that you should reply STOP. I disagree, especially after checking a shortened link in a “campaign” text and finding the link was a phishing attempt. What do you think?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41703312

Points: 290

# Comments: 373

Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024

yawn — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:03:37 +0000

Article URL: https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40076371

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by yawn in "Clojure's machine learning ecosystem"

yawn — Sun, 07 Apr 2024 20:01:49 +0000

> but there are certainly domains where Clojure is the best fit

Honest question: what domains?

New comment by yawn in "Pinball Map: Crowd-sourced worldwide map of public pinball machines"

yawn — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 16:49:26 +0000

I use https://pinside.com. It's been around for a long time and is an amazing resource for Pinball info.

New comment by yawn in "The Bucks can’t wear cream uniforms because they interfere with digital ads"

yawn — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:07:23 +0000

I was shocked as a non-hockey fan to see an ad of a car driving along the wall during active play. My eyes instinctively moved to the ad away from the puck. It was gross.

As an NBA fan, I hate how ads keep getting crammed into every piece of equipment on the court, the jerseys, etc.

New comment by yawn in "Hollow City: Edward Hopper’s portraits of urban alienation"

yawn — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 14:06:14 +0000

I love the way Automat makes me feel every time I look at it. When I first started reading your comment I got defensive. After some thought, of course I agree with you.

I've enjoyed some of your other comments on art. Are there any books that you would recommend to someone who enjoys art but knows little about art history (or art in general)?

Submillisecond: A lunatic web framework for the Rust language

yawn — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:59:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/lunatic-solutions/submillisecond

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33233593

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yawn in "Crystal 1.6.0 Is Released"

yawn — Sun, 16 Oct 2022 17:17:18 +0000

I wrote a small web app in Crystal a few years ago. I enjoyed the language and the experience, except for the compile times. Any experiences of folks using the interpreter for speeding up iterative development?

New comment by yawn in "Go runtime: 4 years later"

yawn — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:53:17 +0000

It's not about refactoring for me. It's about trying to grok what the heck some library author or coworker was thinking when they went all Architecture Astronaut with the type system and traits. It reminds me of how people go crazy with OO and end up with delegation spread across several files. I already have to hold the problem in my head. I find that Go takes such a mental load off my shoulders that I find it the easiest to grok other's intentions (including my own several months/years later) in.

New comment by yawn in "IMDB deleted all negative user reviews for The Rings of Power"

yawn — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 12:33:11 +0000

Define „woke“

New comment by yawn in "The Danger of Journaling Is Introspection"

yawn — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:56:34 +0000

I've experienced the same repetitive realizations/ideas. I have kept 3 different files going back 10+ years: did.md which contains notes/thoughts about any interesting events by date, ideas.md which contains business/project ideas, and resolutions-yyyy.md. Whenever I revisit them, I'm always struck by the same thoughts/ideas that come up over and over again. The ideas.md file is the one that cracks me up the most--I have repeating project ideas with the same/similar set of features that occur every few years.

New comment by yawn in "Vintage computer ads"

yawn — Sat, 21 May 2022 16:50:14 +0000

Similar story. Learned Logo at school on a Vic-20. Loved it so much I taught myself Basic at Kmart by grabbing the Basic User's Guide off the shelf and typing stuff into one of the C64s on the display case. It impressed my dad so much he put one on layaway. Been programming ever since.

New comment by yawn in "Avoid the Apple App Store"

yawn — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:31:32 +0000

This sentiment comes up every time people complain about the App Store. If you only want to use Apple's App Store, great--keep using it the same way you've always been using it. Nothing will change for _you_.

> What I don’t get is the angry soap box lectures from the people who disagree.

The failure of people to put themselves in other people's shoes is mind-boggling sometimes. There's a reason why so many people are angry.

Ask HN: Worthy phone OS to dedicate dev time to?

yawn — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 21:34:40 +0000

Aside from Android/iOS, what other Smart Phone OSes have captured any kind of market? I'm considering spending my personal project time developing apps for something other than the Big 2. Is there anything out there that other devs are excited about? Anything picking up steam lately?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29971930

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by yawn in "Nim Community Survey 2021 Results"

yawn — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 18:19:37 +0000

I picked it up and played with it. I mostly liked what I found. I do web dev and the story there is less compelling than other languages if you're looking for something more than Jester. I may be misremembering, but even though the frameworks are async (some with that atrocious "{.async.}" pragma) the db libs were not.

New comment by yawn in "Firefox 96"

yawn — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 15:32:29 +0000

If you go back and look at previous versions of release notes, many are just as terse. This definitely isn't new.

New comment by yawn in "Let's Settle This"

yawn — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:50:36 +0000

Come to St. Louis where everyone mispronounces the French street names. Doug Crockford coined JSON as "Jason", but nearly every developer I've ever run into says "jaysawn", so that's how I say it too.

New comment by yawn in "The Best Things and Stuff of 2021"

yawn — Mon, 27 Dec 2021 18:16:15 +0000

I love it when this comes up in the rss feed. I wish more folks did these!

New comment by yawn in "Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work"

yawn — Sat, 13 Nov 2021 15:57:54 +0000

For me, when learning a new language, there's a war in my brain between learning the thing and being productive. If I'm not productive long enough, I jet. It took me a couple of tries of bouncing off of Rust before it started clicking. I've written a few personal web projects in Rust and I'm still on the fence using it for those. My comparable Go web apps run just as fast with a little more memory usage, but are significantly faster to iterate on (compiler speed) and write, and also to read/understand later. The thing that has been tripping me up the most as an intermediate Rust programmer is that some library authors tend to get Architect Astronaut-y with the type system. It gives me the SimpleBeanFactoryAwareAspectInstanceFactory Java vibes.