Hacker News: yobert

New comment by yobert in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

yobert — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:30:57 +0000

I found something fun last week--- Apparently if you use Adobe tools, there is a sync plugin they install for finder that can cause big issues with SMB shares. Might help you if you have that!

New comment by yobert in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

yobert — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:03:34 +0000

It is a bit better than you're saying. When you fire it up, you can see that it does have a list of common credential areas that it hides from the jail. It seems to hide:

    .aws  .azure  .bash_history .config  .docker  .git-credentials  .gnupg  .jai  .local  .mozilla  .netrc  .password-store  .ssh  .zsh_history

It's a humorous attempt in a sense, but better than nothing for sure!

New comment by yobert in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

yobert — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:55:15 +0000

Not required. It's recommended by the church leadership though to have a garden and to have a years supply of food storage if you can. I'm not a Mormon but appreciate it as a good idea.

New comment by yobert in "Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)"

yobert — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:49:48 +0000

When I get out of the subway, I always occident myself.

New comment by yobert in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

yobert — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:49:01 +0000

I'm with you-- civ 1 is by far the best! I adore the wonky graphics. None of the new ones hit the same.

New comment by yobert in "Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go"

yobert — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:09:03 +0000

Just `git pull` and `go build` should work!

New comment by yobert in "23,746 Patients Died on Waitlists in Past Year"

yobert — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 22:29:13 +0000

Also, how many of those patients who died on a waitlist would have died anyways?

New comment by yobert in "Zed is our office"

yobert — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:32:13 +0000

The topic of "expectation" is really interesting and worth discussing more. I refuse to accept the expectation of slack meaning I am literally always available to message, and also that I must read and keep track of everything in there. If somebody asks me about something and I suspect it might be in slack, I might do search for it to catch up on that topic if I am inclined. But obviously so many people feel the pressure you're describing (to know about everything said in slack)--- which sounds terrible!

New comment by yobert in "Zed is our office"

yobert — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 22:34:43 +0000

I agree about the bad side of slack culture, except when compared to how things were before slack: Horrible email threads, in-person meetings, phone calls, and people walking over to your desk to ask you stupid things they could have looked up themselves.

Slack revolutionized this for me because I can turn it off anytime I want. When I want focus, I close it and it cannot reach me for some time. Then I pull it up and read all the threads while taking a poop.

Having it in zed is the same: You can just log out of collab anytime you want! You would only use it if you _want_ to use it. When you do want to use it, it's incredible. Someone can just join your channel and work on a tricky problem with you and you don't even need to screen share. It's like the best of discord and slack available at the touch of a button. It's much lighter weight than slack. Slack huddles are super annoying to me. I want it to behave more like discord, and that's what zed does!

New comment by yobert in "Zed is our office"

yobert — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:09:27 +0000

My experience has been so different. Zed seems to always do the right thing for me when I concurrently edit files with other tools. Not doubting your experience or anything, but you must have a very different environment than me. Zed has been absolutely rock solid for the past year on my computer.

New comment by yobert in "Breaking "provably correct" Leftpad"

yobert — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:28:09 +0000

I think to get it right, leftpad will have to link to libghostty :)

New comment by yobert in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

yobert — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:22:06 +0000

If you're on a Mac, you probably want OrbStack nowadays. It's fabulous!

New comment by yobert in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

yobert — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:46:55 +0000

It will come! Linux support is only recently getting good. They'll get there.

New comment by yobert in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

yobert — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:45:30 +0000

Zed has easy to use extensions, but also Go support is built in. (syntax highlighting, gofmt on save, and language server support)

New comment by yobert in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

yobert — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 19:15:03 +0000

Zed is a really really nice editor. I consider the AI features secondary but they have been useful here and there. (I usually have them off.) You can use it like cursor if you want to.

Where I think it gets really interesting is they are adding features in it to compete with slack. Imagine a tight integration between slack huddles and VS code's collaborative editing. Since it's from scratch it's much nicer than both. I'm really excited about it.

New comment by yobert in "We Designed TigerBeetle's Docs from Scratch"

yobert — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 22:40:33 +0000

I think that's a bit disingenuous. How is his brand built on chaos and controversy? I've watched some of his videos and he honestly seems like a really reasonable guy.

New comment by yobert in "Even the worst mass extinction had its oases"

yobert — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:56:30 +0000

Yeah it reminds me of POV-Ray, in a fun way!

New comment by yobert in "Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?"

yobert — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 07:36:47 +0000

Our problem isn't the inheritance feature itself-- it's the removal of the config knob `sql_inheritance` which lets you change whether inherited tables are included in queries by default or not (behavior controlled manually by the * notation). It's a goofy behavior nobody liked, but we have a mountain of SQL that depends on that knob. It's fixable... Just a pain :)

New comment by yobert in "Why does everyone run ancient Postgres versions?"

yobert — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:08:04 +0000

I have a large production deployment that is still on 9.6 because the software depends on table inheritance. (Oh man!)

New comment by yobert in "Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition [pdf]"

yobert — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 05:27:50 +0000

I bet this is not because alcohol is good for you in any way, but because being intelligent is related to being eager to try new things.