News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

jasonpeacock

Re:Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:16PM (#50237391)
People who keep tabs open too long are the same as those who store files in the system trash.

At some point it’ll get flushed and you’ll only have yourself to blame…

With AWS Bedrock, and similar hosted solutions, you can’t be banned directly by the AI companies.

With local models, you can’t be banned.

While employed, you’re using corporate accounts and can’t be banned.

Re:The Secret Life of Circuits is now in stock everywhere on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:33PM (#50212566)
You forgot "There Are No Electrons: Electronics for Earthlings", my favorite introductory text:

https://www.amazon.com/There-Are-Electrons-Electronics-Earth...

What’s the difference between you writing Java and then the JVM building the application, and you writing English and then Claude building the application?
Re:Berthd on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:28PM (#49983634)
So much this. We don't review the assembly/machine-code that the compiler creates, why do we still review the code the AI generates?

If it works as desired then ship it; if it doesn't then iterate until it does.

Tufte CSS[1] provides a style for this, I like the good use of the "wasted" space in the margins of most browsers.

[1] https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/

> My office is in walking distance of my home.

You are definitely in the minority ;)

IMO the commute is the biggest problem with RTO - why must I spend >1hr of _my_ time going to/from an office when I can do the same work at home?

Re:The Twelve-Factor App on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:29AM (#49480020)
It’s always new for someone…

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re:Autism mutations drive neurodevelopmental pathology on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:23PM (#49470692)
The steep rise in the last few decades is primarily due to increased awareness and expanded definition/diagnoses.
Re:Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @05:41PM (#49441069)
It's not $5/bag. There's also tools to be bought or rented, knowledge and skills to learn, and time spent. $2k is the cheat code to skip all of that.

My calculus is to evaluate time, cost, and quality. If someone can match or beat me on 2/3 of those dimensions then I'll hire them.

Re:Conway's Game of Life, in real life on Saturday August 22, 2026 @07:39PM (#49404914)
I’ve always wanted to do something similar, but with screen printed capacitive sensors on a pcb with a matching led in each sensor.

Much more scalable in cost.

Reminds me of Tie::Hash::Cannabinol:

  Tie::Hash::Cannabinol is a completely useless demonstration of how to use Tie::StdHash to 
  pervert the behaviour of Perl hashes. Once a hash has been tied to Tie::Hash::Cannabinol, 
  there is a 25% chance that it will forget anything that you tell it immediately and a 
  further 25% chance that it won't be able to retrieve any information you ask it for. Any 
  information that it does return will be pulled at random from its keys.
  
  Oh, and the return value from exists isn't to be trusted either :)
[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Tie::Hash::Cannabinol
What doesn’t work? It’s my daily driver and it renders every website I visit.
There must be something fascinating about writing Markdown apps - either it scratches an itch, or AI is really good at creating them. There's a flood of them on r/macapps and similar places.
Re:When Feature Flags Do and Don't Make Sense on Sunday August 09, 2026 @08:55AM (#49230972)
Or because rollbacks (and release) are slower than flipping a flag.

I’d rather invest in the feature flag upfront so I can unbreak customers in 2min rather than telling them to wait hours for the rollback.

Why are rollback and release so slow? Because we’re deploying to 40+ availability zones world-wide, totaling many thousands of servers, and we don’t want to worsen the impact by doing an accelerated “everything-at-once” rollback.

Trailer for the movie (coming soon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlwmEqQv82M
Re:Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal on Monday June 29, 2026 @08:44AM (#48718541)
Change the tmux leader to ctrl-space, problem fixed!
Re:Show HN: Zanagrams on Sunday June 28, 2026 @12:50PM (#48709091)
It’s basically Ribbit from Puzzmo, which is fine because reimplementations let you experiment with different gameplay.

https://www.puzzmo.com

Re:Pull request limits are cutting down the noise on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @02:58PM (#48664257)
HEY email service does something like that:

https://www.hey.com/features/the-screener/

Re:Leave a Trace on Friday June 19, 2026 @10:09AM (#48598800)
That all sounds exhausting (introvert here).

The last thing I want to do when out in public is be stuck talking with strangers.

Re:Bringing down my ZSH load times from ~3.1s to ~230ms on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @10:28PM (#48579879)
Huh, I just ran the same timing command for my fish shell (with starship prompt) and got 168ms.

What all is happening in the Zsh profile?

If you don’t owe then you have 3yrs (IIRC) to file.

Of course, you also don’t get a refund until you file.

And you usually have to do all the same work to know whether you owe or not…

I used to use Glow, but now I'm enjoying mdterm:

https://github.com/bahdotsh/mdterm

Re:One item purchased, ten emails on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @04:35PM (#47695911)
Just wait until you _don't_ buy something...

Throw some items in your cart and enjoy all the emails reminding you to check out, look at similar items, share with your friends, and use discounts before they expire!

Re:Running Out of Disk Space in Production on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @01:57PM (#47678957)
> A neat trick I was told is to always have sleep statements in your code. Just a few sleep statements that you can delete in cases like this. This won't fix the problem, but will buy you time and free up latency for stuff like slow algorithms so you can get faster code.

FTFY ;)

Re:Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor on Friday April 03, 2026 @12:47PM (#47629006)
My viewing distance is one-arm-length (kinda close), when I raise my arm my fingertips just touch the screen. Definitely closer than my previous monitor, as you need to sit within the curved-screen radius to be in the sweet spot.

Looks like it's 32:9 aspect ratio - it's this Samsung, it was on sale last week for $800: https://a.co/d/0f884LPO

Older »