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DetroitThrow··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
Wow, this seems great for doing interviews with an analyst, or just demoing data generally. Cool product!
DetroitThrow··on Show HN: LocalGPT – A local-first AI assistant in Rust with persistent memory
It doesn't build for me unfortunately. I'm using Ubuntu Linux, nothing special.
DetroitThrow··on Brookhaven Lab's RHIC concludes 25-year run with final collisions
FYI the lab isn't shutting down. Glad you appreciate it's achievements though!
DetroitThrow··on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?
The biggest non-Linux non-iOS phone operating system is HarmonyOS, so I would assume he means that.
DetroitThrow··on Claude Opus 4.6
The ears on top are a cute touch
DetroitThrow··on A Broken Heart
The part where Claude specifically tipped them off felt helpful to include. Stating that you used Claude to do a first pass just sounds like "I opened Vscode with highlighting to do a first pass" and that doesn't sound so relevant.

I might be too used to using coding agents in various parts of my workflow, and others are still getting acquainted, or others find it still much different than just another standard debugging tool.

And fwiw it's probably not Claude's fault that emoji fonts load this slow, though. Wtf Safari?

DetroitThrow··on CIA to Sunset the World Factbook
We have to draw the line somewhere
DetroitThrow··on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok
Isn't it both necessary and normal if they need more information about why they were generating CSAM? I don't know why the rule of law shouldn't apply to child pornography or why it would be incorrect to normalize the prosecution of CSAM creators.
DetroitThrow··on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
>it's a foundational piece of it

No it's not

DetroitThrow··on ISO PDF spec is getting Brotli – ~20 % smaller documents with no quality loss
I love zstd but this isn't necessarily true.
DetroitThrow··on Hate is a strong word, but I don't like Windows 11
Linux Mint/Cinnamon matches Windows GUI and maybe makes a lot of things better. You may need to pay the Linux tax in a few other areas, but as far as UI and basic tools/settings aspects, they have it really good.
DetroitThrow··on Skip is now free and open source
The reasoning for making this choice was refreshingly sober and clear-minded. If there was anything that would help tooling reach critical mass, it's turning it into OSS.

I've built with Flutter and React Native a few times over the years, but I will give Skip a go in my next project, I've heard a lot actually.

DetroitThrow··on Tell HN: Amazon has deactivated my seller account
>I suspect big sellers must have dedicated account managers

They do. Large 'first party' vendors have a completely different system, basically. Even large third party vendors have a more direct line to support.

DetroitThrow··on Claude's new constitution
It's not linked directly, you have to click into their `Constitutional AI` blogpost and then click into the linked paper.

I agree that the paper is just much more useful context than any descriptions they make in the OP blogpost.

DetroitThrow··on Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)
>Datasets never become big enough…

Not only is this a contrived non-comparison, but the statement itself is readily disproven by the limitations basically _everyone_ using single instance ClickHouse often run into if they actually have a large dataset.

Spark and Hadoop have their place, maybe not in rinky dink startup land, but definitely in the world of petabyte and exabyte data processing.

DetroitThrow··on Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
Closer to $40B for some of the latest fabs from TSMC you're seeing, yes. While there could be huge simplification in SoC and packaging processes if it was focused on a single product, Apple's needs will likely still be about having cutting edge processors, so it would still be pretty high even if they were to just buy TSMC.
DetroitThrow··on Why senior engineers let bad projects fail
>If I see something heading toward failure, I let people know they may want to consider a different approach. That’s it. There’s no need to be harsh or belabor the point but it’s better to speak up than to quietly watch a train wreck unfold.

Yes, it seems cruel and also counter to ensuring the org succeeds. Your perceived ability as an engineer might go up if your colleagues fail, but your colleagues failing when you knew a possible way for things to go better is harmful to your org's goals and culture. It only takes a small few failures for the bar to be lowered to the point that you yourself may not want to work there.

Even sometimes when other people's projects are NOT your problem and they aren't seeking feedback, sometimes you SHOULD make their flaws your problem if it is of crucial importance to your org. Knowing when you should expend your energy on an initiative like that is in itself a mark of seniority.

The blog itself mentions this a bit.

DetroitThrow··on Apple is fighting for TSMC capacity as Nvidia takes center stage
Closer to $40b for a new fab for an established company to do it all correctly. It's a much more major investment to open a fab without ever doing it before, then continually use the brain power/institutional knowledge you've built up to stay near the forefront of fab tech, and then basically have weird incentives to build a foundry for only your products rather than the world at large.

You're setting yourself up for making a huge part of your future revenue stream being set aside for ongoing chipfab capex and research engineering. And that's a huge gamble, since getting this all setup is not guaranteed to succeed.

DetroitThrow··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
Paul is awesome. Seems to be stuck in the middle of Adafruit and SparkFun duking it out.
DetroitThrow··on SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
It would be nice if people came out and explained exactly what the harassment, COC violations, etc were so we could make accurate judgements ourselves about all of this. And no, posting literally what happened or what was sent or said will not get you in trouble for libel unless you don't have proof of it happening.

This dancing around what was actually said or sent all reminds me of that meme, Dipshit289: dude you don't wanna know... Oh the horror...

Fwiw, there's this thread that seemingly explains what employee was doing the harassment - and shows Phil overreacting and exaggerating the 'harassment' itself, as well as misattributing blame: https://chaos.social/@North/115605819126197877

That makes me think much less of both Adafruit and SparkFun. I really, really wish all sides would simply put everything out for us to evaluate. Having to trust various unreliable narrators is not respectful to the time of all of us potential customers.

DetroitThrow··on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
It's been a long running thing that Apple can't do software as well as competitors, though in my experience they've beat Google and a few others at devex and UX in their mobile frameworks overtime despite initial roughness. Slow and steady might win this race eventually, too.
DetroitThrow··on Code is cheap now, but software isn't
You're absolutely right!
DetroitThrow··on I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs) [video]
Such impressive demos and great explanations in the video. Mike, if you're reading this, keep making videos!
DetroitThrow··on Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
I read the license MD and there are some clauses that make it incompatible with Apache. I think you might just have seen the disclosure text for Apache/BSD zero.
DetroitThrow··on Bichon: A lightweight, high-performance Rust email archiver with WebUI
This one appears to be AGPL and safe to use, but I just read the main project license and frowned. I'm not sure I understand who that project is for.
DetroitThrow··on Show HN: Rocket Launch and Orbit Simulator
But the rotational velocity of the rocket is going to be very similar to Earth's at the launch site. Eventually the rotational velocity between ground and the rocket will begin to noticeably differ, but the launch trajectory starting at 408 m/s would look terrifying if it were that way in real life.
DetroitThrow··on Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines
Please read the entire tweet. Free speech is mentioned at character number 1779.
DetroitThrow··on Embassy: Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async
A handful of companies participated in this. It seems they all are working already with it or working towards it: https://rustfoundation.org/media/announcing-the-safety-criti...
DetroitThrow··on Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management
>I love this. I’m going to add your 'Shield & Deliver' path as an alternative (and perhaps superior) winning state. This is exactly the nuance I wanted to surface.

I would be wary of this being the superior winning state, but definitely an alternative. I've done exactly this in my career as a tech lead only for it to burn me, and probably 2/3rds of the time the best thing for everyone is to simply "Save the Sprint" and not become mired in discussions that often are for personal empire building that strategic leadership would hate.

Maybe people have different experiences than me on this, feel free to speak up!

DetroitThrow··on Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management
>If the VP requires these numbers and went as far as back channeling you there is probably a quite good reason for that.

This is good intuition but generally people won't tell you whether they have a good or silly/self-serving reason in my experience, and you can only really get them to surface that by comparing it to the priority of other commitments and forcing them to depriotize something.

I think the ratings might be a bit borked. There's a dialogue path choice that results in the A+ where you end up asking directly whether the back-channel was worth another delay, and you. The VP says no. No junior gets interrupted.

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