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Windows stealing focus happens to me multiple times a day on Windows when I'm working.

It's infuriating.

Same here, I'll be fine, then bang I start getting like shiney sharp lines in my vision that spread from the outside to the center. When this happens I absolutely can't work, I can barely see anything (last time my vision was so messed up I couldn't read the pamthlet on my new migraine pills to know if I was to take 1 or 2).

SOmetimes it can knock me out for a day, but sometimes after half an hour or so I'm good to go (especially if there is no pain accompanying it).

I've never had to give more explanation than "Sorry, migraine, I need to take rest of day off, see you tomorrow".

LandRon My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

I'd hope most professional software engineers could do this in an afternoon or so?

LandRon Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

Isn't that running?

If my heart rate is 130, that's a run for me, all be ot slow. 33-35min ish 5k.

A brisk walk would be 95ish

LandRon The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

Is it eatable though ?

ANytime I've had chocolate that has the white stuff I've binned it. Even if it isn't spoiled, doesn't it taste bad ?

LandRon Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell

Does anyone know of any algorithms for generating these game boards ?

That will produce challenging boards ?

LandRon Show HN: VS Code extension to share code snippets instantly

In VS Code, everything lines up. The start of the code is on the same column as the start of the comment, but in the snippetshare its tabbed in ?

https://snippetshare.dev/c/MuiWWZknPgkRGFf4bt1LAD3m2zAP5Irwp...

Nice extension, I can see me using this :)

LandRon Human coders are still better than LLMs

Yes, amended my post. I understand what he was saying now. Thanks.

Wasn't trying to just be contradictory or arsey

LandRon Human coders are still better than LLMs

What do you mean? Chess engines are incredibly far ahead of humans right now.

Even a moderately powered machine running stockfish will destroy human super gms.

Sorry, after reading replies to this post i think I've misunderstood what you meant :)

LandRon Why is everybody knitting chickens?

We are in a time where it's fashionable to have mental health issues. It's very strange.

LandRon Why are 2025/05/28 and 2025-05-28 different days in JavaScript?

Javascript delenda est!

LandRon What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)

All I want is time to go climbing and mountaineering.

I mostly can't because I have to work and getting 4-8 weeks off at a time is impossible.

LandRon Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

I use Rider with some built in AI auto-complete. I'd say its hit rate is pretty low!

Sometimes it auto-completes nonsense, but sometimes I think I'm about to tab on auto-completing a method like FooABC and it actually completes it to FoodACD, both return the same type but are completely wrong.

I have to really be paying attention to catch it selecting the wrong one. I really really hate this. When it works its great, but every day I'm closer to just turning it off out of frustration.

LandRon Show HN: Codigo – The Programming Language Repository

If you change the theme, sometimes the theme dropdown shows white text on a white background.

e.g. on chrome / Ubuntu, change theme to material or nord-dark, then dropdown is all white (shows if you hover the items)

Same if you go to a programming language page, the drop down for code examples is white on white

LandRon Ask HN: How have you spent time outside work for the past couple of weeks?

Lots of running (Set a new 10K PB last week, I'm slowly getting faster) Lots of climbing Musical Festival. Cocktails with friends. Some time working through a book on Elixir. Watching F1 and NBA playoffs.

Playing through Dragon age Veilguard (despite feeling its a massive dissapointment), and not a proper Dragon Age game :(

LandRon I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt

Even if you want to look at it from a purely selfish point of view... if you want to live in a good, prosperous society, this starts with childrens education. A well fed, happy, well slept child is an ideal here to get them the best education they can.

Not wanting each child to get the best possible start in life makes absolutely no sense to me.

But yes, no child should go hungry at school.

LandRon 'I found your dad': The mystery of a missing climber

K2 doesn't kill 25% of people who climb it.

It has a historic fatality ratio of 1 death for every 4 summits. If you have 100 people try to climb it in a season, 4 summits and 1 death you have 25% summit to death ratio, but 99 out of the 100 people survived.

Last year it looks like it had 175 climbers, ~50 summits, and 2 deaths. 2023 had over 100 summits and 1 death.

LandRon Firefox tab groups are here

Add this to your UserChrome.css for the FireFox profile you use.

      @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul");
      #TabsToolbar {
          visibility: collapse !important;
      }

      #sidebar-box {
        --bar-width: 40px;
        position: relative !important;
        overflow-x: hidden !important;
        /\* margin-right: calc(10px \* -1) !important; */
        /* left: var(--bar-width) !important; */
        min-width: var(--bar-width) !important;
        max-width: var(--bar-width) !important;
        border-right: 1px solid var(--sidebar-border-color);
        z-index: 3;
        transition: all 0.1s;
     }

     #sidebar-box:hover {
        --expanded-width: 250px;
        margin-right: calc(
           calc(var(--expanded-width) - var(--bar-width)) * -1
  ) !important;
        /\* left: var(--expanded-width) !important; */
        min-width: var(--expanded-width) !important;
        max-width: var(--expanded-width) !important;
     }

     #sidebar-box:hover #sidebar-header {
        min-width: var(--expanded-width) !important;
        max-width: var(--expanded-width) !important;
     }

    /* #sidebar-header is hidden by default, change "none"

to "inherit" to restore it. / #sidebar-header { min-width: var(--bar-width) !important; max-width: var(--bar-width) !important; overflow: hidden !important; }
/* #sidebar-splitter styles the divider between the sidebar and the rest of the browser. \*/ #sidebar-splitter { display: none; }
You might have to create that file in a Chrome folder in your profile folder if it doesnt exist. i.e.:
.mozilla/firefox/<your-profile-folder>/chrome/userChrome.css
you can find the right folder by going to about:support in the url bar and clicking on Open Directory in the page that shows in the Application Basics grid. This works for me on Ubuntu on FF 137.0.2

LandRon Firefox tab groups are here

And with some chrome.css changes you can make the sidebar hide until the mouse hovers over it.

https://imgur.com/a/SsKe3UC

LandRon Sycophancy in GPT-4o

I dont want my AI to have a personality at all.

LandRon I just want to code (2023)

Man, I work 8-4 Mon-Fri.

As soon as 4 rolls around, I'm done with the money making portion of the day and the rest is just entirely fun stuff. I couldn't care less if what I'm doing isn't ever going to make money, it's just fun / interesting / satisfying curiosity.

I run - but I know I'm never going to make money running. I climb - but I know I'm never going to make money climbing. I code for fun on my side projects - same deal.

That work mindset gets turned off hard at 4pm.

LandRon Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch

Yep. I have 40 watches, from tudors, omegas, iwc, zenith, dunhill, nomos, oris, grand seiko, panerai.

I still love the shit out of my g shock. The only reason it doesn't get worn much is it was replaced by my garmin.

LandRon Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI

Man, how annoyed do you have to be with someone to carve your complaint into stone!

LandRon Why F#?

I've written a lot of Clojure now, and I've managed to avoided learning any Java really.

LandRon Why F#?

Rider is now entirely free for non commercial use.

LandRon Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

> I do however think people would be more tolerant of an AI answering a phone call they made

Absolutely not.

LandRon Waymos crash less than human drivers

I mean, I'd probably rather be dead than lose multiple limbs.

LandRon The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)

Nothing about this job description sounds appealing, it has to be a joke.

LandRon The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)

I've experienced this watching a coworker debugging that sort of code, he had initially written it all as a long chained statements, then had to undo it all to allow him to debug. Once it was extracted it could be debugged and step through it, great!

Once he was done debugging it he put it all back to how it was originally...

The mind boggles.