Hacker News Reader

lylejantzi3rdon The Best Size of a Laptop

At that point, why not have a home desktop and a work desktop? You've been able to have external hot-swap SSDs in a relatively small form factor for years. They make m.2 hot swappable frames[0].

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/j4ilsa/m2_ssd_in_a...

lylejantzi3rdon The Best Size of a Laptop

I want my lunch tray back! IYKYK.

"Why the Macbook Pro 17" was the greatest laptop ever made" - https://themostbeautifulworld.com/blog/macbook-pro-17-vs-16-...

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: How much do salaried full-time devs *actually* work?

> longer than a year without drastically losing productivity.

The data suggests you can get away with it for 4 weeks[0]. Then you hit the inflection point.

[0]: https://lostgarden.com/2008/09/28/rules-of-productivity-pres...

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?

We're not talking about references. We're talking about potential employers calling the companies listed on your resume to verify your employment history, either as part of the interview process or as part of a background check.

> Eh, HR at previous employers might share whether you were a problem employee.

HR departments are trained to say exactly two things: whether or not the person worked there and the person's dates of employment. Anything else can result in a lawsuit.

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: How much employee resume verification is done in practice?

Do you know what a full background check shows?

Calling all of your previous employers will get them your dates of employment and nothing else. Less than that if you worked for a startup that went out of business.

lylejantzi3rdon I struggled with Git, so I'm making a game to spare others the pain

ark: https://ark-vcs.com/

lylejantzi3rdon Knitting Your Parachute

When was the last time you can remember being impressed with somebody solely because of what they said they did for a living?

lylejantzi3rdon Knitting Your Parachute

I don't even try to answer that question seriously anymore.

"I run a team of hackers. Did your power go out last night for 10 minutes? That was us."

"I sell hemorrhoid cream."

"I'm a small business owner. We make teledildonics."

To this day, nobody has ever asked me what "teledildonics" is. Either they already know or they don't care.

lylejantzi3rdon How Core Git Developers Configure Git

# clearly makes git better

If these options clearly make git better, why aren't they the defaults?

lylejantzi3rdon Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

What I don't understand is: why use numbers?

Using your example, you could describe the insurance for your Citron as 21.2.8. Or, you could call it automobiles.citron.insurance. Which looks a lot like automobiles/citron/insurance. How is this any different from just using a folder structure?

lylejantzi3rdon File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

Hahaha, that's great. Halfway down this article, there's a link to an old article on File Pilot.

lylejantzi3rdon File Pilot: A file explorer built for speed with a modern, robust interface

The quality of Path Finder went downhill many years ago as well.

lylejantzi3rdon WASM will replace containers

The Orca project is attempting to do exactly that: https://github.com/orca-app/orca

lylejantzi3rdon I Blog with Raw HTML

This is blowing my mind. That's really cool.

lylejantzi3rdon Splitting from Handmade Network

He finished the game engine. It came to a natural end. He started a new series on performance-aware programming[0].

[0]: https://www.computerenhance.com

lylejantzi3rdon He went to jail for stealing someone's identity, but it was his all along

"I wonder how many people are telling the truth about something, and aren't taken seriously because they're problematic about something else."

Isn't that everybody now? Credibility is a strange thing in the age of social media.

lylejantzi3rdon USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House

You're kidding me, right? It seems like every other post on the front page is a discussion of this topic and nothing else. It's getting old.

lylejantzi3rdon My Impressions of Gleam

It's easier and quicker to move code around with braces when you're using vim. Vim has motions for selecting, editing, copying, etc everything between two braces. Without the braces, it makes moving that code around much more difficult, and error prone.

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: Is anyone making money selling traditional downloadable software?

A little off topic, but, if you'll indulge me: Why do you think nobody has been able to make a successful alternative to Photoshop? Everybody I know complains about it constantly, and yet it's still the industry standard.

lylejantzi3rdon Kirin demos "electric salt spoon" at CES

> He is cherry picking information and ignoring decades of science on nutritional sodium

Show us, then. He cites his sources. The least you can do is do the same.

lylejantzi3rdon Kirin demos "electric salt spoon" at CES

> Is salt really that bad?

Here's a brief video that makes the claim that you probably need more salt in your diet. He has 3 more salt videos, if you're intrigued.

You probably need more salt (short): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02rgtB0Bxi0

Salt: Are you getting Enough?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amJ-ev8Ial8

WHY Low Salt Stresses the Body: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNdhM4vt4I

Low Sodium's link to Fat Gain & Insulin Resistance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ygExIZm7Wo

lylejantzi3rdon Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode

It's more like sudoku for accountants.

lylejantzi3rdon Missing out on jobs because of LeetCode

A lot of people have a strange sort of amnesia where they forget anything that doesn't support their preconceptions. I've had conversations that go like this:

"Our interview process is perfect! We've never had a bad hire."

"What about that guy we hired to rewrite our engine? The ex-googler? We had to fire him after a month."

"Oh, yeah. I forgot about him."

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: A friend has brain cancer: any bio hacks that worked?

Have you looked into ivermectin and fenbendazole?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3158014/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7505114/

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: What do you look for in a work monitor?

The highest PPI with the highest text clarity and the highest refresh rate I can get. 27-32"

OLED and HDR are nice, but I don't do anything at work that requires them, and burn-in is still a concern.

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?

Nope. That all dried up for me shortly after the pandemic ended.

lylejantzi3rdon Be a property owner and not a renter on the internet

I expected him to mention colocation. Kids these days. shakes his cane.

lylejantzi3rdon Matt Mullenweg Asks What Drama to Create in 2025, Community Reacts

There was a whole rash of them a few years back. I'm not sure if any of them took off or what.

https://ghost.org/

https://strapi.io/

https://getgrav.org/

https://craftcms.com/

lylejantzi3rdon Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?

Marketing and sales, like everybody else. :)

Desktop application development. I want to make it as easy and fast to create desktop apps as it is to create a web app or a command line app.

lylejantzi3rdon Clay – UI Layout Library

It's not all that much different than html or even React. You can assign each part to named functions and turn it into something more like this:

    LandingPageDesktop(landingPageDesktopId, landingPageDesktopProperties) {
      LandingPage(landingPageId, landingPageProperties) {
        LeftText() {
          etc...
        }
      }
    }

The real issue is trying to represent graphical objects, and the relationship between those objects, with text. Graphical builders/RAD tools seem like such an obvious solution, but that approach has largely been abandoned.