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realharoon AI coding assistants are getting worse?

That will only work as long as there is an active "the web" to search. Unless the models get smart enough to figure out the answer from scratch.

realharoon Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

Speaking of the macOS menu bar, is there some way to make it overflow into a hidden area behind an "expand" button that would appear when there is no more room, like the notification area in Windows does?

The macOS UI decision of "just pretend that whatever doesn't fit to the right of the notch doesn't exist" is baffling.

I've seen a few apps that claim to do that, but it's always done in some really hacky way (such as needing screen recording permissions), and the behavior is never that of simple overflow handling. Instead they have "always hidden" sections and things like that, which is not what I want.

realharoon Show HN: macOS menu bar app to track Claude usage in real time

Or just vibe code your own. Seems fitting.

realharoon The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

That depends entirely on your surroundings. Dark room? Dark mode. Next to a window or on a balcony on a sunny day? Light mode.

realharoon Google Opal

Isn't this the same thing they showcased as part of the Gemini 3 Flash release some time ago?

On https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/ , the paragraph that starts with:

"Or you can quickly build fun, useful apps from scratch using your voice without prior coding knowledge."

realharoon GPT Image 1.5

The other side however has the "if you restrict us, China will win" argument on their side.

realharoon Self-hosting my photos with Immich

Not in every way. Seems it has issues with Ultra HDR (https://github.com/immich-app/immich/issues/23094)

realharoon Roc Camera

Just include a depth sensor, lidar, etc. I'm sure over time that will become increasingly easy to defeat too, but then we can just keep improving the sensors too.

realharoon Roc Camera

Some smartphone cameras already have this. Samsung tried it on the S25 but apparently did it wrong (https://petapixel.com/2025/02/13/samsungs-image-authenticity...). Google has it on the Pixel 10 line.

I think it's very likely the next iPhone will have some form of authenticity proof too, I just hope Apple doesn't go with its own standard again that's incompatible with everything else.

realharoon Roc Camera

How does this compare to the content credentials added by the Pixel 10's camera?

realharoon Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video

But Wikipedia only really exists as long as there are editors of a certain quality and dedication. Without those, what good is the foundation?

realharoon ChatGPT Atlas

Controlling the full browser gives you a lot more freedom for any future additions.

realharoon IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

I think TUIs mostly suck for IDEs, but some tools like k9s or htop are nice.

realharoon The evolution of Lua, continued [pdf]

What specifically do you think would be better? Lua shares many of JS's quirks (like the relationship between arrays and non-array objects, the behavior of undefined for non-existent object properties, metatables are somewhat similar to JS prototypes, etc.) and adds a bunch more (lack of continue statement, 1-indexing, cannot have nil values in tables).

I can see people liking or disliking Lua and JS both, depending on taste, but it's hard to see someone liking one and disliking the other.

realharoon Vibe coding as a coding veteran: from 8-bit assembly to English-as-code

>Until you lose access to the LLM and find your ability has atrophied to the point you have to look up the simplest of keywords.

Realistically, that's probably never going to happen. Expecting it is just like the prepper mindset.

realharoon Show HN: I built an app to block Shorts and Reels

The device has many eyes on it. Random apps don't.

realharoon PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator

There is the `tap` crate (https://crates.io/crates/tap) which adds `tap`, `pipe` and their variants to everything.

realharoon Anthropic revokes OpenAI's access to Claude

But who's going to enforce this for them? And would they even find out if the service is otherwise available to the general public?

realharoon Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference

Dart is much worse than TypeScript. The over-reliance on codegen for the most simple things (e.g. https://pub.dev/packages/freezed#primary-constructors), the lack of expressiveness of the type system (it only got sum types very recently), and a lot of other little annoyances are ever present when having to write Dart.

realharoon Universal basic income: German experiment bring surprising results

Well, money is just a coordination tool for tracking who is "owed" what. What people are actually consuming is labor and natural resources.

From that point of view, getting "free money" (which in effect may mean for example getting someone else to deliver food to you without you working) is not much different from all kinds of other rent-seeking behaviors.

realharoon Why training AI can't be IP theft

Even if you accept the premise, what does it matter? AI are not humans.

Laws were made up by people at a specific time for a specific purpose. Obviously our existing laws are "designed" around human limitations.

As for future laws, it's just a matter of who is powerful and persuasive enough to push through their vision of the future.

realharoon You might not need WebSockets

What do you mean by "inspect in browser"? All major browsers' devtools have supported WebSocket inspecting for many years.

Many of the other issues mentioned are also trivial to solve (reconnects, cross-origin protection).

Also, doesn't WebTransport have many of the same issues? (e.g. with proxies and firewalls). And do you have any data for the mobile battery claim? (assuming this is for an application in foreground with the screen on)

realharoon Clojure: Realtime collaborative web apps without ClojureScript

Reconnects eventually when things time out, but in the meantime, there will be a lot of frustrated waiting.

realharoon Kilo Code: Speedrunning open source coding AI

I was mainly referring to phrases such as "billions of scientists" - the point of science is to solve problems and discover knowledge. If you have an AI good enough to achieve that (billions of scientists), that means it can probably progress without being actively driven by people at all - and probably do a better job at it too.

We can still do things "for fun", but our efforts will be more toys than serious projects (except when it comes to relationships with other people).

realharoon Kilo Code: Speedrunning open source coding AI

>We want to build for the dream of billions of programmers; billions of artists; billions of scientists—using computing as moldable clay.

At that point, why even keep humans in the loop. Just let it exist in the background and generate better ideas than any human would anyway.

realharoon An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content

You can add depth sensors or lidars. Still possible to fake, but more difficult.

realharoon North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto

Kind of like that, yeah. It may cause some people to re-evaluate what they even value about the whole thing and why anyone should honor the existing allocation (which is a good question). But it seems like a pretty obvious solution in face of such a complete breakdown.

realharoon North Korea Launders Billions in Stolen Crypto

If there's a strong enough consensus, everyone can just agree to migrate to some new technology and let the original go to zero.

realharoon AI killed the tech interview. Now what?

The amount of time people spend grinding leetcode instead (if you believe what they say about it online) is just as much or more.

realharoon Intent to unship: HTTP/2 Push

As far as web frameworks go, WebSockets over HTTP/2 are supported in for example ASP.NET by default (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/w...). There is however still a surprising amount of languages/libraries/frameworks/servers where the support is missing (e.g. go https://github.com/golang/go/issues/49918).

On the client side, both Chrome (https://chromestatus.com/feature/6251293127475200) and Firefox will use it when available, but I have encountered some issues with cross-origin support (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/363015174)