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trwhite··on Show HN: Ledge.sh – Runnable Markdown Notes
I can foresee my team using this for documenting our local tooling. I’m wondering also if it could store a login token to make authenticated requests with, to create sales handovers from.
trwhite··on My Recent Woodworking Projects
Thank you! Reading your comment made my day
trwhite··on First Principles Thinking
I'm really struggling to see how to make architectural decisions with an agent. It's great when you're at a total loss for ideas, but when you already have some of the pieces it ultimately wants to drive all of the thinking and takes over. Then it just feels like you're deferring your experienced judgement. I've seen colleagues lose the ability to reason any more without asking the agent to do it for them, because they inherently don't see the point if the agent is going to end up doing the whole piece (and probably auditing/overruling anything they came up with on their own).
trwhite··on Abandoning Scientific Linux Was a Mistake
Any proof?
trwhite··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
I'm working on "See My Spending" - a web app that gives you better insight into where your money's going. It provides real, actionable insights without the use of generative AI. Currently preparing for a launch for UK customers only
trwhite··on Splash-free urinals (2025)
No defecation allowed
trwhite··on MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
The example video just looks like the highly produced art (TV, commercials, games) other people have created. I find it impossible to believe this wasn't trained on other people's work, and there is no protection for it. Terribly sad. A lack of original thinking is coming.
trwhite··on The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting
So much for the "free speech" Vance hounded us Europeans with. All lies, of course.
trwhite··on Want your images back? That'll be $5
Or maybe... you know... read
trwhite··on How we made hit video game Prince of Persia
Funny to see this; I read the first ~100 pages of the Stripe Press book last night and am highly enjoying it.
trwhite··on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
It seems to be a trend of HN lately.

Downvote me into oblivion or whatever: It's not relevant to me in the slightest whether you built it in Rust or not, or even Python, Go, Java, Node, PHP etc. There is lots of great and terrible, fast and slow software written in each. OP might only have 3 months of programming experience for all I know.

Why is "made with Rust" any more relevant than "made with Go" to an end user of a software product? It just doesn't matter.

trwhite··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
The DevOps team at my company wants to hire a replacement for a very talented engineer. They’ve been interviewing candidates. The board got wind of it and someone not in their team decided they needed an AI Engineer, which is absolutely not what they want. So to release the funds they have been forced to change the job description and go after a different type of role altogether. It’s complete nonsense.
trwhite··on Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO
https://archive.ph/oqVDm
trwhite··on Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb
https://archive.ph/IKojW
trwhite··on Let's talk about LLMs
A well researched and written piece
trwhite··on France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain
When is it correct to use “tonnes” or “tons”?
trwhite··on Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
@dang What’s Hacker News’ official stance on this?
trwhite··on Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
I’m reading that paragraph now and fail to see anything about a relationship with huggingface or the user responsible for copying the data.
trwhite··on Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m
Hello. I didn’t consent to any of my HN comments being used in this way. Please kindly remove them.
trwhite··on Writing code is cheap now
When did we ever measure the value of code by quantity, not quality? The author is misguided.
trwhite··on The Human Root of Trust – public domain framework for agent accountability
Care to elaborate? Your comment is unhelpful and unkind.
trwhite··on Raising money fucked me up
> It's much more comfortable to be the person that "could be X" than to be the person that tries to actually do it.

It’s much more impressive to say you have done something than to say you’re going to do it.

A friend of mine has all these failed hobbies he tells everyone he’s going to do, then gives up on. I wait a few months before telling people I’m doing something so I’m fairly confident it’s something I will carry on.

trwhite··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
http://notoriousbfg.com
trwhite··on A set of Idiomatic prod-grade katas for experienced devs transitioning to Go
I’ve been writing Go for nearly 4 years and work on a team with senior Go engineers. Concurrency is the language feature people seem to talk about most when talking about Go, and yet we use it so rarely; usually it’s just a second pass optimisation rather than something thought about from the start.
trwhite··on Always bet on text (2014)
Sadly this post can’t be saved to Readwise because it triggers the captcha check
trwhite··on Quicksort explained IKEA-style
> Choosing the dividing element at random is a good strategy to avoid bad worst-case runtime.

Please can someone explain what’s meant by “bad worse-case runtime”?

trwhite··on Jailhouse confessions of a teen hacker
Do you think he'd have felt remorse if he wasn't caught?
trwhite··on Jailhouse confessions of a teen hacker
That “I’m glad I lived my life as I lived it” line (or something to that effect) you hear criminals like these say is sickening. They acknowledge what they did was bad and express no remorse for the clear destruction they caused to other people’s lives. It’s cowardly and he should serve much longer in prison.
trwhite··on Show HN: ggc – A terminal-based Git CLI written in Go
I’m not sure I see from your example why? You’d expect any git client to have branch.
trwhite··on Fcrand (Go language): drop-in replacement for crypto/rand, up to 10x faster
Thanks for the explanation
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