HN user

Drew_

668 karma

Check out althacker.news for HN with better typography and readability

Posts1
Comments291
View on HN
C Is Best (2025) 7 months ago

Safe languages usually want to abort if they encounter an out-of-memory (OOM) situation. SQLite is designed to recover gracefully from an OOM.

As someone who runs into this problem a lot, this is pretty cool! Does anyone know how they can recover from this in SQLite?

AI World Clocks 8 months ago

The website is regenerating the clocks every minute. When I opened it, Gemini 2.5 was the only working one. Now, they are all broken.

Also, your example is not showing the current time.

iPhone Pocket 8 months ago

Same story for me, but with the 15 Pro. The Pixel 7 phones were huge so I just switched to my first iPhone.

Strongly agree with this. Many authors and video creators have interesting, valuable things to say, but they don't exercise restraint or respect for their audience's time.

If something is overwhelmingly long, especially considering the subject matter, I just skip to the comments or throw it in an LLM to summarize.

I did the same, but I'm still holding on to Reddit with many restrictions:

- No mobile apps

- 10 min/day time limit on web

- Only browse 6 subreddits individually

- Filtering all posts below a certain karma level (depending on the subreddit)

- Collapsing all comments by default

This has completely changed my relationship with the platform for the better. I would quit it entirely, but unfortunately it's the best news source for a few of my hobbies.

Yup. The steps are definitely rooted in Christianity, but you can exercise them however you want. As you might imagine, most people suffering with addiction are not that religious (if at all) and the same thing goes in those groups.

There's a noticeable difference to me between exercising my thinking skills and feeling mentally exhausted versus consuming lots of media and feeling "hungover".

I get that exhausted feeling after any hard day at work. On the other hand, scrolling through reels for about 30 minutes gives me a headache. If I spend over an hour on YouTube, I also get a similar feeling, but only if that time was spent watching many different videos. If I watched one 2 hour video, I feel fine.

I'm looking around and I don't see anyone mentioning what I think is one of the biggest advantages of debugging: not having to recompile.

Even assuming print statements and debuggers are equally effective (they're not), debuggers are better simply because they are faster. With print statements, you might need to recompile a dozen times before you find whatever it is you're looking for. Even with quick builds this is infuriating and a ton of wasted time.

My time in college was 10 years ago, but absolutely none of that was true at the time (I personally seen pretty much everything you referred to as "not allowed"). I find it very hard to believe that much has changed since then.

What Was Quartz? 1 year ago

Ditto on loving Quartz and the chat app around 2015 I think it was. After Quartz was gone, I didn't really find what I was looking for until I discovered Axios.

OP described a group of families that accrued wealth over 3 generations "without inheriting any wealth". Assuming they weren't orphaned at birth, each generation definitely benefited from the fruits of the previous generation. Even without an overt handout like a trust fund, we still inherit wealth from our ancestors (eg: housing, health care, education, credit, social networks, etc). In this case, the "handout" would have been their upbringing. They feel "the system is working" because of this, but not everyone in the system has an ancestry like this.

Perhaps my friends and I are outliers, none of us inherited any wealth or were given trust funds or lump sums when hitting adulthood

all of us are better off than our parents at the same age and their parents are better off than their parents

These are conflicting statements. Your group are all beneficiaries of generational wealth by this description. Maybe it isn’t as overt as a trust fund, but you definitely inherited wealth and opportunity from your parents.

Iirc, this is because the network access required to control the speakers could be used to determine your location. So it is really the OS that is letting you know what you’re risking, not the app requesting too much.

The Future of Htmx 2 years ago

I'm certain patching a package is less work than rewriting a project. You should do whatever your heart wants though.