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dhbradshaw

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Working on 0tm8.com: gardening automation for coders
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dhbradshaw··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
Now that this is created and word is out I think it will be gamed. I'd like to have a way to have it only attend to recommendations up to say now as a defense.
dhbradshaw··on Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026
I think as a manufacturer I'd be less worried about competition than about vertical integration by large players.

It makes sense to de-risk your supply chain and at this point memory is a key supply risk.

dhbradshaw··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
These are both big motivations but not the only ones.

But there's still play. There's still curiosity. And there's still the drive to understand something for yourself.

dhbradshaw··on The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
It might be a reference to this: https://xkcd.com/793/
dhbradshaw··on The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
I've been using rust since 2017 and still code in it professionally and am a fan.

Moonbit is pretty cool too so I thought I'd mention it for other people who like cool things.

dhbradshaw··on The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
I'd argue for moonbit -- faster compile times, almost as fast, smaller wasm artifacts and like lean can have proof of correctness built in.
dhbradshaw··on LLMs reward expertise
I think this is only a partial answer but I've been surprised by how familiar dev leads become with the app even if they are not in the code.

They tend to stick around and they engage in the problem solving on a higher level and develop a detailed picture of how the app does and should behave. So at least that part of the expertise may come from working with an LLM to solve problems.

dhbradshaw··on Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge
The generated latex pdf!
dhbradshaw··on If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know
I think evals are the key here. If your fable system fails them, it's a bad system for your use case. If not, compare cost with other systems that also succeed.
dhbradshaw··on Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods
To me this doesn't seem like a disaster but just the kind of thing that happens as you role out a service and expose it to new challenges.

Presumably they haven't had the chance to do a lot of flood training but now they have that chance.

The huge advantage they have over people in general is that ideally if they figure this out then it will stay figured out. Then they can slowly role out and watch for the next hitches from new situations.

dhbradshaw··on Show HN: Tiny TUI for disk usage exploration
I hadn't even thought about these -- inspecting and deleting from the TUI makes a lot of sense.
dhbradshaw··on Show HN: Tiny TUI for disk usage exploration
Thank you!

Good question. I haven't done any work yet to make this fast so it might not be too quick...

dhbradshaw··on Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game
My kids and I have been playing this for about 20 years. It's worked on Linux, Mac and Windows and has never stopped working.

In the meantime so many other favorite games have disappeared or become obsolete.

There's no absolute reason great games can't be as immortal as chess. Maybe Wesnoth can be.

dhbradshaw··on Show HN: Tiny TUI for disk usage exploration
A couple of months back I was looking for a fun quick project and also was having space issues on my Mac.

So github copilot and I wrote a little disk usage exploration tool in rust with very few dependencies.

It's called "syz" and I pronounce it "size" since it's all about exploring disk usage and figuring out what to trim.

Someone I respect started using it and reached out saying he liked it so I figured I'd dust it off and share it here!

After `cargo install syz`, use the `syz` command to enter the interactive cli starting at the current directory. Then use arrow keys to navigate directories and compare their recursive sizes.

dhbradshaw··on Gemma 4 on iPhone
My son just started using 2B on his Android. I mentioned that it was an impressively compact model and next thing I knew he had figured out how to use it on his inexpensive 2024 Motorolla and was using it to practice reading and writing in foreign languages.
dhbradshaw··on Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)
Don't love touchscreens that much.

But I did love my Toshiba Satellite. It was like writing on paper!

Down with capacitive screens and long live Active Digitizers!

dhbradshaw··on My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix
Had a broken key on my m2 air that I couldn't easily fix. Took it to an Apple store and a tech worked on it for a bit and came back with it fixed.

No charge. I was pretty grateful!

dhbradshaw··on Overcoming the friendship recession
- making new friends does take a massive amount of time

I think the solution to this is to enjoy the journey. There's not a line that someone needs to cross before you can enjoy spending time with them. Just reach out and learn and enjoy people from the beginning.

dhbradshaw··on Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state
I really like this passage:

>It is always the case that there are benefits available from relinquishing core civil liberties: allowing infringements on free speech may reduce false claims and hateful ideas; allowing searches and seizures without warrants will likely help the police catch more criminals, and do so more quickly; giving up privacy may, in fact, enhance security.

> But the core premise of the West generally, and the U.S. in particular, is that those trade-offs are never worthwhile. Americans still all learn and are taught to admire the iconic (if not apocryphal) 1775 words of Patrick Henry, which came to define the core ethos of the Revolutionary War and American Founding: “Give me liberty or give me death.” It is hard to express in more definitive terms on which side of that liberty-versus-security trade-off the U.S. was intended to fall.

dhbradshaw··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)
I've been building a flutter django app around sharing and using checklists.

I use it myself by iterating on checklists and then tracking my usage of them and recently added orgs for privately shared checklists.

So it's easy to create an org around a shared task and then create a run through that task and track.

https://checkipe.com

dhbradshaw··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)
I've been working on a task tracking app called Checkipe (https://checkipe.com but right now it's invite only for me and family members).

It's been fun to use it as I bring it to life.

A Django backend and flutter front end makes for a pretty powerful and adaptable pair.

dhbradshaw··on The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
Often on HN the comments are a better read than the original article.

This time the article is so good -- clear, funny, succinct, accurate -- that it's a better read than the comments.

dhbradshaw··on Project Euler
Project Euler was what I used to get comfortable with my two main languages -- first python and then rust.

I loved to solve it and then look through all the different solutions and find pretty ideas and idioms.

dhbradshaw··on Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move
Sounds like we need either a viable alternative or a next thing.

The next thing will probably be AR glasses and we could use some alternatives to Meta and Google and Apple.

dhbradshaw··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)
Gardening automation :-D
dhbradshaw··on The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust
If a friend told me they liked Rust but didn't like the borrow checker, I'd probably point them to Gleam and Moonbit, which both seem awesome in their own niches.

Both have rust-like flavor and neither has a borrow checker.

dhbradshaw··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
SEEKING WORK Huntsville AL USA, remote work preferred

Get more done, better, and in less time.

I help companies automate critical workflows, helping them accomplish their work more quickly, reliably, enjoyably, and correctly.

All the most useful techniques are on the table including task analysis and evaluation, traditional coding, and ai.

dhbradshaw@gmail.com

dhbradshaw··on Domains I Love
One of my favorites (only great if you read the site contents):

https://how.rl.works

dhbradshaw··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)
SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | U.S. or Canada (Located in the Huntsville AL area.)

Automate business processes. Get more done, more accurately, faster, and less painfully.

PhD in laser physics / quantum optics, startup veteran, 15 years of experience in automating systems from laser control using real time video analysis to email and spreadsheet ingestion and routing.

https://github.com/dhbradshaw

Preferred tools: user interviews, systems analysis, documentation, rust, python, typescript, postgres, aws, local llms, evals and testing.

Free consultation, satisfaction guaranteed.

Reach out to dhbradshaw at gmail!

dhbradshaw··on Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers
Great for space
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