Hacker News: Dusseldorf

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:52:29 +0000

or stay, and be subtly bad enough at your job to negatively affect the progress of the enterprise.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The worst job interview I ever had"

Dusseldorf — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:49:52 +0000

Also a great way for candidates to filter out employers who play bizarre mind games and think personal trick questions are appropriate in an interview.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Language Models Need Sleep"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:44:01 +0000

Was it anthropomorphizing computers when they named "memory"? Seems to me like it's more analogizing for the sake of easy understanding. Sure, it's not literally the same exact mechanism, but it's certainly modeled after the biological concept.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:13:22 +0000

Finally, a cromulent argument to nuke the whales!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

Dusseldorf — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:19:11 +0000

"Print Error Detected"?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:01:29 +0000

They used that argument for years to avoid doing WoW Classic, and then it was wildly successful when they finally did. Seems to me like the inability to consider how they could work this into their ecosystem is yet another indicator of how far they've fallen since the golden era.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:55:38 +0000

It took me 5 rereads before I properly read "should" instead of "would", which totally flips the implication!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Introduction to Computer Music (2009) [pdf]"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:17:37 +0000

Amusing to see how attitudes toward AI change over time. On page 6, part of the original text has a footnote apologizing to readers far in the future for outdated speculations, then mentions that future readers "may even be an artificial intelligence rather than a human, how wonderful!"

But just a bit before that in the foreword written in the present day, bars AI scrapers from reading or referencing the materials under any circumstances!

Anyway, this seems fantastic and I'll definitely be spending some time diving in.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:57:29 +0000

But unfortunately gambling ads are also to the US what pharmaceutical ads are to the US.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:48:09 +0000

Advertised or not, you can take my breaded mosquitos from my cold, dead hands!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:30:48 +0000

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but have you considered that you might need to improve your putting/unplugging habits? I used to have connectors and cords break after around that much time. Around 2018 or so I bought a new set of chargers and decent quality cloth sheathed cables. Because all my cords were new, I was much more diligent about carefully plugging and unplugging (no mashing the port, no flexing across the short axis, no yanking by the cord) and eventually a habit formed. Not a single one of those cords, nor any of the ports on my phones, have broken since then. Even the daily use ones next to my bed!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:08:57 +0000

> the investments made in clean tech today will last decades.

As, I suspect, will the damage to the civil service and the scientific community.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:12:58 +0000

> LLM-s are not learning on the fly, but I suspect they do log the conversations, their responses and could also deduce from further interaction if a particular response was satisfactory to the user.

Seems like this is hard to reliably do across the board. Sometimes when I stop interacting it's because it nailed the solution, and sometimes it's because it went so poorly that I opted to bin it and do it myself. Maybe all of the mid conversation planning and feedback is enough though.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:07:46 +0000

There have been several projects lately attempting to create running context/memory, and Claude Code also has some concept of continuous conversational memory, but all if these are bolted at inference time, there's still no concept of conversations feeding back into base model training/weights on the fly.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:31:57 +0000

Again, what law was broken here? By anyone in the car? I'm struggling to understand how this wasn't outright execution.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:09:43 +0000

I'm a little nervous about this affecting it negatively. Back when Buffy and Firefly were on the air, they felt so unique due to the dialogue style. But now that'll just seem like every single generic superhero movie. Hopefully it can buck that feeling somehow.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:06:35 +0000

Just bad imo. No reason to do that when there are many talented voice actors out there who will do just fine.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:03:35 +0000

I never got the impression there was much momentum for any more sequels anyway, Serenity felt like the bone they were willing to throw. This was a time before show revivals (rather than remakes/reboots e.g. BSG) were common, it was very surprising when they did it for Family Guy.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

Dusseldorf — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:34:44 +0000

You can't; OP was making a list of GrapheneOS wants without realizing they were mostly just describing how GOS works. That bit was the only miss.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:39:26 +0000

Some people think that if their toddler misses naptime by 5 minutes it will be a disaster. Fairly sure it's just a vocal minority kind of thing. Totally with you though, our kids never seem to notice.