Hacker News: Dusseldorf

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 On page 6, part of the original text has a footnote apologizing to readers far in the future for outdated speculations, then mentions that future readers "may even be an artificial intelligence rather than a human, how wonderful!"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

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:49:54 +0000

Because without this early resistance, there wouldn't even be vague promises of hobbyist/student exemptions. I think it's important to make community objection to the entire idea known loud and clear, especially when changes like these are absolutely ratcheting.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "How did Joann Fabrics die while Best Buy survived? It wasn't Amazon"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:30:45 +0000

I mean, you're up there positing that a company is definitely failing because their app is terrible. Accusing others of constructing a reality based on their own principles is a bit of glass house stone throwing, no? Practically every company with an app that isn't a tech company has a terrible app.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:00:48 +0000

I finally got frustrated enough to go in and manually increase the default scrollbar size in Firefox. Slim scrollbars are awful both to look at and to use. I'm working with an ultrawide monitor here, please give me more than 0-3 pixels of scrollbar!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Japan's Dododo Land, the most irritating place on Earth"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:41:03 +0000

In the US we also use the phrase "type A" to describe someone who is very fastidious or anal-retentive, but I've never known it to be related to blood type. Wonder if it shares roots?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

Dusseldorf — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:14:57 +0000

Except that in the legal sense, "is user adult" flips from false to true overnight, and there isn't an easy way to account for that in any model that doesn't include verified ID. Same reason many liquor stores ID anyone who looks younger than 40.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:19:00 +0000

Until those switches come in the crosshairs of someone's KPIs, and then magically they get flipped in whatever direction makes the engagement line go up. Unfortunately we live in a world where all of these companies have done this exact thing, over and over again. These headlines aren't ragebait, they're prescient.