Hacker News: Hitton

New comment by Hitton in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

Hitton — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:34:10 +0000

I see. It didn't make sense to me but I just found that Vultr has snapshots, which is probably what you are using.

New comment by Hitton in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

Hitton — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:13:13 +0000

Can you explain more about the vm-start/vm-stop? I don't understand why you start/halt the VM and wait for Tailscale, you could just keep it running.

New comment by Hitton in "Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world"

Hitton — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 12:53:43 +0000

Viewing this in Firefox on Linux I see the outline of the travels before the map loads, then the map loads over it and I can't see it anymore.

New comment by Hitton in "Show HN: Aura – Like robots.txt, but for AI actions"

Hitton — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:00:47 +0000

Hm, I don't see much reason to use it unless the website in question is paid. Web today is run on ad revenue and not only won't the site extract any revenue from the agent, it even won't look as a person for ad purposes.

New comment by Hitton in "Copying is the way design works (2020)"

Hitton — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:42:31 +0000

Meanwhile Steve Jobs: "We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

New comment by Hitton in "More Americans are searching online about moving to Canada. But will they?"

Hitton — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 00:53:57 +0000

Canada is bigger than USA.

New comment by Hitton in "Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free"

Hitton — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:26:49 +0000

It would be ludicrous to say that justice won, but I'm glad he is finally free.

New comment by Hitton in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now"

Hitton — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:45:01 +0000

Just not being available in app stores would effectively stop its usage.

New comment by Hitton in "Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers"

Hitton — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:18:53 +0000

Thanks, it beggars belief that they could publish the article without such substantial piece of information.

New comment by Hitton in "Elsevier embeds a hash in the PDF metadata that is unique for each download (2022)"

Hitton — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 09:11:09 +0000

>paid peer review

What? Elsevier doesn't pay reviewers either.

New comment by Hitton in "Experimental use of pig liver to filter blood offers hope for patients"

Hitton — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:07:05 +0000

Liver donation in particular is easy, because they can take just half of it and it will grow back.

New comment by Hitton in ""Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint"

Hitton — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 11:03:19 +0000

an order to disable https://annas-archive.org through a DNS block was issued to Italian ISPs

Rather toothless. No experienced user is using their ISP's DNS anyway.

New comment by Hitton in "Two pharmacists figured out that oral phenylephrine doesn't work"

Hitton — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:27:58 +0000

>The most cited study found that an oral dose of phenylephrine had an absorption rate of 38 percent of an oral dose of phenylephrine, ...

That's not very much.

New comment by Hitton in "Show HN: My related-posts finder script (with LLM and GPT4 enhancement)"

Hitton — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 11:13:41 +0000

Cool, but the ultimate result - the related articles in that post - is not great. Suggested articles have barely anything to do with the topic. I think there should be minimal threshold (probably found empirically) for similarity and if no article reaches it, just don't show any.

New comment by Hitton in "Toxic comments are associated with reduced volunteer activity on Wikipedia"

Hitton — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 14:13:14 +0000

>For instance, the level of conflict on discussion pages, as assessed by raters, has been shown to negatively correlate with the quality of the corresponding Wikipedia articles.

An alternative explanation is that "toxic comments" protect wikipedia from low quality content, acting as defense mechanism against bad editors. So without better study which tries to analyze if the critique (regardless of toxicity) is justified, it's absolutely useless to make any conclusions from the article.

New comment by Hitton in "Stripe live dashboard"

Hitton — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:53:18 +0000

I'm not sure how believable are those numbers. Businesses having their best day ever on stripe being exactly 9001 (It's over 9000!) for quite some time now seems rather suspicious.

New comment by Hitton in "LLMs cannot find reasoning errors, but can correct them"

Hitton — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 04:42:55 +0000

They would fix a "mistake" even if they were given location where there is none.

New comment by Hitton in "WeWork Goes Bankrupt"

Hitton — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:32:44 +0000

Interesting. That might be the best explanation of SoftBank being previously bullish on WeWork investment.

New comment by Hitton in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail 48 1/2 year anniversary in theaters December"

Hitton — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 15:28:25 +0000

Could you ask your wife if there is also some deeper meaning to "My hovercraft is full of eels"?

New comment by Hitton in "Photo Tampering Throughout History [pdf]"

Hitton — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 08:06:41 +0000

Afaik the photos weren't altered, it was just posing with paper cutouts.