Hacker News: WolfCop

Microsoft posts a bad AI remake of the Git flow diagram

WolfCop — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:11:52 +0000

Microsoft learning site (look under “Git flow”: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/introduction-to-github/3-components-of-github-flow

Original: https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47043915

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by WolfCop in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

WolfCop — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:22:31 +0000

> In the case of Maduro, the operation cost around $300 million so a $400,000 payout isn’t providing a financial incentive.

It is if you are spending someone else’s $300 million, and getting the $400,000 yourself.

New comment by WolfCop in "More dynamic cronjobs"

WolfCop — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:12:01 +0000

Does anyone maintain a programmatically accessible list of holidays for their company? Similar to the HOLIDAYS.txt in the article, but it would allow for things like “don’t run this the day before or during a company holiday.”

I work at a company with different holidays in certain countries, which would complicate things, and require something more structured than a list of dates. But having that accessible could be useful.

Has anyone tackled that, or come across a solution?

New comment by WolfCop in "Programming vehicles in games"

WolfCop — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:31:06 +0000

There was a good GDC talk about the car physics in Rocket League: https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1024972/It-IS-Rocket-Science-T...

Disclaimer: I worked on Rocket League, but not on the game client.

New comment by WolfCop in "Go Data Structures (2009)"

WolfCop — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:42:50 +0000

(2009)

New comment by WolfCop in "Go Is a Well-Designed Language"

WolfCop — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 07:56:05 +0000

Streaming data, there was no error but also no new data available.

New comment by WolfCop in "No Calls"

WolfCop — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 18:52:02 +0000

I can’t recall ever seeing the contraction “who’re” before. For obvious reasons I suppose.

New comment by WolfCop in "Decoding the telephony signals in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'"

WolfCop — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 20:39:57 +0000

It was named after a man called Pink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Anderson

New comment by WolfCop in "Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator"

WolfCop — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:34:45 +0000

Looks cool, but getting an error in Safari after clicking "Deal with it!".

Unhandled Promise Rejection: Error: Unsupported MIME type: application/xml

On this line:

Q = await getGlassesImages(p, D, O);

This is a 2020 M1, Safari 17.6.

New comment by WolfCop in "My business card runs Linux and Ultrix (2022)"

WolfCop — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 02:24:05 +0000

Does it run Doom?

New comment by WolfCop in "Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users"

WolfCop — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 12:11:29 +0000

I might be missing it, but I don’t see a link to that info from Apple in the article.

But I did just find this, which confirms what you’re saying. https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

New comment by WolfCop in "Apple's new AI leaves out more than 90% of current iPhone users"

WolfCop — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:55:29 +0000

Where’s the source of this info? I can’t find it in the article.

New comment by WolfCop in "The Great American Poisoning"

WolfCop — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 17:22:50 +0000

That’s not a monkey.

New comment by WolfCop in "The purge of German science in 1933"

WolfCop — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 22:51:00 +0000

Yes, “very unfortunate”.

New comment by WolfCop in "Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS"

WolfCop — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:41:40 +0000

> Apple said one of the reasons they terminated our developer account only a few weeks after approving it was because we publicly criticized their proposed DMA compliance plan.

Apple Terminated Epic's Developer Account

WolfCop — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:39:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39617729

Points: 159

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Our oldest microbial ancestors were way ahead of their time

WolfCop — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 04:02:20 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/our-oldest-microbial-ancestors-were-way-ahead-of-their-time/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39237443

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by WolfCop in "German Court Fines Security Researcher for Reporting Company's Vulnerabilities"

WolfCop — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:27:59 +0000

If white hats aren't welcome, black hats will visit.

Air purifiers aren't enough to clean your home from wildfire smoke

WolfCop — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 15:25:31 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/air-purifiers-arent-enough-to-clean-your-home-from-wildfire-smoke/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37890513

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by WolfCop in "Study: ChatGPT outperforms physicians in quality, empathetic answers to patients"

WolfCop — Sat, 29 Apr 2023 15:23:48 +0000

From the paper:

> ...the original full text of the question was put into a fresh chatbot session, in which the session was free of prior questions asked that could bias the results (version GPT-3.5, OpenAI), and the chatbot response was saved.

It seems like they just pasted the question in. For those who have asked it for medical advice, how did you frame your questions? Is there a prompt that will help ChatGPT get into a mode where it knows it is to provide medical advice? As an example, should it be prompted to ask follow up questions if it is uncertain?