Hacker News: a2800276

New comment by a2800276 in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

a2800276 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:56:47 +0000

More to the point, if the police or whoever shoot someone in self defence, that someone is "killed". If I, or the police shoot someone for fun, it's "murder". In both cases the victim is "killed"

New comment by a2800276 in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

a2800276 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:31:31 +0000

Yes, I mistyped, Freudian slip. And I can't edit or delete anymore. I'm terribly sorry.

New comment by a2800276 in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

a2800276 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:48:50 +0000

Very sad news to hear. People of his caliber are sorely needed in the community. My condolences to everyone close to fefe.

New comment by a2800276 in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

a2800276 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:22:10 +0000

Toning down aggressive phrasing is not "doing a 180", calling the change from "only losers left at GitHub" to "the engineering excellence has left" lying seems disingenuous.

New comment by a2800276 in "Europe to decide if 6 GHz is shared between Wi-Fi and cellular networks"

a2800276 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:32:26 +0000

Also, most people are aware that "Europe" the continent is unlikely to make such decisions, so it's pretty obvious what's meant by context.

New comment by a2800276 in "Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (2006)"

a2800276 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:45:59 +0000

Feels like the "demonstrated it's no longer necessary to solve sudokus" statement may have been a joke :)

New comment by a2800276 in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

a2800276 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 11:40:43 +0000

Unfortunately no Linux, Windows or even HTML targets?

New comment by a2800276 in "Mock – An API creation and testing utility: Examples"

a2800276 — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 12:49:32 +0000

Wonderful little tool! Something similar has been swirling aronud my head for a while. Thank you for sharing, it looks very useful.

New comment by a2800276 in "Antlr-Ng Parser Generator"

a2800276 — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:02:21 +0000

I get the impression that someone doesn't like Java and used chat gpt to create a one-to-one typescript port.

I dislike Java as much as the next guy, but I believe the true value of tools (and this tool in particular) is in the embedded wisdom and experience of their creators/Terrence Parr. Just generating a functionally equivalent port doesn't add much value.

That said, that's just a first impression, I have no idea what motivated this fork

New comment by a2800276 in "Incapacitating Google Tag Manager (2022)"

a2800276 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:43:24 +0000

I was tasked with auditing third party scripts at a client a couple of years ago, the marketing people where unable to explain wtf tag manager does concretely without resorting to ‚it tracks campaign engagement´ mumbo jumbo, but were adamant they they can’t live without it.

New comment by a2800276 in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

a2800276 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:59:44 +0000

Considering they handle and transport a lot of money, it's safe to assume they don't meet to make back of the envelope estimations concerning weight and volume.

New comment by a2800276 in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

a2800276 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:58:10 +0000

Fun fact, people who work at the Fed just print their salary at the end of the month.

New comment by a2800276 in "MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery"

a2800276 — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:51:27 +0000

This would be a coherent argument if the paper was submitted by an email address. Instead the paper was submitted by a person. The email address serves to identify the person. Only the person can redact the paper.

New comment by a2800276 in "The Lost Art of Logarithms"

a2800276 — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 07:46:17 +0000

Could you give a concrete example concerning what sort of notation caused you difficulty in the past? Asking because it seems odd to me that you feel you need to learn „all“ the notation to get started.

Starting in elementary school you slowly build up topics, mathematical intuition and notation more or less in unity. E.g. starting with whole numbers, plus and minus signs before multiplication, then fractions and decimal notation. By the end of high school you may have reached integrals and matrices to work with concepts from calculus and linear algebra…

It makes little sense to confront people with notation before the corresponding concepts are being taught. So it feels like you may have a different perspective on notation as a layperson that are no longer obvious to more advanced learners.

New comment by a2800276 in "Rhombus Language"

a2800276 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:09:18 +0000

Exactly, Typescript doesn't stop working because of random runtime errors, it stops working because you didn't update the toolchain tangle last Thursday and then some configuration file got out of whack with the tsc defaults ;-)

New comment by a2800276 in "All Kindles can now be jailbroken"

a2800276 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:33:54 +0000

Not to mention you're not blowing money up Bezo's botoxed arse.

New comment by a2800276 in "Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]"

a2800276 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 08:57:09 +0000

If it was a movie with Kevin Costner how can you question it's veracity!?

New comment by a2800276 in "Dual-Link QR Code Generator"

a2800276 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 22:31:45 +0000

This is interesting and sets off a bunch of ideas. It might be fun to generate a printed version that can differently depending on how it's lit, either red/green or tricks with pwm'ing LEDs...

New comment by a2800276 in "Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos"

a2800276 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:43:08 +0000

How happy are you with the results?The execution is great, but I feel the idea didn't really validate well. Every single sample ended up with pictures like this: (https://hotel.trvcdn.com/380/de/800024805/700034633/nh-colle...). While I'm impressed at how accurately you can detect chairs with wheels, that doesn't seem to be an indicator of an ergonomic workspace. Quite frankly, I would have preferred (and been fine with) sitting on the bed with my laptop in every hotel I clicked on.

New comment by a2800276 in "Show HN: Using YOLO to Detect Office Chairs in 40M Hotel Photos"

a2800276 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 07:32:34 +0000

Ok, I'll bite: why have you been looking for ways to identify the make and model of hotel chairs?