Hacker News: aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=aaronsnoswellHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:29:14 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "The Hoare Cube"]]>Downvotes - explain why?

]]>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 00:52:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323696aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323696https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42323696<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Do you need Redis? PostgreSQL does queuing, locking, and pub/sub"]]>Answer: No.

]]>Mon, 04 Nov 2024 03:13:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42038098aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42038098https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42038098<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Confocal microscopy"]]>Not sure why this article made it to front page, but fwiw, I used to work as a research engineer in a role where using a confocal microscope in clinical trial settings was a regular part of my job. AMA :D

]]>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:54:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39100071aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39100071https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39100071<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "A Community in Crisis: ChatGPT Token Theft Epidemic in Unity1Week Games"]]>+1 I'm also confused about this post. What does 'steal their tokens' mean in this context?

]]>Wed, 29 Mar 2023 22:59:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365087aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365087https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35365087<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)"]]>FFS. I've been fighting uphill this past 5 years to get my colleagues, friends, and family onto Signal. This single decision will tank any hope I have of keeping them there. Literally the only reason I'm able to convince non-privacy advocate types to switch to Signal is because it is a drop-in replacement for their existing SMS application.

This decision is idiotic and will cause a mass migration off the platform. Why not take a better approach and work on a better UX to make it clearer when a message thread is secure or not?

]]>Wed, 12 Oct 2022 23:41:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185268aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185268https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33185268<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "America has a drinking problem"]]>[Australia]: "Hold my beer"

]]>Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:38:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362853aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362853https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362853<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them"]]>Haven't seen any root-level comments asking, so I'll throw this out there: Are there any good alternatives to YouTube?

]]>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:01:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25155923aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25155923https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25155923<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?"]]>I've been making tabletop game to enter into competitions (there are lots running!) and my significant other has been experimenting with making home-made ice-cream and sorbet :)

]]>Thu, 14 May 2020 23:17:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186814aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186814https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23186814<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Shirt Without Stripes"]]>Brilliant :)

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 00:44:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930619aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930619https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930619<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Godot 3.2"]]>This is an intentional design decision in the language - not having lambda functions / functions as first-class citizens makes the code easier to optimize internally.

]]>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:22:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186579aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22186579<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "GitRoyalty – First OSS Paywall"]]>This is a very interesting idea and looks like a promising execution - I may try this with one of my repos. I have a question: it seems the only license options are IP-locked. What if a developer wants to issue non-IP locked licenses to paying users? This is a feature I would consider enabling - is that something you will support in the future?

]]>Tue, 05 Nov 2019 05:04:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21449784aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21449784https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21449784<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Show HN: We track Reddit, Google trends, Twitter, etc. to find trending topics"]]>Hi! Thanks for sharing. I would love to know what an 'Exponential+ Trend' is. It's no clear from the landing page and I can't find any links to more information about this. Congrats!

]]>Wed, 07 Aug 2019 21:56:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20639566aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20639566https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20639566<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Show HN: I taught my little brother JS, and he made this videogame in a week"]]>Amazing success story! The game is really fun! You should challenge him to add mobile support via accelerator!

]]>Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:03:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870634aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870634https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870634<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Krisp.ai – Mute background noise during your calls"]]>I've read the front page and FAQ section but I'm still not 100% clear what this product is. Is it an active noise cancelling app that listens to your environment around the laptop and cancels noise out (like Bose QC25/35 headphones)? Serious comment - I think you need to explain this better on your site.

]]>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:56:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18464260aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18464260https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18464260<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Keras vs PyTorch"]]>Completely agree with the OP. Had the experience of learning TF first, then switching to PyTorch. Cannot recommend enough.

]]>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:43:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17415706aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17415706https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17415706<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "The AI Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet"]]>Can someone with more karma modify the title to be less click-bait-ey?

]]>Thu, 19 Apr 2018 23:46:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881133aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881133https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16881133<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Ask HN: Best introductory video courses on ML and Deep Learning?"]]>If you're interested in learning Reinforcement Learning, then I can't recommend David Silver's lecture series highly enough. Youtube videos and slides are available for the entire thing. http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Silver/web/Teaching.html

]]>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 11:38:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139197aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139197https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16139197<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"]]>Haha. There should be an entry there for 'Oh shit - I just pushed our private keys to the public github repo'.

]]>Mon, 18 Dec 2017 21:49:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15955819aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15955819https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15955819<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "AT&T Phones Adding Unknown Recipients from Different Area Code to Group Texts"]]>Possibly related anecdote; A few years ago I purchased a new sim card for my phone with a large Australian mobile carrier. After popping the new card in, I discovered ~10 real human being contacts on the sim that I had never heard of before (not tech support or business, carrier numbers etc.). They had names and everything. Contacted a few of them and couldn't figure out what the common factor was. I lodged a complaint with the carrier and got a personalized letter and call back from their state manager. No explanation why though. Still baffles me today. Do sim cards get re-used?

]]>Thu, 02 Nov 2017 00:59:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606961aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606961https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606961<![CDATA[New comment by aaronsnoswell in "Fooling Neural Networks in the Physical World with 3D Adversarial Objects"]]>A very interesting result with big implications for the future AI arms race :) Congratulations and thanks for sharing!

]]>Wed, 01 Nov 2017 23:53:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606609aaronsnoswellhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606609https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15606609