Hacker News: adfm

New comment by adfm in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

adfm — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:07:29 +0000

You are not alone. MBAs found APIs. Eternal September and all that.

New comment by adfm in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

adfm — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:14:25 +0000

This post feels misleading or possibly just nostalgic. The books referenced still exist because the people creating the technology are still writing them. They're also creating video and attending conferences (virtual or otherwise). That's not going away anytime soon. But perhaps what has changed is how the information is accessed.

Do you need to debug some ancient perl? Sure, ask Claude. You'll get an answer and move on. But if you're looking to learn how to use the next technology before it's mainstream, you'll go looking for that material. And it's there, where you expect it to be. Do you still watch network television or haunt Blockbuster? Times change and the market moves on. The interesting thing is, people like books and they're also available for those looking for a physical artifact to hold. Most of what's available is POD. Depending on the title, you're hitting the print button when you place the order.

New comment by adfm in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

adfm — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:09:21 +0000

PE? Private Equity is the slippery slope to Public Enshitification.

New comment by adfm in "Bliss (Photograph)"

adfm — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:47:55 +0000

The guy in this video tracked down the vineyard from MacOS Sonoma, which is just a few miles away.

https://youtu.be/nNuGetQ7f7s?si=5uAHFrwgnhuYapLT

New comment by adfm in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

adfm — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:47:23 +0000

MAYA has extensive NURBS tools, which means it can import and export CAD data natively. While Blender does support basic NURBS geometry, it lacks tooling to fully support it.

If the idea is to support Blender for use with “Digital Twins” or “World Models” then the first step is to start with accurate geometry. Anything less is slop.

New comment by adfm in "Anthropic Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

adfm — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:40:55 +0000

If this is the case, they’ll want to improve the NURBS support within Blender. You can get some amazing results with subd, but digital twins require accuracy and you get that with NURBS geometry. Fortunately, Blender supports it already, it just needs some attention to tooling.

New comment by adfm in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

adfm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:23:00 +0000

Here’s an article about The Sacramento Music Archive that’s also worth checking out.

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979518/sacramento-music-archive-...

Go out and support your local live music scene.

New comment by adfm in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

adfm — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:29:43 +0000

Wu-tang + run the jewels sounds like a hell of a show.

New comment by adfm in "A WebGPU implementation of Augmented Vertex Block Descent"

adfm — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:19:49 +0000

What's holding it back? Is there something to be done to make it less frustrating? What would make "The Hardware-Accelerated Web" a breeze to use for developers?

New comment by adfm in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

adfm — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:51:51 +0000

Reminds me of Relefin.

https://brieflands.com/journals/ijhrba/articles/92893

New comment by adfm in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

adfm — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:33:52 +0000

That’s OK. Most got ReST wrong, too.

New comment by adfm in "The sudden fall of Sora"

adfm — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:31:54 +0000

OpenAI is undergoing a significant strategic pivot toward developing world models.

HyperCard Changed Everything [video]

adfm — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:27:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHkNToXga8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229286

Points: 1

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New comment by adfm in "We Will Not Be Divided"

adfm — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 16:46:35 +0000

You don’t need a union to quiet quit or throw a shoe.

New comment by adfm in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

adfm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:13:06 +0000

It seems strange to talk of attribution without talking about the founders.

New comment by adfm in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

adfm — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:29:00 +0000

You can even spend time and money to acquire a patent and it still doesn’t guarantee profit. It’s called the Miura-ori even though it was patented decades earlier. In this case, the patent acts as a record emphasizing that it’s all been done before.

New comment by adfm in "14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight"

adfm — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:44:48 +0000

Don't get hug up on "invented". Ruth Asawa registered for (1956) and received US patent 185,504 on June 16, 1959 at the suggestion of her professor, Buckminster Fuller.

https://theartian.com/ruth-asawa-patent-collaboration/

New comment by adfm in "Jeffrey Epstein's Money Mingled with Silicon Valley Startups"

adfm — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:32:17 +0000

How about the Iran-Contra connections? The crack epidemic ravaging Baltimore in The Wire has everything to do with Jeffrey Epstein. Ever wonder how he bought that island of his?

https://forum.agora-dialogue.com/2025/12/19/epstein-israel-a...

https://youtube.com/shorts/Z3gHFmdYZ_E?si=KPtbGy9j_whzKX_n

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB2/index.html

Confidential computing and trusted execution within the agentic ecosystem

adfm — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:58:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYGWJjYNEIt3zCGboiDjsNwHn3t2BTLAJ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46893695

Points: 1

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New comment by adfm in "Y Combinator website no longer lists Canada as a country it invests in"

adfm — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:44:15 +0000

Sounds like an opportunity for co-working lab spaces.