Hacker News: aduwah

New comment by aduwah in "Sites in ChatGPT"

aduwah — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:23:01 +0000

In a corporate environment the ability to code does not substitute a decent software engineer.

New comment by aduwah in "Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits"

aduwah — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:31:19 +0000

You being downvoted is just sad

New comment by aduwah in "Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy"

aduwah — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:50:01 +0000

I find that I am having a different personality in each (3) languages I speak, especially in context in a different country. When I switch back to my original language to speak to someone in said country my habits I do in my original country come back for the part and then I revert back. Feels a bit schizophrenic, but I think it is normal for most people. My child is showing similar patterns.

To me this is proof that learning a language touches a lot of parts in our brain, not just affect the parts about learning

New comment by aduwah in "T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees"

aduwah — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:34:15 +0000

I have asked ChatGPT to draw me an image of a 97 degree celsius t-rex and the result was absolutely amazing

New comment by aduwah in "GPT-5.6 Luna vs. GPT-6 Astra: Is a $1.20 Model Good Enough for Code Review?"

aduwah — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:26:54 +0000

2+ devs looking at PRs? U have never seen that in 20+ years.

New comment by aduwah in "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs"

aduwah — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:35:21 +0000

Read it as chain of thoughts not as a list

New comment by aduwah in "GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?"

aduwah — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:19:56 +0000

Depends who you are aiming sympathy at. C-levels or Engineering?

New comment by aduwah in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

aduwah — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:06:38 +0000

Kerbal Space Program

New comment by aduwah in "Qwen 3.8"

aduwah — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:11:19 +0000

A local AI is not about cost. In fact you will likely pay more for it than with most providers. Just look up the advantages of having access to a technology like this that can be self hosted

New comment by aduwah in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

aduwah — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:03:10 +0000

Yeah, unlimited screen time, with an LLM no less, for a 4y old. Took me 2 minutes to decide you've wasted a year

New comment by aduwah in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

aduwah — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:09:08 +0000

"Have you considered just answering truthfully?"

Said by no-one who has a decent paying job and has bills to pay

New comment by aduwah in "Show HN: I am building a map of people who lived in the Roman Empire"

aduwah — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:46:16 +0000

I absolutely love this project. Thanks for making my day!

New comment by aduwah in "The computer science degree isn’t dead"

aduwah — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:36:51 +0000

Experience does not really matter. What matters is a few shiny corp names and titles in your CV. No-one cares with merit these days

New comment by aduwah in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

aduwah — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:19:15 +0000

There is no politician who stands against big tech and by extension big money

New comment by aduwah in "How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability"

aduwah — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:28:20 +0000

The whole IT industry is reliant on Linux user-based access controls, it is not a Cloudflare thing.

Also leaving a massive gap like this behind would be a mistake on multiple levels. For example, it might get combined with another exploit that can achieve unprivileged access to some piece of metal, or you can have a disgruntled employee without admin access escalating their permissions on a box they aren't supposed to see all the secrets.

New comment by aduwah in "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

aduwah — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:37:24 +0000

It makes me so upset when anyone even tries to defend the GPs.

I admittedly I have a bunch of medical issues and these gems are my favourites from the GPs.

1. I cannot see the tonsil on the left side, so it is OK. (there was a 6cm!!! cyst in front of it)

2. After missing sky high TSH measures consistently for 2 years (4 testst) : "It must have been a few one offs" (no it wasn't and it is not even possible)

3. "Blood pressure has nothing to do with weight"

These %#£&* so called medical professionals are still working and most likely killing people legally.

These days I research and read studies, arm myself with knowledge, cross check with multiple LLMs and go in with a diagnosis and request a specific prescription. After 5 years with my health in the gutter I had my first comprehensive private blood test coming back with no issues.

So no, do not try to call me arrogant. I am not arrogant, I am defending myself from these "GPs" so they won't put me in an early grave by making fatal mistakes.

New comment by aduwah in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

aduwah — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:57:50 +0000

Constructive feedback: revert it and then apologise instead of just doing half of it.

New comment by aduwah in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

aduwah — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:04:31 +0000

Especially since the reporter is explicitly asked not to notify the distro teams first.

https://docs.kernel.org/process/security-bugs.html

```As such, the kernel security team strongly recommends that as a reporter of a potential security issue you DO NOT contact the “linux-distros” mailing list UNTIL a fix is accepted by the affected code’s maintainers and you have read the distros wiki page above and you fully understand the requirements that contacting “linux-distros” will impose on you and the kernel community. ```

New comment by aduwah in "Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga"

aduwah — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:53:28 +0000

I wonder why didn't Cloudflare just say that technically they can't block the IPs for a short time as they have no mechanism to do it and it would take a significant amount of $$ to develop it.

Right after this statement they could have permanently block all the IPs and let the outraged customers make enough noise that would have prompt the government to act sooner.

New comment by aduwah in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

aduwah — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:13:32 +0000

I doubt that it is the case. The registration of the gun is a part of the process everywhere afaik.