<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: andyferris</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=andyferris</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:08:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=andyferris" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haha love it. Long live the fax machine!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:20:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725816</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think free movement of people doesn’t imply Schengen Zone style borders - I thought this was mostly an economic lever that people can move and work in another country by default, not a human right where a country cannot exclude chosen people (known criminals, etc) and track all crossings. I think of it as another country giving me a visa is opt-out for that country, not opt-in.<p>The CE rules are relatively sane and followed commonly right? At least I see a lot of CE-stamped goods in Australia… so I always assumed that was the case.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:11:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725700</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49725700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "Julia 1.13 highlights"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The package system typically uses a git URL and tree hash to identify a package version. It supports private registries.<p>Is it really tied to github or is that just the path documented in tutorials?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:18:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695602</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49695602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nitpick: monkeys have enough brains for "oh, I shouldn't do that again".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:53:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656266</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656266</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49656266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In raw numbers of humans... "the early majority" surely would be those that use ChatGPT or Gemini (aka Google) and pay between $0 and $20 a month?<p>I would be surprised if the specialist that knows that various Chinese models exist and/or that a user might choose a harness and model separately are a "majority" even of the early variety... in terms of revenue, humans, tokens, or any metric.<p>(Happy to be proven wrong)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:53:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448239</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49448239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "A Preview of DuckDB v2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was curious to see they are advertising OLTP-like transactional processing speed. It would be super convenient to have one DB for OLTP and OLAP purposes!<p>Has anybody here tried using it that way?<p>(though I don't see any way to deal with write skew and other transactional guarantees - no SERIALIZABLE optimisitic concurrency, no SELECT FOR UPDATE pessimistic concurrency, etc)</p>
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<p>I'm assuming most decent people just help out their friend the next day, right? The lesson appears to be prioritisation, not being a jerk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:02:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242558</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "To recruit teachers, school districts are building homes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We are very fortunate that my wife got to work at the local school. She now walks to work and I work from home about 4 days out of 5 workdays.<p>The benefits are huge in terms of time available and costs, and not needing childcare before or after school.<p>It’s hard to solve couples having two jobs in different places, but having at least one person get to work basically instantly and for zero cost is a massive boon to society.<p>The issue I saw is that the government department in charge of education is not the one in charge of housing and infrastructure, and there are no incentives to hire locally or make it easier to move locally. Instead you get teachers in suburb A travelling to suburb B and vice-versa, and no way that they can choose to swap roles. We lucked out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:37:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237416</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237416</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49237416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "UnifiedIR for Julia"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1. Don't forget that there are parallel efforts for static compilation in Julia - a static artifact should be able to get through the App Store.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 03:14:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973977</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48973977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not to mention, the physical trades are not stopping taking on apprentices because... LLMs can't build a house? Not even the mundane bits.<p>It will be interesting how to get the financial incentives to train juniors in knowledge work to line up with the fact that every new generation needs to be trained.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:02:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943216</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943216</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48943216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "G# – A modern .NET language with Go, Kotlin, and Swift ergonomics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was hoping from the tagline it would have sum types (rust-like payloads on enums, like Swift).</p>
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<p>I believe I read a post by Andrew detailing how he intentionally did marketting in a way to attract users, the right contributers, and donations - he was quite intentional about making his full-time role sustainable (and now more roles).</p>
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<p>Is it not a web view? With nodejs capabilities from the “backend” half of the app for normal desktop app filesystem access etc?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:36:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626546</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It always required a leap of faith - that’s the point of life, getting married and having kids.<p>Not so many generations ago parents might not know if they’d survive to see their children reach adulthood (or if their children would survive, or if they’d be infertile, or die during childbirth). My parents are boomers who ended up doing well, but had to buy a house at a 17% interest rate and low wages not knowing if that was a smart or dumb move. The current generation face huge land values (but have better medicine and moderate interest rates). Who would you trade places with, without the benefit of hindsight?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553600</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It benefits those that made the decision. That’s the thing to understand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:26:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553548</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553548</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48553548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "What happened to nerds?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think nerd -> believes in science.
Science -> requires honesty, curiousity, humility, persistence (i.e. admit you are wrong, accept you losses).<p>Generally I'm not sure you'd be considered a nerd if you weren't too honest for your own good. Not that this covers all types of virtuous behavior - there do exist nasty scientists. (And there is some level of fraud/dishonesty in academia, too).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:18:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539163</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48539163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The brilliance of a mathematician like Terry  is the the clarity they can bring.<p>That’s my interpretation of your comment, anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:38:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502823</link><dc:creator>andyferris</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48502823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andyferris in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> a good UI absolutely cannot cater to both<p>So make two UIs? Or an API and a novice user / mass market UI, and let the open source community serve fussy power users (and borrow some of their good ideas as a return on your show of good faith)?</p>
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<p>Can we summarize this as "people get horny sometimes" and "ovulating people get horny"? Or is that too reductive?</p>
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<p>Modern off-road/off-grid inverter chargers make wiring to the network pretty easy. I'd still recommend an electrician, but most they'd likely need to do is wire the grid into the inverter-charger input, and your cabin to the output, and check whatever protection (like RCDs) your cabin has is sufficient/up-to-date.</p>
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