Hacker News: anonymousDan

New comment by anonymousDan in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

anonymousDan — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:47:28 +0000

ML reviewing is a total joke. Why do you have noob students reviewing a conference paper.

New comment by anonymousDan in "How to Allocate Memory"

anonymousDan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:57:40 +0000

Nice reference, thanks.

New comment by anonymousDan in "Banned in California"

anonymousDan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:37:09 +0000

Ha, yeah I remember the Galveston beaches as a kid. Left when I was 9, I can't imagine things have improved much since then...

New comment by anonymousDan in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

anonymousDan — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 11:08:44 +0000

Unfortunately, you could argue that the model provider has also learned something, i.e. the interaction can be used as additional training data to train subsequent models.

New comment by anonymousDan in "How Is Data Stored?"

anonymousDan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:13:32 +0000

A book length version of content of this quality would be an awesome coffee table book!

New comment by anonymousDan in "The wonder of modern drywall"

anonymousDan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:33:27 +0000

Very interesting perspective, thanks. One of the other comments mentioned that in Tokyo they heavily use concrete blocks. Not sure how accurate that is but how does their approach differ to the US?

New comment by anonymousDan in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

anonymousDan — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:38:21 +0000

I think you are deluded if you think the latter does not happen with hosted models.

New comment by anonymousDan in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

anonymousDan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:53:54 +0000

What about some kind of mass underwater drone attack? Feels like it might be feasible in the not too distant future...

New comment by anonymousDan in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

anonymousDan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 10:02:35 +0000

'some sort of security' - oh great, security as an afterthought.

New comment by anonymousDan in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

anonymousDan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:36:48 +0000

You're forgetting about the supply chain. Who manufactures all the solar panels and wind turbines? Honest question - are we increasing the risks of becoming energy dependent on China? Or does Europe have the ability to manufacture its own?

New comment by anonymousDan in "Why the Tech World Thinks the American Dream Is Dying"

anonymousDan — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:28:07 +0000

I mean this is just dumb. Why would anyone respect intellectual property anymore in this scenario for example. And governments will invest everything they have to steal or copy the knowledge required to compete.

New comment by anonymousDan in "JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3"

anonymousDan — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:57:33 +0000

Why would this matter if you're just using the database?

New comment by anonymousDan in "LLVM: The bad parts"

anonymousDan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:23:14 +0000

Is there any implicit understanding in the community that byte types will inevitably be added to LLVM? I see that there has been a recent GSOC effort (https://blog.llvm.org/posts/2025-08-29-gsoc-byte-type/ ) but it's unclear whether this has resolved most of the issues or is still an open research problem.

New comment by anonymousDan in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

anonymousDan — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 21:45:56 +0000

How do you check the hardware is compatible in practice? Is there some reliable resource for doing this?

New comment by anonymousDan in "Meta announces nuclear energy projects"

anonymousDan — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 19:21:05 +0000

What, we should have a wild west where everyone can set up their own nuclear power station without any compliance or certification? If not then these are part of the build cost... it's like saying we shouldn't include testing as part of the cost of building software.

New comment by anonymousDan in "Databases in 2025: A Year in Review"

anonymousDan — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:01:22 +0000

Why fintech specifically?

New comment by anonymousDan in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

anonymousDan — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:20:08 +0000

I will always fly Ryanair ahead of other low cost carriers in Europe as unlike easyJet for example they don't overbook. The most painful experience I've had was to arrive at an airport with a young family and get all the way to the easyJet flight gate to be told the flight is overbooked. And unlike the US where this starts an auction it's basically tough luck. Should be outright fraud in my opinion.

New comment by anonymousDan in "TLA+ Modeling Tips"

anonymousDan — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:30:49 +0000

Some kind of casual or eventual consistency related invariants perhaps?

New comment by anonymousDan in "The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation"

anonymousDan — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:09:04 +0000

I don't understand why the nuclear industry wouldn't pile in to fund research into this area (as a potential way to clean up nuclear waste). Probably I don't understand how this fungus actually works and it is impossible!

New comment by anonymousDan in "DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's why"

anonymousDan — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:50:15 +0000

I don't understand when people blame AI for buying DDR5 DRAM - aren't they mostly interested in HBM? Or is the fab space being diverted to manufacture more HBM than DDR DRAM previously?