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New comment by anotherevan in "Bird brains (2023)"

anotherevan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:15:02 +0000

The Australian sulfur-crested cockatoos are pretty smart. They would teach each other how to open heavy bin lids to raid the garbage. I seem to remember they would even team up to do it. There are studies about how this behaviour spread from suburb to suburb in Sydney.[1]

More recently they've figured out how to operate drinking fountains.[2][3]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/cockatoos-lear...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-06-04/sydney-sulphu...

[3] https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/nature-wildlife/2025...

New comment by anotherevan in "I decompiled the White House's new app"

anotherevan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:09:51 +0000

My admittedly more puerile thought upon reading that bit was to change to code so it only loads goatse.

New comment by anotherevan in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

anotherevan — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:52:40 +0000

"Why are you travelling with a blank phone?"

Detained in a room for twelve hours.

New comment by anotherevan in "How to Keep ICE Agents Out of Your Devices at Airports"

anotherevan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:48:35 +0000

"Unlock your phone."

"No, I don't have to."

Detained in a room for twelve hours.

"Okay, okay, here's my phone."

New comment by anotherevan in "Java is fast, code might not be"

anotherevan — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:21:59 +0000

I'm rather partial to MyBatis (and Liquibase) but I might have to give Jooq a try.

New comment by anotherevan in "Show HN: Axe – A 12MB binary that replaces your AI framework"

anotherevan — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:01:13 +0000

I really like this idea. Gonna need an "Awesome Axe" page that collects agents.

One idea I'm thinking of is, after an agent has been in use for a while, and built up and understanding of the task, would be something like, "Write a Python script to replace this agent."

I could imagine this would work with agents that are processing log files or other semi-structured data for example.

New comment by anotherevan in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

anotherevan — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:15:13 +0000

True, although I wonder if that was one of the points he is trying to make.

In any case, you could go to his Mastodon account listed at the bottom of the article and check out who he is following.

New comment by anotherevan in "Washington state hotline callers hear AI voice with Spanish accent – AP News"

anotherevan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:18:57 +0000

“For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent.”

New comment by anotherevan in "Show HN: A real-time strategy game that AI agents can play"

anotherevan — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:15:03 +0000

For some reason this reminds me strongly of an old play-by-email game called C++Robots[1]. I loved the idea, but the timeslice limitation[2] I found too annoying.

I had youthful dreams of re-implementing something similar that would run on the Java Virtual Machine, where you could run the submitted robots via the debugger interface so you could keep "real-time" in the game environment more authentic. Ideas are cheap, follow-through is hard.

[1] https://corewar.co.uk/cpprobots.htm

[2] https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbem_articles/cpprobots_environ...

New comment by anotherevan in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

anotherevan — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:57:23 +0000

> assume I'm an LLM

I've noticed a habit of late of people accusing a comment of being LLM generated if they disagree with it. It was getting quite tiresome a few weeks ago but seems to have died down.

I suppose it is possible that they are actually LLMs making the accusations? :-)

(I'm one of those weirdos that try to use proper grammar and complete sentences in text messages and instant messages.)

New comment by anotherevan in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

anotherevan — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:59:43 +0000

How have you been tracking down all the bits and pieces from your operating system that the agent still needs to do what it needs to? I'm working with Java projects and Gradle builds and the list of stuff is getting crazy.

New comment by anotherevan in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

anotherevan — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:02:10 +0000

The biggest hold-back for me is that, here in Australia, Google Wallet (aka Google Pay) is the only way you can do tap credit card payments that I know of. Can't with Paypal. Not with any banking apps that I know of.

It's just so damned convenient. And the recording of transactions on the phone saves me having to collect paper receipts.

New comment by anotherevan in "US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says"

anotherevan — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:53:26 +0000

I'm surprised it's only 90%.

New comment by anotherevan in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

anotherevan — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:03:38 +0000

Hey, at least you didn't pull the reflexive, "this must be AI slop!" comment that seems quite prevalent on HN lately.

New comment by anotherevan in "Talking to LLMs has improved my thinking"

anotherevan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 11:16:22 +0000

It's also absolute awesome how every person's brain works the same way. It makes it some much more convenient that what works for one person works for every person.

New comment by anotherevan in "I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21"

anotherevan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:16:06 +0000

I think perhaps the author's 35th lesson¹ is that brevity can lose nuance.

I interpreted this one to be in the context where having them in your orbit is causing you (or others) harm, and it ain't something you can fix.

¹ Actually it would be the 50th lesson. For some reason tacking on fifteen "bonus" lessons annoyed me. Felt like having your alliteration and eating it too. 51st lesson: math.

New comment by anotherevan in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

anotherevan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:15:34 +0000

Is there any way to take a cloned voice model and plug into Android TTS and/or Windows?

I have a friend with a paralysed larynx who is often using his phone or a small laptop to type in order to communicate. I know he would love it if it was possible to take old recordings of him speaking and use that to give him back "his" voice, at least in some small measure.

New comment by anotherevan in "Humanizer: Claude Code skill that removes signs of AI-generated writing"

anotherevan — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:52:08 +0000

I think we also need a /dehumanizer skill.

New comment by anotherevan in "An introduction to XET, Hugging Face's storage system"

anotherevan — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:07:04 +0000

Part 2: https://00f.net/2026/01/19/xet-intro-2/

New comment by anotherevan in "STFU"

anotherevan — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:27:18 +0000

Hyperacusis is a real thing. One of my kidults has it, and yes, they use active noise cancelling ear plugs or over the ear headphones and sometimes the world is still too loud.