Hacker News: avisser

New comment by avisser in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

avisser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:06:41 +0000

Fallout 1 & 2! Formative titles for young me.

New comment by avisser in "Audio Reactive LED Strips Are Diabolically Hard"

avisser — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:00:59 +0000

For recorded music, you could always buffer however many milliseconds of audio to account for the processing.

New comment by avisser in "How Taalas “prints” LLM onto a chip?"

avisser — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:42:55 +0000

Michael Bay just read "computronium" and spawned an 8 movie franchise in his head.

New comment by avisser in "New California bill to require license plates for electric bikes"

avisser — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:00:41 +0000

Well yeah. Cars kill 40x the people.

New comment by avisser in "New California bill to require license plates for electric bikes"

avisser — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:13:53 +0000

Seeing this while the 75 year old who killed a whole family of 4 with her car gets away without jail time...

Some pretty wild misplaced priorities.

New comment by avisser in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

avisser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:26:56 +0000

I did the math. Twitter was down $1.3 billion over 10 years.

Anthropic lost $5.2 billion last year. So they are 40x better at spending investor money than Twitter.

Hard to call Twitter the archetype for Anthropic.

New comment by avisser in "Instagram boss says 16 hours of daily use is 'problematic' not addiction"

avisser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:06:06 +0000

You just engaged in deflection and whataboutism on his behalf, but you aren't defending him?

It really seems like you're defending him.

New comment by avisser in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

avisser — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:53:43 +0000

Putting on my pedantic hat, does this qualify as a picture of the mountains? As in, is there any light hitting the mountains, then hitting the film/sensor?

Or is this just an elaborate silhouette?

Is that a difference? I don't know.

New comment by avisser in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

avisser — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:57:47 +0000

After 4 years of Russia/Ukraine, does anyone think that a terror group would take down an airliner with anything other than a drone? Why take any operational risk of actually going through security?

New comment by avisser in "Please just try HTMX"

avisser — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:15:49 +0000

Off the top of my head, C# is both the language & the runtime. React only throws things over the fence to browsers.

Probably helps a lot to keep abstractions from leaking.

New comment by avisser in "Please just try HTMX"

avisser — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:21:57 +0000

> why bother learning two paradigms

Objection. Your React is ultimately turning into HTML so you DO have to learn HTML + CSS. You just have an abstraction over it.

New comment by avisser in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

avisser — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:24:35 +0000

The Pacific ocean is big.

New comment by avisser in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

avisser — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:04:16 +0000

> Also, they run 24/7 at 100% capacity, so after only 1.5 years

How does OpenAI keep this load? I would expect the load at 2pm Eastern to be WAY bigger than the load after California goes to bed.

New comment by avisser in "Next.js is infuriating"

avisser — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:20:26 +0000

NextJS is web-scale.

New comment by avisser in "US halts work on almost finished wind farm because national security"

avisser — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:18:17 +0000

Washington bridge rebuild maybe? The demolition of the piles is all that's left.

New comment by avisser in "Show HN: Kitten TTS – 25MB CPU-Only, Open-Source TTS Model"

avisser — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:56:46 +0000

I heard a little DVa from Overwatch.

New comment by avisser in "USB-C hubs and my slow descent into madness (2021)"

avisser — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:32:33 +0000

Work bought me a VisionTek hub. I wanted the 1 cable life - unfortunately, it only does monitors via DisplayLink, aka compressed & streamed to & from my desk. It's noticeably fuzzy.

So now it's 2 cables: 1 from the hub, 1 from the monitor. Both USB-C.

WTF guys?

My Apple monitor from 2009 just worked with 1 cable (no power, but still).

New comment by avisser in "My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]"

avisser — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 14:30:38 +0000

IMO that phrase came about when old tech companies (the IBMs of the world) had

  * waterfall
  * design up-front
  * source control systems that
    * defaulted all files to read-only
    * required you to "check-out" files, potentially locking other devs out from editing them [1]
  * probably didn't have unit tests so "deploying to prod" meant "doing a full QA pass, done by human beings"
  * there was no CI/CD (We had "Build Engineers")

In this context, pushing a change to SVN/git/hg, having tests run automatically, then having CI/CD push new code to production, all as a side-effect of one engineer push a button? That was moving fast, and occasionally, breaking the whole website. But we got better tests, better CI/CD, metrics, green/blue, ... We learned it was unequivocally better than the old way.

[1] Reserved Checkouts: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/clearcase/11.0.0?topic=ucm-check...

New comment by avisser in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

avisser — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:50:07 +0000

> And it has a brand

Didn't they change names months ago? I know them as Codeium.

New comment by avisser in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract"

avisser — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 11:56:13 +0000

Banning raw milk is for health. Banning research chemicals is mostly an extension of the war on drugs. They aren't the same.