Hacker News: badgersnake

New comment by badgersnake in "Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]"

badgersnake — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:07:02 +0000

Exactly

New comment by badgersnake in "Discontinuation of third level domain registrations for the .name TLD [pdf]"

badgersnake — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:58:23 +0000

I currently have firstnamelastname.name which I use. I’m thinking I need to switch after this.

New comment by badgersnake in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

badgersnake — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:39:58 +0000

They just don’t read past the headline and the headline usually involves paedophiles.

New comment by badgersnake in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

badgersnake — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:26:24 +0000

They used to be. Now everything’s a website or a website inside a chrome engine pretending to not be a website and is completely hostile to UI conventions like keyboard navigation.

New comment by badgersnake in "We never use AI. For anything"

badgersnake — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:26:34 +0000

The hacker news echo chamber gone literal.

New comment by badgersnake in "We never use AI. For anything"

badgersnake — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 10:06:14 +0000

So does this one.

New comment by badgersnake in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

badgersnake — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:24:31 +0000

If I were 17, but have the money I have now he means.

New comment by badgersnake in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

badgersnake — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:12:33 +0000

Don’t forget, it’s the longest land border in the world, largely remote. Feels like it would be easy to work around with minimal effort.

New comment by badgersnake in "Linux 7.2"

badgersnake — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:02:09 +0000

You only come here for the AI hype blogs?

New comment by badgersnake in "Linux 7.2"

badgersnake — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 07:01:25 +0000

I hope they fix it so both of the 8k monitor users can get their displays working soon.

New comment by badgersnake in "Children's stunted lungs show recovery in ultra low emission zone"

badgersnake — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:03:50 +0000

Yeah, seems way better now than it was in the 90s though. They’ve improved the ventilation a lot.

New comment by badgersnake in "The Amazon tax"

badgersnake — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:59:42 +0000

38% of people also think opposing fascism is very unfavourable according to that. Assuming it's real, I'm not going to put much faith in the opinions of the American public.

New comment by badgersnake in "Incident with Github.com"

badgersnake — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:00:29 +0000

TeamCity

New comment by badgersnake in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

badgersnake — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:55:05 +0000

This is not surprising. I find LLMs in general have pretty limited utility, but there a niches where they are good and one of those niches is finding little snippets of information in a way that you used to have to sift through pages and pages of google results to find.

New comment by badgersnake in "Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature"

badgersnake — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:34:33 +0000

How about a guest unlock where you can lend your phone to someone to do basic web browsing or make a call, but they can’t see any of your data.

New comment by badgersnake in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"

badgersnake — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:51:52 +0000

It’s bonkers that 50 states all decide to make their own set of rules for this. Maybe talk to each other?

New comment by badgersnake in "Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)"

badgersnake — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:37:36 +0000

Depends how remote your destination is.

New comment by badgersnake in "Almost no skill required to cook a steak"

badgersnake — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:08:43 +0000

I’d prefer an article actually about cooking steak.

New comment by badgersnake in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

badgersnake — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:29:55 +0000

Correct, mowing a lawn is not an optimal path problem. It’s a making the lawn look nice problem.

New comment by badgersnake in "British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply"

badgersnake — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:47:06 +0000

If everybody thinks you’re biased, you’re probably not biased at all.