<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: blindriver</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blindriver</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 05:13:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=blindriver" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "High dimensional geometry is transforming the MRI industry (2017) [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Our universe is multi-dimensional and we are only 3 dimensional. The only way to understand more about our universe is to try to understand multi-dimensions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 19:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152773</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152773</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My friend at Google says they have a "ai-usage" dashboard that tracks everyone's ai token usage as well as aggregated per team, per org, etc. There's a sign on it that says "don't use this for perf reviews!" but I think everyone knows that that's exactly what they're going to use it for.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150857</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150857</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is what I do. I tell AI to go through every file in my project, identify up to 10 bugs per file, and then write the markdown with the name of the file plus "bugfix". This takes about 2 hours. Then I delete all the files with the suffix "bugfix" and then do it again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 14:30:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149120</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149120</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I never used the word "Biden" once in my post. You should correct your biases.<p>Whether or not you are left or right, the objective truth is that a Democrat added DEI mandates and Republican removed the DEI mandates. I didn't say anything about whether or not that is right or wrong, but the fact that companies seemingly embraced DEI and then once a Republican removed it, then they abandoned it so quickly means they really didn't care about DEI at all and it was all phony. It just goes to show you that when they start praising themselves for being "moral" it's not because they actually care, it's because they are forced to and they don't give a shit about anyone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 03:57:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104035</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104035</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48104035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't understand why companies are abandoning DEI so quickly and so decisively. What happens if/when a Democrat president is elected that mandates DEI and ESG all over again, are they going to add them back into their core values as swiftly as they abandoned them?<p>At least companies like Coinbase made principled stances against forced DEI and employee activism earlier than everyone else. Doing it now seems weird because if it does become mandated again, they're going to look so phony.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:03:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102425</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MFW you believe torches and lanterns are as bright and ubiquitous as electric lights today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 04:22:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091031</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091031</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is this a real question?<p>Until the advent of electricity, when it was nighttime, it was mostly pitch black dark, and there was nothing you can really do except go to sleep. These days you're up a lot longer and there are more distractions like work and social media to keep you up well into the night. If you ever go camping with no cell phone signal, you'll go to sleep much earlier as well and get a lot more sleep than modern living.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 23:27:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089202</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089202</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Band steering doesn't work great. Neither does minimum RSSI. It's completely client-dependent and it's a headache. The best solution is to always minimize the number of APs you have with as little overlap as possible because of how unpredictable client behavior is. Like I said I have a very bad problem with line of sight APs are ignored for further away APs, and no amount of fiddling is helping.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 16:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076102</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076102</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48076102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One thing that wasn't mentioned is that the more APs you have, the worst off your life gets. That's because the way clients connect to a particular AP is done client-side and you have no control over it or visibility. So, no matter how you fiddle with it, your client may connect to the AP that is 40 feet away and on another floor rather than the one that is 10 feet away with a perfect line of sight. And you won't know why. This is the problem I had with my house and had to decrease the number of APs to get over better reliability and performance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 01:30:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070866</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070866</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48070866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "NetHack 5.0.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been playing this game since the mid 1980s since it was called Hack. I've only ascended twice, the last time being last year, and it required a heavy amount of cheating/saving.<p>I guess the rest of this weekend is already accounted for.</p>
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<p>So, if I'm reading this properly the honor killings predicated by Muslims is the fault of white people?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:49:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870726</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47870726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Same thing with engagement rings, it's just a stupid fake tradition created by DeBoers in the 1950s that costs an inordinate amount of money for nothing.<p>I really hope that lab grown diamonds puts that entire industry out of business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:43:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711754</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47711754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't tell this to Trayvon Martin, who was gunned down by a neighborhood watch zealot, because he looked "suspicious" because he was wearing a hoodie.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:51:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698043</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698043</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone who has access to Satoshi's account is worth $100B. If Satoshi were still alive some of the BTC would have been moved at least a little but they haven't.<p>Whoever Satoshi was is now dead.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:47:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698007</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47698007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's okay. I'm pretty sure after 40+ years of using Microsoft products I'm going to switch fully to Linux and MacOS. I'm tired of fighting against Microsoft even though I am a long time (and mostly happy) user of Windows. But whatever is going on in the last few years, especially Recall, has made it dangerous in my opinion to keeping Windows. So as they become and more draconian it only makes my decision easier and easier. I've had Macs and Macbooks for a while now but I bought the latest Macbook Pro and I'm very very happy with it, despite Glass (I barely notice any differences from the previous version).</p>
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<p>What is the calculation? And how can you calculate it 10 decimal points?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:51:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682368</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682368</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47682368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Ask HN: How do you handle marketing as a solo technical founder?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Every single one followed the same pattern: build, post, get 12 likes from friends, a bit of organic traction, then nothing.<p>> I know I need marketing help but giving equity to someone I met online feels like a huge risk.<p>No offense, but your equity, from your own admission, is literally worthless. If someone decides to help you out for your equity, you should be jumping for joy. Most likely you need to pay out of your pocket, but if you're not willing to risk your own capital, then how can you expect others to risk theirs?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:06:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669893</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes I'm exactly like you as well. I've been coding for 30+ years, I still love coding and system building etc, but sometimes the level of frustration to find the information and then get something working is simply too high.<p>Over a weekend, I used ChatGPT to set up Prometheus and Grafana and added node exporters to everything I could think of. I even told ChatGPT to create NOC-style dashboards for me, given the metrics I gave it. This is something that would have painstakingly take several weeks if not more to figure out, and it's something I've been wanting to do but the cognitive load and anticipatory frustration was too high for me to start. I love how it enables me to just do things.<p>My next step is to integrate some programs that I wrote that I still use every day to collect data and then show it on the dashboards as well.<p>On a side note, I don't know why Grafana hasn't more deeply integrated with AI. Having to sift through all the ridiculous metrics that different node exporters advertise with no hint of naming convention makes using Grafana so much harder. I cut and pasted all the metrics and dumped it into ChatGPT and told it to make the panels I wanted (ex. "Give me a dashboard that shows the status of all my servers" and it's able to pick and choose the correct metrics across my Windows server, Macbooks and studio, my Linux machines, etc), but Grafana should have this integrated themselves directly into themselves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:50:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668400</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Codex pricing to align with API token usage, instead of per-message"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm confused as to how pricing works.<p>For home projects, I almost exclusively use the web chat interface to code. I haven't done anything large yet so I will iterate and get the web chat to update code, print out the code that I copy and paste.<p>How does this differ in terms of pricing than Codex?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:53:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653210</link><dc:creator>blindriver</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653210</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by blindriver in "Going Founder Mode on Cancer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're probably not old enough to remember when Magic Johnson was diagnosed with AIDS. I was in college and I remember the moment when I heard like a flashbulb memory. I was in my dorm cafeteria near the windows eating dinner with my friends. It was an extremely significant event because AIDS was a huge deal at the time and the fact someone like Magic Johnson got it was utterly shocking. Everyone thought the same thing, that he was going to die soon. There was even a controversy later on about him playing basketball where he could get a cut and potentially pass it along to others. The fact he was still alive after many years and then his HIV count went down to zero is a miracle of modern science.</p>
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