Hacker News: brador

New comment by brador in "Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months"

brador — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:17:38 +0000

The epic games launcher that famously takes 46 seconds to launch. It’s cost them 100s of millions and they refuse to fix it.

New comment by brador in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

brador — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:41:19 +0000

Double cross tuck is still the champ. Nothing comes close to its simplicity and hardiness. Zero fidliness unlike this nonsense.

New comment by brador in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

brador — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:11:33 +0000

B Billion parameter, T trillion, Q Quadrillion.

New comment by brador in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

brador — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:53:10 +0000

We are on tiny 1-5T parameter models with local power stations.

We can reach Q models just by throwing resources at it. That’s a million times current B models.

New comment by brador in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

brador — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:41:38 +0000

Same. Not clumps, but a definite uptick in hair shed. Stopped taking it.

New comment by brador in "Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina"

brador — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:27:31 +0000

Taxes also pay for pol and mil that keep people, including them, safe. Capitalist libertarians like to not think about that part.

New comment by brador in "Reddit blocks JSON API access, which leaves read-only apps like RDX unusable"

brador — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:05:11 +0000

Screenshot chain and OCR?

New comment by brador in "Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores"

brador — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:49:04 +0000

1. Don’t make the game unless you can enforce the rules.

New comment by brador in "Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching"

brador — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:46:24 +0000

Keeps the hands slap ready when focus wanders.

New comment by brador in "Woman without right hand charged for holding phone in right hand while driving"

brador — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:09:01 +0000

Misogyny. Can’t stand being proven wrong by a pretty woman. If it was a dude they would have laughed it off.

New comment by brador in "Magnifica Humanitas"

brador — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:25:18 +0000

No one who needs to read this will ever read it again.

Reading is a trained skill. Requiring years, even decades, of training. It too shall fall to AI.

New comment by brador in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

brador — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:09:21 +0000

Does this same principle make the moon orbit a little faster?

New comment by brador in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

brador — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:07:11 +0000

Crime is a fundamental part of the free market. Costs for it are currently passed to the collective instead of the individual.

Corruption (tolling, rent seeking, bribery) is part of the free market.

If the sender doesn't like the risk profile of the route to market they should pay a premium and route around it at certain cost or get insurance, else pay up if it is the financially optimal path.

New comment by brador in "Shipping a laptop to a refugee camp in Uganda"

brador — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:20:44 +0000

What is appropriate compensation for someone handling a bar of gold?

Some could argue corruption is an attempt to equalise on that.

New comment by brador in "How you probably will find Satoshi"

brador — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:29:12 +0000

Someone aware of computer security will not use their name as windows user.

New comment by brador in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

brador — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:41:11 +0000

The cloud is just someone else’s computer.

New comment by brador in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

brador — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:28:59 +0000

Her phone in the thumbnail has oval camera bumps. It is also extra long. Mine has round camera bumps. Is that a new iphone?

New comment by brador in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

brador — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:24:44 +0000

If you're listening to a podcast at 3x you're trying to learn something. No one is trying to learn watching a movie.

New comment by brador in "Apple unveils new accessibility features"

brador — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:10:38 +0000

You recall nothing and you know it. You're just wasting time you could use for something useful or meaningful in your life. Kids call it "Anxiety cope" but I don't agree.

New comment by brador in "Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park"

brador — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:45:30 +0000

If I’m fighting a bear I want a fresh can.