Hacker News: bugeats

New comment by bugeats in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

bugeats — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:53:42 +0000

I just had a disturbing thought. What if the LLM providers start blocklisting certain codebases?

“I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that. This codebase has been identified as proprietary.”

New comment by bugeats in "Guinea worm on track to be 2nd eradicated human disease; only 10 cases in 2025"

bugeats — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:07:05 +0000

Consider what you might choose to do for the public good with the 30% of your income that is taken from you in the name of the public good.

Philanthropy is a predictable outcome of an individual having met the basic needs of Maslow’s hierarchy. Consider how many more philanthropists would be created by returning this 30% back to individual discernment.

New comment by bugeats in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

bugeats — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:00:57 +0000

Somebody ought to train an LLM exclusively on this text, just for funsies.

New comment by bugeats in "Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds"

bugeats — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:42:07 +0000

Woah woah, slow down there. Pythagoras applied his aesthetic desire for pure ratios to an idealized model for musical intervals. Funny enough, this ended up being the reason that the west discovered that such an approach does not scale (figuratively and literally). We literally call this delta between the ideal tuning and the limits of a fixed-pitch tuning a “Pythagorean comma”. This comma became the basis for a lot of tuning systems (meantone, etc) developed by the west. It’s only in the last hundred years that, in my opinion, forces of industrialization and mass production erased all such effort and replaced it with the boring compromise that is 12 tone equal temperament.

Other, far older, musical cultures took things in a different direction and ended up building systems on pure ratios that just become more complex in their relationships (Indian shruti, Turkish makam, etc).

This does not mean that Pythagorean ratios are irrelevant. They remain a great tool for analysis of universal human experience of music. The authors of this paper are literally doing just that.

Birds generate pure ratios in their songs. Smacking a metal anvil (as Pythagoras discovered) naturally generates pure ratios. They’re everywhere. If anything we need MORE of this understanding in Western music, which is missing out on some really tasty (low integer) intervals like 7/4, 8/5, 10/9, 7/5, many of which have naturally emerged in the West via genres like Blues.

New comment by bugeats in "Metric Time"

bugeats — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 14:06:40 +0000

I see your Metric Time and I raise you a Dozenal Society of America.

12 is divisible into whole halves, thirds, and quarters.

https://dozenal.org

New comment by bugeats in "XML is better than YAML – Hear me out"

bugeats — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 23:24:27 +0000

The Nix Language, while goofy at times, is built for config-as-code and is hiding a decent little functional language in what looks like just attribute assignments.

Likewise, CUE Lang is built for config (esp merging docs with shared refs) and is highly under-appreciated. You can express powerful computations if you puzzle over the logical inferencing for a bit.

https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/language/index.html

https://cuelang.org/docs/concepts/logic/

New comment by bugeats in "My IDE is too heavy so I moved to Emacs"

bugeats — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:31:27 +0000

A couple of months ago I switched from Neovim with a carefully crafted config file to Helix with zero config. I haven't looked back.

As far a performance, well, Helix + Alacritty is the fastest thing I know of. Snappy AF. You're still at the mercy of whatever language server might be grinding away, but at least it doesn't block the UI in any way. Every other component (tree-sitter, ropey) is performance optimized by Rust nerds who love that sort of thing.

New comment by bugeats in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2022)"

bugeats — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:28:36 +0000

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace | Senior Software Engineer | Full-Time | Portland, OR / West Coast USA / REMOTE | U.S. Citizens Only

Build software for sky-computers in perpetual flight!

We are primarily a Rust and TypeScript shop, but as a growing software team in an early-stage company we need experienced, generalist, and polyglot engineers who love to take on new technologies.

- Architect fast backend services for a massive geospatial data lake

- Design robust distributed systems for an unreliable network

- Optimize onboard compute and embedded systems for power and efficiency

- Apply Machine Learning and Machine Vision models for real-time object detection

- Build beautiful and interactive web GUIs for aircraft fleets

- Use and abuse WebGL for 3D graphics visualizations

We are well funded and can offer competitive salaries and great benefits. Culture fit: experienced engineers with lives and families and a "get it done" attitude.

Message Graham on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/graham-gibbons/ or email graham[dot]gibbons[at]krausaerospace[dot]com

New comment by bugeats in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)"

bugeats — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:28:05 +0000

Fixed. Sorry. In my mind I still think of Hacker News as an old Reddit fork and I assumed it had direct messaging.

New comment by bugeats in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)"

bugeats — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:35:56 +0000

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace | Senior Software Engineer | Full-Time | Portland, OR / West Coast USA / REMOTE

Build software for sky-computers in perpetual flight!

We are primarily a Rust and TypeScript shop, but as a growing software team in an early-stage company we need experienced, generalist, and polyglot engineers who love to take on new technologies.

- Architect fast backend services for a massive geospatial data lake

- Design robust distributed systems for an unreliable network

- Optimize onboard compute and embedded systems for power and efficiency

- Apply Machine Learning and Machine Vision models for real-time object detection

- Build beautiful and interactive web GUIs for aircraft fleets

- Use and abuse WebGL for 3D graphics visualizations

We are well funded and can offer competitive salaries and great benefits. Culture fit: experienced engineers with lives and families and a "get it done" attitude.

EDIT: message me (a real human guy) on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bugeats or email chadwick[dot]dahlquist[at]krausaerospace[dot]com

EDIT: U.S. Citizens only

New comment by bugeats in "Orkut"

bugeats — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:13:02 +0000

This gives me hope. I've been thinking lately that one of the ways that we get through this intense disequilibrium is through a youth counterculture that treats social media as something deeply uncool that only their out of touch parents use. Youth rebellion is humanity's cultural immune system.

New comment by bugeats in "Flutter 3"

bugeats — Thu, 12 May 2022 16:42:44 +0000

I'm also used to functional programming. The only thing I can not stand about Dart is that types are coupled to classes. If you want to use stateless functions and typed data shapes, you're out of luck. Compare this to TypeScript that truly allows both paradigms and has a very expressive type system.

New comment by bugeats in "Slack’s Incident on 2-22-22"

bugeats — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 18:32:25 +0000

The incident was caused by a database query that was "2-22-22" when it was supposed to be "2-22-22".

New comment by bugeats in "Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs"

bugeats — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 16:56:39 +0000

The `create-react-app` project has existed for years, and gives you a standardized stack the bundles and boots with a single command.

Rails 7 has abandoned JS bundling in favor of using somebody else's CDN. Have fun with that.

New comment by bugeats in "CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”"

bugeats — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 23:51:24 +0000

> Now, HSL isn't necessarily the best color mode to use in every situation; it tends to produce gradients that can be overly bright and vivid, because it doesn't take into account human perception.

Shout-out to to HSLUV which does exactly that.

https://www.hsluv.org/

New comment by bugeats in "The American dream is on life support in the Bay Area"

bugeats — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 03:38:06 +0000

The audacity of calling the the new destination state politics a “shitshow”, while abandoning the direct political legacy that is now in flames.

New comment by bugeats in "Rust 2021: GUI"

bugeats — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:48:14 +0000

My compromise has been to use [flutter-rs](https://github.com/flutter-rs/flutter-rs). Flutter is a powerful and performant GUI/Drawing framework, even if you need to hold your nose when slinging Dart.

New comment by bugeats in "The Linux Backdoor Attempt of 2003 (2013)"

bugeats — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:46:50 +0000

ITT: everyone pretending they've never burned hours troubleshooting only to find a stupid `=` instead of a `==`.

New comment by bugeats in "YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99"

bugeats — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 16:38:13 +0000

So you want me to pay for the privilege of watching a mind numbing stream of psychologically manipulative advertisements interspersed with the toxic, propaganda laden death throes of the legacy media? No thanks.

YouTube Premium may already be censored by a paranoid AI taking personal kickbacks from Jimmy Kimmel Show, but at least I can still find good content with a little effort.

New comment by bugeats in "Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media"

bugeats — Mon, 25 May 2020 16:32:36 +0000

The Joe Rogan episodes with Bari Weiss (the author of this piece) have some of the worst like to disliked ratio in the catalog. She is no friend of the podcast.