Hacker News: butterfi

New comment by butterfi in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

butterfi — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:43:22 +0000

I remember when YouTube implemented a new html player and suddenly, unexpectedly, they had all the is traffic coming from rural Africa. Size matters.

New comment by butterfi in "FDA approves first gene therapy for treatment of genetic hearing loss"

butterfi — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:36:36 +0000

I don't see the return of measles to be a success.

New comment by butterfi in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

butterfi — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:20:41 +0000

Thats a pretty snarky thing to say about Apple. They were arguably the pioneers in OS UX... granted, its not the end all, be all, but still. You could do worse.

New comment by butterfi in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

butterfi — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:19:37 +0000

Because environments change, it hasn't been immutable.

New comment by butterfi in "Thiel and Zuckerberg on Facebook, Millennials, and predictions for 2030 (2019)"

butterfi — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 16:05:30 +0000

Zuckerberg as generational representative made my millennial and Gen Z kids lol

New comment by butterfi in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

butterfi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 15:59:04 +0000

I'm very curious what happens to that money. I very much doubt any of the actual victims will see it.

New comment by butterfi in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

butterfi — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:10:37 +0000

It would be nice if some politicians/media outlets didn't subvert or misrepresent science for their own gains. Yet here we are.

New comment by butterfi in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

butterfi — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:54:46 +0000

Linux has entered the chat...

New comment by butterfi in "Lossless video compression using Bloom filters"

butterfi — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:25:42 +0000

One of my CS professors told the story about when MCSFT demonstrated their implementation of the Korn shell at a USENIX conference. Gasbag on stage tells the guy in the question line that he (questioner) has misinterpreted something in the software's original intention. Gasbag figures out something is up when half the room cracked up. The guy at the mic was David Korn, author of the Korn shell.

New comment by butterfi in "Archiving "The Famous Computer Cafe""

butterfi — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 20:14:17 +0000

I can’t decide if I want to hear the Douglas Adams interview, his passing still makes me sad.

New comment by butterfi in "I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers"

butterfi — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:10:48 +0000

I can’t wrap my head around how that hat drops in a straight line. Between the propeller and any wind, how is that hat not all over the place?

New comment by butterfi in "Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter"

butterfi — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 01:17:15 +0000

I took a bootcamp with them many many years ago and have to agree it was one of the better training experiences. Best wishes on your next chapter.

New comment by butterfi in "NY times is asking that all LLMs trained on Times data be destroyed"

butterfi — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:04:57 +0000

While I don’t necessarily agree with the NYT, I fail to see how or why LLMs are entitled to consume other peoples work for their own material gain.

New comment by butterfi in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

butterfi — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:28:51 +0000

I had to stop using Safari for development when I discovered the cache wasn’t clearing, even when I asked it to. That was a few years ago, and frankly, I’ve never looked back.

New comment by butterfi in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

butterfi — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:26:37 +0000

I’m online a lot and I go to a lot of different websites. I believe people when they say they’ve had issues with Firefox, but personally this is never been an issue I’ve only had to turn off ublock a few times over several years.

New comment by butterfi in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

butterfi — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 17:24:06 +0000

If you want an experience that includes privacy violations, knock yourself out. Personally, as an end user, that is exactly what I don’t want, which is why I use Firefox

New comment by butterfi in "Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate"

butterfi — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 14:27:43 +0000

I just got a Qidi which appears, but I could be mistaken, to be using a licensed version of Prusas software.

New comment by butterfi in "Google Chrome will limit ad blockers starting June 2024"

butterfi — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 21:33:43 +0000

My impression is that security people already consider Chrome a "virus" application. This is just one more nail the coffin for anyone who cares about such things. (To be clear, people should care)

New comment by butterfi in "A coder considers the waning days of the craft"

butterfi — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:27:35 +0000

I tested out GPT-4 the other day and asked it to generate a simple two boxes in a row using Tailwind and hilariously, the resulting code actually crashed my browser tab. I reviewed the code and it was really basic, so this shouldn't have happened at all. But it consistently crashed every time. I'm still not entirely sure what happened, maybe an invisible character or something, I think its more funny than anything else.

New comment by butterfi in "The Best Timed Shot in TV History (Probably)"

butterfi — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 18:20:20 +0000

If you look on YouTube, you can find up-res versions of Mitchell and Webb that look amazing compare to other sources. Maybe the same technique can be used on Connections