Hacker News: cabernal

New comment by cabernal in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

cabernal — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:42:55 +0000

there could be recommended runtimes, but shouldn’t the runtime be user-configurable anyway?

New comment by cabernal in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

cabernal — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:26:30 +0000

to be honest probably not

New comment by cabernal in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

cabernal — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:48:19 +0000

I think most free tier users will stick with chatgpt given its brand stickiness and lack of obstacles (disposable login page). If you can run your own llm models you’re definitely not the target demographic

New comment by cabernal in "Testing Ads in ChatGPT"

cabernal — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:41:57 +0000

Can any provider survive without ads? These AI firms are propped up by VC money, they need to create profits at some point and ads is the most surefire way to do this

New comment by cabernal in "Mira Murati leaves OpenAI"

cabernal — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:41:04 +0000

Could be that the road to AGI that OpenAI is taking is basically massive scaling on what they already have, perhaps researchers want to take a different road to AGI.

New comment by cabernal in "Canada’s Big Flex in Space"

cabernal — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:36:03 +0000

This was an opportunity for Canadian VCs/Investors/Gov to invest heavily on AI talent. This isn't what happened; the majority of capital continues to flow to real state. Lacking investment, banks acqui-hired promising talent/startups, those remaining went to the US and now the AI industry in Canada is on life support.

New comment by cabernal in "SlidesGPT – Like ChatGPT for Slides"

cabernal — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 15:57:30 +0000

hug of death?

New comment by cabernal in "Racket 8.4"

cabernal — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:18:42 +0000

Given that Racket isn’t backed by a big institution I don’t think you’ll find better IDE than DrRacket, which is pretty powerful it just doesn’t look great.

Alternatively, as is the case with most lisp/scheme variants, emacs has pretty good support OR you can try the LSP extension for VSCode.

New comment by cabernal in "15k pretty good short sci-fi movies"

cabernal — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 15:15:40 +0000

Not to add to this expansive selection, but I'd like to share this[0] short sci-fi movie that I keep coming back to every year.

It's interesting how much narrative and emotion you can get out of a movie with no visual effects (other than practical props/costumes) and close to no dialog.

This movie is a bit closer to fact than fiction during these times, so do watch at your own discretion.

[0] https://vimeo.com/174158020

New comment by cabernal in "Apache Log4j vulnerability shows the importance of SBOMs of running apps"

cabernal — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:27:50 +0000

Even when the supply chain attacks are not related to the JS ecosystem, JS/NPM gets mocked - inaccurately even...

New comment by cabernal in "I resigned from Twitter"

cabernal — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:14:09 +0000

I might be wrong with what op was referring to though, but if you limit your search to the last 24hr you might find something.

New comment by cabernal in "I resigned from Twitter"

cabernal — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 16:40:51 +0000

I'm not sure if this is what @solmag is referring to, but there was a white nationalist AMA space that was appearing under users' recommendations.

New comment by cabernal in "Enterprise Software Projects Killed the Software Developer"

cabernal — Mon, 30 Aug 2021 18:42:37 +0000

Could you expand on this? A fixed deadline can mean fixed budget, which the majority software projects fall under.

CFA Pass Rate Plummets to Record Low of 25% for Level 1 Exam

cabernal — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:55:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-27/cfa-pass-rate-plummets-to-record-low-of-25-for-level-1-exam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27974665

Points: 2

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New comment by cabernal in "Ask HN: Build my own startup or continue the high paying job?"

cabernal — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:30:38 +0000

Do you have the option to go on a leave of absence? I have friends who have done this to work on their own ideas or go traveling for an undetermined amount of time.

New comment by cabernal in "Fluid Paint"

cabernal — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 10:55:20 +0000

I'm a fan of David Li's work[0]. Most recently he created the Blob Opera[1] which builds up of a lot of his previous experiments

As for recreating some of this work, you could probably start by looking at his github repos[2].

[0] http://david.li/

[1] https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW...

[2] https://github.com/dli

New comment by cabernal in "Shipping containers are falling overboard at a rapid rate"

cabernal — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 01:05:07 +0000

It'll be interesting when these container are found thousands of years into the future, assuming humans (or transhumans) still being around.

New comment by cabernal in "UK court clears post office staff convicted due to ‘corrupt data’"

cabernal — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 13:19:56 +0000

This and the John Deere bug posted earlier make me a bit concerned over the accumulating evidence of unreliable software ruining people's lives...

What can be done? Mandatory audits, pen testing?

If this is an organizational problem, more vacation? limiting overtime? rethinking employee incentives?

New comment by cabernal in "NSFW Server Designation"

cabernal — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 14:26:53 +0000

It's more about liability than deterrence.

New comment by cabernal in "Cycling is more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities"

cabernal — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:52:44 +0000

The trick is to get drivers to follow those markings. Where I live I see cars/trucks regularly park on bike lanes with little repercussion. Add to that a hostility between drivers and cyclists sharing the road; this might just be an issue where I live (Toronto)

Cycling lane poles would be ideal, but a lot of drivers push back on this since they see it as precious space being taken away from them.