Hacker News: cocoacat

New comment by cocoacat in "Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years"

cocoacat — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:06:52 +0000

gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/bbc-guy-go...

New comment by cocoacat in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

cocoacat — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:38:42 +0000

Their stock has gone down nearly 20% in early trading today. When layoffs happen, usually it is the opposite, so I imagine Matthew Prince must be annoyed!

I am disappointed by this decision from Cloudflare. I've always felt that massive layoffs are something that companies who are greedy and don't care about their employees do (like Amazon and Meta). Up until now, my impression of Cloudflare has been that they care about their societal impact to an extent and still share old values from how tech companies used to be. Maybe they're starting the downward make-money-at-all-costs spiral that has gripped the rest of tech.

New comment by cocoacat in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

cocoacat — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:47:02 +0000

Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054386

New comment by cocoacat in "Meta RayBan AR glasses shows Lumus waveguide structures in leaked video"

cocoacat — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:16:11 +0000

I want to say they were referencing this video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EqwcxH1h2Eo

(Warning it is a youtube short)

New comment by cocoacat in "Should We Decouple Technology from Everyday Life?"

cocoacat — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:35:31 +0000

I feel the same way. When my apartment got new locks, we could only unlock the doors with our phone. I refused to download the app, so I had to wait outside until someone could let me in. On a similar note I refused to keep a web browser on my phone because I would use it to constantly check the news or other sites. Every once in a while I had to scan a QR code, but I just quickly downloaded a browser then deleted it. Unfortunately with the new iPhone update you are required to have a browser on your phone. Now I must rely on self-control alone!

Surgeon general wants to require warning labels for social media

cocoacat — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 23:02:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/health/surgeon-general-social-media-warning-label.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40712184

Points: 20

# Comments: 3

Text-to-Speech with Speaker Diarization based on Whisper

cocoacat — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 00:09:35 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/m-bain/whisperX

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40558160

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Visualizing Algorithms

cocoacat — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 01:33:28 +0000

Article URL: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39171831

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

How to download your Google data

cocoacat — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 19:04:44 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38747038

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Google AI Discovers 2.2M Crystal Structures

cocoacat — Sun, 03 Dec 2023 02:19:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/11/googles-deepmind-finds-2-2m-crystal-structures-in-materials-science-win/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504196

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces

cocoacat — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:19:21 +0000

Article URL: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38385266

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Scrabble Score Calculator

cocoacat — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:42:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thekatespanos.com/scrabble-score-calculator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38241738

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Bug Hunters' Perspectives on the Challenges and Benefits of Bug Bounties [pdf]

cocoacat — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 00:58:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~akgul/papers/bug-bounties.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37993721

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cocoacat in "How plants communicate with each other when in danger"

cocoacat — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 22:55:30 +0000

A book from an environmentalist author that explores similar themes is "Finding the Mother Tree" by Suzanne Simard. I think about the interconnectedness of plants frequently when I walk in the woods now.

A Controversial Tool Calls Out Thousands of Hackable Websites

cocoacat — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 04:15:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/punkspider-web-site-vulnerabilities/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37816876

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Haskell is Faster Than C?

cocoacat — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 20:23:19 +0000

Article URL: https://ericnormand.me/podcast/how-is-haskell-faster-than-c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37805198

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by cocoacat in "Strong static typing, a hill I'm willing to die on"

cocoacat — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 18:26:06 +0000

But in my experience I have also experienced the opposite. I have seen people casually reuse variables by reassigning them to a new type or developing a single function that returns different types. With dynamically typed languages it sometimes feels like you can take messy shortcuts because they let you.

How I made my first $10k on a not supported FoT token bug

cocoacat — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 18:14:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.beirao.xyz/blog/BB1-DFX

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37527054

Points: 3

# Comments: 0