Hacker News: d4v3

New comment by d4v3 in "Claude Opus 5"

d4v3 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:29:48 +0000

Maybe if we all just sat around "demanding" to not die from disease, then we would be healthy

New comment by d4v3 in "Claude Opus 5"

d4v3 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:43:23 +0000

> If you think technology delivers improvements in living standards rather than all working people demanding better conditions you’re living in an absolute fantasy

Demanding better conditions does not just manufacture the technology, infrastructure, and productivity needed to provide the improvement in the standard of living. I think you're in the fantasy realm, my friend.

New comment by d4v3 in "Postgres locks do not scale"

d4v3 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 22:26:12 +0000

Separate high-frequency operational state from large, flexible, searchable metadata. It is bad data models that don't scale

New comment by d4v3 in "Tokyo has only two barley tea makers, we visited one to see how mugicha is made"

d4v3 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:53:55 +0000

Interesting roasting process with high heat 2x for 1 minute. Quite different than say kilning pilsner malt at low heat for a much longer time. Sure speeds up production, I bet!

New comment by d4v3 in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

d4v3 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:03:24 +0000

More like solvents at the hardware store

New comment by d4v3 in "Show HN: Claudraband – Claude Code for the Power User"

d4v3 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:07:09 +0000

Can't you just tell your AI tool of choice to just port it? One thing I like about AI is that now I can easily roll my own or take an open-source project and customize it really fast with very little commitment on my end. Instead of everyone having to use the exact same tools, now we can customize it to our liking--at least for now

New comment by d4v3 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

d4v3 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:55:19 +0000

If your answer to broken voting is violence, then you were probably just looking for an excuse, not a solution

New comment by d4v3 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

d4v3 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:25:00 +0000

Unfortunately, political violence seems to be en-vogue these days. I even hear people in "real life" casually discussing their support for it. What can we do? I think the only thing we can do is push back on it, even though it doesn't seem fair. What's a favourable alternative? You do a great job here giving individual feedback, which I know some people listen to and take in. I hope it's some kind of comfort to know that you can change people's minds, or at least give them some pause. In today's algorithm-driven world, pushing back seems more important now than any time I can think of. We need cool, level-heads running things.

New comment by d4v3 in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

d4v3 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:04:12 +0000

I mean, if they are using more AI and less of the devs who made it what it is... it might be better? A little tongue-in-cheek, but I find jira and confluence much less annoying now that I just made a claude skill for each of them and now I don't have to interact with their UI very often anymore

New comment by d4v3 in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

d4v3 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:42:38 +0000

Wow, I wish I read this guide months ago when I was trying to research split keyboards. It would have been a lot easier to see what the options are. I eventually settled on the nocfree keyboard and have been relatively happy with it. It definitely helps by letting me split the keyboard very wide and open up the shoulders and back (slightly wider than shoulder distance). It feels like everything these days is trying to squish our shoulders/back into a hunched position. As someone with back issues, I have to mindful of my posture. Split keyboard + adjustable standing desk is great for the scapular area and the lower back for me

New comment by d4v3 in "TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin"

d4v3 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:29:48 +0000

> If I can get distracted from my real world tasks anytime, anywhere, the immediate incentives to work on real things disappear. Effectively, one can get stuck in a local minimum.

> I don't know how to solve it, ...

> but personally I've chosen to block as many feeds/algorithms as I can, ...

I think you solved it :) (at least, for yourself)

There are many things "out there" that are addictive and distracting and thus unhealthy, but we all have to find some way to overcome

New comment by d4v3 in "People who know the formula for WD-40"

d4v3 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:16:11 +0000

Depends on your use case. White lithium is better for metal on metal and silicone works better for plastic and rubber applications

New comment by d4v3 in "The Rise of SQL:the second programming language everyone needs to know"

d4v3 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 23:36:48 +0000

> Sure, write some SQL from time to time, but the majority of the time just use the ORM

So add another layer that has to be maintained/debugged when you don't have to?

New comment by d4v3 in "Toxic "forever chemicals" found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S."

d4v3 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:16:17 +0000

Actually, especially for smaller breweries, carbon filtration is extremely common. It still removes chloramines, pesticides, and other off-flavor compounds, and is much cheaper than an RO system. It's true that it won't change the hardness of the water, but if you have naturally soft water you can just add minerals, if needed for the style

New comment by d4v3 in "Toxic "forever chemicals" found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S."

d4v3 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 14:29:26 +0000

Activated carbon will remove the larger chain PFAs, but is not as effective as removing the smaller ones. From the paper:

> Conventional water treatment employed at municipal drinking water treatment plants have been shown to be nearly ineffective at removing PFAS. This can leave the burden and cost of implementing more sophisticated water treatments to brewers unless public water suppliers implement tertiary treatment to remove PFAS from finished water prior to distribution. Anion exchange and activated carbon treatments have been shown to more effectively remove longer-chain PFAS and PFSAs but were less effective in removing PFCAS and the alternative shorter-chain PFAS and PFECAs. Reverse osmosis treatment showed significant removal of PFAS of different chain lengths in drinking water, but can be prohibitive due to high operational costs and energy usage. In areas with known contamination, beers from macro- breweries were less likely to have detectable PFAS than craft beers brewed at a smaller scale, potentially due to more effective and expensive filtration of tap water at larger breweries.

New comment by d4v3 in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

d4v3 — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 21:47:32 +0000

Because then parents couldn't just shove a screen in front of their child's face and then proceed to ignore them anymore. Half-kidding, but there are real liability concerns. How much supervision is reasonable? My parents definitely didn't police my every moment on the internet. Actually, quite the opposite

New comment by d4v3 in "Vibe code is legacy code"

d4v3 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 10:40:21 +0000

Everyone knows that hackers exist and exploit security lapses. Everyone. You might not know the details and such, but you should responsible enough to at least ask if you are taking people's money. I just don't think the ignorance card is plausible here

New comment by d4v3 in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

d4v3 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 09:24:43 +0000

> They are already suppressing left-leaning speech by defunding CPB, and ahve openly said their reasons for doing so for are politically motivated

No longer subsidizing left leaning speech != suppressing left leaning speech

New comment by d4v3 in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

d4v3 — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:08:32 +0000

big brain dev say, "me add complexity. no problem."

grug whisper: “problem come later.”

grug see lone dev make clever code.

grug light torch for future archaeologist.

New comment by d4v3 in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

d4v3 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 20:01:00 +0000

read this report:

"The White House Covid Censorship Machine"

https://www.congress.gov/118/meeting/house/115561/documents/...