Hacker News: daenney

New comment by daenney in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

daenney — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:58:22 +0000

> We want to help people in the EU, but with laws like replaceable batteries, it's going to push us further and further away from being able to do that.

We want to help people, but only if and when it’s profitable for us to do so on terms we decide for you.

New comment by daenney in "Trump awarded FIFA peace prize"

daenney — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:17:17 +0000

Incredibly corrupt sports organisation awards incredibly corrupt politician the peace prize. Something neither party have any concept of, nor seem to understand the definition of.

I feel for the South Park creators because boy do you have a challenge coming up with absurdity this season.

New comment by daenney in "Do the thinking models think?"

daenney — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:09:55 +0000

No. They do not.

New comment by daenney in "Ask HN: Why isn't anyone using RethinkDB anymore?"

daenney — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:02:25 +0000

There’s a lot of history there:

Rethinkdb is shutting down https://rethinkdb.com/blog/rethinkdb-shutdown/ (2016)

Why we failed https://gist.github.com/ramalho/93b87e961b6e019be8e1f6f82864...

It’s an open source project now and all but once all of that happened I guess a lot of people might not be comfortable to try it again.

Gregg Kellogg has died

daenney — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 12:03:32 +0000

Article URL: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-json-ld-wg/2025Sep/0012.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45210564

Points: 307

# Comments: 49

New comment by daenney in "Polish CEO's company review bombed after stealing hat from child at tennis game"

daenney — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 22:02:14 +0000

“Millionaire steals from child.”

New comment by daenney in "2x Performance, $300k Savings: Rewriting a Critical Service in Rust at TikTok"

daenney — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:31:10 +0000

The title is interesting but the article lacks a lot of background information. There’s no explanation of what the CPU-bound endpoints are, what causes them to be CPU-bound etc. They mention they didn’t think optimising the Go code would’ve given them enough, but there’s nothing to substantiate it and no way for the reader to form their own opinion since we’re never told what the problem is other than “doesn’t scale.”

I have no issue with Rust, there’s nothing wrong with what they did, they approached it sensibly and the results are certainly compelling. But it reads a lot like “we wanted to write something in Rust” and found a reason to do so.

New comment by daenney in "Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and deletes our entire database"

daenney — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:48:21 +0000

In the mean time, the author:

* Has claimed to quit Replit only to be back at it the next day.

* Asked the agent 6-7 times to generate apology letters.

* Is apparently spending $8000/month on "AI agents"

Like I'm not sure but it doesn't seem like this person should have any access to production either, much less the AI.

New comment by daenney in "The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done"

daenney — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 07:42:58 +0000

> While there’s no research to prove its effectiveness [..]

> Originally published in 1996, this article was republished on February 20th, 2025.

Haiku loves Nvidia (porting Nvidia GPU driver)

daenney — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:08:18 +0000

Article URL: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/haiku-nvidia-porting-nvidia-gpu-driver/16520

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43444675

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by daenney in "GOP bill proposes 20 years in jail for anyone who downloads a Chinese AI models [pdf]"

daenney — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:39:40 +0000

Ahhh the free market. In which we make sure to protect OpenAI’s profits.

New comment by daenney in "Multiple airplanes landing gear failures in a day"

daenney — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 10:17:54 +0000

It’s not landing gear failure.

They overshot the runway but that can happen for a variety of reasons. It’s nothing close to the other two.

New comment by daenney in "Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions"

daenney — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:23:22 +0000

There’s one useful paragraph of information in there, and the rest is Matt whining about the consequences of his own actions.

New comment by daenney in "Why Large Language Models Make Things Up (and How to Fix It)"

daenney — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:32:10 +0000

You can’t fix it. LLMs making things up is a consequence of what they are.

The blog post admits as much, because the “fix it” section is actually titled “How To Mitigate AI Hallucination?”

Mitigation makes some bad less severe. But that’s not fixing it.

New comment by daenney in "Shrunked JavaScript monorepo Git size by 94%"

daenney — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 07:36:43 +0000

File name doesn’t necessarily include the whole path. The last 16 characters of CHANGELOG.md is the full file name.

If we interpret it that way, that also explains why the filepathwalk solution solves the problem.

But if it’s really based on the last 16 characters of just the file name, not the whole path, then it feels like this problem should be a lot more common. At least in monorepos.

New comment by daenney in "Ask HN: Developer laptop that doesn't suck in 2024 and it's not Apple silicone"

daenney — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:22:53 +0000

I’ve been very happy and impressed with the Framework AMD edition. I’d steer clear of their Core Ultra Intel edition since that’s Meteor Lake. I use mine for open source development things I do on my own time.

If work supplied me with one of them I’d happily use it. Support has been great and they live up to their upgradable promise.

Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the "thoughts" of OpenAI's latest model

daenney — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:02:41 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openai-threatens-bans-for-probing-new-ai-models-reasoning-process/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41568319

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by daenney in "Show HN: JSON Namespaces"

daenney — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:51:34 +0000

This has been invented multiple times in JSON.

For a widely deployed example, take a look at how JSON-LD uses IRIs for keys and how the context object plays into that. The whole fediverse is built on top of it.

New comment by daenney in "Pixel smartphones delivered with secret but inactive remote maintenance"

daenney — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:03:14 +0000

This is largely the same stuff Wired pushed.

The folks over at GrapheneOS have a much better analysis of this whole thing: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034

New comment by daenney in "Nearly All Google Pixel Phones Exposed by Unpatched Flaw in Hidden Android App"

daenney — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 07:02:51 +0000

This story is bogus. The vulnerability lives in a demo app that’s disabled by default. Enabling that app would require the attacker to have physical access to the device and your passcode.

The folks at GraphebeOS have a thread about it: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112967309987371034