Hacker News: daledavies

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

daledavies — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:45:35 +0000

Eek I bet there are a few people at Instructure who won't be getting much sleep tonight!

New comment by daledavies in "Ask HN: How did you learn to code?"

daledavies — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:37:02 +0000

Playing with AMOS basic on the Amiga in the mid 90s, then later with pascal in college. Eventually came back to it with web development as a career.

New comment by daledavies in "Is GitHub Down?"

daledavies — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:37:42 +0000

Yeah it is for me

New comment by daledavies in "Ask HN: How many of you are working in tech without a STEM degree?"

daledavies — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:46:29 +0000

Software developer of 17 years without any form of IT degree, I do have a degree though.

Every Noise at Once

daledavies — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 06:47:42 +0000

Article URL: https://everynoise.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44452334

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems

daledavies — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:11:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/the-faa-seeks-to-eliminate-floppy-disk-usage-in-air-traffic-control-systems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215197

Points: 147

# Comments: 189

New comment by daledavies in "Re: My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

daledavies — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:07:35 +0000

This is the digital divide, where students from more wealthy backgrounds can afford access to better LLM subscriptions, and are able to achieve more "academically".

YouTuber claims to have received an offer to buy the Commodore brand

daledavies — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 06:55:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00029-EN.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44215117

Points: 80

# Comments: 34

Famous Amiga Uses

daledavies — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 07:26:07 +0000

Article URL: https://wigilius.se/amiga/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44149220

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by daledavies in "Message stuck in Kafka queue for months delivered, writes bestselling novel"

daledavies — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 07:55:26 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed reading

Are rotary mixers better?

daledavies — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 06:25:26 +0000

Article URL: https://djmag.com/features/are-rotary-mixers-actually-better

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41960272

Points: 32

# Comments: 66

Happy 21st Birthday, Moodle

daledavies — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 21:21:57 +0000

Article URL: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=449635

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37215538

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by daledavies in "Was your degree really worth it?"

daledavies — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:36:49 +0000

I'm very happy I did my degree and think back on my time in university with fond memories. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute I was there, every lesson, essay and project, it is because of this I came out with a very high grade.

My lifelong career as a software developer has absolutely nothing to do with the subject of my degree, but it set me up in ways that I would have never learned on my own.

New comment by daledavies in "Norway: Landlines will no longer be supported"

daledavies — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 07:14:14 +0000

Things seem to be changing. We're with BT and would have had to pay a lot extra for a phone line.

New comment by daledavies in "Galactica: an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge (by Meta)"

daledavies — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 20:31:04 +0000

https://galactica.org/?prompt=Yes+or+no%3F

Yes

New comment by daledavies in "Ask HN: What are your “scratch own itch” projects?"

daledavies — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 14:49:11 +0000

A little startpage/bookmark solution to go on my home server, listing the services that run on it...

https://github.com/daledavies/jump

New comment by daledavies in "Facebook has a hidden tool to delete your phone number, email"

daledavies — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:04:41 +0000

Hahaha yes indeed! Although I'm pretty sure they know everything there is to know about me anyway.

New comment by daledavies in "Facebook has a hidden tool to delete your phone number, email"

daledavies — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 22:17:35 +0000

Seems broken anyway. I requested it look for my phone number but never received a confirmation code.

New comment by daledavies in "Ask HN: Do people not have hobbies anymore?"

daledavies — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 15:28:14 +0000

Totally. My wife started baking as a hobby and almost everyone she spoke to said variations of "you could make a packet selling these".

So I made her website and she tried making a business out of it, ruined the hobby for her forever.

New comment by daledavies in "I wish my web server were in the corner of my room"

daledavies — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:33:11 +0000

I have a cron job that updates my domain's records at digitalocean every hour via their API. But in practice my ISP only actually seems to issue a new IP if I restart my router.