Hacker News: dana321

New comment by dana321 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

dana321 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:51:45 +0000

You are not using as much of your brain (solving problems, thinking etc.) so you end up in a cycle of becoming stupider and stupider the more you use ai, so eventually your prompts get worse and worse then you start asking "why is it not working as good as it was two weeks ago"

New comment by dana321 in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

dana321 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:30:50 +0000

The attention economy, that is the game - there isn't anything else to it now.

Without attention you're nothing.

New comment by dana321 in "Britain today generating 90%+ of electricity from renewables"

dana321 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:24:01 +0000

Yes, because its windy today

New comment by dana321 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

dana321 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:38:39 +0000

You don't need and apple account to use macos

New comment by dana321 in "Vibe-Coded Ext4 for OpenBSD"

dana321 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:30:28 +0000

click to continue

New comment by dana321 in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

dana321 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:30:26 +0000

Its kind of a miracle that any working game gets made on unreal engine considering how buggy the editor is.

New comment by dana321 in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

dana321 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:31:32 +0000

Thats a lot of money to (attempt to) remake Ready Player One, and then abandon it??

New comment by dana321 in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

dana321 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:17:34 +0000

All the models ignore specific instructions most of the time.

It requires follow-up instructions to get it to do what you want.

By the time its farted around and you have farted around reprompting it you could have done the change yourself.

New comment by dana321 in "Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit over Its AI 'Expert Review' Feature"

dana321 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:12:32 +0000

Shocking that they did this without permission.

New comment by dana321 in "Digg is gone again"

dana321 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:43:08 +0000

That and most of the news being behind a paywall, which they can scrape anyway.

The internet archive is my safe haven these days, i can go back and remember the old internet.

New comment by dana321 in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

dana321 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:31:08 +0000

Not many people know this, but you can use wine on macos.

brew install wine-stable

or package any windows app with your own environment:

brew install --cask Sikarugir-App/sikarugir/sikarugir

New comment by dana321 in "I Left Anthropic: A note and a letter to former colleagues"

dana321 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:52:27 +0000

clutch

New comment by dana321 in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

dana321 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:39:04 +0000

This is a brilliant idea for webassembly, implementing the core browser features as libraries - they should do it.

(though i do like the open code nature of the internet even if a lot of the javascript source code is unreadable and/or obfuscated)

New comment by dana321 in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

dana321 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:09:23 +0000

Its useful but it makes wrong assumptions, not checking the code is essentially gambling.

New comment by dana321 in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

dana321 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:15:38 +0000

Generating small chunks of code with llms to save time works well, as long as you can read and understand the code i don't see what the problem is.

New comment by dana321 in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"

dana321 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:35:47 +0000

They could have just used cranelift for jit, but no..

New comment by dana321 in "Show HN: The Mog Programming Language"

dana321 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:34:57 +0000

Its disheartening to see these crop up after spending 25 years through trial and error learning how to write programming languages.

Please think twice before releasing these, if you're going to do it come up with at least one original idea that nobody else has done before.

Why didn't you just call it "bad rust copy"?

New comment by dana321 in "Never Bet Against x86"

dana321 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:56:25 +0000

You mean never bet against AMD64

New comment by dana321 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

dana321 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:29:00 +0000

The clue is in the name, research "gate"

New comment by dana321 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

dana321 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:55:04 +0000

And.. how do they not know its their software being leaky and causing these bitflips?

These are potential bitflips.

I found an issue only yesterday in firefox that does not happen in other browsers on specific hardware.

My guess is that the software is riddled with edge-case bugs.