Hacker News: danbrooks

New comment by danbrooks in "Justice Department announces a $1.7B fund to compensate Trump allies"

danbrooks — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:35:18 +0000

Theoretically, the fund is non-partisan. I'd be curious to see what happens if some folks claim to be politically targeted by the current DOJ.

New comment by danbrooks in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

danbrooks — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:28:43 +0000

Check which model you're using.

The fast version of composer is the default now (which costs ~x3 as much).

New comment by danbrooks in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

danbrooks — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:25:18 +0000

This aligns with my understanding.

Before 2018-2019, the opt-in process for data sharing was hidden on a website somewhere. Around that time, the form became part of the vehicle purchasing process.

New comment by danbrooks in "Chess puzzle I found in my dad's old book"

danbrooks — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:07:56 +0000

The instructions likely mean that the bishop itself is black, not the square that it is on.

New comment by danbrooks in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

danbrooks — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:07:13 +0000

This was really fun. I like that holding down space bar gives ~20 clicks per second, which helps speeds things up.

New comment by danbrooks in "Visualize Any Hugging Face Model"

danbrooks — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:30:31 +0000

Most hugging face models are implemented in PyTorch, with an architecture specified as a series of layers. This looks like a nice visualization of that.

New comment by danbrooks in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

danbrooks — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:18:25 +0000

I tried the VS Code + Copilot sidebar approach a few months ago. It was definitely rough around the edges compared to Cursor/Claude. In our corporate environment, we weren't even able to use frontier models.

New comment by danbrooks in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

danbrooks — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:09:58 +0000

Amazing ending. I have been told "no one should be using copilot" - and I agree!

New comment by danbrooks in "AI for American-produced cement and concrete"

danbrooks — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:03:27 +0000

It's not a joke - but it sure feels suspicious :D

New comment by danbrooks in "President's new science council: 9 billionaires and 1 scientist"

danbrooks — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:34:01 +0000

This feels like regulatory capture by the tech industry. Academic research needs representation as well.

New comment by danbrooks in "Show HN: Gemini can now natively embed video, so I built sub-second video search"

danbrooks — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:13:57 +0000

I work in content/video intelligence. Gemini is great for this type of use case out of the box.

New comment by danbrooks in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

danbrooks — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:16:54 +0000

I also prefer the original version - the AI version has a strange vibe.

New comment by danbrooks in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

danbrooks — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:01:28 +0000

Props to Dario and Anthropic for taking a moral stand. A rarity in tech these days.

New comment by danbrooks in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

danbrooks — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:58:51 +0000

I got some emails like this from overseas developers looking to borrow my Linkedin to land a higher paying job.

New comment by danbrooks in "How not to answer the salary question"

danbrooks — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:00:31 +0000

Interesting - I've never had that experience. In my experience the most variable part is the amount of stock/bonus on top of base salary.

New comment by danbrooks in "How not to answer the salary question"

danbrooks — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:35:44 +0000

Yes. I pre-screen job postings to make sure that the compensation is workable before applying.

New comment by danbrooks in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

danbrooks — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:37:38 +0000

Could there be a criminal investigation? CSAM is a serious issue.

New comment by danbrooks in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

danbrooks — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:22:53 +0000

Built a web interface for Magic: the Gathering draft pick advice, trained on top player data.

Website: https://statisticaldrafting.com

Turns out to be a small niche, but I enjoy it!

New comment by danbrooks in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

danbrooks — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 15:33:52 +0000

I made a donation. Props to the PSF for standing up.

New comment by danbrooks in "I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI"

danbrooks — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 22:11:23 +0000

I've heard (second-hand) that bots were instrumental in the decline of online poker popularity.