Hacker News: danielecook

New comment by danielecook in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

danielecook — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 23:30:45 +0000

I laughed at the animation quite hard - it’s the perfect analogy for the issue at hand!

New comment by danielecook in "Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)"

danielecook — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:14:37 +0000

I place it in the category of “cringe humor,” and by that standard it’s more cringey than Seinfeld and curb - especially because of the first person shots. It is a great show! Well worth a watch.

New comment by danielecook in "Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair"

danielecook — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 01:49:24 +0000

I’m doing math academy and I have two comments. First, the value of this site comes from its content which is very thorough. I think it’s a great way to learn math.

Second - I love the website. It reminds me of what I think of as the golden age of web design where sites were mostly server side rendered with a little jquery / Ajax sprinkled in, and more information density was preferred.

New comment by danielecook in "Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024"

danielecook — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 04:13:05 +0000

I’m concerned about how secure this will be. What happens, for example, if you experience a sim swap attack?

How will apple protect all of your password data in this case?

Will the setup allow for an additional password to prevent hackers from gaining access?

New comment by danielecook in "Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders ID'd in WA plane crash"

danielecook — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 02:56:33 +0000

I’m confused. Does this math check out?

Circumference is 24,901 - so about 1000 mph at equator.

1000 mph / 3600 s / h = 0.27 mps

0.27 * (1/250) = 0.001 miles?

Doing this math on my phone but am I missing something here?

New comment by danielecook in "Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers"

danielecook — Thu, 23 May 2024 15:18:44 +0000

I made something similar a few years ago (https://github.com/danielecook/upvote.pub) and it even hit the front of HN...but couldn't get enough traction. I hope yours sees more success.

New comment by danielecook in "RollerCoaster Tycoon at 25: 'It's mind-blowing how it inspired me'"

danielecook — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:30:01 +0000

Loved this game as a kid. I played the traditional way, but I also had a lot of fun sending the coaster down a steep drop and up short ramp to nowhere so it would go airborne across the park.

New comment by danielecook in "Show HN: Godspeed is a fast, 100% keyboard oriented todo app for Mac"

danielecook — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 04:45:38 +0000

I use a notebook and pen. It's like having another screen, except it's my list of todo's and its always open and in front of me.

I write a list of todos, check them off as I go, then rewrite that list once the page is full or after a few days - leaving off those that are done. I've found it works better than any app (and I have tried many).

New comment by danielecook in "Show HN: Real-time image generation with SDXL Lightning"

danielecook — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:45:46 +0000

This is incredible. The reduction in latency has a profound effect in terms of the way I interact with this type of tool. The speed benefit is more than just more image generation. The speed here helps me easily keep the same train of thought moving along as I try different things.

New comment by danielecook in "Do It Yourself Blind Repair"

danielecook — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 04:33:38 +0000

I wasn't aware of this. It's a pre-owned home. I plan to switch to cordless anyway.

New comment by danielecook in "Do It Yourself Blind Repair"

danielecook — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 01:41:14 +0000

I ordered parts from here after the plastic hunter douglas cradle pieces I had shattered into a million pieces. I didn’t even know what the parts were called but the site had really good technical drawings and pictures of each piece with their names.

Anyways, I’m now considering DIYing some new blinds. My current blinds have 3 cords per window - I am hoping to switch to cordless with a tilt wand (child safety first). Has anyone gone about this before and have any tips?

New comment by danielecook in "Gemini AI"

danielecook — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:57:26 +0000

The text beside it says "Automatic speech recognition (based on word error rate, lower is better)"

New comment by danielecook in "Fannie Mae New Rule: The Better Your Credit Score the Higher Your Mortgage Rate"

danielecook — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 17:16:31 +0000

A false narrative is being pushed here. All conservative outlets are carrying this story without providing any detail or nuance.

New comment by danielecook in "Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation"

danielecook — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 18:13:19 +0000

I lived in North Carolina for a summer. From 7am - 9pm everyday you can hear leaf blowers. It’s absolutely ridiculous how loud those machines are.

I later bought an electric blower and lawn mower. They are super quiet. No exhaust. It helps to have a small yard.

New comment by danielecook in "Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers"

danielecook — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 22:12:46 +0000

A few years ago I created upvote.pub (source code: https://github.com/danielecook/upvote.pub)

It never really caught on - but it was a fun project. I do hope something like this takes off. It was able to import publications using DOIs, PMIDs, PMCids, Arxiv, and Biorxiv.

New comment by danielecook in "Ask HN: How do you exercise?"

danielecook — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 05:45:59 +0000

If you are close enough to work and can find a good route - commute by bike. Forces you to have a routine. 2x workouts a day.

I commute to work by bike and love it.

New comment by danielecook in "Build, gather, brawl, repeat: The history of real-time strategy games (2017)"

danielecook — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:19:32 +0000

I loved playing red alert and command and conquer online when I was younger. It seems like the genre has fallen off.

I recently discovered They Are Billions which I found to be a fun variation of traditional RTS. The goal is to manage resources to build up defenses and defend against large zombie attacks. Single-player only, but I've played it for over 100 hours!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/644930/They_Are_Billions/

New comment by danielecook in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

danielecook — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 22:51:33 +0000

https://www.danielecook.com mostly a technical blog. I added a photos section for fun which is my favorite part.

New comment by danielecook in "Peloton – A call for action [pdf]"

danielecook — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 15:15:31 +0000

Maybe something like this?

https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink

I haven’t used it personally but I think it could be used for this type of research.

New comment by danielecook in "The history of Facebook Marketplace"

danielecook — Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:54:44 +0000

I have used fb marketplace and it’s been great for buying and selling locally. But of course the default listing is polluted with a bunch of irrelevant crap from companies and very low quality ads. I haven’t found a way to set the default to local and for pickup only. The only thing I’m interested in is person to person transactions.