Hacker News: danielrmay

New comment by danielrmay in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

danielrmay — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:42:14 +0000

Thanks for making Hister, I've been using it for a few days (~7k docs) and I'm impressed so far.

New comment by danielrmay in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

danielrmay — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:17:02 +0000

I had an eerily similar experience interviewing at a similar public SaaS co recently.

New comment by danielrmay in "Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative"

danielrmay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:45:58 +0000

Ten years ago, maybe

New comment by danielrmay in "Bending Spoons buying Miro for $1.355B"

danielrmay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:10:59 +0000

Wow, this might seal the deal for "SaaS-pocalypse". I imagine the upside is high for Spoons considering the wealth of data and a well-oiled product enshittification playbook.

New comment by danielrmay in "The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts"

danielrmay — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:08:34 +0000

"I hope our names are touching on the watchlist"

New comment by danielrmay in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

danielrmay — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:07:32 +0000

Choosing what to remember is my biggest challenge!

New comment by danielrmay in "Show HN: We Implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in Linux, Libc, and BGP"

danielrmay — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:55:11 +0000

This is absurd and I love it.

New comment by danielrmay in "llama.cpp"

danielrmay — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:18:36 +0000

As an example, webfonts can make rendered text differ from the underlying text that ends up on your clipboard.

New comment by danielrmay in "llama.cpp"

danielrmay — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:00:09 +0000

Rendered text cannot be assumed to equal the underlying text, unfortunately

New comment by danielrmay in "Tell HN: I hate your fuzzy search"

danielrmay — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:34:25 +0000

This, and some results smartly ignoring the selected sort order because gmail suggests you "follow up", both work together to paint a vivid picture of a disassociated product team who no longer understands their customer.

New comment by danielrmay in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

danielrmay — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:36:21 +0000

Fascinating, and arguably an illustration of why the bifurcation of responsibility is interesting in the first place.

New comment by danielrmay in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

danielrmay — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:18:17 +0000

I see. It still feels like a bit of an oddly solemn way of saying "this is the part we admit responsibility for"

New comment by danielrmay in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

danielrmay — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:09:09 +0000

I'm enjoying learning about these hard problems, but this line about credit made me chuckle:

> We helped prepare the manuscripts and formalize the proofs in Lean, and we take responsibility for their correctness

Offering to take responsibility for the correctness of a proof written in Lean feels like volunteering to be the fall guy in case someone finds a flaw in basic arithmetic, no?

New comment by danielrmay in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

danielrmay — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:01:52 +0000

Interesting to see they shipped an "anti-slop" taste skill:

> description: Anti-slop frontend skill for landing pages, portfolios, and redesigns. The agent reads the brief, infers the right design direction, and ships interfaces that do not look templated. Real design systems when applicable, audit-first on redesigns, strict pre-flight check.

> - *PREMIUM-CONSUMER PALETTE BAN (mandatory, second-most-recurring AI-tell):* - For premium-consumer briefs (cookware, wellness, artisan, luxury, heritage craft, DTC home goods, etc.)... - Backgrounds: `#f5f1ea`, `#f7f5f1`...

> Landing pages and portfolios are *visual products*. Text-only pages with fake-screenshot divs are slop.

https://github.com/yc-software/qm/blob/7f2c916360f1797a8ff2a...

New comment by danielrmay in "98.css"

danielrmay — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:57:55 +0000

I remember this behavior. I think it would be more historically accurate to omit pointer cursors on expandable treeview items, too

New comment by danielrmay in "Show HN: A new kind of FPS aim trainer"

danielrmay — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:43:31 +0000

Neat project. I wonder how a small model could interpret movement data to provide personalized improvement suggestions e.g. "you're weaker targeting left than right, but only under these conditions"

New comment by danielrmay in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

danielrmay — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:46:50 +0000

I think as I've gotten older, the fear of expressing myself has increasingly turned into a sense of duty to do it anyway. The more people feel pressured into silence, the more important it seems not to be.

New comment by danielrmay in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

danielrmay — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:54:37 +0000

Have you tried asking for an SVG with the same level of detail you specified in that prompt, though? https://github.com/simonw/pedalican/blob/main/run/prompts/ro...

I'd be interested to see what comes out, but it also highlights an curious prompt-control-comparison question

New comment by danielrmay in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

danielrmay — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:37:58 +0000

What does good look like?

New comment by danielrmay in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

danielrmay — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:39:36 +0000

Asylum-seekers, domestic abuse victims, sex trafficking victims, indentured servitude and modern slavery, etc. Access to guidance on government websites represents a way out of society's most dangerous situations for vulnerable people, and getting caught browsing the wrong help article can be risky. Automated intelligent surveillance isn't outside of the realms of the imagination, either, which is troubling