Hacker News: danielsamuels

New comment by danielsamuels in "Choo Choo Words: Spell words to make train tracks, stop the train from crashing"

danielsamuels — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:31:38 +0000

There's an annoying bug where, if you're building off the word the train is currently travelling on, it marks the prior word as invalid, so you can't continue building your extension (even if the train hasn't reached your intersection point yet). This means you auto-fail if the train reaches the current latest word while you're working on the next one.

New comment by danielsamuels in "BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000km range, 5-min charging, 684hp"

danielsamuels — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:38:55 +0000

1MW/800V architecture = 1250A

New comment by danielsamuels in "Claude Opus 4.7"

danielsamuels — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:41:45 +0000

Interesting that despite Anthropic billing it at the same rate as Opus 4.6, GitHub CoPilot bills it at 7.5x rather than 3x.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

danielsamuels — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:02:36 +0000

It's a setting that causes an extra prompt to be placed into the system prompt.

New comment by danielsamuels in "AI-Powered F1 Predictions"

danielsamuels — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:54:02 +0000

This Formula 1 season, I'm putting frontier models to the test - can they use their research capabilities to accurately predict outcomes of races?

AI-Powered F1 Predictions

danielsamuels — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:54:02 +0000

Article URL: https://danielfinch.co.uk/words/2026/03/06/ai-f1-predictions/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47290912

Points: 9

# Comments: 7

New comment by danielsamuels in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

danielsamuels — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:02:01 +0000

It's worth reading his recent comments on this whole affair: https://www.a16z.news/p/emil-michaels-holy-cow-moment-with

New comment by danielsamuels in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

danielsamuels — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:55:48 +0000

Ironically, the site would probably say you can see 20 km from inside the basement.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

danielsamuels — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:35:15 +0000

I'm assuming that when the project says you can see 24 km from a given location, that you can see 24 km from that location. That's not the case. Fundamentally, it doesn't do what it claims to do.

Why allow the user to select any arbitrary location on a map and give an answer when you know the answer is most likely nonsense? You don't need to compute for 2 days to accomplish that; you could just make it up.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

danielsamuels — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:43:38 +0000

The website claims the longest line of sight in my city is 24.7km from someone's garden that is surrounded by houses. I walk past this particular spot on my way to the gym. I walk downhill from my house to get there. I seriously question the reliability of this data.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Zed now predicts your next edit with Zeta, our new open model"

danielsamuels — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 13:20:05 +0000

For reasons that should be obvious, that's not going to work on Windows.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

danielsamuels — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:26:46 +0000

There are already services like Firsty[1] that use an eSIM to achieve this.

1. https://www.firsty.app/

New comment by danielsamuels in "Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?"

danielsamuels — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:18:38 +0000

You would, of course, preserve the copyright and license notices too. Otherwise that would be a violation of the license.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?"

danielsamuels — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:50:34 +0000

> It would be great if there was a "single small file packages" movement so that more lean open source software will be created.

There are certainly npm authors doing this already, feross[1] is a good example. That means you get packages like is-buffer[2].

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/~feross [2]: https://github.com/feross/is-buffer/blob/master/index.js

New comment by danielsamuels in "My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day"

danielsamuels — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 09:28:28 +0000

Can it?

> Service Unavailable

> The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Billionaires-in-space critics are 'largely right', Bezos concedes"

danielsamuels — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:45:29 +0000

I think it's a shame that people have bundled Elon into the Bezos / Branson battle. What Musk is doing is far more useful (and has been for a while now) than the measuring contest that's happening between the other two.

New comment by danielsamuels in "Free Software: An idea whose time has passed?"

danielsamuels — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 13:49:27 +0000

> ...do we all have telemetry in our cars, really? I mean, we have data that can be read via ODBII, but it's not exactly connecting via the cell network, it has to be retrieved with a plug.

Nissans do, my Leaf does. They connect to a mobile network or WiFi and upload data.

https://www.nissan.co.uk/ownership/nissan-infotainment-syste...

New comment by danielsamuels in "No support Linux hosting shutting down from hack"

danielsamuels — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:40:51 +0000

They don't help anyone, including themselves

New comment by danielsamuels in "Barcode scanner app on Google Play infects 10M users with one update"

danielsamuels — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 09:16:23 +0000

It's built into the camera app

New comment by danielsamuels in "Teamspeak 5 to be based on the Matrix protocol"

danielsamuels — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 09:00:40 +0000

Hmm, their developers seem to imply otherwise:

> TS.ChrisR - TeamSpeak Staff - 30d

> We use the Matrix protocol only for the messenger part.

https://community.teamspeak.com/t/beta-signup/13749/50

Other mentions of it here:

https://community.teamspeak.com/t/teamspeak-development-stat...

Matrix themselves talked about it: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/09/this-week-in-matrix-2020-...