Hacker News: danillonunes

New comment by danillonunes in "I Won't Buy You a Coffee"

danillonunes — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:38:30 +0000

Not a native English speaker, so I may be far off on this discussion, but for me this kind of activity where you write a blog post and ask for donations is closer to busking than to begging.

New comment by danillonunes in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

danillonunes — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:34:20 +0000

I use an specific email address for github and git commits and I can assure you people were scraping github for a while, even before AI.

New comment by danillonunes in "Microsoft surprises with its first server Linux distribution: Azure Linux 4.0"

danillonunes — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:36:28 +0000

It's funny how back in the days we used to think the worse a big corporation could do is charge you money. Those were simpler times.

New comment by danillonunes in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

danillonunes — Tue, 05 May 2026 05:48:09 +0000

This makes sense if someone bought a ticket and didn't showed up, but what if none was sold? They could just stop selling after a certain time and be sure nobody will be there late.

New comment by danillonunes in "Folk are getting dangerously attached to AI that always tells them they're right"

danillonunes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:08:48 +0000

> I am constantly amazed at how much they "fall" for the LLM, often believing it's sentient.

Cynical part of me had this theory that, at least for part of them, it's the other way around. It's not that they see AI as sentient, it's that they never have seen other human beings like that in the first place. Other people are just means for them to reach their goals, or obstacles. In that sense, AI is not really different for them. Except they're cheaper and be guaranteed to always agree with them.

That's why I believe CEOs, who are more likely to be sociopaths by natural selection, genuinely believe AI is a good replacement for people. They're not looking for individuals with personal thoughts that may contradict with theirs at some point, they're looking for yes-men as a service.

New comment by danillonunes in "GitHub is once again down"

danillonunes — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:05:05 +0000

It's a version of the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

New comment by danillonunes in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

danillonunes — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:47:50 +0000

Beggars in fact can be choosers. If I give a beggar a rotten sandwich he can look at it and say "nah, I'm good". He can even be less polite and call me names for trying to give him food that is not good to eat. Why would I do that anyway? Well, maybe because I'm trying to build an image that I am a charitable person but I don't want to actually have the effort and costs of producing for him a fresh sandwich. In this scenario why people would take the beggars side.

New comment by danillonunes in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

danillonunes — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:51:49 +0000

Can't risk hiring an amateur and he accidently succeeded.

New comment by danillonunes in "The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable"

danillonunes — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:10:29 +0000

This would only take away credibility from Bolt. Specially for something that has so little subjectivity as "running fast". I this really happened the most likely case is that Bolt joined a cult and got brainwashed to believe the cult leader is faster than him.

New comment by danillonunes in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

danillonunes — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:00:53 +0000

Make it sound more empowering:

"Let Copilot decide where you want to go today!"

New comment by danillonunes in "Put SSH keys in .git to make repos USB-portable"

danillonunes — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:14:45 +0000

Yes, you can run in your local git repo:

  git config core.sshCommand "ssh -i /home/your_user/.ssh/your_custom_key"

(I believe replacing "/home/your_user" with "~" works too)

I use this all the time as my main key is ed25519 but some old repositories only support rsa keys.

The sshCommand config is, as the name says, the literal ssh command that is used by git when operations that call a remote with ssh (usually push/pull). You can also put other ssh options in there if you need.

Another option to achieve the same effect is to setup directly in your ~/.ssh/config:

  Host your_custom_alias
    HostName git.domain.com
    User git
    IdentityFile ~/.ssh/your_custom_key

then instead of "git clone git@git.domain.com:repo.git" you clone it with "git clone your_custom_alias:repo.git" (or you change the remote if is already cloned). In this case you don't need to have to change the git sshCommand option.

New comment by danillonunes in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

danillonunes — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:05:26 +0000

> My rate of thinking is faster than typing, so the bottleneck has switched from typing to thinking!

Unless you're neuralinking to AI, you're still typing.

What changed is what you type. You type less words to solve your problem. The machine does the conversion from less words to more words. At the expense of less precision: the machine can do the conversion to the incorrect sequence of more words.

New comment by danillonunes in "Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s"

danillonunes — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:09:07 +0000

I think it's weird having an arbitrary minimum age to be president. I would probably never vote for someone in their 20s anyway, but I don't think there should be a legal barrier. In my country (Brazil) it's the same age, but we usually just copy US in think kind of policy. I wonder how common it's in the rest of the world.

New comment by danillonunes in "X.com is gonna snitch you out to the public if you use a VPN"

danillonunes — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:30:47 +0000

They don't care about being American. They want the sweet American dollars that X is paying for engagement. They figured out the MAGA crowd is the easiest to engage, so that's where they go.

New comment by danillonunes in "I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today"

danillonunes — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:54:37 +0000

Seems like when the security market is low on the white hat side, it's high on the black hat one. Security people just need to learn to adapt.

New comment by danillonunes in "Animals could easily be talking to us if we tried"

danillonunes — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:04:42 +0000

And of course there's AI!

New comment by danillonunes in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

danillonunes — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:52:29 +0000

> In the AT protocol, your identity isn't tied to a server.

It kinda is. Your identity is in the hands of whoever controls the PLC Directory. You can argue this is better than having your account and identity on the same place, but it still a third party that you depends on.

New comment by danillonunes in "Why I gave the world wide web away for free"

danillonunes — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:46:00 +0000

Payment Request API is a thing and it looks kinda nice, except apparently nobody cares about it.

New comment by danillonunes in "Gentoo AI Policy"

danillonunes — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:20:04 +0000

Curl's case was related with its bug bounty, so when involving money the incentives are different.

New comment by danillonunes in "The madness of SaaS chargebacks"

danillonunes — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:23:56 +0000

> Imagine if companies automatically paused billing if you stopped using their product? Panacea.

Beeminder does exactly that!

https://blog.beeminder.com/autocancel