Hacker News: dannygarcia

New comment by dannygarcia in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

dannygarcia — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:41:50 +0000

Or worse, misaligned with the Terms of Service.

New comment by dannygarcia in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

dannygarcia — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:45:30 +0000

After wearing an Apple Watch for almost a decade, the F-91W became my new "never take off" watch. For daily use, the only thing I miss from a smartwatch is a weather+temp forecast complication. Interestingly, it doesn't seem like this F-B100W-1A provides that (yet).

New comment by dannygarcia in "Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers"

dannygarcia — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 04:49:26 +0000

It does. It'll also let you do cost basis adjustments just like TurboTax.

New comment by dannygarcia in "Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone"

dannygarcia — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:41:10 +0000

It's very easy. I've done this by accident. One of my side projects helps users price the affordability of a particular kind of product. When I ask various LLMs "can I afford X" or "how much do I need to earn to buy X", my project comes up as a source/reference. I currently manually crawl retailers for the MSRP so these numbers are usually months out of date!

New comment by dannygarcia in "Show HN: WebGPU + TypeScript Slime Mold"

dannygarcia — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 03:40:27 +0000

Unfortunately not out of the box but the demo runs really well on M4 chips. It can be enabled as such (I'm on Sequoia): 1. Safari > Settings > Advanced > Show features for web developers 2. Develop > Feature Flags > Search for WebGPU

Safari Tech Preview may have it enabled by default.

New comment by dannygarcia in "Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser"

dannygarcia — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 18:13:45 +0000

My biggest concern with an online service is privacy (either bad actors or the web app getting hacked). I used an online mortgage service that was fully paperless with the exception of a single document. Just ran it through a few imagemagick commands to add rotation, noise, contrast, etc. My home printer wasn't working so it was either that or buy a whole new one.

New comment by dannygarcia in "Show HN: MockRocket – 3D app mockups and animations in the browser"

dannygarcia — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 21:06:51 +0000

This is an awesome tool! I created my own promo in Blender for a personal site project* some time ago and it was a real pain getting the screen content to render accurately and contrast well off of the device. Do you have any concerns with consistency across different devices/GPUs since you're doing everything client-side? Nice to see the attention to detail you put into this.

* https://twitter.com/dannygarcia/status/1220401033064484864

New comment by dannygarcia in "Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings"

dannygarcia — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 20:38:31 +0000

The Nature of Code book is a great resource. Dan also deep dives on specific topics on his YouTube channel.

- https://natureofcode.com/book/

- https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCodingTrain

New comment by dannygarcia in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

dannygarcia — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 18:55:21 +0000

After spending a month of nights and weekends building this I'm not sure whether to scrap it or continue working on it - possibly monetizing advanced features:

https://allocator.app/

New comment by dannygarcia in "Ask HN: What are the best advanced computer science courses online?"

dannygarcia — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 01:05:58 +0000

I would say Roughgarden's four CS Algorithms courses on Coursera are somewhat more advanced than CS50: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/algorithms

It covers foundational topics like asymptotic notation. However there is some reading required if you a C in high school calculus like me.

New comment by dannygarcia in "Ask HN: Jack-of-all-trades of HN, how do you approach job search?"

dannygarcia — Thu, 29 Oct 2020 17:38:23 +0000

One trick is to apply as a specialist for a given role. During the interviews ask questions that give you a sense for how easy it is to generalize internally.

You can automate your resume-specialization by building a template in HTML, store role details in a DB (a JSON file would do), and generate unique PDFs with `weasyprint`. Something like `11ty` or `jekyll` makes this fairly doable.

Show HN: I built Allocator from an old spreadsheet to teach myself React

dannygarcia — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:28:30 +0000

Article URL: https://allocator.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754664

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by dannygarcia in "Ask HN: Good articles/courses for understanding mathematical notation?"

dannygarcia — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:01:05 +0000

Here are a few notation resources I've found helpful when teaching myself computer science:

- Mathematics for Computer Science: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

- Calculus Made Easy: http://calculusmadeeasy.org

Not directly related to your question but useful for interviews and programming puzzles nonetheless:

- Algorithms and Data Structures, The Basic Toolbox: https://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ftp/Mehlhorn-Sanders...

- Basic Proof Techniques: https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~cytron/547Pages/f14/IntroToProofs...

New comment by dannygarcia in "Tolstoy’s Children’s Stories"

dannygarcia — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 20:17:55 +0000

> Folktales were not originally for children.

I learned this the hard way. I purchased a beautifully made "Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales" to read to my then toddler. There are some particularly disturbing stories but I was surprised by how many were flat out nonsensical or silly (like The Story of a Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear [0]). It's fascinating to read these in their (translated) original form. Not your typical bedtime story.

[0] https://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm004.html

New comment by dannygarcia in "I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit"

dannygarcia — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:51:27 +0000

Curious if you're being facetious or genuinely flummoxed but it looks like a poetry periodical published in the format of industrial freight.

New comment by dannygarcia in "Millionaire hacker gets 9 years in death of man building nuclear bunker tunnels"

dannygarcia — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:22:16 +0000

Direct link to the episode which includes images: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/39/

This podcast has been around for a while but I recently discovered it and has become a personal favorite.

New comment by dannygarcia in "U.S. adults are spending big on video games, playing mostly on smartphones"

dannygarcia — Thu, 09 May 2019 19:27:05 +0000

The purchasing analysis is interesting as it doesn't seem to take into account ads on mobile games.

Here's a direct link to the press release: http://www.theesa.com/article/65-american-adults-enjoy-playi...

And this is the Essential Facts PDF: http://www.theesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/EssentialFa...

New comment by dannygarcia in "NOAA Interactive Smoke Map Visualization"

dannygarcia — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:27:47 +0000

Here's how I use this forecasting tool which has made it great for planning my bicycling commute in the Bay Area these past smoky days: 1) Enable the Near Surface Smoke layer under HRRR. 2) Click the timestamp at the bottom to switch to formatted date/time.

NOAA Interactive Smoke Map Visualization

dannygarcia — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 00:24:58 +0000

Article URL: https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18455685

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dannygarcia in "Ask HN: How do you keep track of the articles you want to read?"

dannygarcia — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:44:17 +0000

I used to rely heavily on pinboard.in but I noticed two things: most of my devices are iOS & MacOS (Safari & iCloud everywhere) and I almost never went back to re-read articles I had already read. So now I track everything through Reading List https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT200294 and prune as I read.