Hacker News: danw1979

New comment by danw1979 in "Radiation Map of the World"

danw1979 — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 10:15:16 +0000

This is totally useless. Coverage is almost entirely by a single individual in each area and the colour coding changes every time you scroll and zoom, and doesn’t even make sense when you’re static.

New comment by danw1979 in "Ink droplets in motion snag top prize in Nikon Small World contest"

danw1979 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:52:25 +0000

I will never moan again about having pollen in my eyes during hayfever season.

New comment by danw1979 in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

danw1979 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:55:28 +0000

We’re still a European country.

New comment by danw1979 in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

danw1979 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:52:07 +0000

hi, it’s Hammersmith Bridge and every water company in the UK on line one for you.

New comment by danw1979 in "Fable Took My Job"

danw1979 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:45:02 +0000

You’ve extrapolated my “couldn’t give two shits about work” to “he cares about nothing in this world”.

There’s plenty I’m in control of and have autonomy over. Whether or not my current corporate masters decide to TUPE me again to the next set of cunts isn’t one of them.

New comment by danw1979 in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

danw1979 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 07:59:42 +0000

Do you ever find yourself thinking about something deeply and then someone appears (it could be a child… for me it usually is) and asks you a question completely unconnected to whatever it was you were thinking about, and then - this is the bit that astonishes me - you find yourself answering the question verbally, maybe almost in full before you even re-focus your attention on the little person and whatever it was they asked ?

When I experience this it’s like the conceptual formulation and language expression part of my brain is quite happy to run itself for a few moments before I - the qualia of being me - has decided to experience that moment.

Utterly bonkers. I love it when it happens. It gets me thinking about how weird language and knowledge and consciousness really are.

New comment by danw1979 in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

danw1979 — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 06:44:27 +0000

The first 6 keys are literally someone typing them in lazily on a keyboard. You can almost see their fingers barely moving across the top numeric row as they generate them.

New comment by danw1979 in "The Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is deceiving"

danw1979 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:52:50 +0000

Because most of the world is

New comment by danw1979 in "Fable Took My Job"

danw1979 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:38:57 +0000

Agreed on the healthcare point - it’s way easier to say because I’m British and I don’t need health insurance.

New comment by danw1979 in "Fable Took My Job"

danw1979 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:15:24 +0000

I couldn’t agree more !

New comment by danw1979 in "Fable Took My Job"

danw1979 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:14:54 +0000

Nope, I’m old, with family, been jobless recently.

Experience has taught me that investing the OP’s amount of emotional capital into your job leads to unhappiness.

New comment by danw1979 in "Fable Took My Job"

danw1979 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:11:49 +0000

Well, I don’t have that luxury ! I’m old, I do have a family to support, and I’ve been out of work for 6 months at a time recently, under financial pressure.

I still feel the same way.

New comment by danw1979 in "Fable Took My Job"

danw1979 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:07:23 +0000

> That first meeting crushed my soul. I heard my ears ring more violently than ever. The color drained from the world. I could barely walk straight.

There was a time that I really cared about my work and about my colleagues livelihoods.

Then I realised, it’s just a job. I’ve lost jobs before. I’ve taken shitty, low paid jobs before. It’s just a job. You turn up, they pay you, then you go home to your actual life, the one that matters.

People take their jobs too seriously.

New comment by danw1979 in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

danw1979 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:17:00 +0000

What ? They are literally stopping development in a year.

New comment by danw1979 in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

danw1979 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 06:45:08 +0000

“The trick everyone misses”

New comment by danw1979 in "Claude Opus 5.5"

danw1979 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:52:25 +0000

you win the thread

New comment by danw1979 in "Claude Opus 5.5"

danw1979 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:50:40 +0000

Good point — but I’ll gently push back on that. It’s not an outage, it’s a service degradation.

New comment by danw1979 in "Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes"

danw1979 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:51:28 +0000

I dunno if that works or is any less confusing, to be honest.

I don’t think there’s any process or entity in the physical world that is reasonably familiar to most people that is even remotely suitable as an analogy to public key cryptography.

New comment by danw1979 in "Instagram's head says engagement falls by half without the algorithm"

danw1979 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:10:53 +0000

Good stuff ! When’s it going to prod ?

New comment by danw1979 in "Splash-free urinals (2025)"

danw1979 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:28:39 +0000

The recent introduction, in the UK at least, of splash-back reducing urinal … mats (?) has basically solved the problem in my opinion. They’re a disposable (but not single use…) plastic freshening insert with loads of short rubber strands, closely packed.

You can pee on one of these mats and the stream almost aerates itself on impact and you get basically no splashback, I guess with a similar mechanism to how an aerating tap produces a stream of water that doesn’t splash off whatever it hits.