Hacker News: dare944

New comment by dare944 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

dare944 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:30:03 +0000

Rather like the people crafting the submissions to your 5 day old account

New comment by dare944 in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

dare944 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:42:41 +0000

Oh ffs. How does one draw a line from Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Steve Wozniak, Bill Joy, even Linus Torvalds to 'terrifying overlord'? The fact is that those people who were closet 'terrifying overlords' weren't actually nerds to begin with, because they lacked the essential quality of humility.

New comment by dare944 in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

dare944 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:27:21 +0000

There's no "supposed to" here. Humans, (including governments) are inclined to do bad things; both law and technology are necessary to restrain those tendencies.

New comment by dare944 in "Powering up a module from the IBM 604: an electronic calculator from 1948"

dare944 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:46:23 +0000

Arguably more like soft wired CPU logic, since the contents of the plugboards were not uniformly addressable words.

New comment by dare944 in "My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia, a school I have no connection with"

dare944 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:23:48 +0000

Absolutely. The real moral liability here rests with any organization still using SSNs as a form of secret or authenticating credential. Spend the legal fees to go after these people and the problem will be truly solved.

New comment by dare944 in "The desperation of NYTimes"

dare944 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:28:43 +0000

> Over the course of the next 5 days, they sent me 5 onboarding marketing emails and I could not opt out of any of them.

Such consternation, all for the want of an email filter.

New comment by dare944 in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

dare944 — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:06:52 +0000

Lol, I had a similar thought as well, but more along the lines of "We're coming for you next, JavaScript!"

But the effort is certainly an exquisite rearrangement of the deck chairs, no?

New comment by dare944 in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

dare944 — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:07:10 +0000

Right? Just gross...

New comment by dare944 in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

dare944 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:11:22 +0000

I'm creating a new OS image for UniBone/QBone based on BuildRoot and a streamlined kernel. My goal is sub-five second boot time so you can get to using the host PDP-11 pretty much right away.

New comment by dare944 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

dare944 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:41:26 +0000

Lol. Unfortunately VCs and ever-so-ernest founders are impervious to irony. Best to just let them get their grift on and just be happy it isn't your money they're boondoggling.

New comment by dare944 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

dare944 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:17:31 +0000

Completely unnecessary retort. At no point did anyone in this thread state that sorting legos was a major problem of society.

Rather, the GP merely implied that some parents would love to have a robot to sort their kids legos, and that (ironically) even that unimportant "need" is more important than replacing git.

New comment by dare944 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

dare944 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:20:24 +0000

I have a lot of fun with my old PDP-11s. Being able to run an original version of Unix on a machine with actual core memory (that I restored to working order) is a real kick for me. Gives a sense of depth to the software I run on my modern Linux laptop.

New comment by dare944 in "I Quit. The Clankers Won"

dare944 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:25:18 +0000

"Let them write blogs!"

New comment by dare944 in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

dare944 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:36:31 +0000

Another? Why weren't all the facts checked on the first pass?

New comment by dare944 in "Paper Tape Is All You Need – Training a Transformer on a 1976 Minicomputer"

dare944 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:24:25 +0000

Fun stuff! At one point I wondered about building something similar. But I lack the AI chops, and have too many other projects going on anyway.

I'm curious as to the type of memory in the 11/34. I also have a working PDP-11, an 11/05 with 32KW of actual core. I wonder what performance would be like with EIS emulation grafted in. Stunningly slow, I imagine.

Thanks for publishing this.

New comment by dare944 in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

dare944 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:52:03 +0000

False dichotomy. If your company is at the point of firing lots of people "to save a buck" its way past the point of caring about delivering a better product.

New comment by dare944 in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

dare944 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:40:05 +0000

We wouldn't have these silly arguments?

New comment by dare944 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

dare944 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:21:36 +0000

To do what I want with my own property seems pretty essential to me.

New comment by dare944 in "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

dare944 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:03:00 +0000

Or... kinda like... not the same technique at all, since Congress can legally change the size of the Supreme Court but Trump can't legally ignore its rulings.

New comment by dare944 in "Claude Is Having an Outage"

dare944 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:02:01 +0000

Get out and vibe grass