Hacker News: dave7

New comment by dave7 in "Hacker News front page as a site"

dave7 — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:09:46 +0000

I love it! I discovered it'll switch to a 3 column view if I take the zoom to 200%, I'd maybe prefer it at less but it's a bit tricky to guess if that's true or not. Regardless, it's very nice. And infinite scroll for the hackernews feed is a bonus!

New comment by dave7 in "Google’s AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

dave7 — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:23:30 +0000

Maybe Google could come up with some fancy algorithm to give variable weight to the source pages, some sort of ranking system for pages on the web, instead of just assuming any random page contains 100% truth. Perhaps counting the tally of other pages on the web linking to this one might be one clue that this is a particularly highly ranked page? It would be quite the revolutionary idea!

New comment by dave7 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

dave7 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:38:41 +0000

llcat looks like it could be very handy, thank you!

New comment by dave7 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

dave7 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:27:17 +0000

> But, if you were asking (and I'm not sure that you are)

I was wondering, so thank you!

New comment by dave7 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

dave7 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:42:10 +0000

TFT Central is still very good imo.

New comment by dave7 in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

dave7 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:11:25 +0000

This is correct. I'm a UK Discord user, so I've been subject to these requirements for ~6 months now. It's basically nothing - I'm in near 50 "servers", of them all I only really can think of one channel in one of them that is flagged "nsfw" and thus blocked to me as I never ID'd myself.

If you don't use Discord as a source of "nsfw" content you can comfortably ignore these requirements. I do realize there are some communities that may fare a lot worse than my gaming / software dev interests, and may be falsely claimed "nsfw" just for their existence. Which yeah, that absolutely sucks.

New comment by dave7 in "Basic Math Textbook: The Napkin Project"

dave7 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:58:18 +0000

Thank you for the recommendation, that sounds much more like my level at the moment!

New comment by dave7 in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

dave7 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:58:18 +0000

Microsoft intend to deprecate V2 and move fully to V3 basically as soon as they can, pretty much in lockstep with Google:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-...

New comment by dave7 in "How to Run DeepSeek R1 671B Locally on a $2000 EPYC Server"

dave7 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:09:33 +0000

The board recommended has 16 ram slots.

New comment by dave7 in ""We ran out of columns""

dave7 — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:21:35 +0000

For online Poker, one of the current database tools runs in to this issue - PokerTracker 4 (PT4).

These tracker databases are usually used to generate a HUD - numerical readouts surrounding each player shown on the table. PT allows for custom HUDs to be saved/exported/shared, and there is a cottage industry building and selling such HUDS. These HUDs can often bundle hundreds of custom stats - basically a subset of SQL queries, a simple example would be "times_raised / opportunities_to_raise WHERE position= 'button'", that sort of thing.

For performance reasons these custom stats are cached, which obviously makes some sense. However, each cached stat creates a new column in the custom_cache table of PT4's current database, a PostgreSQL 9.0 backend. If you play mostly Heads-Up SNG or the 3-handed Spins, it's actually quite easy to go over the (IIRC) 4096 column limit there by purchasing and importing one too many fancy HU HUD packages!

This completely borks PT4, it can no longer open - and players can no longer make money! In my previous work, I've supported many a player and fixed this "too many columns" error numerous times (by deleting enough custom HUDs from their account until the PT4 can start up correctly once more). Funny to see this pop up elsewhere!

New comment by dave7 in "Intel confirms no recall for Raptor Lake CPUs,microcode won't fix affected units"

dave7 — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 21:24:41 +0000

> Isn't RUMINT on the Intel problem that, even though it's nominally a chip problem, it may occur primarily due to motherboards not following guidance?

That was merely Intel's first attempt at deflection / damage control. Kernel of truth to it, of course.

New comment by dave7 in "I'm giving up on open source"

dave7 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:42:53 +0000

An interesting project, from what I can tell it's a JavaScript version of AutoHotkey's window interaction features? (also it works on Linux and Mac!) Very cool!

New comment by dave7 in "Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2"

dave7 — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 07:33:38 +0000

I expect this will be resolved with an update quickly, but ExplorerPatcher is wonderful and absolutely key to my enjoyment of Windows 11.

New comment by dave7 in "Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators"

dave7 — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 11:51:19 +0000

If you aren't familiar with it, Synplant 2 VST does an incredible "sample -> synth patch" for almost any sound you give it

New comment by dave7 in "The Game Awards raises an old question: What does indie mean?"

dave7 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:22:14 +0000

Excellent, that's the one! Sorry, too late to edit. Perfect definition I think.

New comment by dave7 in "The Game Awards raises an old question: What does indie mean?"

dave7 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:08:00 +0000

Those "not triple-A" games are often called "AA" to mean "bankrolled, but not blockbuster".

New comment by dave7 in "The Game Awards raises an old question: What does indie mean?"

dave7 — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:05:45 +0000

Can't remember who said it, I think probably Rami Ismall? But I can't find the source. Something like: "If there is another person, company or entity that while not actually working on the game, can significantly change the course of that work - that is not an indie game".

Basically, indies should be in control of their own destiny. This seems like a very reasonable definition to me.

New comment by dave7 in "The era of American computer magazines has drawn to a close"

dave7 — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 13:41:35 +0000

Yes, long may PC Pro continue! I currently sub to the print versions of that and Edge (gaming coverage).

I don't really care if I already knew the news as covered, it's much more I like to read their opinions on said news, I love the random stories from the "Real World Computing" section, and their reviews are a decent starting point when I'm considering something or asked to recommend, also giving an insight in to all sorts of areas I may otherwise not pay any attention to.

edit: Also, I worked computer fairs every weekend back in the day, all over the North - Cheshire, Aintree, North Wales, Bradford/Leeds. Those were great times!

New comment by dave7 in "Show HN: Weeks of Your Life"

dave7 — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 21:41:38 +0000

Glad I'm not the only one!

New comment by dave7 in "[dead]"

dave7 — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 04:12:40 +0000

I believe the major claim is that the Ukrainians are Nazis, and the "special military operation" (not War!) was to free the "real" Ukrainians from their Nazi oppressors.