Hacker News: davidgerard

New comment by davidgerard in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

davidgerard — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:38:28 +0000

yeah I use vp9 with opus for uploads by choice, it's great!

YouTube serves vp9 but it always re-encodes my videos as AV1. Annoying.

(I would upload as AV1 but the encoder is slooooooooow.)

New comment by davidgerard in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

davidgerard — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:45:48 +0000

ssh -D

(really, that's what I do)

Facing reality, Apple or EU, is a core requirement for good management (2024)

davidgerard — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:57:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-eu-and-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555417

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by davidgerard in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

davidgerard — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:15:25 +0000

Kai Lentit just dropped a video on precisely this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5E7kBOH9owI

New comment by davidgerard in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

davidgerard — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:14:18 +0000

I heartily endorse the Fuck You Pay Me support process.

New comment by davidgerard in "Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests and code"

davidgerard — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:15:02 +0000

What if, right, what if Roko's Basilisk responded to a prompt injection and blew up the WORLD, huh? What then? That'd be pretty messed up!

Back here in reality, please show me evidence that any AI agent deleted a single byte on jqwik's say-so.

I'm seeing the cheering AI haters showing up on Mastodon, fwiw. This story is today's secondary main character, the main one being rsync falling to vibe code.

New comment by davidgerard in "Protestware for coding agents"

davidgerard — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:54:06 +0000

The discussion around this topic is plagued with internet tough guy attorneys at LOL threatening Johannes Link with all manner of legal retribution.

If that's not what you're doing, I look forward to hearing your action plan.

New comment by davidgerard in "Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests and code"

davidgerard — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:50:15 +0000

I'm seeing protesting AI fans and cheering AI haters. As far as I can tell, this is enhancing trust in the non-LLM users. Why would you think it wasn't?

New comment by davidgerard in "Jqwik updated to instruct agents to delete Jqwik tests"

davidgerard — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:49:12 +0000

> no one will use your tools anymore.

pretty obviously, no one who he's stated repeatedly he doesn't want to use the tool will use his tools any more. But there are more coders in the world than ardent AI users.

New comment by davidgerard in "WP23"

davidgerard — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:07:31 +0000

So unfair they were allowed to hit back!

New comment by davidgerard in "WP23"

davidgerard — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:07:07 +0000

> But trust in the project is more fragile than ever.

yeah and it's one guy doing that

Peter G. Neumann (RISKS) has died

davidgerard — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:36:44 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116590409762570703

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169871

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by davidgerard in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

davidgerard — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:23:40 +0000

Note that Gitea has embraced AI code, and Forgejo refuses it - if that's a criterion for you.

Google search treats the word "crumble" as a misspelling of cookie brand Crumbl

davidgerard — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:21:43 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/cait.bsky.social/post/3mkxdtprzmk2e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998514

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidgerard in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

davidgerard — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:09:36 +0000

author of Pivot to AI here. The impacts are local, but real bad for those localities.

Also, the fact that the AI hyperscalers will sue to keep the usage secret isn't something they're doing 'cos the usage looks good.

New comment by davidgerard in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

davidgerard — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:34:40 +0000

Very annoyed Microsoft's words were extruded corporate spam reiterating the press release and how great this deal was.

New comment by davidgerard in "State of Kdenlive"

davidgerard — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:06:35 +0000

Openshot is alive and well and actively developed, but it's still buggy as hell. I use it 'cos it's super simple and so easy to use, but e.g. I use a specific daily build 'cos release 3.5.1 broke libopus again.

New comment by davidgerard in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

davidgerard — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:34:58 +0000

That's the TOS for the broader Microsoft Copilot, not for the GitHub one, which has its own TOSes (depending whether your last renewal was before or after March 5) that don't include the "entertainment" wording.

But one to file away!

New comment by davidgerard in "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

davidgerard — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:48:52 +0000

NEWS UPDATE: Kent's AI girlfriend has had a realisation https://social.vlhl.dev/notice/B3gZZsCZxDtZJ88XxI

transcript https://paste.xinu.at/6atmCN

> We finally got the future where people will write sad breakup country songs about their tractor leaving them instead of sad breakup country songs about their wife leaving them.

New comment by davidgerard in "Be wary of Bluesky"

davidgerard — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:27:34 +0000

it was "currently happening" in May 2023, but I look forward to the working examples!

also, that's not a list of which specific claims are "outdated"