Hacker News: davidwritesbugs

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun"

davidwritesbugs — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:55:02 +0000

It was a great comment, HN still offers nuggets now and then

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "'Crush this lady': how eBay harassment campaign led to $56M payout"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:39:54 +0000

“Will no-one rid me of this turbulent priest?”

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:48:04 +0000

I was also going to make a snarky comment about AI written blog posts but they are just so prevalent now it’s barely worth saying. I just have to suppress the irritation and parse out the information. And I’m guilty of doing AI documentation so I’m a total hypocrite.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "John C. Dvorak has died"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:06:50 +0000

He was the house curmudgeon - hilarious

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Fixed three bugs that made Qwen3.5-122B a daily driver on Mac Studio"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:29:33 +0000

Is this issue specific to 122B or will it lurk in other 3.5 r 3.6 models? I run a 9B model locally so while this fix doesn't help me I'm wondering if it's general?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "How to hide from killer drones"

davidwritesbugs — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:30:11 +0000

As a bonus it will also repel horse flies.

https://www.science.org/content/article/zebra-stripes-confus...

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

davidwritesbugs — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:38:33 +0000

Indeed, a lot of HN readers don't realise their good luck in life. It takes a dose of poverty to bring perspective.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:29:39 +0000

I was taught 20% of customers generate 80% of the work. It seemed borne out by experience and I mostly fucked them off, the surprise/outrage when I told them they weren’t a good fit and told to go elsewhere was something to behold.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "How We Made IPFS Content Publishing 10x Faster"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:47:19 +0000

Slightly tangential to the article, which seems interesting, but the main issue with IPFS was the horrendous performance of clients which I seem to recall related to having a refresh storms, sparse routing tables, unreachable peers as well as lookup speeds. Mostly the reputation was so bad that people didn't bother with it, I dismissed it for my own project. If your only users are crypto-grift projects you're in a bad place.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:51:26 +0000

True. But for how long? 6-9 months till Mythos equivalence in glm-5.4?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:48:44 +0000

The counter example is the administration’s great success in the Iran war. Oh, wait.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

davidwritesbugs — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:25:40 +0000

Shutup peasant, you'll get it when we say. And be grateful.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:01:13 +0000

When I was a lawyer my selling point was exactly that I knew tech deeply, coming from a dev background, and was current as I read Slashdot daily compiled my own Linux kernels etc. It allows punters trust you & is a rainmaking skill.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 06:18:18 +0000

Same. Then I tried to read Brothers karamazov, “ooof”, it literally took 200 pages before I stopped hating the ‘pointless’ book with its plot that went nowhere. Then I got it. Only certain authors can do this I reckon, but how you’d get a doom-scrolling teenager to do it? Goooood luck.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "BBC to axe Radio 4's The World Tonight after more than 50 years"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:44:57 +0000

If i don’t know the weather forecast for Forties I’m going to be very sad

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:48:48 +0000

I like their models, super cheap - I'm a Lite plan subscriber, and subjective performance seems to be same as lower Anthropic models, useful for lots of grunt work. The problem is that Ziphu really __really__ struggle with capacity - everyone is complaining of timeouts or very slow speeds. I can't get direct access to the model though I see it is in OpenRouter so I may play. But the capacity issues means DeepSeek is my main provider these days

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:48:03 +0000

Yes, but a _U2_ album. An ad is 30 seconds of irritation, but a U2 album is like having broken glass sown under your skin.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Notes on DeepSeek"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:59:45 +0000

someone kept a copy: https://pastebin.com/rcAqEFG1

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon Employees Mock the Company's AI on Slack"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:42:08 +0000

You have a /horse/?! Well laadeedaa

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:35:33 +0000

Yes, precisely. Assessing your own cognitive skills is dubious. I’m pretty certain I’m less clever than I was when younger but if I find a problem tough now maybe 25 yo me would also have struggled?