Hacker News: davidwritesbugs

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Rabbits were a medieval royal luxury in England until the Black Death"

davidwritesbugs — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:19:28 +0000

In the rural UK area where I live farmers will often be happy to have you shoot them with an airgun, if you seek permission. Nice (if stewed) cheap meat.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Strands Decider 2B: a small, open-source, decision model"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:26:39 +0000

Isnt that a bit slow for these?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters"

davidwritesbugs — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:47:36 +0000

I wish HN could auto-tag comments from bots.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:22:15 +0000

I think there must be such a thing as design dyslexia because they all look fine to me shrug

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "When the FM Band Goes Transatlantic"

davidwritesbugs — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:24:39 +0000

I am about to release a streaming Internet radio app (Pentode) and I thought it was cool to be able to listen to FM stations far away - but when I read this I realise what really WAS cool.

Edit: downvoted comment??

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Usenet rewind archive search engine"

davidwritesbugs — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 09:03:16 +0000

I can imagine you’d be embarrassed, I did stupid stuff too, but unless you’re running for Congress you should just say “I was a stupid teenager” and let it wash. Anyone fair minded will dismiss it.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

davidwritesbugs — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:47:27 +0000

Love the John Politics page, utterly slick completely bland and phoney. Assume it’s a meme i missed, love it.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Jellyfin 12.0"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:20:39 +0000

All I did was create a wrapper script to pipe to the torrent client, then "pipe these torrent files to the script" - so easy to circumvent you wonder why they bother

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Jellyfin 12.0"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:08:16 +0000

this skill may help: https://github.com/blader/humanizer

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Jellyfin 12.0"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:00:33 +0000

I already had DeepSeek tell me "I cant help you with torrents or other copyright infringing uses".

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Jellyfin 12.0"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 07:58:57 +0000

As someone with coding projects in the is area would you care to elaborate on "a lot of learned lessons"?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

davidwritesbugs — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:58:48 +0000

Shhh, do not talk about *senet!

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "GPT-6 Astra"

davidwritesbugs — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:55:15 +0000

exactly, there's no meaningful discussion without the pelican.

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)"

davidwritesbugs — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:47:51 +0000

I wonder how much of this could be done by a clever linker? There’s a lot of skill in there but how would an llm do, for the rest of us?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "StemDeck, a free, open-source and local AI stem separator"

davidwritesbugs — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:37:07 +0000

Someone must be fishing for C&D letters

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

davidwritesbugs — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 08:09:25 +0000

This seems like something that could be confirmed by reverse engineering a printer’s firmware? Surely someone has done that?

New comment by davidwritesbugs in "Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border"

davidwritesbugs — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:43:53 +0000

Second lawyer here, well - ex-lawyer, I'm saying the first Law Talking Guy is 100% right.

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.