Hacker News: dbt00

New comment by dbt00 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

dbt00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:39:46 +0000

thousands of people die every year from DHMO toxicity, literal overdoses of DHMO, yet you can still find it in baby food and breast milk.

New comment by dbt00 in "What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)"

dbt00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:51:09 +0000

an obscure but very powerful matrix-centered programming language usually considered to be "write only", as in impossible to read what someone else wrote.

New comment by dbt00 in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

dbt00 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:56:03 +0000

FSD still sucks ass compared to Waymo.

New comment by dbt00 in "Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)"

dbt00 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:29:02 +0000

2004, actually, with a minor update in 2008. This was the same principle I used coincidentally at the same time to also disbelieve the same thing.

New comment by dbt00 in "SpaceX files to go public"

dbt00 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:48:04 +0000

Yeah, the OEX is a more serious index for more serious people.

New comment by dbt00 in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

dbt00 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:18:31 +0000

How many American schoolchildren have Iran killed in the last 25 years? How many Iranian schoolchildren have America killed?

Where's your moral justification for this war of choice if "oops, 137 dead kids is a normal expected outcome"?

New comment by dbt00 in "I quit editing photos"

dbt00 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:32:52 +0000

Jewel cases may be fragile but LPs are far more vulnerable to damage than CDs are. There are much better ways to hold a CD collection.

New comment by dbt00 in "Waymo Safety Impact"

dbt00 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:59:41 +0000

Waymo uses remote contractors to hint the Waymo driver when it can't figure out a path forward. They're not being remote piloted.

They are however, very cagy about how often this is necessary.

New comment by dbt00 in "Waymo Safety Impact"

dbt00 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:52:42 +0000

This is like keeping your kids inside in case something bad happens to them.

If your kids never leave the house, something bad definitely happens to them, they stay kids.

New comment by dbt00 in "Anthropic, please make a new Slack"

dbt00 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:01:45 +0000

"A slack that doesn't suck" doesn't exist, and whoever thinks Anthropic of all people are going to build that has no idea how this is going to work.

Slack has massive lock in due to cross-organization connections. The only way you're going to get people off slack is to build a 10x better mode for collaboration than river of shit chat, and while such models probably exist, you also have to convince people that they are better.

I wish whomever tries this the best of luck.

New comment by dbt00 in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

dbt00 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:35:21 +0000

I think they were already in the async world and needed message passing -- the polling code was also in python async.

New comment by dbt00 in "What Python’s asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state"

dbt00 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:34:23 +0000

What about a more general message-passing mailbox approach? This works really well in the Erlang/gen_server/gen_fsm world. (and in plenty of other contexts, but Erlang's OTP is still some of the best, simplest incarnation of these things)

New comment by dbt00 in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

dbt00 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:44:21 +0000

When I was younger I was lucky enough to live somewhere rural where I got into a couple of single car accidents that I walked away from. Now my ADHD hyper focus is super attentive when driving.

New comment by dbt00 in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

dbt00 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:48:13 +0000

Who is accountable for the actions of the bot? It's not sentient, and this author is claiming zero accountability -- I just set it up and turned it loose bro, how is what it did next my fault?

New comment by dbt00 in "Rivian R2: Electric Mid-Size SUV"

dbt00 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:20:50 +0000

I sat in the back seat of a model Y with two other adults and it was extremely painful.

New comment by dbt00 in "The Waymo World Model"

dbt00 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:17:38 +0000

(Always worth noting, human depth perception is not just based on stereoscopic vision, but also with focal distance, which is why so many people get simulator sickness from stereoscopic 3d VR)

New comment by dbt00 in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

dbt00 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:48:31 +0000

I can't get over Scam Altman.

New comment by dbt00 in "Sometimes your job is to stay the hell out of the way"

dbt00 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:05:20 +0000

I lived through some of the events described therein. It's not satire.

New comment by dbt00 in "Pre-commit hooks are broken"

dbt00 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 09:28:51 +0000

Came here to mention jj fix. It is a fundamentally more elegant way of doing things.

New comment by dbt00 in "Acme, a brief history of one of the protocols which has changed the Internet"

dbt00 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:54:04 +0000

A signature on a certificate doesn't allow CA to snoop. They need access to the private key for that, which ACME (and other certificate signing protocols in general) doesn't share with the CA.