Hacker News: dbvn

New comment by dbvn in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

dbvn — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:46:14 +0000

Yeah but they're lying to themselves. They cheated the whole time - guaranteed.

New comment by dbvn in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

dbvn — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:32:18 +0000

Crazy it took them 133 years to do the obvious. Assuming your *entire* student-base is morally superior to the general population

New comment by dbvn in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

dbvn — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:46:34 +0000

Might want to move your site to a server you own.... site is down due to "rate limits"

New comment by dbvn in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

dbvn — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:41:43 +0000

Always surprising to learn most people are cool

New comment by dbvn in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

dbvn — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:04:46 +0000

The most bureaucratic thing ever done... search for a place to store something for 56 years. still not done

New comment by dbvn in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

dbvn — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:17:43 +0000

Its hard to describe how out of touch a company has to be for this to happen. Multibillion dollar company admitting to robbing their customer of $200 in front of other customers.

New comment by dbvn in "Our principles"

dbvn — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:08:43 +0000

Newsflash: they're changing... again

New comment by dbvn in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

dbvn — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:58:30 +0000

Don't forget the non-stop unnecessary comments

New comment by dbvn in "NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)"

dbvn — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:40:00 +0000

wow - people are lame. I want to hear their authentic reaction to being 240,000 miles from Earth... not what the pastor down the street thinks they should say.

New comment by dbvn in "Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers took 2 minutes to break it"

dbvn — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:36:05 +0000

well of course because the whole reason you're making free men and women verify their identity with government-issued documents... was supposed to be to prevent that. If its not going to prevent such an easy work-around ITS NOT WORTH IT (not that it was in the first place)

New comment by dbvn in "Not buying another Kindle"

dbvn — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:46:01 +0000

Kindle Paperwhite is the only device that comes close to the magic of a physical book

New comment by dbvn in "Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair"

dbvn — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:13:34 +0000

This has happened at our company so many times... I thought I was crazy when it seemed to be related to static electricity. But it was obvious when someone got zapped and it immediately blacked the monitor.

New comment by dbvn in "Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)"

dbvn — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 13:39:12 +0000

or have even a single obligation in the morning

New comment by dbvn in "An Introduction to Obsidian"

dbvn — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:50:16 +0000

Daily Notes feature is a lifesaver. Just throw things in there throughout the day. Never lose anything

New comment by dbvn in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

dbvn — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:29:52 +0000

Nothing needs to come after git. its perfect.

New comment by dbvn in "Lunar Flyby"

dbvn — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:17:48 +0000

*taking* $12 from every person in the US... But I still think it's worth it.

New comment by dbvn in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"

dbvn — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:12:07 +0000

Hate to admit it... but the video goes hard

New comment by dbvn in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

dbvn — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:52:04 +0000

Somehow the one feature I need to use is the one feature broken on the website... every time.

New comment by dbvn in "US Burned 14 Years of Missiles in 30 Days"

dbvn — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:38:09 +0000

Very unreasonable to use the amount purchased last year as the only amount they could ever get in a fiscal year

New comment by dbvn in "What Is Copilot Exactly?"

dbvn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:55:56 +0000

> "Actually, I made a mistake. I meant Cursor."

Someone who can't describe the model they're using after asking 3 times across several months, probably isn't the 10x engineer you think they are.