Hacker News: dbvn

New comment by dbvn in "The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous"

dbvn — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:53:08 +0000

> Nonetheless, that is not want I wanted to focus my thoughts on here.

Typo second paragraph, 4th line. I think you meant "what"

New comment by dbvn in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

dbvn — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:42:46 +0000

New comment by dbvn in "[dead]"

dbvn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:39:39 +0000

> He is believed to be the first person to die in a horse carriage accident since they were introduced in Central Park more than 150 years ago

New comment by dbvn in "NY mayor, other leaders push to ban horse-drawn carriage rides after teen death"

dbvn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:37:27 +0000

> He is believed to be the first person to die in a horse carriage accident since they were introduced in Central Park more than 150 years ago, according to the labor union representing the industry and the Central Park Conservancy, which manages the 843-acre (341-hectare) park.

NY mayor, other leaders push to ban horse-drawn carriage rides after teen death

dbvn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:37:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/us/central-park-horse-carriage-ride-death-debate-hnk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599817

Points: 1

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New comment by dbvn in "EU to soon classify AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DSA"

dbvn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:06:18 +0000

How could a cloud provider *not* qualify as a gatekeeper under these guidelines?

New comment by dbvn in "The AirPods Effect"

dbvn — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:21:37 +0000

> I'm not a team player at all

could ya try?

New comment by dbvn in "U.S. science is in chaos"

dbvn — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:00:27 +0000

There's an emergency!!! To find out what it is, pay me!!!

New comment by dbvn in "Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)"

dbvn — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:04:22 +0000

The reports will be just as useless as they were before

New comment by dbvn in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

dbvn — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:48:19 +0000

Sir, this is a Wendys. I just want my burger

New comment by dbvn in "I've always wondered if anyone used sharing buttons on news sites and blogs"

dbvn — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:23:58 +0000

Who tf uses a government website to judge sharing metrics... "look at this awesome new regulation, buddy!"

New comment by dbvn in "The unwritten laws of software engineering"

dbvn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:58:49 +0000

> 2. Backups aren’t real until you’ve restored from them

Soooooo true. People get comfortable with archaic backup systems created by a mythical former employee. Then there's an outage, and you realize nobody knows how it works.

New comment by dbvn in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

dbvn — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:23:13 +0000

Don't worry, Apple has been watching for a decade plus. And it seems they will continue just watching

New comment by dbvn in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

dbvn — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:12:37 +0000

the damage is done. Why did they ever think it was a good idea to brag that they were going to destroy all middle/upper class jobs?

New comment by dbvn in "Anthropic, Gates Foundation launch $200M partnership for AI in health, education"

dbvn — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:17:23 +0000

Hilarious that a company like Anthropic is the one receiving money from the billionaire wealth pledge.

New comment by dbvn in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

dbvn — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:02:14 +0000

A pro-democracy group in a non-democratic country got banned? whaaaaa? ... I mean their ideal outcome would be the toppling of the current government, so ya

New comment by dbvn in "At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo"

dbvn — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:08:46 +0000

you don't get to speak for all taxpayers. You can donate your $37

New comment by dbvn in "AI is making me dumb"

dbvn — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:24:23 +0000

You haven't written a line of code in 2 years and you're confused why its making you feel like you can't code?

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