Hacker News: debo_

New comment by debo_ in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

debo_ — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:35:06 +0000

Maybe they were embarrassed that a bathroom tracker was kind of a shit idea

New comment by debo_ in "The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)"

debo_ — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:29:16 +0000

It seems like a non issue to me.

SAML Authentication Replay in Rancher

debo_ — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:14:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rancher/rancher/security/advisories/GHSA-c5jm-xcmq-9j95

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076152

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by debo_ in "Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes"

debo_ — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:04:15 +0000

There's an alternative that is slowly emerging. Many clinical trials "fail" but the drug candidate in question works really well for identifiable subsets of the participants. Right now pharma companies won't bother pursuing those drugs because they can't market it broadly. But it's still possible these drugs could help people in the future.

Orcas filmed ramming sunfish so hard it explodes in cloud of scraps

debo_ — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:17:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-07-23/orcas-filmed-ramming-sunfish-so-hard-they-explode/106936092

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49034489

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by debo_ in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

debo_ — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:21:52 +0000

Kill them all... Oooooaaahhhhh you're a goddd

Parsoid

debo_ — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:41:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867701

Points: 28

# Comments: 3

New comment by debo_ in "Launch HN: Context.dev (YC S26) – API to get structured data from any website"

debo_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:29:25 +0000

Remember when the Semantic Web attempted to make the entire web machine-readable?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web

TestMyBrain

debo_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:26:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.testmybrain.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851184

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by debo_ in "Why we're moving off Cloudflare Durable Objects"

debo_ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:33:10 +0000

The objects are durable, but not endurable.

New comment by debo_ in "98% isn't much"

debo_ — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:45:50 +0000

Are you saying they were Beeched Wales?

New comment by debo_ in "1k Words: A Writing Contest"

debo_ — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:46:34 +0000

This is an exceptionally boring picture to write about. You can of course be imaginative about anything, but seriously.

Curating the Crowd: How Firms Manage Social Fit to Stage Social Atmospheres

debo_ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:20:11 +0000

Article URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00222429251328277

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48781152

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by debo_ in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

debo_ — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:40:30 +0000

Username checks out

New comment by debo_ in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

debo_ — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:43:56 +0000

Post-deposit clarity

Punch Card Wreath

debo_ — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:47:52 +0000

Article URL: https://princessleia.com/journal/2021/10/punch-card-wreath/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48754632

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by debo_ in "Open Source Low Tech"

debo_ — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:37:16 +0000

The White Man's Burden by William Easterly covered this in some detail quite a few years ago.

New comment by debo_ in "The Doorman's Fallacy in action"

debo_ — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:14:37 +0000

> This past Saturday, six of us had an impromptu brunch after our morning yoga class.

The jokes just write themselves.

New comment by debo_ in "Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI"

debo_ — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:14:21 +0000

I was there in 2005 and we were basically told point-blank that we couldn't open source _anything_ without running it by a manager first. This was at a time where all engineers were basically housed in the main 4 buildings on the north campus, so not yet all that big. Not sure what grace they fell from, but I found it to be a nauseating sanctimonious place even then.

Predictions of the End of Wikipedia

debo_ — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:17:28 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_of_the_end_of_Wikipedia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48587695

Points: 2

# Comments: 0