<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dfltr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dfltr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:09:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dfltr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't really agree with the person replying to my original comment, but I can see where they're coming from with respect to notating something like the pitched snares in Renegade Snares (chosen specifically because it's an Amen break that I don't know how I could write down in standard rhythm notation).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:47:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665136</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49665136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Music Theory for the 21st-Century Classroom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The English language is messy as hell, and yet, here we are using it because it's a shared set of rules and symbols that pretty much everyone who wants to join in on this conversation already knows.<p>Same with staff notation: If you want to communicate music to other people, learning the slightly clunky but universally-known written language is generally the way to go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:42:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649914</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649914</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49649914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does seem a bit odd to say "We tested all of these bicycles with the same rider" when one of the test cases is actually a bare high-end frame with no components on it.<p>It's even weirder given that another of the test cases is essentially "We put parts on the frame (OhMyPi) and it went faster!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:45:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541405</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This feels kind of petty, but what is going on with those fuckass clouds in the background? Did no one notice how uncanny that whole thing looks?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525889</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525889</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or <a href="https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/yap</a> which is the only one I've seen so far that uses the new/improved speech-to-text API in MacOS 26 that outperforms the Whisper models. I expect most dictation software is going to start supporting the local API pretty soon, it's free real estate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:23:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515587</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515587</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49515587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Show HN: Free Inference Engineer and Model Training Roadmap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, just the landing page. Can't speak for other people, but for me it's one of those "first impression" things where if your initial offering is clearly human-written, seeing AI-assisted docs or other materials later isn't a big deal because it's like oh, ok, you put work into this up front.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:14:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425938</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425938</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49425938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Show HN: Free Inference Engineer and Model Training Roadmap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The resource itself is cool, but I'm so tired of reading generated text. It's exhausting to look at something that's supposed to be giving me info and have to wade through the extra mental load of translating from LLM-ese back to human.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:17:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424588</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49424588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His instagram account (<a href="https://www.instagram.com/crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/crime_pays_but_botany_doesnt</a>) is up there with Chuck Tingle in terms of subscribing to little bits of life-affirming joy in a difficult world.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:18:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197910</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197910</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49197910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Incident CVE-2026-LGTM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Torturer Class ROU CVE-2026-LGTM would absolutely be a member of the Interesting Times Gang.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:43:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690381</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690381</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48690381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For DB, this type of outage is referred to as "Tuesday".</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:45:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651909</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48651909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes: Premodern and Legacy. Personally I like Modern and don't mind having things shaken up fairly regularly, but if you want more stability play Legacy and if you want ultimate stability with no new cards ever, play Premodern.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 18:43:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227228</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227228</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48227228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GSD has a reputation for being a token burner compared to something like Superpowers. Has that changed lately? Always open to revisiting things as they improve.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:53:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418148</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Claude Composer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We make art because humans are compelled to express themselves. That's it. That's the whole thing. It's not stack ranked. Humans make art because, in the words of Pile, "I want answers to some questions that I can’t speak."<p>The idea that you'd stop trying to express yourself because you're comparing your own artistic voice to the output of an LLM and somehow seeing it as less valid, or less worthwhile, is just sad.<p>I don't mean that as an insult, I mean it's genuinely sad for you and for all of us as a species.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:19:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918911</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46918911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Learning music with Strudel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Strudel is dope and a ton of fun, but every single piece of its interface seems determined to confuse people who already know music theory and composition.<p>That's not really a point against it, it's a great tool and it's a ton of fun, but I wish there was a way to use it that at least kind of sort of mapped back to traditional music notation, especially rhythm notation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:13:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124360</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124360</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "What Killed Perl?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I vividly remember the first time a friend showed me PHP in the late 90s. You're saying I can just write a script that generates HTML and throw it in /foo/index.php and that's the whole thing?<p>It's wild that right up until Rails got popular, we were writing code that served billions of requests off of homebrewed MVC-ish PHP frankenframeworks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:27:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983899</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45983899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Composer: Building a fast frontier model with RL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Awesome, thanks for the clarification. So are the rumors around Cheetah being based on a Grok model just straight up untrue? I want to try Composer but have a pretty strict no X/Grok policy.</p>
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<p>Is it true that Cheetah is Grok Code Fast 2? Does this mean that the new Cursor model is also based on Grok?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:29:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750185</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good old "sketch-resistant materials". If a tweaker can't get through your lock/chain before the cops (might) show up, you're probably fine.<p>When all else fails, drummers are the best security anyway: <a href="https://loudwire.com/sleeping-drummer-stops-band-trailer-theft-attempt-archspire/" rel="nofollow">https://loudwire.com/sleeping-drummer-stops-band-trailer-the...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:51:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727753</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Rivian's TM-B electric bike"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If only there were some way to take all that work of pedaling and efficiently translate it into torque on the rear wheel, right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:18:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676373</link><dc:creator>dfltr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676373</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45676373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dfltr in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I assume there'd be a big single rectangular bounding box or sphere, and only once a projectile is in that range, then animations occur.<p>Now that's a fun one to think about. Hitscan attacks are just vectors right? So would there be some perf benefit to doing that initial intersection check with a less-detailed hitbox, then running the higher res animated check if the initial one reports back as "Yeah, this one could potentially intersect"? Or is the check itself expensive enough that it's faster to just run it once at full resolution?<p>Either way, this stuff is engineering catnip.</p>
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