Hacker News: dgorges

New comment by dgorges in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

dgorges — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:16:44 +0000

It's always DNS

New comment by dgorges in "Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros"

dgorges — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:36:14 +0000

Netflix, Inc. today announced that it has declined to raise its offer for Warner Bros. Netflix had earlier received notice from Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) that its Board of Directors has determined Paramount Skydance’s (PSKY) latest proposal constitutes a “Superior Proposal” under the terms of WBD’s existing merger agreement with Netflix.

Netflix Declines to Raise Offer for Warner Bros

dgorges — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:36:14 +0000

Article URL: http://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-declines-to-raise-offer-for-warner-bros

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173873

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by dgorges in "Laravel has raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel"

dgorges — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 13:12:32 +0000

https://archive.is/lUWnK

New comment by dgorges in "ChatGPT Is Down"

dgorges — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 09:12:17 +0000

https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat?models=gpt-4o is still working

PhotoMaker: Customizing Realistic Human Photos via Stacked ID Embedding

dgorges — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:21:24 +0000

Article URL: https://photo-maker.github.io

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087482

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dgorges in "Write PHP Code Within Next.js Components"

dgorges — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 22:22:39 +0000

> I hope I don't have to say this but: If you even in the slightest consider to use this in any application at all you are an absolute madman and and should be locked out of the internet for the rest of your life, I hope you find some other fun activity, maybe gardening or woodwork.

New comment by dgorges in "Grokking"

dgorges — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 11:48:05 +0000

Slightly off topic, but I found this in the html source (not only in this article, seems to be on every page):

    
dgorges — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 10:43:51 +0000

Not true.
> A 2014 study which looked at the same issue found that 2-megawatt wind turbines installed in Northwest USA paid for themselves in 5-6 months.
> A 2010 analysis of fifty separate studies found that the average wind turbine, over the course of its operational life, generated 20 times more energy than it took to produce. This level was “favourable” in comparison to fossil fuels, nuclear and solar power.
https://fullfact.org/online/wind-turbines-energy/



New comment by dgorges in "Show HN: Ermine.ai – Record and transcribe speech, 100% client-side (WASM)"
dgorges — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:45:38 +0000

This site is using Whisper:
> Built using transformers.js and the whisper-tiny.en model.



New comment by dgorges in "Why do people not notice our enormous, prominent, clear and contrasting banner?"
dgorges — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:06:17 +0000

The original post and the accepted answer is from August 2018. Banners are still the same, they didn't change anything.



New comment by dgorges in "When Good Codenames Go Bad (2006)"
dgorges — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:15:04 +0000

Snowball and Napoleon are two characters from George Orwell's Animal Farm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_(Animal_Farm)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_(Animal_Farm)



New comment by dgorges in "Incident with GitHub Actions, API Requests, Git Operations, Issues and more"
dgorges — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 15:28:23 +0000

We are also seeing issues with Github Actions. Here we go again...



DeepSinger: Singing Voice Synthesis with Data Mined from the Web
dgorges — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 11:02:07 +0000

Article URL: https://speechresearch.github.io/deepsinger/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23830477
Points: 4
# Comments: 0



New comment by dgorges in "A REST View of GraphQL"
dgorges — Wed, 08 Jul 2020 12:51:04 +0000

That sounds pretty much like what Vulcain [1] is doing for you on top of an existing REST API.
[1] https://github.com/dunglas/vulcain



New comment by dgorges in "Ask HN: Best Video Call Solution for Elderly"
dgorges — Mon, 22 Jun 2020 09:20:16 +0000

This sounds like a great setup. Never heard of PineTab before - is the CPU powerful enough for live video encoding?



New comment by dgorges in "V002 Camera Live – Zoom with Your DSLR as a Webcam via USB"
dgorges — Fri, 05 Jun 2020 17:54:49 +0000

> The camera sends the image used for Live View - the dimensions will not match the camera's movie recording settings.
This sounds like a bummer. I want to try this anyways to give my old Powershot a new purpose.
Did anybody check this out yet?



New comment by dgorges in "Dead Sea Scroll fragments thought to be blank reveal text"
dgorges — Thu, 21 May 2020 19:19:44 +0000

> The Dead Sea Scrolls are ancient Jewish religious manuscripts that were found in the Qumran Caves in the Judaean Desert, near Ein Feshkha on the northern shore of the Dead Sea in the West Bank. Scholarly consensus dates these scrolls from the last three centuries BCE and the first century CE.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls



New comment by dgorges in "Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others"
dgorges — Tue, 19 May 2020 09:12:13 +0000

This is really cool! How many votings are included in the free version? That would be interesting to know before we can test it in our team.
Sidenote: Planning poker is a registered trademark [1]. I hope you don't run into any legal issues.
[1] http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=3473287&caseType=US_REGIST...



New comment by dgorges in "Show HN: Planning poker online – estimate tasks without influencing others"
dgorges — Tue, 19 May 2020 09:08:54 +0000

Planning Poker is a well known term in the agile development / scrum world. If you don't do scrum, you're probably not in the target group.