<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: dhbradshaw</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dhbradshaw</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:38:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dhbradshaw" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Don't love touchscreens that much.<p>But I did love my Toshiba Satellite. It was like writing on paper!<p>Down with capacitive screens and long live Active Digitizers!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:48:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581504</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Had a broken key on my m2 air that I couldn't easily fix.
Took it to an Apple store and a tech worked on it for a bit and came back with it fixed.<p>No charge. 
I was pretty grateful!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:01:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573745</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Overcoming the friendship recession"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>- making new friends does take a massive amount of time<p>I think the solution to this is to enjoy the journey. There's not a line that someone needs to cross before you can enjoy spending time with them. Just reach out and learn and enjoy people from the beginning.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:46:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502536</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502536</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47502536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computer-Less Evening Experiment]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://dhbradshaw.substack.com/p/the-computer-less-evening-experiment">https://dhbradshaw.substack.com/p/the-computer-less-evening-experiment</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489708">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489708</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:03:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://dhbradshaw.substack.com/p/the-computer-less-evening-experiment</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47489708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really like this passage:<p>>It is always the case that there are benefits available from relinquishing core civil liberties: allowing infringements on free speech may reduce false claims and hateful ideas; allowing searches and seizures without warrants will likely help the police catch more criminals, and do so more quickly; giving up privacy may, in fact, enhance security.<p>> But the core premise of the West generally, and the U.S. in particular, is that those trade-offs are never worthwhile. Americans still all learn and are taught to admire the iconic (if not apocryphal) 1775 words of Patrick Henry, which came to define the core ethos of the Revolutionary War and American Founding: “Give me liberty or give me death.” It is hard to express in more definitive terms on which side of that liberty-versus-security trade-off the U.S. was intended to fall.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:49:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025171</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025171</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47025171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been building a flutter django app around sharing and using checklists.<p>I use it myself by iterating on checklists and then tracking my usage of them and recently added orgs for privately shared checklists.<p>So it's easy to create an org around a shared task and then create a run through that task and track.<p><a href="https://checkipe.com" rel="nofollow">https://checkipe.com</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:18:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944027</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944027</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been working on a task tracking app called Checkipe (<a href="https://checkipe.com" rel="nofollow">https://checkipe.com</a> but right now it's invite only for me and family members).<p>It's been fun to use it as I bring it to life.<p>A Django backend and flutter front end makes for a pretty powerful and adaptable pair.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:40:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595220</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Often on HN the comments are a better read than the original article.<p>This time the article is so good -- clear, funny, succinct, accurate -- that it's a better read than the comments.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:04:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587893</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587893</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46587893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Project Euler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Project Euler was what I used to get comfortable with my two main languages -- first python and then rust.<p>I loved to solve it and then look through all the different solutions and find pretty ideas and idioms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 03:01:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909998</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909998</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like we need either a viable alternative or a next thing.<p>The next thing will probably be AR glasses and we could use some alternatives to Meta and Google and Apple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:38:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573090</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573090</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45573090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (July 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gardening automation :-D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715507</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715507</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44715507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "The borrowchecker is what I like the least about Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If a friend told me they liked Rust but didn't like the borrow checker, I'd probably point them to Gleam and Moonbit, which both seem awesome in their own niches.<p>Both have rust-like flavor and neither has a borrow checker.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:35:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619141</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44619141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK Huntsville AL USA, remote work preferred<p>Get more done, better, and in less time.<p>I help companies automate critical workflows, helping them accomplish their work more quickly, reliably, enjoyably, and correctly.<p>All the most useful techniques are on the table including task analysis and evaluation, traditional coding, and ai.<p>dhbradshaw@gmail.com</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 22:06:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438398</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438398</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44438398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Domains I Love"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One of my favorites (only great if you read the site contents):<p><a href="https://how.rl.works" rel="nofollow">https://how.rl.works</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 21:48:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229897</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229897</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44229897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>SEEKING WORK | REMOTE | U.S. or Canada (Located in the Huntsville AL area.)<p>Automate business processes.
Get more done, more accurately, faster, and less painfully.<p>PhD in laser physics / quantum optics, startup veteran, 15 years of experience in automating systems from laser control using real time video analysis to email and spreadsheet ingestion and routing.<p><a href="https://github.com/dhbradshaw">https://github.com/dhbradshaw</a><p>Preferred tools: user interviews, systems analysis, documentation, rust, python, typescript, postgres, aws, local llms, evals and testing.<p>Free consultation, satisfaction guaranteed.<p>Reach out to dhbradshaw at gmail!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 23:03:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910570</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43910570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great for space</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:14:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391215</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43391215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quote:<p>The Gemma 3 models are trained with distillation and achieve superior performance to Gemma 2
for both pre-trained and instruction finetuned versions. In particular, our novel post-training recipe
significantly improves the math, chat, instruction-following and multilingual abilities, making Gemma3-
4B-IT competitive with Gemma2-27B-IT and Gemma3-27B-IT comparable to Gemini-1.5-Pro across
benchmarks. We release all our models to the community.<p>Really cool</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:37:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343129</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43343129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The more leverage a piece of code has, the more good or damage it can do.<p>The more constraints we can place on its behavior, the harder it is to mess up.<p>If it's riskier code, constrain it more with better typing, testing, design, and analysis.<p>Constraints are to errors (including hallucinations) as water is to fire.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:01:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243882</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43243882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Robust autonomy emerges from self-play"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting to see this coming out of Apple</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 16:04:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974215</link><dc:creator>dhbradshaw</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42974215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dhbradshaw in "Show HN: WASM-powered codespaces for Python notebooks on GitHub"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really cool -- going to show it off to my team. I love the fact that you opened it up so that it will work with Jupyter notebooks as well.</p>
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