Hacker News: dickfickling

New comment by dickfickling in "Tell HN: I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years"

dickfickling — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:28:23 +0000

Would you share your EIN? I'd like to donate through my employer to receive a match, but I can't find Tanzania Education Project Inc documented anywhere besides your website.

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions

dickfickling — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:40:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/02a7-213a92896eb0-54dfbf454e3b-1000--statement-on-behalf-of-uefa-and-its-55-national-associations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49113929

Points: 1235

# Comments: 674

New comment by dickfickling in "The Book Prize Index"

dickfickling — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:48:19 +0000

Discussed at length here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49007247

New comment by dickfickling in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

dickfickling — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:40:34 +0000

I have vague memories of iPod Linux (or Rockbox, I can’t remember) having a feature where you could record voice notes using your regular headphones using the same technique

New comment by dickfickling in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

dickfickling — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:57:23 +0000

Got a discount code for the HN family? ;-)

Congrats on shipping. I'm living in the EU working California hours (4pm-1am) and will definitely be buying one.

New comment by dickfickling in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

dickfickling — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:06:19 +0000

https://fickling.us

New comment by dickfickling in "Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you?"

dickfickling — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 01:51:54 +0000

sounds good, thanks for the response!

New comment by dickfickling in "Ask HN: Is noprocrast still working for you?"

dickfickling — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:27:26 +0000

I’ve noticed the same thing. Horrible for my productivity. Paging @dang

New comment by dickfickling in "Ultrathink is a Claude Code magic word"

dickfickling — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 23:32:12 +0000

It’s described here: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-pract...

New comment by dickfickling in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

dickfickling — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:02:48 +0000

It doesn't sound like GP is saying we have to do away with audio, just that it's absurd to stick to _just_ audio. Great to have a screen that shows "Clear for option 25R etc etc". I think I saw the latest Cirrus planes have something like that, doing live transcription of tower/ATC calls.

EDIT: I will add I get that adding something like that to a general aviation cockpit is much easier than putting it on a commercial 787, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

New comment by dickfickling in "Northeastern's redesign of the CS curriculum"

dickfickling — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 22:50:59 +0000

I attended Northeastern from 2010-2013. Fundies (the freshman-level functional programming courses) was fundamental (ha) to my growth as a software developer. It taught me how to reason about data and how to design programs (the literal name of the textbook).

I know a lot of students hated it—frankly those were mostly the students that it seemed were only doing computer science programs because they’d heard they could make a lot of money in the field. The “real nerds” all seemed to love it, and now nearly 15 years later those are the engineers in my network who have built the most impressive systems and products.

I guess I’ll have to update my default instructions for recruiters from “automatically interview anyone with a degree from Northeastern” to add “if they graduated before 2025”

The Real Adrian Dittmann

dickfickling — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 23:01:43 +0000

Article URL: https://thespectator.com/topic/real-adrian-dittmann-not-elon-musk-x-account-fiji/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42598316

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by dickfickling in "Recovering from a kidney donation"

dickfickling — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 11:18:11 +0000

I’m scheduled to donate one of mine to a stranger in a few weeks. Similar story here—saw Scott Alexander’s story, did some research, decided it was something i had to do.

I’m donating through the national kidney registry, which means that I (and five close family members) will pop to the top of the transplant list if I ever need one.

New comment by dickfickling in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

dickfickling — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:23:33 +0000

off topic: do you have a name or a link for the paper referenced? My company just moved to a new office that's "coincidentally" closer to the CEO's house, and I'd love to send it to him.

New comment by dickfickling in "How random are TOTP codes?"

dickfickling — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:57:53 +0000

I have long considered building a code generator that only serves "nice" codes.

The standard implementation would use a hard coded set of patterns. The enhanced version would pair automatic random code generation with a public site where members of the public can decide in real time whether a given code is "nice" before it's sent along to the intended recipient.

(note @tptacek if you're reading this, I swear it's (mostly) a joke)

2FHey – iMessage AutoFill for Any Browser

dickfickling — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 22:32:31 +0000

Article URL: https://2fhey.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39750856

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by dickfickling in "Kagi and Wolfram"

dickfickling — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:30:12 +0000

The two are unrelated, but they do reference the shareware platform in their FAQ.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/faq/faq.html#are-you-affiliated-w...

New comment by dickfickling in "Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com"

dickfickling — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:32:20 +0000

ah i think it's a feature for YC founders to identify each other, might not be on for everyone

New comment by dickfickling in "Open Source Carta Alternative – Cap.octolane.com"

dickfickling — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:23:12 +0000

HN highlights your username in orange to indicate that you're a YC founder, and shows that you're a founder of Octolane on your profile. Disingenuous comments like this on a forum like HN are strongly discouraged.

New comment by dickfickling in "HN's HTML Is Invalid"

dickfickling — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:48:57 +0000

(if it wasn't clear, this is submitted in jest)