Hacker News: dickiedyce

New comment by dickiedyce in "Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded"

dickiedyce — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:33:44 +0000

Small? Yes, but perfectly formed!

(Only minor tweak one could suggest would be multiple table selection for dragging... but to quote Frasier: "Think about it, Niles. What's the one thing better than an exquisite meal? An exquisite meal, with one tiny flaw we can pick at all night." Niles, raising a glass: "Ah, of course, to impossible standards.")

New comment by dickiedyce in "Am I German or Autistic?"

dickiedyce — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:58:08 +0000

My dearest childhood friend is half Italian, allegedly.

However, his woeful time-keeping is so poor that we began to suspect that he was indeed simply from another planet... with a longer day.

New comment by dickiedyce in "4D Doom"

dickiedyce — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:21:16 +0000

Hmmm... Agreed that they're mostly 2D sensors, but apart from near-field the post-processing brain can use depth-cues to for us 'see' in 3D. Also, you don't see in 3D unless your head/eyes/target is moving, right?

New comment by dickiedyce in "Arno's Engram Keyboard Layouts"

dickiedyce — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:30:12 +0000

Some explanation of the design principles would be welcomed. The workman (https://workmanlayout.org/#introduction ) website is really interesting in this regard, even if you disagree with the end product. [As an aside, the Svaalboard has been my saviour, that and a ludicrous amount of QMK customisation with tap-dance functionality.]

New comment by dickiedyce in "Have a fucking website"

dickiedyce — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:07:09 +0000

I daren’t ask “What have Millennials ever done for us?” because I have a suspicion that it would be a surprisingly unfunny answer.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

dickiedyce — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:54:16 +0000

... or disastrous comedy?

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

dickiedyce — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:53:28 +0000

I'm in.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Substack confirms data breach affects users’ email addresses and phone numbers"

dickiedyce — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 06:13:15 +0000

Ooopsie... possibly a problem for some folks: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-s...

New comment by dickiedyce in "US Gen-X is definitely feeling the pressure"

dickiedyce — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:00:51 +0000

Interesting framing of the data.

US Gen-X is definitely feeling the pressure

dickiedyce — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:00:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/260201062457.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885319

Points: 25

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New comment by dickiedyce in "Impeccable Style"

dickiedyce — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:50:09 +0000

I'm glad it's not just me. One would hope that `BEFORE` and `AFTER` would imply `WORSE` and `BETTER`, but from their examples they somehow they managed to shoehorn `MEH` in there.

And if they need to explain it... ;-)

Tufte it isn't.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: WalletWallet – create Apple passes from anything"

dickiedyce — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:41:47 +0000

Code39 would be really useful ;-)

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: HN Wrapped 2025 - an LLM reviews your year on HN"

dickiedyce — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:00:53 +0000

Actually on the nail. Mine actually made me laugh out loud. https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/dickiedyce

New comment by dickiedyce in "Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)"

dickiedyce — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:07:24 +0000

1 company? 2 buildings? Over < 5 years? Any evidence for "dampening short-run pay raises but boosting them in the long run" must be pretty sketchy.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Orion 1.0"

dickiedyce — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:08:14 +0000

I'm a keen Orion user, and general Kagi user - early adopter since June 2022 (So kool-aid? ;-) ) That said, I have Chrome installed for mandated office work (profile managed by IT ;-( ), Brave for LinkedIn & YouTube... but for everything else I use Orion. Recent versions have been rock solid, and it does exactly what it says on the tin.

My only gripe is that the favourites bar isn't right-click editable like Chrome or Brave - assume this is down to Webkit. Apart from that, joy to use and develop against.

New comment by dickiedyce in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

dickiedyce — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:13:13 +0000

Warmer = US centric? I always think that the proliferation of J.A.R.V.I.S.-type projects in the wild is down to the writing in Iron Man, and Paul Bettany's dry delivery. We want dryer, not warmer. More sarcasm, less smarm.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

dickiedyce — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:23:10 +0000

LOL. Yes, Scottish Water was never privatised, and that's been a great story of success... even if it's only because it's not any of the failed English water companies.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

dickiedyce — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:20:42 +0000

As a Scot who travels on Scottish, English, and Welsh railways, and on Swiss and German railways... Scotrail (now in Public ownership) is pretty good. And I say that as someone in the Highlands, which has had the worst of it in the last 30 years. There's been recent investment, and even the re-opening of closed lines and finally new stations where they've been desperately needed (Inverness Airport, Kintore, Laurencekirk). But still plenty more to do. I visit the south semi-regularly, and worked in London in the 90's. Rail around London seems to have really improved over the last few years. Swiss Rail (SBB) is still the poster child for a decent rail system. Clean, on time, reasonably priced (compared to UK rail), and easy to use. What was eye-opening for me was recent travel in Germany (München to Basel in CH)... DB was dreadful and the stations were in an awful state of repair.

New comment by dickiedyce in "Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work"

dickiedyce — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:26:33 +0000

Also - the speed and quality improvements when having to redo homework lost to an undiscerning canine companion is also a corollary of this. Perhaps the time it takes to 'redo' is a better measure than last mile - it's the entire effort, minus the initial solution-space exploration?

New comment by dickiedyce in "Show HN: I've build a platform for writing technical/scientific documents"

dickiedyce — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:16:07 +0000

No, this is an argument against any new online-only software for students where your work is being stored in a cloud, and not in an open format locally on hard drives.