Hacker News: disjunct

New comment by disjunct in "FSF turns forty with a groundbreaking new project and a new president"

disjunct — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:10:37 +0000

Based on the livestream, the project is for Rob to find the freest Android ROM and phone and then reverse engineer the proprietary bits to the FSF's standards. Not very well communicated, but he seems qualified to do that.

New comment by disjunct in "Building an AI that watches rugby"

disjunct — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:57:09 +0000

I wrote a similar script that used a TV tuner during the last World Cup. Since I had an ATSC source, I was able to just pull the CTA-708 captions directly and with little delay.

New comment by disjunct in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

disjunct — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:14:58 +0000

The CFPB. He intends to create a payments app within X and shut down their most immediate regulator of banking and fintech.

That's certainly a material conflict.

New comment by disjunct in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

disjunct — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:51:53 +0000

To be a bit uncharitable: a sick person seems to want certainty more than anything, which they can project onto an AI much more easily than through work with a careful doctor.

New comment by disjunct in "I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease"

disjunct — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:46:55 +0000

Did you seek prescription treatment after your AI-diagnosis?

New comment by disjunct in "Ask HN: What books influenced your moral compass?"

disjunct — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:58:54 +0000

I was hoping to see Thoreau here. I'd also recommend his book Walking, maybe even to be read before Walden. It identifies and preempts a lot of what the 'mindfulness' industry deals with and reorients it all around an idea of wilderness.

But I'd also be careful reading Walden. I don't think it's a literal instruction manual as some have taken it.

New comment by disjunct in "When will we fix the tools that run the world?"

disjunct — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 03:51:53 +0000

Not totally up-to-date on airline things, but:

I was referring to the competing GDS platforms that airlines like Southwest opted not to use. I was trying to be charitable to the author here, because I am partial to how the terminal booking interface just works and allows for almost universal interoperability. You just have to learn how to use it. Of course, there is still greater functionality when using the airline's website directly (dynamic pricing, seat choice), which is "patchy".

Opted not to use /until recently/

New comment by disjunct in "When will we fix the tools that run the world?"

disjunct — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:59:49 +0000

I've got a bit of a problem with the example of hospital management software. Given the complexity, particularly in the US, of the healthcare system, why expect the software to be "high-quality"? (Whatever that means).

Agreed on the airline management example though. It's insane how patchy that all is.

New comment by disjunct in "Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn't Know Were There"

disjunct — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 17:36:43 +0000

Love the weather forecast on the coffee machine. Like so much 2000s tech, such a weird luxury that seems less useful and more experimental.

I do wish there was more openness in FM band technology. As a young ham, HD Radio and DirectBand were both interests of mine — ubiquitous and extensible layers on existing tech — but were so commercial that they will be/were phased out before we get anything substantial to be open.

New comment by disjunct in "Itch.io Taken Down by Funko"

disjunct — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:42:10 +0000

Funko as a brand exists entirely on derivative content, albeit licensed. Seems like exactly the sort of brand that would trip auto-DMCA software.

New comment by disjunct in "What makes a person seem wise?"

disjunct — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 16:38:55 +0000

Carl Jung vindicated

New comment by disjunct in "Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem"

disjunct — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:05:37 +0000

Time to link the crawler to a site like keys.lol[1] that indexes and links every Bitcoin private key and figure out a way to sweep it for balances.

[1]: https://keys.lol/

We Lost "Javacore," and the Communal Coffee Shop with It

disjunct — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:47:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dwell.com/article/how-we-lost-javacore-and-the-communal-coffee-shop-with-it-4288cb50

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39468802

Points: 1

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New comment by disjunct in "Ask HN: What are your experiences with Apple Card?"

disjunct — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 03:30:42 +0000

There's no annual fee so I'm not sure why someone would regret getting it. I've had it for about 3 years and use it for 3% back at Apple and Walgreens. It does the job.

It really shined on an international vacation about 2 years ago. Where Amex wasn't accepted the no-foreign-transaction-fee Mastercard was very useful.

When I applied they would only do a hard pull on an applicant's credit if they were approved. If that's still the case then I would definitely apply, even just for the thick metal card and the future long-standing line of credit.

New comment by disjunct in "The .ing top-level domain"

disjunct — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:35:57 +0000

snagg.ing

New comment by disjunct in "YouTube Lets You Sort Videos by Color Now, for Some Reason"

disjunct — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 19:48:39 +0000

Surely you can find it more effectively in your watch history. This feature is to discover videos, not rediscover.

New comment by disjunct in "Ask HN: Any good school timetable apps for Linux?"

disjunct — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 04:20:56 +0000

Some school schedules are done so classes meet every-other-day. There are A days and B days, which is specified because certain holidays or exam periods might necessitate a break in the sequence.

Schools are often cute with it; they theme the days with their school colors instead of A/B.

New comment by disjunct in "Can a worker-owned restaurant work?"

disjunct — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 22:00:20 +0000

Have you worked at a worker-owned company? I think, largely, a goal of worker-owned restaurants is to make the work experience less transactional. Is there anything besides stress (which is not mentioned in the article) that would make transactionality and outsized profit a necessary thing?

New comment by disjunct in "ChatGPT app for iOS"

disjunct — Thu, 18 May 2023 17:16:14 +0000

So this is why they changed the model dropdown to buttons, more touch friendly.

New comment by disjunct in "Micro.blog Reclaiming Usernames Policy"

disjunct — Sat, 13 May 2023 22:37:24 +0000

In contrast to Twitter's newly updated inactive account policy

> We encourage people to actively log in and use Twitter when they register an account. To keep your account active, be sure to log in at least every 30 days. Accounts may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity.

It changed from 6 months around early May: https://web.archive.org/web/20230503204041/https://help.twit...