Hacker News: dkenyser

New comment by dkenyser in "NetBSD adds a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto"

dkenyser — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:38:54 +0000

Genuine question: Are there a lot of "beginners" hopping on NetBSD?

I feel like most people who even know about NetBSD would be technical enough to at least function at a basic level in something like vi or nano.

New comment by dkenyser in "Concerning behavior from a popular open-weight AI model"

dkenyser — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:33:15 +0000

Except the conclusion from this article is that only open-weight Chinese models are the ones to be concerned about.

New comment by dkenyser in "Nietzschian Debugger"

dkenyser — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:07:32 +0000

> So what do they mean by "anti-AI"

Keep reading.

"Guides you to the "aha!" moment — YOUR moment, not the AI's"

This seems like yet another attempt at encouraging people to continue to utilize AI without relying on it.

New comment by dkenyser in "There's never been a better time to go into math (by: 3blue1brown) [video]"

dkenyser — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 15:15:56 +0000

> I reject your anecdote and respond with my own!

Can we not just agree that, as with everything else, the type of person who falls into this career also falls on a spectrum.

I don't see it as mutually exclusive that both type of engineers exist and both are equally deserving of their takes on the situation.

New comment by dkenyser in "Tesla Roadster"

dkenyser — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:25:43 +0000

> other companies are catching up

Catching up? BYD has already surpassed Tesla and looks like the gap is going to continue to grow.

New comment by dkenyser in "Firefox Enterprise"

dkenyser — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:50:45 +0000

I wish this was true. At my org we had to add Chrome to the base image because otherwise we get so many tickets/calls about it even though we provide it via an internal software distribution service that any user has access to. People like what they like and are very resistant to change.

New comment by dkenyser in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

dkenyser — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:50:18 +0000

I have fond memories of DVD menus from back in the day. I specifically remember getting my hands on an early release of 300 that was made for reviewers and was blown away by the beauty of the menu especially considering that menu was maybe meant to be seen by a couple thousand people at best.

I wish I still had access to it because looking now it was distinctly different from the actual release DVD menu.

New comment by dkenyser in "Move in C++ without a std:move"

dkenyser — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:08:01 +0000

I swear I was staring at these two examples for longer than I care to admit wondering if I was just blind or dumb or both.

New comment by dkenyser in "GPU World"

dkenyser — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:40:08 +0000

This comment is needlessly pedantic. Surely you're able to understand what their implication is.

New comment by dkenyser in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

dkenyser — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:04:33 +0000

Yeah, this is such a tired lazy response by people and is definitely not true anymore. Spin up a new account on a fresh device on a network I've never been on. Click a random video and scroll. Usually the first 3 or 4 scrolls is porn or someone being killed.

Anyone saying there isn't an insane amount of porn and worse on twitter is either lying or hasn't been on the site since it turned into the cesspool we have today.

New comment by dkenyser in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

dkenyser — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:29:22 +0000

Yes, it's almost like that's why there _was_ a rule in place to prevent IPOs like this from being shoved down everyone's throats so quickly without further testing.

New comment by dkenyser in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

dkenyser — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:46:52 +0000

Interestingly some zip codes just don't seem to work, but this appears to be an issue on AMC's side as I tested the same zip codes on their "find a theater" page and got the same results.

Very cool idea nonetheless.

New comment by dkenyser in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

dkenyser — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:59:40 +0000

Anyone have a link to the source code for this .exe? Would love to see _how_ it's extracting them.

New comment by dkenyser in "Men who stare at walls"

dkenyser — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:44:25 +0000

Yes. I swear every day I see a "new" fad targeted at fixing one's attention and every time they're doing so much mental gymnastics to not use the word "meditation."

New comment by dkenyser in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

dkenyser — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:47:21 +0000

> my first knee-jerk reaction wouldn't be "this is for pretending to be human"...

"Write commit messages as a human developer would — describe only what the code change does."

New comment by dkenyser in "Tesla: Failure of the FSD's degradation detection system [pdf]"

dkenyser — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:43:22 +0000

> clickbait titles that fed political discourse.

Eh, while I agree with you on the permeation of reddit culture on this board, this post is in no way clickbait or political in nature.

In fact, the title of this post is literally copy and pasted from the problem description.

New comment by dkenyser in "I haven't used a mouse for 14 years"

dkenyser — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:36:31 +0000

I'm in the same boat when it comes to gaming. Primarily use a trackball mouse and have used it for some games like World of Warcraft or Path of Exile but a traditional mouse is still king for any FPS game.

I did learn recently that Zowie released an ergonomic version of their mouse that I plan on checking out though. Unfortunately there's just not a ton of options out there for ergonomic gaming mice.

New comment by dkenyser in "Ask HN: My family business runs on a 1993-era text-based-UI (TUI). Anybody else?"

dkenyser — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:27:54 +0000

I immediately think of Terminal Coffee[1].

Been experimenting with charmbracelet's[2] stuff recently to do something similar. Still very early stages so nothing to show off yet but would highly recommend it for anyone else looking into creating a TUI app/business.

[1] https://www.terminal.shop/ [2] https://github.com/charmbracelet

New comment by dkenyser in "ADS-B Exposed"

dkenyser — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:06:18 +0000

Interestingly it seems to line up quite well with population density maps.

New comment by dkenyser in "ADS-B Exposed"

dkenyser — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 14:28:27 +0000

Very cool project.

Little bit of trivia regarding the "strange hole near Mexico City"[1] from the README.

This is a 12-kilometer exclusion zone around the highly active Popocatépetl volcano to prevent incidents stemming from volcanic activity.

[1] https://adsb.exposed/?zoom=9&lat=19.1139&lng=261.3813&query=...