Hacker News: dmd

New comment by dmd in "Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)"

dmd — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:17:01 +0000

The only two types of communications I have ever experienced in ham radio are (a) about ham radio or (b) extreme right-wing nutjobbery.

New comment by dmd in "A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants"

dmd — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:47:07 +0000

I'd say Anathem is the best of the bunch, and has held up best over time.

New comment by dmd in "A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants"

dmd — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:02:22 +0000

You should read 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson, which goes into great deal about this kind of establishment.

New comment by dmd in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

dmd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:25:16 +0000

"SLAM" is the term to google.

New comment by dmd in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

dmd — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:54:04 +0000

The app doesn't have to do this itself, phones do it for you. ARCore on Android, ARKit on iOS.

New comment by dmd in "Stolen Buttons"

dmd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:16:30 +0000

You wouldn’t download a button

New comment by dmd in "Infinities, impossibilities, and the man in the white linen suit"

dmd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:53:05 +0000

I’m curious how much you used AI to write it, as it’s just chock full of Claude-isms.

New comment by dmd in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

dmd — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:48:27 +0000

I've been using an Anatek Pocket Record for the past 34 years. Bought it when I was 14. That's value!

https://www.izcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/pm_Pocket-Record.j...

New comment by dmd in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

dmd — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:26:47 +0000

This seems to no longer work, or at least, I clicked over 100 times and didn't get anything.

New comment by dmd in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

dmd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:41:43 +0000

Copilot means so many things now it doesn't even tell you anything about they do.

New comment by dmd in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

dmd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:41:13 +0000

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

New comment by dmd in "Teen hackers who live streamed cyber-attack on TfL jailed"

dmd — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:54:34 +0000

A huge number of people come from families or even entire cultures where Father Is Never Wrong.

New comment by dmd in "Cloudflare Drop"

dmd — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:42:40 +0000

beep boop

New comment by dmd in "Cloudflare Drop"

dmd — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:25:27 +0000

All I ever get is "Something went wrong An unexpected error occurred. Please try again or contact support."

New comment by dmd in "Regression to the Mean: on LLMs and the quiet death of the new"

dmd — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:13:22 +0000

Cities could look like https://www.arcosanti.org/

Cities could look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67

Cities could look like https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-blue-city-of-jodhpur...

New comment by dmd in "I Accidentally Started a Small Business Three Weeks Ago"

dmd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:52:45 +0000

> but sigh and accept that your wife is going to give your child a lot of “supplements” that you will then verify aren’t poisonous but also probably don’t do anything

This is weirdly misogynistic.

New comment by dmd in "Megawatts by Microwave"

dmd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 10:54:03 +0000

I’m really curious what you think this comment contributes. Like what was the motivation for posting it?

New comment by dmd in "Verizon is About to Break our Watches"

dmd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:13:03 +0000

It’s one year, and only for hardware defects.

New comment by dmd in "Drone Physics"

dmd — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:24:23 +0000

Going down hill is easy, right?

New comment by dmd in "The Vespa at 80"

dmd — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:08:00 +0000

Language changes. I guarantee if you ask 100 people to draw a moped, maybe 2 will put pedals on it.