<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: dmd</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dmd</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 17:18:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=dmd" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Squares in Squares"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>See also <a href="https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fn3q5kp6s2vmg1.jpeg" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fn...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 15:26:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281109</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Odd. For me more than half are the other guy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 17:34:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269443</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>because the movement of people displaced by Katrina has been extremely well documented for the last 20 years?<p>Like, there are entire journals and programs of study devoted to it. I’m not just guessing here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:33:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268056</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not the greatest example because they both do find me, but here's an example of where Kagi is supposed to be better at precisely this, but isn't. Search without quotes for daniel drucker mclean.<p>That's me, and Google correctly on the first page finds ONLY pages related to me.<p>Kagi pollutes the page with many results for my doppelgänger, the much more famous Daniel J Drucker of the University of Toronto, even though none of those results mention mclean.<p>That is literally the thing Kagi was supposed to be better at - actually respecting your search terms instead of thinking it knows better!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 14:15:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267128</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Someone who was 7 during Katrina at that time is roughly 28 today.<p>Using the Census ACS age brackets, about 20-ish% of louisiana's population is under 15, and another 20 is between 15 and 29. Everyone 30 and older adds up to the other 60.<p>So a hair over 60% are were at least 7.<p>But that's who lives there now not who lived there then. Between 2005 and 2006 the state population dropped by 6% and most of that displaced population never returned - people coming in from elsewhere weren't there for Katrina. So the fraction who were both living there AND old enough to remember it is considerably smaller than 60%.<p>So like I said, roughly half.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 14:11:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267084</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267084</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48267084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, they don't, because only about half of people in Louisiana are old enough to remember it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 13:33:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266655</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "GPT Guesses Between 1 and 100"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, I'm "some people", and just tried it with Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.5, and neither had any problem at all.<p>The linked article is from research done more than 4 years ago. If you're basing your idea of what LLMs can or can't do on what they could or couldn't do in 2022, well, good luck to you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 13:28:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266605</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I really really really really want to love Kagi, but every time I try it (and I just spent a month trying it, ending a week or so ago), I end up back at Google, finding that my search results are better.<p>I think the reason is my searches are almost entirely long-tail searches that Kagi's index just isn't good enough for. I am <i>never</i> searching for something like "best mattress" or anything else that is heavily SEO'd - it's always something very specific - so the result page in Google looks pretty much exactly like the Kagi page, only it nearly always has the result I'm looking for where Kagi's doesn't.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 13:25:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266567</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266567</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>have you seen <a href="https://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" rel="nofollow">https://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</a></p>
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<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 18:43:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212174</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48212174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Some of it is in my customized instructions, some of it I fed pieces in at a time saying "remember this please:" so it goes into Memories.<p>I'm not entirely clear on the mechanism by which memories make it into context, so it's possible some of it isn't all the time, but it does <i>seem</i> to be working reasonably.<p>Again, it's not <i>as good</i> as Claude when it comes to writing "not like an AI". But it's significantly better than it was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 01:32:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143459</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143459</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>FYI I'm actively working on aimpostor, so check back in a couple days for some quality improvements. (I'm definitely not going to bother with a Sparkle updater or anything like that.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:24:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142976</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Using these prompts/steering[0], setting Base style to Friendly, Warm to More, Enthusiastic to Default, Headers, Lists, and Emoji to Less, I have found I can get gpt-5.5 about ... 80% of the way there to writing as non-annoyingly as Claude. And it's so much faster and has such higher limits that that's worth it for me.<p>I also put together this ridiculous thing[1] because I missed the font and color scheme of Claude.<p>[0] <a href="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dmd/91e9ca98b2c252a185e8e4878359530d/raw/448dbf32776072941d93bc6030b85f896ab03a39/gistfile1.txt" rel="nofollow">https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dmd/91e9ca98b2c252a185e8e...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://github.com/dmd/aimpostor" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/dmd/aimpostor</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 00:13:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142909</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142909</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48142909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show HN: A simple Claude skin for ChatGPT]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Switched from Claude to ChatGPT? (For whatever reason. Not judging.)<p>Wish you could get that soothing Claude font and color scheme?<p>Or maybe you just hate native apps and prefer the bloat of Electron?<p>Well it's your lucky day, because this is an Electron ChatGPT wrapper that scratches your itch. It even has dark mode. (Applaud here.)</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135828">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135828</a></p>
<p>Points: 7</p>
<p># Comments: 2</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:20:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/dmd/aimpostor</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135828</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Claude Account Suspended Seconds After Purchase?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anthropic does not offer support to anyone but their largest enterprise clients.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 14:15:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135755</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the General Social Survey, the share of adults saying “most people can be trusted” fell from 46% in 1972 to 34% in 2018, and Pew found the same 34% in a 2023 to 2024 poll. - <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/2025/05/08/americans-trust-in-one-another/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pewresearch.org/2025/05/08/americans-trust-in-on...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:57:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129311</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129311</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Up in Smoke"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What does "a ball of initials" mean?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 15:25:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123184</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123184</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "When life gives you lemons, write better error messages"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have approximately zero confidence that if I see an error message that says "our support team received the error" that anyone has received the error.<p>In fact I would generally bet thousands of dollars against that.</p>
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<p>I was expecting the Apple Palette</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 19:00:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112787</link><dc:creator>dmd</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112787</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by dmd in "Local AI needs to be the norm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A training run costs somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion dollars. That’s a thousand millions.<p>How many crowdfunded projects do you know that have raised even one percent of that? Who’s going to be in charge of collecting that scale of money? Perhaps some sort of company formed for the benefit of humanity, which will promise to be a non-profit? Some sort of “Open” AI?<p>Oh, wait.</p>
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