Hacker News: doormatt

New comment by doormatt in "View of Life: A Letter to Richard Dawkins"

doormatt — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:43:34 +0000

That was a wonderful read!

New comment by doormatt in "Show HN: DoodleMate: Animate Your Child's Hand Drawings Without Generative AI"

doormatt — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:51:13 +0000

Gotcha! Appreciate the clarification!

New comment by doormatt in "Show HN: DoodleMate: Animate Your Child's Hand Drawings Without Generative AI"

doormatt — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:54:57 +0000

Why does your about page say this then?

>I want to build something with a low floor and a high ceiling; a tool that uses AI to smooth out the hardest parts of traditional animation, while letting creators keep full ownership of what they make.

And your terms of service says:

>We provide an online platform that allows users to upload images, drawings, and artwork and use our proprietary AI-powered technology to transform those images into animated videos. You may upload image files, customize certain settings related to the animation output, view and download the resulting videos, and manage their uploaded content and account. We reserve the right to establish limits on the file types, file sizes, and number of uploads permitted per user, and to modify those limits at any time. All video generation is performed automatically through a combination of AI and computer graphics technology.

New comment by doormatt in "NASA had to train Apollo 11's astronauts to not use profanity (2019)"

doormatt — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:44:31 +0000

>Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins cursed fewer than 15 times during their moon-landing mission, based on NASA transcripts. Most of that came from command-module pilot Collins. Aldrin cursed just once and Armstrong didn’t at all.

From what I've read about Armstrong, absolutely no surprise there.

New comment by doormatt in "A Homemade Robot Nag"

doormatt — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:38:56 +0000

Reminds me of https://habitica.com

New comment by doormatt in "What's wrong with bunny hands on dinosaurs? (2018)"

doormatt — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:05:54 +0000

What exactly is "bunny hands"? I'm having difficulty picturing it.

New comment by doormatt in "Kiki – Accountability monster for people who are easily distracted"

doormatt — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:30:19 +0000

>Is there any way to trick Kiki?

>Several users have tried. None have succeeded.

But then

>What browsers does Kiki support?

>KIKI supports Chrome and Safari. Other browsers can confuse it. Stick to those two.

New comment by doormatt in "Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT"

doormatt — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:43:01 +0000

> I had a friend whose son was placed in French immersion (a language he doesn't speak at all).

In my entire french immersion Kindergarden class, there was a total of one child who already spoke French. I don't think the fact that he didn't speak the language is the concern.

New comment by doormatt in "Discontinuing the Teensy at Adafruit"

doormatt — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:01:21 +0000

Paul had moved all production to Sparkfun, as it was taking up too much of his time.

New comment by doormatt in "“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”"

doormatt — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 23:58:24 +0000

And this is Aristotle - https://aristotle.harmonic.fun/

It's an LLM.

New comment by doormatt in "XPER on the Commodore 64"

doormatt — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:13:31 +0000

That was an absolutely fantastic read!

New comment by doormatt in "Panoramas of Star Trek Sets"

doormatt — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 05:25:48 +0000

I managed to go to the Star Trek Experience when it was in Vegas, and be transported in, walk through the corridors, and emerge onto the bridge.

It was utterly glorious, and a good day to die.

New comment by doormatt in "Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer"

doormatt — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:03:46 +0000

Works fine for me.

New comment by doormatt in "FCC sounds alarm after emergency tones turned into potty-mouthed radio takeover"

doormatt — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:13:11 +0000

Is it just me, or is that entire article AI written?

>For radio stations, the fix isn't fancy – just overdue.

This SCREAMS LLM.

New comment by doormatt in "Underrated reasons to be thankful V"

doormatt — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 00:48:34 +0000

What specifically disturbed you?

New comment by doormatt in "Show HN: Premortem, a coding-agent-powered airplane blackbox"

doormatt — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:14:01 +0000

I don't think you do. Your solution will also only start "firing alerts" once a threshold has been breached.

New comment by doormatt in "Show HN: Premortem, a coding-agent-powered airplane blackbox"

doormatt — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:55:05 +0000

>When running multiple intensive processes in parallel, pushing machines to their limits to maximize throughput, traditional monitoring only provides alerts when thresholds breach.

>Premortem continuously watches system vitals (CPU, memory, disk, processes) and spawns Claude agents to diagnose problems when thresholds are breached.

Surely you see the irony here...

New comment by doormatt in "Why do we need dithering?"

doormatt — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 00:08:08 +0000

I think you mean 24 bit. 8 bit would only be 256 colors total.

New comment by doormatt in "AI and Copyright: Expanding copyright hurts everyone"

doormatt — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 23:00:43 +0000

>the problem that people cannot think for themselves any longer (as seen by the downvoting in this submission).

Quite an interesting take to assume that everyone who disagrees with you cannot think for themselves.

New comment by doormatt in "The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'"

doormatt — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 21:04:09 +0000

>Wagner's office estimates he lost over $3,000 to downcoding in the first half of the year, but other doctors across the country have fared far worse.

That's...not a lot of money.