Hacker News: drayfield

New comment by drayfield in "Olo (Color)"

drayfield — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:05:10 +0000

Is it too late to rename it to Octarine?

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octarine

New comment by drayfield in "About Rx Kids"

drayfield — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:33:39 +0000

>In the same way seatbelts just serve to make it harder for drivers to get to where they need to go quickly

New comment by drayfield in "About Rx Kids"

drayfield — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:26:55 +0000

What a fantastic charity, I really love the idea.

New comment by drayfield in "UK charities count the cost of Beacon CRM cyberattack"

drayfield — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:54:33 +0000

A few years ago we spoke to their CTO about their data model and were appalled at how cavalier they were about having all customer data in the same database and how that was their unique selling point.

We went with a different charity CRM.

New comment by drayfield in "Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds"

drayfield — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:13:56 +0000

This is one of the most insidious projects I've ever seen and despite the touted credentials of the backers looks to be completely divorced from the realities of how children should be taught.

Xbox to Lay Off Up to 3,200 in 'Most Significant Restructure' in Company History

drayfield — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:58:26 +0000

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/gaming/news/xbox-layoffs-3200-4-studios-sold-1236802326/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804682

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by drayfield in "The Life and Times of Maxis, Part 1: SimEverything"

drayfield — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:16:06 +0000

At a young age SimEarth made a huge impression on me. I think it was the inscrutability and huge manuals that spoke of a wonderful ecological secret, tantalisingly out of reach no matter how many times I tried...

New comment by drayfield in "Internal Combustion Engine (2021)"

drayfield — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:04:23 +0000

Always good to revisit his older work, though I admit I did get excited that it was a new post!

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

drayfield — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:12:50 +0000

https://www.thegamer.com/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609373

Points: 178

# Comments: 123

New comment by drayfield in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

drayfield — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:40:55 +0000

Some interesting parallels to BLAME!, a manga about an ever-expanding colossal city:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame!

New comment by drayfield in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

drayfield — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:27:07 +0000

For me SQL has long been the gateway to the world of development. I work in the UK non-profit sector and traditionally this kind of technical knowledge is rare, so for any team I've worked with I've built learning pathways that start with SQL before pushing out into Python, Linux, and other things. We're not exactly at the bleeding edge of current technologies, but SQL has consistently proved to be a great jumping-off point for novices who have even a passing interest in computing.

New comment by drayfield in "Linux Basics for Hackers (2019)"

drayfield — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:56:20 +0000

Looks like someone just pointed an LLM at the PDF and asked it to write a Markdown version. Very poor show.

New comment by drayfield in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

drayfield — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:45:33 +0000

Reminds me of an old favourite from The Onion:

https://theonion.com/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-current-product...

New comment by drayfield in "Do_not_track"

drayfield — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:20:39 +0000

Given the URL and list of different opt-outs I thought this was going to be a shell script to set all these for you. In fact, I've just had an idea...

New comment by drayfield in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

drayfield — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:35:30 +0000

I think there's a precedent here:

https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=879

New comment by drayfield in "Generative art over the years"

drayfield — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:32:38 +0000

I recommend https://generative.fm/ - the creator also has a nice little intro course on creating generative music systems on Gumroad: https://alexbainter.gumroad.com/l/generative-music-systems?l...