Hacker News: duncancarroll

New comment by duncancarroll in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

duncancarroll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:38:59 +0000

There's a shortcut

New comment by duncancarroll in "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game"

duncancarroll — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:38:38 +0000

There's a trick to it

New comment by duncancarroll in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

duncancarroll — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:37:16 +0000

If you like this, you would love meditation!

New comment by duncancarroll in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

duncancarroll — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:50:15 +0000

Roblox is indeed eating the world

New comment by duncancarroll in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

duncancarroll — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:31:37 +0000

> "But here’s the thing"

This phrase feels like the new em dash...

New comment by duncancarroll in "LMArena is a cancer on AI"

duncancarroll — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:23:26 +0000

This was my first thought as well

New comment by duncancarroll in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

duncancarroll — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:59:31 +0000

It looks like the article cited is from 2022: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/arti...

New comment by duncancarroll in "The pivot"

duncancarroll — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:42:28 +0000

It's Covid. As someone who only recently recovered from Long Covid after a long, arduous 2-year fight, I see his point.

New comment by duncancarroll in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

duncancarroll — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 20:19:45 +0000

> invisible, omnipotent and omniscient being intimately involved in their day to day activities

The statement above is independent of the (laudable) morality & ethics you're describing.

New comment by duncancarroll in "Ask HN: How do you find early stage startups to join"

duncancarroll — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:48:27 +0000

Y Combinator and other accelerators have job boards: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs

A lot of VCs also have job boards, or they will list their portfolio companies and you can reach out directly:

https://jobs.a16z.com/jobs

https://jobs.sequoiacap.com/jobs

https://kindredventures.com/portfolio

etc

New comment by duncancarroll in "Show HN: Whittle – A shrinking word game"

duncancarroll — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:17:28 +0000

Fun! I was a bit confused at the end because there's no "victory" state or indication. I think I was expecting it to give me a new word pair once I got to the end, or tell me "come back tomorrow for another round"

New comment by duncancarroll in "Show HN: Ellaa – Build knowledge graphs from user insights"

duncancarroll — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:55:05 +0000

Looks cool! Can you point it at app store reviews as an input source?

New comment by duncancarroll in "How to Build Conscious Machines"

duncancarroll — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 15:49:06 +0000

Not that I can make sense of it all, but to be fair the last result has been demonstrated by Michael Levin's lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5VI0u5_12k

New comment by duncancarroll in "Show HN: Roons – Mechanical Computer Kit"

duncancarroll — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:02:26 +0000

This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. I've always wanted to see this visualized and the marbles make it so tactile and real.

New comment by duncancarroll in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

duncancarroll — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:43:56 +0000

All the images look like renderings. Is the car actually in production?

New comment by duncancarroll in "WEIRD – a way to be on the web"

duncancarroll — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:23:33 +0000

Me, for one. As a person with negative free time this sounds like exactly what I need.

New comment by duncancarroll in "WEIRD – a way to be on the web"

duncancarroll — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:22:02 +0000

idk if I agree, it feels genuine enough to me, plus you can self-host so it's not like they're just trying to own your content.

New comment by duncancarroll in "WEIRD – a way to be on the web"

duncancarroll — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 18:11:36 +0000

There are a lot of weird comments in this thread but to me this looks like a cool, genuine project which has an obvious need; I don't think the vibes are off at all.

Given that lately I can't even be bothered to write Markdown for my static site I'm looking forward to giving this a try this weekend.

New comment by duncancarroll in "Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus 1 week earlier"

duncancarroll — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 15:21:21 +0000

Well that's unfortunate. Although I still don't understand why she wouldn't have sought medical attention as her own condition worsened, but I suppose that's at least conceivable.

New comment by duncancarroll in "Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus 1 week earlier"

duncancarroll — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 03:54:50 +0000

This feels very hand wavey to me.

So she feels progressively ill and then dies, all without ever seeking medical attention? I suppose they assume it was acute / she collapsed, but it still seems unusual. She's only 65 remember.

But then Gene's just walking around the house for a week? With his dead wife in the bathroom and a barking dog in a crate??

I haven't dealt with Alzheimer's but you're telling me it's possible to be functional enough to eat and sleep for a week, but not know that your wife is dead and the barking dog needs food and water? And you don't ever seek help or outside assistance?

And then, coincidentally, you also die of a heart attack.

Just seems far fetched to me.

Edit: I guess at 95 he might have mobility issues, so maybe he couldn't call for help? Idk still seems odd.