Hacker News: duncangh

New comment by duncangh in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

duncangh — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:35:48 +0000

simonw has been correctly asserting that there is no deterministic way to prevent hallucinations. I’d argue that this obstinance could be the seed of a strong argument in favor of their capacity to eventually coalesce some form of consciousness

New comment by duncangh in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

duncangh — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:29:26 +0000

Yeah but space data center Econs are going to revolutionize the tulip marketplace

New comment by duncangh in "I ported Kubernetes to the browser"

duncangh — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:57:06 +0000

Investing early in this hn post before it’s a banger. Instant classic

New comment by duncangh in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

duncangh — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:54:29 +0000

Why doesn’t Apple just make a built in iOS native vpn that can be toggled (effectively) from the swipe down menu control and is paid monthly or part of iCloud

New comment by duncangh in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

duncangh — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:50:17 +0000

My dad is an English professor and wrote his first manuscript turned book on a typewriter much to his editor’s dismay in the late 1990s. He used to compel me to type my Christmas wishlist / letter to Santa on it as well perhaps with the added benefit of reducing its length.

New comment by duncangh in "How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?"

duncangh — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:29:24 +0000

This and not being able to divide by 0 in math always drove me up the wall in school. Encountering a god level difficulty unsolved problem in the first 5 minutes of discussion around the basics of the field and then shrugging and continuing to build castles of complexity atop the seemingly rickety foundation irrationally irked me.

Feels good to get that off my Chest. I’ve been holding it in for ~20 years

New comment by duncangh in "US-Iran memorandum of understanding in full"

duncangh — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:38:17 +0000

Prescient

From the live updates of the war on the NYT 11 minutes ago and around 15 mins after you wrote this:

“””Mideast Live Updates: Iranian Forces Say They Closed Strait of Hormuz Iran’s military command blamed the U.S., saying it failed to prevent Israel from violating the cease-fire in Lebanon. Mediators in Pakistan said “technical talks” between the U.S. and Iran to end the war would be held on Sunday.”””

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06/20/world/iran-trump-isr...

New comment by duncangh in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

duncangh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:24:57 +0000

I fear that at this rate the oligarchs will use medical breakthroughs to keep us alive and laboring against our and nature’s will like what industrial farming has done to chickens and other livestock

New comment by duncangh in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

duncangh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:23:02 +0000

An instantaneous measure of a sentiment undergoing an exponential decay I sense

New comment by duncangh in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

duncangh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:56:07 +0000

Idk I feel like Ansible and RHEL aim to give you that control in a way that’s not typically corporate icky in the way you describe but ymmv. Granted both are products based on FOSS; so in the broader sense that pattern may hold

New comment by duncangh in "After AI takes everything"

duncangh — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:51:53 +0000

Interested to read more about this particular crossroads of copyright case law.

Also does the last sentence reflect (at least in part) what you describe (in partial jest?) in the last sentence? Iirc artists previously had to call to get permission from original owner of songs samples and I remember hearing anecdotes like Kanye promising someone he wouldn’t swear in a song with the sample of it were used (and I think most of ye’s samples constitute fair use but not sure). Anyways, you seem knowledgeable to joke about this ultra niche so thought I would ask ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by duncangh in "I indexed 669 GB of my GoPro videos using my M1 Max computer and local ML models"

duncangh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:32:54 +0000

Would it be possible to upload them all to YouTube as unlisted and then point Gemini to them? Not sure the limitations wrt unlisted videos. Maybe also could’ve been done with the @google photos operator if uploaded to Google Photos if not a corporate google workspace Gemini instance

New comment by duncangh in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

duncangh — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:40:36 +0000

Reminds me of the poem / song “All I wanna do”

"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die" Says the man next to me out of nowhere It's apropos of nothing, he says his name is William I'm sure he's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy And he's plain ugly to me And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole life We are drinking beer at noon on Tuesday In a bar that faces a giant car wash The good people of the world Are washing their cars on their lunch break Hosing and scrubbing as best they can in skirts in suits

New comment by duncangh in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

duncangh — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:24:29 +0000

Can we get the link to that TikTok? lol

Also what do you think about goose

New comment by duncangh in "Show HN: Tolaria – Open-source macOS app to manage Markdown knowledge bases"

duncangh — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:02:46 +0000

I have a question about markdown on MacBook Pro. You know the preview feature - I think it’s called quick quicklook - how can I get that to work for markdown? I’ve associated .md files to always open with my IDE, but they still don’t render with the preview which is a mild annoyance. In my IDE i do use an extension to render the Md so that could be why and I could understand why recursive invocation may not be exposed at or available to the preview extension level. But any suggestions?

New comment by duncangh in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

duncangh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:10:46 +0000

It’s kind of interesting that this happens so shortly after they proudly announced how easily they would’ve able to migrate all systems from Microsoft and US firms. Maybe next year will be the year of the Linux desktop

New comment by duncangh in "Show HN: Faceoff – A terminal UI for following NHL games"

duncangh — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:52:38 +0000

I love this - watching the hurricanes game right now! Autorefresh would be nice and then it looks like a small bug in the faceoff percentage as they both say 100% which shouldn't be possible at any point in the game. Also would be sick to be able to enter the team and roster detail page from within the game detail page. But I love this so much and appreciate you for building it :D

edit the face off percentage is still a little off it's updated to show this 87% - 67%. Also followed you on twitter and github.

New comment by duncangh in "Cal.com is going closed source"

duncangh — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:45:03 +0000

Lmao I love this flavor of the ‘tism that always surfaces in hn comment threads exactly like this. Like moths to a flame

New comment by duncangh in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

duncangh — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:51:59 +0000

Good news: this cat and mouse game is keeping some of our brothers / sisters in software employed at FAANG. I feel like the girl from the kombucha reaction gif weighing both sides in this back and forth rally lol

New comment by duncangh in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

duncangh — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:28:02 +0000

This is my favorite type of interaction to see when browsing HN. I feel like this respectful mosh pit of ideas and practitioners is uniquely rad. Thanks for the serendipity dopamine this Sunday