Hacker News: dvaun

New comment by dvaun in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

dvaun — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:40:37 +0000

That is awesome. I gave it a brief readthrough last night on my phone, but will give it a closer look this week.

New comment by dvaun in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

dvaun — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:43:17 +0000

This is interesting. I’ve been working with ONNX models and compiling custom WASM runtime builds based on the model operators, cutting down on edge deployments.

Do you have any benchmarks?

New comment by dvaun in "Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School"

dvaun — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:55:47 +0000

Public education caters to the common denominator…the public. If you want higher rigor and standards set for your children, then you will need to find alternatives - which, in some areas, are no better than the public schools.

I wouldn’t blame the system for poor standards. Their standards are actually decent for most children. The problem is that teachers are forced to spend a significant portion of time and energy on classroom management.

Couple that with the fact that most parents aren’t reading to their children at night, so those kids grow up falling behind the curve. Reading comprehension drops -> other subjects follow suit. Rinse and repeat each year, and you eventually end up with high-school seniors reading far below their grade level.

The teachers now have to scaffold all of their content. The kids who didn’t fall behind? They receive no attention from the teacher who is instead focused on helping the kid with a 3rd grade reading ability to try to understand the content.

An indirect tragedy of the commons, where parents are relying on public education to raise and teach children with no input of their own.

New comment by dvaun in "State of Show HN: 2025"

dvaun — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:12:45 +0000

Fair point. Rose-tinted glasses and all.

New comment by dvaun in "State of Show HN: 2025"

dvaun — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 01:18:15 +0000

Pre-2020 had far more informative posts and discussions. While we still have decent conversations post-covid, the quality has slid downhill somewhat.

New comment by dvaun in "Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files"

dvaun — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:54:37 +0000

This reads like notes taken on a presentation.

How did IRC ping timeouts end up in a lawsuit?

dvaun — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:25:29 +0000

Article URL: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73777.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46303406

Points: 158

# Comments: 32

New comment by dvaun in "Tell HN: HN was down"

dvaun — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:46:27 +0000

Will we get a post mortem?

New comment by dvaun in "Average DRAM price in USD over last 18 months"

dvaun — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 02:36:15 +0000

What a ridiculous statement. We have a massive number of people in the USA relying on financial support for purchasing food. Not every single American is fat, especially those who literally can’t afford to eat.

New comment by dvaun in "Mapping the off-target effects of every FDA-approved drug in existence"

dvaun — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 22:48:34 +0000

Steroid abuse indicates body dysmorphia. There isn’t an addictive property like other abused drugs, unless you’re considering it addictive via its effects on dopamine production.

Your body doesn’t become addicted, though. The potential for harm is real if you are not taking it under medical supervision or without proper knowledge of usage, like any other drugs.

New comment by dvaun in "The Rise of Whatever"

dvaun — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 06:33:28 +0000

All we are is dust in the wind.

New comment by dvaun in "AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome"

dvaun — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:06:22 +0000

A charitable view is that they intended "ideas that I had germinating for decades" to be from their own perspective, and not necessarily spurred inside Google by their initiative. I think that what they stated prior to this conflated the two, so it may come across as bragging. I don't think they were trying to brag.

Ukraine's Drone Attack Was Powered by Open Source Software

dvaun — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 15:53:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/ukraines-massive-drone-attack-was-powered-by-open-source-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44225748

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by dvaun in "Our narrative prison"

dvaun — Thu, 15 May 2025 05:47:55 +0000

Maybe it's a universal abstraction describing any type of change?

Consider it in another frame:

Beginning state -> Catalyst -> Mutation -> New state -> Reaction -> Outcome

or:

Pre-process -> Event -> Logic -> Result -> Post-process -> Deliverable

New comment by dvaun in "So Much Blood"

dvaun — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:25:55 +0000

Fun reference (I had to look up what you meant).

For anyone reading: Donar is "Old High German" for Thor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor#Post-Roman_era

New comment by dvaun in "Playing in the Creek"

dvaun — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:16:37 +0000

Have you considered socratic questioning and other forms of conversation, in order to affect more change?

See https://www.streetepistemology.com/ for content about this. It is possible to guide discussions in a healthy manner and with positive goals in mind.

New comment by dvaun in "Fire-Flyer File System from DeepSeek"

dvaun — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:50:03 +0000

Can you expand on this?

New comment by dvaun in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

dvaun — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:20:38 +0000

Sounds like a license to train on your data.

New comment by dvaun in "Ask HN: Former devs who can't get a job, what did you end up doing for work?"

dvaun — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:47:32 +0000

Ditto. This isn’t exclusive to programming. Everyone that I know who has worked in any office environment has downtime.

New comment by dvaun in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)"

dvaun — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:01:49 +0000

You’re calling someone “brain broken” for writing a comment in a cute manner to make it sound like product development. It’s time to take a step back and relax.