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New comment by dylanowen in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

dylanowen — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:53:48 +0000

I was trying to debug/fix a segfault in the JVM which kept getting flagged

New comment by dylanowen in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

dylanowen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:28:20 +0000

That sounds very dystopian. The ai teacher part, not the no devices part

New comment by dylanowen in "Car Seats as Contraception"

dylanowen — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:25:01 +0000

Last sporting event I went to I was able to check my car seat at the stroller check, the workers didn't bat an eye :)

New comment by dylanowen in "My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker"

dylanowen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:20:32 +0000

I know right. I kept waiting for a sarcasm tag at the end

New comment by dylanowen in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

dylanowen — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:01:03 +0000

I've seen Bryan Cantrill present at a few conferences and his talks are always the best.

New comment by dylanowen in "The mythical AI-agent month"

dylanowen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 01:04:23 +0000

This exactly matches my experience. I also suspected that it was my higher threshold for code quality but Ai generated code is just not worth adding to a project without very strict reviews, unless it's non production and I want to fully give the project over to Ai

New comment by dylanowen in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

dylanowen — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:11:24 +0000

But those are the parts where it's important to struggle through the learning process even if you're slower than AI. if you defer to an LLM because it can do your work in a new codebase faster than you, that code base will stay new to you for forever. You'll never be able to review the AI code effectively.

New comment by dylanowen in "The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV"

dylanowen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:50:39 +0000

When I first heard about these I thought eink had gotten cheap and good enough for that to be part of the display. The fact that it's just a regular tv displaying a painting was so disappointing.

New comment by dylanowen in "Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)"

dylanowen — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:59:42 +0000

I use work trees so my prototype can be open while I build my final code, but I never thought of local remotes! That'll be so much easier!

New comment by dylanowen in "Touching the Elephant – TPUs"

dylanowen — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 16:40:09 +0000

I assume the nuclear reactors are to power the data centers using the new chips. There have been a few mentions on HN about the US being very behind in building enough power plants to run LLM workloads

New comment by dylanowen in "YesNotice"

dylanowen — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:22:53 +0000

That's if the website you're querying is a static html file but the web is much more dynamic and varied. Some of the questions I have: does yesnotice execute js, does it handle an answer appearing on a different page, does it handle ambiguous launch language. In essence: how does it work?

New comment by dylanowen in "Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs"

dylanowen — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:45:09 +0000

This seems a lot like what the scala libraries Zio or Kyo are doing for concurrency, just without the functional effect part.

New comment by dylanowen in "The Silent Scientist: When Software Research Fails to Reach Its Audience"

dylanowen — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 17:07:40 +0000

For me it's a discovery problem. I have a hard time finding papers to read. Where do you go to find interesting or relevant papers?

New comment by dylanowen in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

dylanowen — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:51:07 +0000

Why not, if liquibase isn't directly completing with your company and your bug fixes help their business, why would they care?

New comment by dylanowen in "Liquibase continues to advertise itself as "open source" despite license switch"

dylanowen — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:48:08 +0000

The comments here are pretty surprising. a lot of commenters are very worried about something that seems like a very reasonable change. The license change is to prevent someone like AWS offering managed-liquibase. It might not be technically open source anymore but why does that matter? You can still read/fork/contribute to the source and leverage liquibase internally. The fact that liquibase the company exists and provides this library is great. They shouldn't have to live in fear of their hard work being co-opted into managed liquibase to pass some open source purity test.

New comment by dylanowen in "Does our “need for speed” make our wi-fi suck?"

dylanowen — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 02:37:39 +0000

For people who don't or can't have Ethernet wiring, I've had great success with Ethernet over coax. My ancient coax wiring gets 800mbps back to my router with a screenbeam MoCA 2.5

New comment by dylanowen in "Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?"

dylanowen — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 06:10:34 +0000

Sounds like a great way to script yourself a bonus

New comment by dylanowen in "Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 with Debian 13 released"

dylanowen — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 15:47:03 +0000

I'm using it for a browser extension, just because I wanted to code more in rust. It's great at what it does and has all the same paradigms from React. The best use case though, would be if all your code is already rust. If you have a complex UI I'd probably use react and typescript.

New comment by dylanowen in "Scala 3 Migration: Report from the field"

dylanowen — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 20:21:34 +0000

This is a great write up! For people using gradle to compile scala (definitely not my first choice) the initial hurdle to migrating individual modules has been fixed! I'm guessing it'll be in gradle 8.13 https://github.com/gradle/gradle/pull/31118

New comment by dylanowen in "Ask HN: Resources for General Purpose GPU development on Apple's M* chips?"

dylanowen — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:28:08 +0000

Oh good to know! It's been a while since I've looked at the osx implementation