Hacker News: dylanz

New comment by dylanz in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

dylanz — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:53:41 +0000

I don't think Palantir is concerned? Palantir is LLM agnostic and holds IL5, IL6, compliance with ICD 503, etc. Their entire platform is built around eliminating risk.

New comment by dylanz in "Zed DeltaDB"

dylanz — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:21:05 +0000

I started using Zed a couple weeks ago and immediately had issues with copy/paste/buffer on an M1 Mac. I tried a few suggested fixes and they didn't work.

New comment by dylanz in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

dylanz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:19:23 +0000

I live in Las Vegas and one year at the start of summer my AC went out. It took a week to order the part needed and make the fix. I lived out of casinos for that week (using HotelTonight to get a different place each night) and it was pretty fun. I gained 10lbs. That said, AC's are a necessity out here.

New comment by dylanz in "Steam Machine launches today"

dylanz — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:25:32 +0000

Yeah I understand I can get a much better gaming PC at much lower price point but that was kind of the point I was trying to make. I'm in a position where I'd happily pay more for convenience and I know many other people who feel the same way. I think there is a huge market here and this isn't a dead-on-arrival situation at all. Valve knows this.

New comment by dylanz in "Steam Machine launches today"

dylanz — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:08:22 +0000

I think it's far from dead-on-arrival. I don't want to buy a PC, put it in a garage, etc. I want a little box I can easily hook up to my TV and play Steam games on. This scratches that itch. I'm old and want convenience. I know a lot of other people in my peer group who are going to pick one up too. Also I don't play any competitive games where I care about anti-cheat. I just want to play my RPG/JRPG's on a big screen and I want it to be plug-n-play.

New comment by dylanz in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

dylanz — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:53:29 +0000

+1 to all these points especially the first one. I dropped off after about 10 words and didn't have a clear path to move to the next level.

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

dylanz — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:06:22 +0000

I just bought a WalkingPad M2 and my first day on it was yesterday. I usually sit on my couch while working. I walked about 6 miles yesterday instead! I woke up with sore calves and I think I'm getting blisters but these are probably good signs.

New comment by dylanz in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

dylanz — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:07:36 +0000

I've used bash for 20+ years. I've tried so many other shells but always go back to bash. Thanks Brian!

New comment by dylanz in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

dylanz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:45:13 +0000

Hah! I was too. I was at a bar with Chris trying to convince him to base the company off of hg instead of git but they already had the domain name and had already started building it.

New comment by dylanz in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

dylanz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:43:44 +0000

13274 here!

New comment by dylanz in "“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”"

dylanz — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:34:54 +0000

Does it work on cryptography? Can it find out the methods behind the fourth Kryptos problem?

New comment by dylanz in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

dylanz — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:48:04 +0000

> Claude basically disregards your instructions (CLAUDE.md) entirely

Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Claude constantly disregards my CLAUDE.md. I put a decent amount of time into it and it's pretty much worthless without explicitly telling it to reference it before each prompt.

New comment by dylanz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

dylanz — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:45:48 +0000

Climbing easy routes in a gym is pretty low impact. It’s only when you start to move into really hard crimps or slopers where you’ll hurt yourself. I was a climber bum for years and have climbed crazy stuff around the world and never hurt myself to where I couldn’t type. A lot of bloody tape, but still able to type.

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics"

dylanz — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:00:54 +0000

This is insane. I've used tons of virtual synths in my life but this is by far the coolest I've ever seen. Mick's video was amazing!

New comment by dylanz in "GSA Eliminates 18F"

dylanz — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:21:22 +0000

This sucks for accessibility.

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

dylanz — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:58:41 +0000

I haven't played your game but I've watched a ton of Real Civil Engineer's videos on it. It looks like a blast and I love watching his videos. How did you get into game development? Congratulations on the success!

New comment by dylanz in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

dylanz — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:48 +0000

Great points! I agree with everything you said here with exception to the point about it not being a monetary solution. I've built an "extremely" janky coop for almost no cost in the past. At one point I got absolutely sick of eggs because there were so many than I ended up trading neighbors for other goods. The whole thing ended up making/saving me a ton of money in the end. Let me reiterate how unsafe this coop was however... it was as spacious as it was dangerous (very).

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus"

dylanz — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:34:34 +0000

I’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos""

dylanz — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:34:56 +0000

/me reinstalls electric sheep

New comment by dylanz in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

dylanz — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:16:08 +0000

Agree completely. I loved Tears and didn’t once think it looked bad in any way. It was a very clever game and made me feel like a kid again. That’s what I’m looking for in a Nintendo game. I’ll jump on my PS5 if I want to be wowed graphically.