Hacker News: esquivalience

New comment by esquivalience in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

esquivalience — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:45:20 +0000

This is really cool, and I appreciated your reverse engineering.

New comment by esquivalience in "1k Words: A Writing Contest"

esquivalience — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:06:29 +0000

For all the people asking whether or not it is exactly a thousand words or only more or less than that, I think it is very plain from the content. For example:

> "Write 1,000 words about it"

> "you are writing the definitive 1,000 words for this photo. Make them count."

> "Does it have to be 1,000 words? Yes...Your entry must be exactly 1,000 words"

It also says that the prize is $1,000, and there's 1 picture - but I haven't seen anyone asking whether each of those is an upper or lower bound!

New comment by esquivalience in "2026 Unslop AI-Written Fiction Contest Results"

esquivalience — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:48:04 +0000

#1 is Dungeons and Dragons, except for the word 'video' game.

New comment by esquivalience in "Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite"

esquivalience — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 11:29:40 +0000

> it has successfully drilled to a depth of 100 meters, a milestone...

Nope that's a 0.1kilometerstone.

New comment by esquivalience in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

esquivalience — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:06:14 +0000

I actually can't find the answer on either of the linked pages, so it would be good to know. And I think people's experience is more important than the claims in these discussions.

New comment by esquivalience in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

esquivalience — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:45:23 +0000

Do you think I was wrong about this one? Maybe.

I'm usually fairly forgiving about it and like to err on the side of being generous to the individual but in this case it seemed very clear to me and got in the way of the message. I noticed the .de domain and wondered whether it might be AI translation, But I don't think it was, and in my experience, AI translation doesn't give the same uncanny valley vibes.

New comment by esquivalience in "I Stored a Website in a Favicon"

esquivalience — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 07:22:11 +0000

I found the agressively staccato, clearly LLM-generated content extremely difficult to read.

New comment by esquivalience in "πFS"

esquivalience — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:27:16 +0000

> "Aagh, the aunt fell!" // "Oh yes, that'd be Newton"

This is totally lost on me.

New comment by esquivalience in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

esquivalience — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:44:36 +0000

I think your 3k figure comes from here - It is explained:

> As judges, the professors then completed 2,918 blinded, forced-choice comparisons (median per judge: 200), each time indicating which of the two anonymized responses, from the instructor or the LLM, they would rather give to a student

New comment by esquivalience in "The User Is Visibly Frustrated"

esquivalience — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:21:40 +0000

I laughed out loud when I understood the author's profile photo at the end of the article!

New comment by esquivalience in "I love my Bluetooth keyboard"

esquivalience — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:22:24 +0000

> Not long ago there was this dude here ...

*dudette! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48250144

Ask HN: Bitwarden Rejecting Master Password?

esquivalience — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:10:06 +0000

Over the last week, I've encountered Bitwarden rejecting my master password - especially when exporting my passwords after the recent kerfuffle. I thought it was just me but my wife brought up the same problem, suggesting it's widespread.

Encountered on Chrome Extension and Android app flavours. Has anyone else encountered this?

(Please assume the problem is not a mistyped password.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48264575

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by esquivalience in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

esquivalience — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:25:25 +0000

They were very sweary.

New comment by esquivalience in "Why is Inkwell stuck in review"

esquivalience — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:34:05 +0000

In the business, we often refer to that sort of reminder activity as "defending" against genericism. Practice varies by country but the point is often to show that you are not passively allowing the trade mark to become generic. Yes, you can often ignore letters (unless they request an answer or make a threat, which might be a different situation) - but it's usually a good idea to spend some time looking at it from the other person's perspective first.

New comment by esquivalience in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"

esquivalience — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:19:59 +0000

Yes, but it means something different to the name of the country. It means a region.

New comment by esquivalience in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

esquivalience — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:18:11 +0000

I totally disagree with this! I think it's very important for experts to be able to adapt to their opinions based on evidence.

New comment by esquivalience in "A Letter from Dijkstra on APL (1982)"

esquivalience — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:19:39 +0000

> Your writings made me wonder in which discipline you got your doctor’s degree.

Is this a horrible sideswipe or do people think it was intended frankly?

New comment by esquivalience in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

esquivalience — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:57:29 +0000

The author has been using parenthetical comments like that since at least 2017, judging by a review of old posts on that site.

New comment by esquivalience in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

esquivalience — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:58:54 +0000

As in 'please', from 'if you please'?

New comment by esquivalience in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

esquivalience — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:23:56 +0000

> I work with senior citizens and tried to explain how to parse the domain in the URL by looking for the first forward "/" after the "https://" and then scan backwards but they find that mental algorithm confusing and those instructions don't stick.

Might try explaining it this way?

It works the same way as a postal address. The first part before `/` is the envelope: by analogy it runs streetaddress.city.country.

You can give a name to your house, or add an apartment to the front - but that doesn't change the most significant part.