Hacker News: fenwick67

New comment by fenwick67 in "C vs. C#: racing VLC's Gaussian blur"

fenwick67 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 06:21:50 +0000

It surprises me that it runs on the CPU at all, honestly.

New comment by fenwick67 in "Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country"

fenwick67 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:20:51 +0000

Republican policies probably benefit them, and the donation also curries favor with the politician.

New comment by fenwick67 in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

fenwick67 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:14:52 +0000

IMO the benchmark to pass will be to show it has better safety than the average sober, non-speeding, non-phone-using, seatbelt-wearing driver.

IDK how that could even feasibly be shown but that's when people will actually start going all-in on it. Otherwise I will simply meet those criteria myself for free.

New comment by fenwick67 in "Put the zip code first"

fenwick67 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:45:30 +0000

Galaxy brain: address should just be a multi-line field

New comment by fenwick67 in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

fenwick67 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:08:27 +0000

Finally!

New comment by fenwick67 in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

fenwick67 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:26:06 +0000

Thanks for the lawnchair recommendations, y'all. It's been real, Nova Launcher. Sleep now my sweet prince.

New comment by fenwick67 in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

fenwick67 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 02:33:09 +0000

Sorry by power I meant in terms of capability not like, wattage

New comment by fenwick67 in "Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]"

fenwick67 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:49:13 +0000

another day another field effecting the "deviant" weight in the FBI's model

New comment by fenwick67 in "Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry"

fenwick67 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:45:58 +0000

And cigarettes and fossil fuels

New comment by fenwick67 in ""Anyone else out there vibe circuit-building?""

fenwick67 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:38:41 +0000

The trick is, LLMs are only as good as they are at writing code because of all the publicly available source code, tutorials, blog posts and Q&A it can slurp up.

New comment by fenwick67 in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

fenwick67 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:03:43 +0000

Well obviously cell phones have very powerful tx/rx so my question would be "what is stopping us from using this for p2p", I assume the answer is we don't have software access to the radio, and I assume that's for regulatory reasons but idk

New comment by fenwick67 in "Texas police invested in phone-tracking software and won’t say how it’s used"

fenwick67 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:00:38 +0000

Once again, using a computer system to launder a conclusion someone has already made

New comment by fenwick67 in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

fenwick67 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:59:43 +0000

this already happens

New comment by fenwick67 in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

fenwick67 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:50:45 +0000

I'm not so sure. Much like search engines, you can run one yourself or pay Kagi but most people prefer to keep their money and deal with the ads. Streaming services have demonstrated that people have a pretty high tolerance for ads.

New comment by fenwick67 in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

fenwick67 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:01:15 +0000

I am now imagining a "A Case Of Spring Fever" style educational film about how ads are good actually

New comment by fenwick67 in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

fenwick67 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:40:58 +0000

what is special about programming jobs that makes them permanently immune from the high skilled workers being in low demand

New comment by fenwick67 in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

fenwick67 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:13:43 +0000

The honest truth is it can go either way, really. Just ask all the sign-painters and portrait artists how their career is going

New comment by fenwick67 in "Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)"

fenwick67 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:11:28 +0000

conversely, the mechanism by which the KT impactor killed off the dinosaurs was atmospheric

New comment by fenwick67 in "Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why (2024)"

fenwick67 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:09:26 +0000

Sulfates are not good to spray into the air, they are bad for you

New comment by fenwick67 in "Just the Browser"

fenwick67 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:35:51 +0000

Adding an AI button is not an innovative feature