Hacker News: flying_sheep

New comment by flying_sheep in "The dead economy theory"

flying_sheep — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:09 +0000

It's because of survival pressure :-/ I think we are falling in an unprecedentedly large-scale negative-sum prisoner dilemma.

This situation may be naturally evolved, or may be deliberately shaped by people or institutions. In any way, negative-sum can drive people to do irrational decision because the game is not beneficial in all cases.

New comment by flying_sheep in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

flying_sheep — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:41:53 +0000

Cloudflare durable object is implemented with SQLite (or some variant of it)

New comment by flying_sheep in "The dead economy theory"

flying_sheep — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:40:02 +0000

Human economic systems tend to reward things that are easy to measure, own, scale, and control. That works pretty well for machines, markets, software, and bureaucracy, but it doesn’t work as well for living systems, which rely on diversity, backup systems, and local adaptation.

So we end up with this pattern: we capture the useful order for ourselves, then push the mess, waste, heat, and instability onto the environment.

This is the fundamental nature of human. We can't change it without higher-order regulation. Even in AI training, we assume there is one true distribution and optimizes for it.

We created these systems. And unfortunately, most of us are the unwanted in these systems at the same time.

New comment by flying_sheep in "Cal.com is going closed source"

flying_sheep — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:44:31 +0000

> to harden a system you need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers will spend exploiting them

This is true until certain point, unless the requirement / contract itself has loophole which the attacker can exploit it without limit. But I don't think this is the case.

Let's say, if someone found an loophole in sort() which can cause denial-of-service. The cause would be the implementation itself, not the contract of sorting. People + AI will figure it out and fix it eventually.

New comment by flying_sheep in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

flying_sheep — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:43:26 +0000

They have spent, ... I guess like 10+ years?..., for fixing the slowness and bloated functionality of the File Explorer.

I still don't know how to create a native app so inefficient that, it needs to take more than 500 milliseconds to open a directory

Zsh scripts to copy or paste image in Ubuntu / WSL

flying_sheep — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 07:06:50 +0000

Hi folks, I have created these zsh scripts. So as to copy/paste either text or image in the shell with the Windows pasteboard. You can pipe it to command line like `qr_code` to decode QR code in pasteboard. I found it quite handy sometimes so I would like to share.

Enjoy and merry christmas =)

Link: https://gist.github.com/hktonylee/4297134d43f766c3e9d5589d21e81195

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46382712

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flying_sheep in "Actual Size Online Ruler (Mm,Cm,Inches) – Screen Measurements"

flying_sheep — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:47:01 +0000

> This page is a darknet that can't be found on Google, add it to your bookmark, favorites, otherwise you will lose it.

But I can find it on Google

New comment by flying_sheep in "8cc.vim: Pure Vim script C Compiler"

flying_sheep — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:39:29 +0000

I'd love to use vim to compile vim lolz

New comment by flying_sheep in "Unison Cloud"

flying_sheep — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:23:16 +0000

Distributed function call isn't that simple. You will soon have various issues like authentication, authorization, compatibility between versions, throttling, retry (e.g. transient error), and so on :-/ The list is so long we could probably write a book about these

New comment by flying_sheep in "AWS Icon Quiz"

flying_sheep — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:23:50 +0000

That's why I think Adobe has made the smart move. They simply use English as the icon, color as the impression.

You can guess via the English if you are unfamiliar with the icon. And easy to spot via the color if you already know the icon.

Let's say if I forget the characters in the Illustrator icon. But I can recognize the icon is Illustrator because of its orange color.

New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize

flying_sheep — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:53:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-proof-shows-that-expander-graphs-synchronize-20230724/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36856881

Points: 36

# Comments: 5

New comment by flying_sheep in "[dead]"

flying_sheep — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 01:13:48 +0000

To make it clear, no one is buying X.org

New comment by flying_sheep in "Reverse engineering a mysterious UDP stream in my hotel (2016)"

flying_sheep — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 22:55:48 +0000

This is a piece of good Hacker news. Nice job

A Transformer That Solves Small Tabular Classification Problems in a Second

flying_sheep — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 03:25:02 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01848

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33295422

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The EPA Declared That Burning Wood Is Carbon Neutral (2018)

flying_sheep — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 19:49:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/epa-declares-burning-wood-carbon-neutral-180968880/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31587049

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by flying_sheep in "Show HN: Find the 10 highest and 10 lowest correlations to any stock"

flying_sheep — Tue, 03 May 2022 18:03:11 +0000

Well this tool does not cater for splits and dividends :-/ very misleading IMO

New comment by flying_sheep in "Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API"

flying_sheep — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:33:54 +0000

I paid ~100 dollars to buy songs in Taiko no Tatsujin in iOS 4 via In-App Purchase. But around 2 years later they axed the game and I have no way to download it again. First I can still recover it via iTunes backup. But later when iOS 7 is published, the backup just couldn't run anymore. It was just gone. I should have owned them if I pay that amount of money :-/ It was a very fun game.

New comment by flying_sheep in "Low overhead C++ interface for Apple's Metal API"

flying_sheep — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 06:55:41 +0000

I had many 32-bits games in macOS but they were all axed, including big titles like Diablo 2 (not the resurrected one), Warcraft 3, and a lot of indie games. This made me realize why no sensible game companies would develop in Apple platforms, unless the games generate revenue continuously (which are mostly pay-to-win games)

God know what Apple would axe next :-/

Let's Encrypt's root certificate has expired, and it might break your devices

flying_sheep — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 18:27:00 +0000

Article URL: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/lets-encrypts-root-certificate-expire-180027720.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28721887

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by flying_sheep in "Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess"

flying_sheep — Sat, 19 Jun 2021 19:23:25 +0000

I have switched back to Windows because macOS is like a second-class citizen in Apple :-/ I am programmer with many Bash scripts in macOS. But the switch is quite smooth actually (thanks to WSL 2).

With the similar price of M1 iMac, I can buy a Windows with a much better GPU (for gaming, deep learning, mining, or whatever) and a 140+Hz monitor. With a high refresh rate monitor the UI is so silk smooth. Expect iOS level smoothness when scrolling web pages.

However there is something I still want a solution. Say the continuation of the current website (between Edge and iPhone). Password synchronization and Notes (the official iCloud web Notes is almost useless).