Hacker News: frenzcan

New comment by frenzcan in "Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere"

frenzcan — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:51:38 +0000

I think I have permanently broken my mental model of the clipboard. I’m always alternating between Linux, Mac and Windows and muscle memory invariably causes me to do the wrong key combo for the OS/app I’m using. Throw in clipboard sync/history tools etc which aren’t always reliable, I regularly paste and either nothing happens or it’s a previous copy of something. It sounds like a small thing but it’s maddening and mostly my own fault.

New comment by frenzcan in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

frenzcan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 15:51:45 +0000

While I never posted much to Stackoverflow I have fond memories of it as a sole developer, finding other people with similar issues and the quality solutions offered that often got me out of a jam.

New comment by frenzcan in "MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games"

frenzcan — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:31:33 +0000

I kind of like the uppercase keywords of older programming languages, it makes the non-code parts standout more, probably even more important before syntax highlighting became common

New comment by frenzcan in "The console wars have been lost"

frenzcan — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:25:09 +0000

>you can probably keep playing it until Gabe Newell dies

I remember Valve talking about the concern that if anything happens to Valve they have some contingency that basically releases your whole library to you without Steam DRM/etc.

New comment by frenzcan in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

frenzcan — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:34:55 +0000

I agree Asimov's laws are intentionally flawed/ambiguous (which makes the stories so good) but a slight difference to LLMs is the laws aren't just software, the positronic brain is physically structured in such a way (I'm hazy on the details) that violating the laws causes the robot to shutdown or experience paralysing anxiety. So if an LLM's safety rules fail or are subverted it can still generate dangerous output, while an Asimov robot will stop working (or go insane...)

New comment by frenzcan in "NetHack 5.0.0"

frenzcan — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:21:13 +0000

This comment made me feel better about my woeful track record with nethack

New comment by frenzcan in "Ooh.directory: a place to find good blogs that interest you"

frenzcan — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:28:09 +0000

Wow, I’m making this my homepage.

New comment by frenzcan in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

frenzcan — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:43:29 +0000

>As this new kind of writing draws readers away from traditional media, we should be prepared for whatever PR mutates into to compensate. When I think how hard PR firms work to score press hits in the traditional media, I can't imagine they'll work any less hard to feed stories to bloggers, if they can figure out how.

I think it's safe to say they figured it out.

New comment by frenzcan in "Fossil versus Git"

frenzcan — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:14:49 +0000

I used Mercurial before switching to git. The positive difference from switching was how branches worked. I don’t know the technical details but branches on git felt “lighter” to use and maintain than with Mercurial.

New comment by frenzcan in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

frenzcan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:28:35 +0000

What’s the issue with homebrew?

New comment by frenzcan in "Using AI generated images to get refunds"

frenzcan — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 13:26:01 +0000

This seems like such a tricky problem. There was a no-ai camera posted here recently which verified the photos were genuinely taken on the device. It was pointed out someone could photograph an ai image via the camera to produce a verified image.

Maybe it needs to be similar to SSL certificates where trusted authorities can verify and revoke verification for digital assets.

New comment by frenzcan in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

frenzcan — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 20:20:23 +0000

GOP

New comment by frenzcan in "My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)"

frenzcan — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:12:53 +0000

Once I realised I rarely read my notes, I now put them in a single note and prepend it when I add something new. It’s weird but I think the value I get from notes is in the writing of them, it’s a way of thinking rather than for recall.

New comment by frenzcan in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

frenzcan — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 09:22:40 +0000

> Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.

Aquired by TikTok in 2019 for an undisclosed sum.

How to Improve Your Attention Span: Daniel Pink's Strategies for the Digital Age

frenzcan — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:46:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2025/11/how-to-improve-your-attention-span.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46049864

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by frenzcan in ".NET 10"

frenzcan — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 10:11:41 +0000

At last, extension properties in C#. I’ve been waiting for these for years.

What really happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?

frenzcan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:54:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/11/11/what-really-happened-with-the-cia-and-the-paris-review-a-conversation-with-lance-richardson/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45888759

Points: 98

# Comments: 12

Why Are We Talking About Superintelligence?

frenzcan — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:56:50 +0000

Article URL: https://calnewport.com/why-are-we-talking-about-superintelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45827136

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by frenzcan in "Apple’s Persona technology uses Gaussian splatting to create 3D facial scans"

frenzcan — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:40:35 +0000

What eventually tipped your boss off? Was it the smile issue?

New comment by frenzcan in "Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor"

frenzcan — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 10:04:41 +0000

Can any Helix users share how the muscle memory from vim is working out? I’d really like to give it a go but I’m worried I’ll pollute my memory of basic vim commands. I’m bad enough remembering cut/copy/paste keyboard shortcuts in different OS/applications.