Hacker News: ghayes

New comment by ghayes in "Have a fucking website"

ghayes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 04:55:22 +0000

Instead of focusing on why having a website is better for customers (100% it is), the article is really an attack on... developers at Meta and tech other companies? I love a good profanity laced rant, but the entire article reads unfocused and unpersuasive.

New comment by ghayes in "Shall I implement it? No"

ghayes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:12:57 +0000

Honestly, skip planning mode and tell it you simply want to discuss and to write up a doc with your discussions. Planning mode has a whole system encouraging it to finish the plan and start coding. It's easier to just make it clear you're in a discussion and write a doc phase and it works way better.

New comment by ghayes in "FreeCAD"

ghayes — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:00:15 +0000

I’ve really enjoyed Shapr3D (built on Parasolid). Nothing particularly better than the usual competitors but the interface is really intuitive and you can realistically develop on an iPad. Curious if anyone else has had experiences with it.

New comment by ghayes in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

ghayes — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:28:38 +0000

To be fair, that's not exactly what Loper Bright says. It holds that the courts should read the statute independently and not assume that Agency rules or procedures are prima facie controlling where the statute is ambiguous.

New comment by ghayes in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

ghayes — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:09:36 +0000

I am always worried when I bring development boards on airplanes. I assume most people are reasonable, but I worry for a few that might not be.

New comment by ghayes in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

ghayes — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 01:21:13 +0000

Whenever I see these and play with models like this (and the demos on this page), the movement in the world always feel like a dolly zoom. Things in the distance tend to stay in the distance, even as the camera moves in that direction, and only the local area changes features.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_zoom

New comment by ghayes in "Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)"

ghayes — Sun, 18 May 2025 22:00:49 +0000

I feel like some of the newer standards like CSS Grid instead of tables might be the best way to go. Many HTML/CSS improvements were not just bloat but actually better standards to build on.

New comment by ghayes in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

ghayes — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 06:15:43 +0000

Yeah, I loved Elm, but the restriction that you can't build your own "effect" modules really made it impossible to embrace. Say you want to use a new web API similar to using Elm's core `Http`, well... you can try and fork Elm...

New comment by ghayes in "Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme"

ghayes — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:47:01 +0000

Though, sadly it's not a true image; it's composed as an SVG in HTML. So you can't copy-paste the image into chats.

New comment by ghayes in "Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search"

ghayes — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 06:04:59 +0000

Privacy Pass docs [0] cover this, but it is mostly referenced deeper in the paper. I believe the idea is that the tokens returned by the server are "unlinkable" to the (modified) tokens passed back by the client. So the server knows it passed back tokens A, B and C to some users, and later receives tokens X, Y and Z. It knows that X, Y and Z are valid, but not their correspondance to the tokens it issued. It uses elliptic curve cryptography for this.

[0] https://privacypass.github.io/

New comment by ghayes in "Proof of location for online polls"

ghayes — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:21:03 +0000

Couldn't the "test" add some variety of math challenge, thus making a simple proxy insufficient. Obviously, this method would add more noise to the final calculation, but if the proxy would need to forward its data to the end-user machine to perform the math, then a simple proxy in this case wouldn't be sufficient.

New comment by ghayes in "Soldering the Tek way"

ghayes — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:39:54 +0000

Curious if anyone has tips on lead-free soldering. I basically always see in online forums "just use lead," but never any tips on how to actually become capable on using lead-free solder. Esp. as my son is around a lot, it seems prudent to stay lead-free, even if you can generally handle lead safely. Thanks.

New comment by ghayes in "Guide to 3D Print Motorized Rotation Mounts for Optical Applications (2021)"

ghayes — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 02:38:03 +0000

Thanks. Can someone explain what these are typically used for or link to commercially available variants?

New comment by ghayes in "ChatGPT Search"

ghayes — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:26:59 +0000

I tend to agree. If I ask ChatGPT what is the best way to make pasta, it will pull from every source it’s ever been trained on. If it decides to search the web, it will mostly cater to one or two sources.

New comment by ghayes in "Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule"

ghayes — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:20:25 +0000

The recent Loper decision also expressly says Congress _can_ delegate to agencies, just that APA doesn’t do that delegation itself.

New comment by ghayes in "Press Conference: Professor Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 [video]"

ghayes — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:27:38 +0000

Geoffrey Hinton had an excellent series on neural networks from 2011 for Coursera available here https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRl3Ht4JOcdU872GhiYWf6... detailing the fundamentals of machine learning. The series was later wholesale replaced by another led by Andrew Ng of Google. I really adored Geoffrey’s lectures and recommend it to anyone looking to get into the space. It ends with him hinting at the idea of attention networks, but sadly I can’t find any later lectures from him on the topic.

New comment by ghayes in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

ghayes — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:39:40 +0000

Is “search it up” much different from a similar phrase “search for it”? The structure of the original quote is “imperative verb, direct object, adverb” but I wouldn’t call that a change in grammar so much as a change in diction.

New comment by ghayes in "Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apostrophe' gets approval"

ghayes — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:28:00 +0000

Just to clarify, I think you have the terms reversed. Descriptivism is, as you say, describing a language from its everyday usage. Prescriptivism is when you follow a rules body or dictionary to say what is “correct.”

New comment by ghayes in "Diode Matrix"

ghayes — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:42:49 +0000

I sat confused how each 16-bit row was being shown as 8 hex digits (32-bits). Thanks for explaining it was in octal.

New comment by ghayes in "Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas go on strike"

ghayes — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 05:21:10 +0000

> “The ILA is fighting for respect, appreciation and fairness in a world in which corporations are dead set on replacing hard-working people with automation,” the statement said. “Robots do not pay taxes and they do not spend money in their communities.”

A tale as old as Ned Ludd. I am interested to see how we reconcile the benefits of automation without leaving workers behind. Hopefully there are more cases similar to the creation of Microsoft Excel, where the automation tools largely helped the field grow.