Hacker News: hooverd

New comment by hooverd in "NYC Apartment Aquaponics"

hooverd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:08:51 +0000

No one reading it /here/. People pitch this stuff all the time/

New comment by hooverd in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

hooverd — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:49:55 +0000

Why not focus on the actual gun problem, handguns, and not histrionics about ghost guns and SBRs?

New comment by hooverd in "There are no instances in ATProto"

hooverd — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:28:23 +0000

You need a relay unless you want to have all the same NxM scaling problems as Mastodon.

New comment by hooverd in "There are no instances in ATProto"

hooverd — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:26:40 +0000

You can have your own AppView and Firehose. They're just relatively expensive to run versus a PDS.

New comment by hooverd in "There are no instances in ATProto"

hooverd — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:25:45 +0000

Mostly because having a big centralized firehose relay is less decentralized than people want to admit.

New comment by hooverd in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

hooverd — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:10:28 +0000

have you considered that you're just progressively lowering your threshold for discomfort?

New comment by hooverd in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

hooverd — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:49:11 +0000

Like the levees surrounding a lagoon of pig shit in the South breaking and flooding the nearby community.

New comment by hooverd in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

hooverd — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:30:22 +0000

It's less used but the @ is the atproto logo. I default to saying aye-tee instead of at though. It just sounds better.

New comment by hooverd in "Do you even need a database?"

hooverd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:52:49 +0000

Serverless is cheap as hell as low volumes. Your tiny VPS can't scale to zero. If you're doing sustained traffic your tiny VPS might win though. The real value in Cloud is turning capex spend into opex spend. You don't have to wait weeks or months to requisition equipment.

New comment by hooverd in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

hooverd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:41:54 +0000

sounds like somebody who's never had to park in multiple cities

New comment by hooverd in "The case for zero-error horizons in trustworthy LLMs"

hooverd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:39:49 +0000

Is your issue with math in this example the tediousness of the operations or a conceptual lack of understanding of how to solve them?

New comment by hooverd in "My university uses prompt injection to catch cheaters"

hooverd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:38:09 +0000

Nobody cares about your college book report. It's there to prove, or teach you, that you can do the extremely basic task of synthesizing information. Same with math without a calculator. You should have a mental model of basic math. It helps avoid shooting your foot off later. You might never have to do math from first principles again, but you should get over the hump once.

New comment by hooverd in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

hooverd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:13:04 +0000

Hopefully you feel about the same way about every bit of vitriol levied towards tech workers.

New comment by hooverd in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

hooverd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:10:18 +0000

If you're trying to effect actual change that seems like a great way to harden the people you need to be influencing against you.

New comment by hooverd in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

hooverd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:07:32 +0000

Indeed, if you're nice they might take your side. If you're an asshole, that's a lot less likely.

New comment by hooverd in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

hooverd — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:24:56 +0000

Maybe, you'd be absolutely rolled by fraudsters in the opposite case.

New comment by hooverd in "We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year"

hooverd — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:47:05 +0000

Darn, I'd wished they improved one of the existing Go or Rust implementations.

New comment by hooverd in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

hooverd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:31:17 +0000

The AI companies can spare their whining about contempt of business model. They're selling a service.

New comment by hooverd in "European Commission Trials Matrix to Replace Teams"

hooverd — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:37:47 +0000

In defense of SAP, their product really is built to be configurable for every use case under the sun.

New comment by hooverd in "Claude Code: connect to a local model when your quota runs out"

hooverd — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:26:39 +0000

I don't think Dario is gonna approve of this one.