Hacker News: ivankelly

New comment by ivankelly in "Patrick Stewart has died"

ivankelly — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:00:04 +0000

He’s finally seen everything

New comment by ivankelly in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

ivankelly — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:33:33 +0000

If everyone using Gmail permanently lost access to their gmail there’d be massive problems

New comment by ivankelly in "Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)"

ivankelly — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:50:21 +0000

Quake had it’s own vm also

New comment by ivankelly in "Knitting bullshit"

ivankelly — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:17:12 +0000

Yes, I saw. By giving up I meant I skimmed to the end. The images improve the article

New comment by ivankelly in "Knitting bullshit"

ivankelly — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:15:52 +0000

I came in indifferent but it doesn’t take much to make me give up on an article linked on hacker news. I use it as bubblegum while waiting for a compile/prompt, intent ally for stuff that can be dropped easily. I saw her disclaimer at the end. My point was that the slop images make a more appealing article than if they were absent

New comment by ivankelly in "Knitting bullshit"

ivankelly — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:08:49 +0000

I was a couple of images in before I sussed it. Bullshit images, but pleasing enough to look at. Without the images, it would have either been a big wall of text, which would have put me off reading, though I did give up about 25% of the way through after sussing the images and thus the incoherence in the argument. The images bring something to the article. They were cheap/quick to generate. The increase the potential payoff (more reader) without significantly increasing the cost. Without the images, the payoff(readers) would likely have been lower, below the cost of actually writing the article. Same goes for a history of knitting podcast or that video. Production costs would not be worth it for a very niche viewership.

New comment by ivankelly in "IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields"

ivankelly — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:43:33 +0000

Arrow keys are giving swastika vibes, which I guess fits given IBM’s history

New comment by ivankelly in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

ivankelly — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:18:12 +0000

There’s a big difference between using AI well and using it badly. Judgement is what needs to be learnt

New comment by ivankelly in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

ivankelly — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:17:06 +0000

Not at all. It’s a tool. It can be used well and it can be used badly, the difference often being others things thought in a CS curriculum. But a well trained engineer using the tool will be more productive than that engineer doing everything by hand, so leaving that tool out of the curriculum is doing a disservice to the students

New comment by ivankelly in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

ivankelly — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:41:29 +0000

Given the way things are going, not knowing how to use AI will be like coming out not knowing about revision control

New comment by ivankelly in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

ivankelly — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:32:49 +0000

There’s queries and there’s queries. Many queries are effectively undefined bookmarks. You know this exists but haven’t saved it but your know a few key words to get to it. “Rustdoc moka api”. And then there’s the “I’m researching a subject queries”. Google used to be useful for both. But for the later case it send to have gotten worse. Which is irrelevant because LLMs are so much better. So people will use LLMs for these usecases. So Google search basically becomes a phonebook. And that’s easy to emulate. Their calculator is still my go to though

New comment by ivankelly in "The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)"

ivankelly — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:27:56 +0000

He's right man ^X^S

WTF, why isn't my terminal responding

New comment by ivankelly in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

ivankelly — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:26:24 +0000

I recall CodeWarrior being the official ide for SymbianOS when I started there. And it sucked, but likely more due to the integration. I think sucky custom rarely working IDEs is what pushed me to full time emacs

New comment by ivankelly in "Why are hyperlinks blue? (2021)"

ivankelly — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 21:48:17 +0000

They’re blue because pmarca was a democrat back then

New comment by ivankelly in "Why are there no good dinosaur films?"

ivankelly — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 08:17:46 +0000

> At the time of Jurassic Park’s release, the meteor as the cause for the dino-extinction was still a nascent theory and more than a decade out from being cemented as fact.

This assumed me. Like many people who were interested in dinosaurs, the interest didn't last much past by early teens, so the "nobody knows for sure, maybe meteor" reason for their disappearance was the accepted explanation until something triggered me to look a 2 or 3 years ago and see that the science had changed.

New comment by ivankelly in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

ivankelly — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 09:29:24 +0000

From the wording, it sounds like it applies to contracting non-US resident software development as well.

New comment by ivankelly in "What Bikini Atoll Looks Like Today (2017)"

ivankelly — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:10:02 +0000

For a headline “what x looks like today”, I expected more pictures

New comment by ivankelly in "Why do bees die when they sting you? (2021)"

ivankelly — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 23:08:54 +0000

The bees in a swarm have filled themselves with food before swarming, so they’re stuffed, so it’s hard to flex the abdomen to make a sting

New comment by ivankelly in "Ask HN: My 12 year-old nephew just got diagnosed with ADHD, any advice?"

ivankelly — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:07:58 +0000

Keep him away from cigarettes, vapes.

New comment by ivankelly in "Introducing S2"

ivankelly — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:49:01 +0000

A interesting difference is the ability to have exclusive access to writes on the log (the fencing token). This allows you to use the logs as write ahead logs.