Hacker News: johnthescott

New comment by johnthescott in "Hacker News, Sans AI"

johnthescott — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:30:53 +0000

otherwise limited to "keyword" search ...

New comment by johnthescott in "Every Byte Matters"

johnthescott — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:28:20 +0000

if truly "every byte matters" then why java?

New comment by johnthescott in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

johnthescott — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:22:54 +0000

"gui"? what gui?

my take is terminal is just quicker than "gui".

New comment by johnthescott in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

johnthescott — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:36:40 +0000

shared libraries does not imply shared in ram only.

New comment by johnthescott in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

johnthescott — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:45:54 +0000

write code like your life depends on it. cause it does if you are any good.

New comment by johnthescott in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

johnthescott — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:19:08 +0000

> They tend to gloss over the untold suffering, great depressions and world wars that took us to get here..

spot on. you gotta wear shades to survive, future so bright.

New comment by johnthescott in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

johnthescott — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:47:49 +0000

those who know how work for those who know why.

New comment by johnthescott in "A Theory of Deep Learning"

johnthescott — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:17:41 +0000

> We present a non-asymptotic theory of generalization

what is a non-elephant animal (to paraphrase stan ulam)?

New comment by johnthescott in "AI slop is killing online communities"

johnthescott — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:50:44 +0000

consider participating in the honey pot project to block ips of proven bad guys.

New comment by johnthescott in "AI slop is killing online communities"

johnthescott — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:49:51 +0000

consider the honeypot project to block ips.

New comment by johnthescott in "What if database branching was easy?"

johnthescott — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:59:28 +0000

makes sense. i can see things getting complex very quickly.

seems most versions would be better managed at application level, zfs/btrs snapshots not withstanding.

New comment by johnthescott in "ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL"

johnthescott — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:53:07 +0000

> Conversely, you can query a database without SQL.

fond memories of quel.

New comment by johnthescott in "The AI revolution in math has arrived"

johnthescott — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:08:31 +0000

we only perceive the past.

New comment by johnthescott in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

johnthescott — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:49:50 +0000

or use rsync.net and a cronjob.

New comment by johnthescott in "5NF and Database Design"

johnthescott — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:05:40 +0000

yep.

for immutable blobs use crypto digest as db key and store blobs in file system.

New comment by johnthescott in "5NF and Database Design"

johnthescott — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:54:35 +0000

yep. born 1960.

New comment by johnthescott in "Hemingway's 4 Fast Rules for Effective Writing"

johnthescott — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:35:37 +0000

rule zero. reading is mostly work.

New comment by johnthescott in "Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk"

johnthescott — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:11:53 +0000

spread a false story in public news and monitor cell call graphs.

New comment by johnthescott in "Full Disclosure: A Third (and Fourth) Azure Sign-In Log Bypass Found"

johnthescott — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:42:11 +0000

telcos already have strong teams themselves who monitor towers.

New comment by johnthescott in "Grief and the AI split"

johnthescott — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:33:31 +0000

automate your fate.