Hacker News: kelseydh

New comment by kelseydh in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

kelseydh — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:52:54 +0000

This flexibility can exist for office jobs, but customer-facing roles typically need somebody present for the whole shift.

New comment by kelseydh in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

kelseydh — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:47:38 +0000

It won't close the skill gap bump, but the more an AI aimbot degrades itself to mimic a human to beat cheat detection the less advantage it will give to the players using it.

It is scary how nuanced the cheating tools already here. Here is a video promoting cheat software explaining how nuanced their aimbot system can be made to mimic real play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrBohlkHMjU

New comment by kelseydh in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

kelseydh — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:13:34 +0000

Chess anti-cheat now relies on looking at your moves and spotting mistakes. Not even grandmasters play tactically perfect games so this works pretty well for finding cheaters. In theory FPS games could do the same to detect aimbotting.

New comment by kelseydh in "As researchers age, they produce less disruptive work"

kelseydh — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:13:46 +0000

Feel the third so much with LLM's. But I get the sense younger generations aren't a fan of where it's moving the world either.

New comment by kelseydh in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

kelseydh — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:58:27 +0000

"Despite its failure, the Great Pigeon Census of 1887 is remembered as a cautionary tale..."

This type of writing is considered non-encyclopedic by Wikipedia standards as it injects superficial analysis. The imitation articles would look better without it. Maybe train on this article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Signs_of_AI_writing

New comment by kelseydh in "Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents"

kelseydh — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:13:29 +0000

Does anybody have a demo of this technology in use? I'm very curious to see how it sounds in practice. Uncanny or hyperrealistic?

New comment by kelseydh in "Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages"

kelseydh — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:57:19 +0000

On the flip side there are people who believe that LLM-assisted coding changes require attribution in git history.

New comment by kelseydh in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

kelseydh — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:30:03 +0000

Really sucks we never got to see any of the prototypes or designs they built for it.

New comment by kelseydh in "Fast and Easy Levenshtein distance using a Trie (2011)"

kelseydh — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:16:42 +0000

I needed a fuzzy string matching algorithm for finding best name matches among a candidate list. Considered Normalized Levenshtein Distance but ended up using Jaro-Winkler. I'm curious if anybody has good resources on when to use each fuzzy string matching algorithm and when.

New comment by kelseydh in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)"

kelseydh — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:02:05 +0000

The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world, with approximately 541 to 614 people imprisoned per 100,000 residents as of 2022–2026. While representing only 5% of the global population, the US holds roughly 20% of the world's prisoners, totalling over 1.8 million people.

For many crimes, the U.S. loves giving eye watering long sentences for offences that would result in a tenth of the prison time in other countries.

New comment by kelseydh in "Android now stops you sharing your location in photos"

kelseydh — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:43:21 +0000

If you accrue a high score, Google should give you a plaque like they give to Youtubers with many subscribers.

New comment by kelseydh in "Obsolete Sounds"

kelseydh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:11:22 +0000

Obsolete Sounds is the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening.

Obsolete Sounds

kelseydh — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:11:22 +0000

Article URL: https://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514248

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by kelseydh in "MacBook Neo"

kelseydh — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:23:19 +0000

My wife traded in her Macbook for a laptop. I couldn't believe anybody could live without a proper desktop computer but she proved me wrong. Aced some pretty intense physiology classes just using an iPad + touch pen.

IANA tz (and POSIX) cannot add British Columbia's new Pacific Time (PT) timezone

kelseydh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:30:39 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/8b46071fd85a7a9434d63894bac64d30362cc16d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47245566

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kelseydh in "Number Research Inc"

kelseydh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:04:46 +0000

How high can the numbers go?

New comment by kelseydh in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

kelseydh — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:00:46 +0000

Very cool, would love to see Ruby support added.

New comment by kelseydh in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

kelseydh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:46:58 +0000

School ends at 3pm so that the teachers, who work a 9-5 like you, get two hours after class to grade homework and prepare lessons for the next school day.

New comment by kelseydh in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

kelseydh — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:43:48 +0000

One of the most depressing days of the year in B.C. is when daylight savings ends, and clocks are switched back an hour in November. The sun goes from setting at ~6pm to ~5pm, and you officially end work with it dark out. I'm very happy we are switching to permanent daylight time.

There's nothing more glorious than those late summer solstice sunsets w/ daylight time, where the sun doesn't set until 10pm. Great for festivals and planning outdoor activities with friends.

New comment by kelseydh in "Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code"

kelseydh — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:31:51 +0000

The Fourier transform audio examples fooled me. The example sounds and slider for them appeared consistent as far as I could tell... but then again I don't know much about Fourier transforms.

Maybe I'm out of the loop but have to say this is the first time I have seen an LLM generate a webpage with working audio widgets.