Hacker News: kentbrew

New comment by kentbrew in "Duso"

kentbrew — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:17:11 +0000

Most languages prioritize human expressiveness and can be challenging for AI. Duso is intentionally boring and predictable. No clever syntax tricks. No multiple ways to do the same thing. Every pattern is consistent and straightforward so AI can reason about code reliably, write better scripts faster, and use fewer tokens doing it.

Duso

kentbrew — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:17:11 +0000

Article URL: https://duso.rocks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527518

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kentbrew in "Thagomizer"

kentbrew — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:21:08 +0000

Last night I heard Morgan Freeman solemnly intone the word "thagomizer" on Episode 2 of Netflix's The Dinoosaurs, and simultaneously felt very old but also very good.

Thagomizer

kentbrew — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:21:08 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486368

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kentbrew in "Let's Burn Some Tokens – AI Chatbot Cost Exploitation as an Attack Vector"

kentbrew — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:05:39 +0000

If I were an evil person I would be thinking about how to get the Walmart bot to talk to the Amazon bot.

New comment by kentbrew in "New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive"

kentbrew — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:22:42 +0000

r/DataHoarder is a national treasure. That's it, that's the tweet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1qrd9ma/commen...

New comment by kentbrew in "New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive"

kentbrew — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:51:42 +0000

Data sets 10 and 11 have zip archives; no archive available for data set 9. And no idea how many pages are actually in here; I'm in the 6000s and climbing with no end in sight.

Some pages, like this one:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-9-f...

... all show the same set of files, starting with EFTA00039025.pdf and ending with EFTA00039881.pdf. This is the same page you get when you ask for page 0.

Not sure how to find the end of this dataset ... setting up the server to supply an infinite number of busted Next links with something important on page 8675309 seems like a fine way to keep things hidden.

New Epstein files just dropped; data set 9 has no archive

kentbrew — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:51:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-9-files

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827497

Points: 13

# Comments: 4

New comment by kentbrew in "Eat Real Food"

kentbrew — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:02:14 +0000

Beef <= cows <= corn <= fertilizer <= oil. It always circles back to oil.

New comment by kentbrew in "Sauron, home security startup, plucks CEO out of Sonos"

kentbrew — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:49:50 +0000

Right, right, because Sauron's home had really great security. :/

New comment by kentbrew in "2025 Word of the Year: Slop"

kentbrew — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:29:49 +0000

I was thinking "upended," but "slop" is also a fine choice.

New comment by kentbrew in "Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter"

kentbrew — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 08:31:28 +0000

Maybe consider vacuforming?

https://www.instructables.com/Vacuum-Forming-for-Free/

New comment by kentbrew in "Why do AI models use so many em-dashes?"

kentbrew — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:13:17 +0000

Robert A. Heinlein used a lot of em-dashes and much of the Internet was created by Heinlein fanboys?

New comment by kentbrew in "Ask HN: Web app freezes, but not when Chrome is recording. How to debug?"

kentbrew — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 04:18:19 +0000

How many machines have you tried? This sounds like it might be one of those things that only happens on a dev box.

New comment by kentbrew in "Why Self-Host?"

kentbrew — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:45:42 +0000

Small typo: under Calendar and Contacts, "let's other" looks like it wants to be "let others."

New comment by kentbrew in "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"

kentbrew — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 19:02:27 +0000

Truth: "PureGym probably has a roadmap, sprint planning, and very good reasons for not implementing Apple Wallet. Maybe it's not a priority. Maybe they have data showing only 0.3% of users would use it. Maybe their KPIs are based on the number of online classes previewed in the app, and forcing users to see them every time the app loads secures someone's annual bonus."

New comment by kentbrew in "Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer"

kentbrew — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 18:37:16 +0000

columns = 420 has an interesting set of troughs down the sides and middle.

New comment by kentbrew in "Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s"

kentbrew — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 08:24:19 +0000

Oof, that one kid way out behind his seat, about to come straight down onto the front wheel? That's me, fall 1974, about to scrape most of my face right off.

New comment by kentbrew in "The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos"

kentbrew — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 02:11:02 +0000

This sounds like the title of a Charlie Stross novel.

New comment by kentbrew in "There Is a Monster in the Forest"

kentbrew — Tue, 13 May 2025 05:45:44 +0000

Sorry, this is a duplicate to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944951 ... please send all good karma that way.