Hacker News: liamwire

New comment by liamwire in "Siri AI"

liamwire — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:57:48 +0000

I tried this on the iOS 27 beta with Siri AI and it worked, to an approximation. It'll take 5 minutes from the original timer just fine, but not from the remaining time no matter which way I phrase it. Still, a massive improvement in my eyes.

New comment by liamwire in "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including "undruggable" cancers"

liamwire — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:17:20 +0000

Dr. Richard Scolyer was at the forefront of this, and died only recently after a long battle against brain cancer at 59. His open letter is well worth the read.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-08/professor-richard-sco...

New comment by liamwire in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

liamwire — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:48:22 +0000

Come on, a problem nobody really had? I wholeheartedly disagree. Data loss and the orthogonal problem of lacking free space on computers is/was a massive problem at enterprise scale and OneDrive, for all its many shortcomings, is well and truly into good-enough territory to cover the 80% case. I'd go so far as to argue that the scenario you've described is by far the less frequent one. And if it frustrates you, you're afforded the ability to designate files and entire folders to be kept downloaded at all times anyway.

New comment by liamwire in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

liamwire — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:58:30 +0000

Find your criticisms of others and, if valid, air them. But surely, don't expect others to be silent in the face of harmful and terrible voices.

New comment by liamwire in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

liamwire — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:53:37 +0000

Your alternative is that the contract was forged. Something easily falsifiable in court and absolutely devastating to any case brought, not to mention any follow-on charges that may result. Is that what you're putting forward?

New comment by liamwire in "Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored"

liamwire — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:34:25 +0000

If your enemy can kill you with impunity, you are in fact, threatened.

New comment by liamwire in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

liamwire — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:50:47 +0000

My god, man. Go read the HN guidelines, this method of communication isn't only insufferable to read, but is actively making this place worse to be a participant of.

New comment by liamwire in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

liamwire — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:38:39 +0000

What? Many celebrities are so specifically because they're impressive. Athletes and musicians being the two most obvious examples.

New comment by liamwire in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

liamwire — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:32:08 +0000

HN guidelines strongly encourage me not calling you an asinine twat, so I won't do that. As your other reply highlighted, no one's arguing thermodynamics with you. It's clearly a behavioural phenomenon, and one that isn't half as well understood as we may like to believe. It's at the intersection of advertising, biology, dietetics, economics, genetics, neuroscience, nutrition, psychiatry, psychology, sociology, the disciplines go on. Consider all the myriad ways those factors may interact and compound, then look at the statistics: that the overwhelming majority of adults fail to lose significant weight long term through "eat less" should tell you all you need to know about the state of the problem. If your conclusion is as simple as "they mustn't have considered to put the fork down and try harder, en masse," I feel it says more about you than anything else.

New comment by liamwire in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

liamwire — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:26:58 +0000

You had me at spinning rat cursor

New comment by liamwire in ""openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn"

liamwire — Sun, 10 May 2026 11:51:52 +0000

Scott & Tomoko's site, the former tiktok.com, was particularly touching as a time capsule of the pre-9/11 world. I wonder where, and who, they are now, if they are at all.

New comment by liamwire in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

liamwire — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:19:10 +0000

It may well have been your point, but that it's the exact same person makes this even better

New comment by liamwire in "GPT-5.5"

liamwire — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:20:53 +0000

Dark pattern is the term you're (incorrectly) describing.

New comment by liamwire in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

liamwire — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:48:00 +0000

Agreed, reaction from OP is concerning to say the least

New comment by liamwire in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

liamwire — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:32:08 +0000

Bobby my good friend, nice to hear from you

New comment by liamwire in "Show HN: Goal.md, a goal-specification file for autonomous coding agents"

liamwire — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:13:57 +0000

You've put a lot into this, that much is clear. However, this suffers from the usual problem of the era of abundant bespoke tooling: It's hard to figure out what this even does. I read the README, the examples, and the scoring function, but I still couldn't easily articulate this in a meaningful way to a third person. If you want adoption, you need to solve for this first.

Your README's first few lines, which is as far as you should expect most people will go, mentions a 2-minute explainer video. But it's actually 45 seconds. Why say otherwise? Hyperbole, maybe, but to me it raises the question of whether any of this was QC'd by a human at all before publishing. If your headline marketing material is in question, I'm inclined to make assumptions about the rest of it as well.

Edit: I should add, I'm glad I didn't check out your website before commenting, because I probably would've been too intimidated to comment. My career and expertise wouldn't measure up to yours. I do stand by my thoughts though, I think we often get so deep into our own domain and needs that we can briefly lose sight of our average audience. I’ll try this out myself on a website repo I'm updating and share how it went later on.

Part 2: Using it went pretty well, in my case there wasn't much in the way of improvements identified, but it's a fairly simple static Astro site with minimal JS used to market a business, so there's far less surface area than this is maybe intended for. It looks like it works well. Tighten up the messaging on the repo and I think you've got a good tool.

New comment by liamwire in "Show HN: SplatHash – A lightweight alternative to BlurHash and ThumbHash"

liamwire — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:35:13 +0000

Inline it into a website's HTML to provide a low-res preview of an image as opposed to a blank placeholder or layout shift.

New comment by liamwire in "Cosmologically Unique IDs"

liamwire — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:17:16 +0000

For the uninitiated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron_universe

New comment by liamwire in "Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse"

liamwire — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:38:18 +0000

Queensland allows residents to see the details of offenders in our local area, but you need to provide extensive ID to do so, and leaking that information is itself a crime. Daniel's Law was introduced in 2025 so this is pretty recent.

New comment by liamwire in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

liamwire — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:48:42 +0000

What's depressing and shitty about Brisbane's weather?