Hacker News: matt_daemon

New comment by matt_daemon in "Why travellers are obsessed with foreign supermarkets"

matt_daemon — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:46:18 +0000

As someone who just went to a Trader Joe's for the first time I can say it was a real thrill

New comment by matt_daemon in "OpenLogi"

matt_daemon — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:54:51 +0000

Very basic flow of adding a device connected via Bluetooth seems broken. Would love this to work but think it needs a few more months development.

New comment by matt_daemon in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

matt_daemon — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:07:04 +0000

It’s never been clear to me why the HN algorithm isn’t public. It’s obviously nowhere near as complex as something like Twitter, and of course isn’t a trade secret. The fact it’s private only furthers speculation like this.

New comment by matt_daemon in "Our position on open-weights models"

matt_daemon — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:26:56 +0000

“We care about safety so powerful open models are bad” - and what of OpenAI? What if Mythos got into the wrong hands? It’s a pretty weak argument

OpenAI's Dean Ball on Chinese Open-Weight Models

matt_daemon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:18:36 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/deanwball/status/2078133895766114412

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029379

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by matt_daemon in "Who Is America's Homer?"

matt_daemon — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:53:09 +0000

Dylan came to mind after reading the Chapman answer, not least because of his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition"

New comment by matt_daemon in "A dock that wakes up reliably"

matt_daemon — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 01:25:17 +0000

Anyone know what that keyboard is?

New comment by matt_daemon in "Networking and the Internet, from First Principles"

matt_daemon — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:25:30 +0000

It’s become somewhat of a HN “flex” to call something out as AI slop, and it almost always comes across as preachy and just plain wrong

New comment by matt_daemon in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

matt_daemon — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:31:58 +0000

Poor George

Telling Stories with Data (2023)

matt_daemon — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:27:47 +0000

Article URL: https://tellingstorieswithdata.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838779

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by matt_daemon in "Codeberg Is Down"

matt_daemon — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:33:47 +0000

> For the time being, it appears that all three servers are without power.

This strikes me as odd, only three servers?

New comment by matt_daemon in "An oral history of Bank Python (2021)"

matt_daemon — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:11:59 +0000

This is one of my fav blog posts

New comment by matt_daemon in "Cohere's First Model for Developers"

matt_daemon — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:46:39 +0000

> Hardware (minimum): 1× H100 @ FP8

Cool to see this but seems like it would be pretty expensive to run

New comment by matt_daemon in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

matt_daemon — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:14:43 +0000

It baffles me that Hard Fork is so popular when they regularly have such uninformed takes

New comment by matt_daemon in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

matt_daemon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:46:04 +0000

NIMBYism

New comment by matt_daemon in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

matt_daemon — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:20:32 +0000

It kind of ended up being a funny dance between 538, the NYT and The Athletic. The original sale to The Athletic probably would've made the most sense for 538 (in hindsight). Then the NYT obviously realised what they'd lost with 538 departing, and end up buying The Athletic a few years later.

New comment by matt_daemon in "Show HN: Built a daily game where you sort historical events chronologically"

matt_daemon — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:53:20 +0000

NYT has a weekly version of this for those interested

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/17/upshot/flashb...

New comment by matt_daemon in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

matt_daemon — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:55:17 +0000

I had this in the back of my mind today https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

Glad they got home safe and sound!

New comment by matt_daemon in "Music for Programming"

matt_daemon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:06:19 +0000

It would be impossible for me to not sing along to ABBA

New comment by matt_daemon in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

matt_daemon — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:18:53 +0000

I really thought this was going to be an Apple acquires Tailscale post