Hacker News: mattjoyce

New comment by mattjoyce in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

mattjoyce — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:16:23 +0000

This post is a link to a reply to a tweet containing a screenshot of a webpage.

Unusable internet.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Nobody clicks share buttons"

mattjoyce — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:14:07 +0000

Sure the idea isn't that every page should be shared equally?

Is the percentage of sharing based all visited pages and is that a good way measure it?

Imagine if all the very low sharing was from 3 pages, that would be a signal worth investigating.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

mattjoyce — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:24:59 +0000

Therefore the purpose of a system is to support incentives.

New comment by mattjoyce in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

mattjoyce — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:14:17 +0000

At the right price, these model don't need to be the best, good enough will do. I think we're fast approaching good enough for most users.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Show HN: Lathe – Use LLMs to learn a new domain, not skip past it"

mattjoyce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:19:49 +0000

Oh my, this sounds like an idea I have been toying with. I really want a tutor to explain how random repos I find work.

Do you think Lathe could be adapted to use a codebase as the source material?

New comment by mattjoyce in "Ask HN: What's your favorite HN Recap like podcast?"

mattjoyce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:57:10 +0000

TIL

New comment by mattjoyce in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mattjoyce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:28:48 +0000

I'm quite curious about this.

I think this is similar. Unfinished. https://github.com/mattjoyce/roundtable-consensus

New comment by mattjoyce in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

mattjoyce — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:16:28 +0000

Out of a the stuff beyond a shadow of a doubt the most useful is https://ductile.run

This started off as a fancy cron with webhook and became a comprehensive runtime. I have been using it for months on several systems.

New comment by mattjoyce in "LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design"

mattjoyce — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:29:19 +0000

Durable is used 13 times in this article.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7"

mattjoyce — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:11:22 +0000

Ad companies prompt injecting consumers. LLM companies countering with guardrails.

New comment by mattjoyce in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

mattjoyce — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:41:14 +0000

Maybe the reduction in gov paper forms printing and processing, offset the mobile costs.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Show HN: Kula – Lightweight, self-contained Linux server monitoring tool"

mattjoyce — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 08:56:14 +0000

I still use it. A few months ago I whipped up a project to monitor my Unraid NAS. Rrdtool is very useful still.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support"

mattjoyce — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:37:45 +0000

> It is their right to break the contract because they don't want to deal with you, but then they have to pay a fine because they were engaged in a contract with you and they broke it.

That would depend on the terms.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Parler social network sues Amazon for pulling support"

mattjoyce — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:36:22 +0000

Yes, I can imagine a telephone company terminating a service, if you don't adhere to the term. In fact they are very very strict.

Also, email is still available, don't pretend these services are all there is, it just isn't so.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Show HN: Symmetrical Drawing Tool for Doodling"

mattjoyce — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 10:32:27 +0000

Very nice, and fun too. I wanted more colours, almost right away. No orange, but a black background!!!

New comment by mattjoyce in "Del.icio.us"

mattjoyce — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 02:59:59 +0000

Absolutely yes. These days if I see an interesting content on my phone, I share to Google Keep. Periodically I look in keep and take another pass at what I saved.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?"

mattjoyce — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:18:12 +0000

As a father with a 12 year old struggling with math, to say something is extremely easy makes me think you have a better understanding of math than people.

New comment by mattjoyce in "Ask HN: What weird or hard problems are you trying to solve?"

mattjoyce — Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:11:39 +0000

That does sound challenging. APIs and service change too. I can't imagine how complex that can get if something stops working.

Still when you succeed perhaps the next goal is to simply specify what sort of compute function, the scale and risk tolerances, and let the patterns be assembled accordingly.

New comment by mattjoyce in "After 50 years of effort, researchers made silicon emit light"

mattjoyce — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 13:08:30 +0000

Title : "After 50 Years of Effort".... 1st Para : "NEARLY FIFTY YEARS ago, Gordon Moore..."

New comment by mattjoyce in "FOIA Machine by The Center for Investigative Reporting"

mattjoyce — Fri, 19 Jul 2013 05:24:03 +0000

Also used in Australia : http://www.righttoknow.org.au