Hacker News: mcfedr

New comment by mcfedr in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

mcfedr — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:58:38 +0000

yes only writes y, not the whole word yes

New comment by mcfedr in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

mcfedr — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:30:23 +0000

whats the appeal of that kind of content? its objectively worse than real content, and its not like there is a shortage of real content

New comment by mcfedr in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

mcfedr — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:03:53 +0000

makes sense really, nothing this sensible is gonna happen under the current US administration

New comment by mcfedr in "Mahjong: A Visual Guide"

mcfedr — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 16:44:53 +0000

mostly people know if from windows i assume

New comment by mcfedr in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

mcfedr — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:24:38 +0000

I'm sure the copyright holders would consider your use of their content as direct financial damage

New comment by mcfedr in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

mcfedr — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:33:05 +0000

they mostly get elected to positions of great power i guess

New comment by mcfedr in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

mcfedr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:25:16 +0000

AI sucks doesn't it

New comment by mcfedr in "$3T flows through U.S. nonprofits every year"

mcfedr — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:22:45 +0000

wait, are you saying a hospital that charges 60K for surgery is a charity?

because it cheaper than other options or what?

New comment by mcfedr in "Put the zip code first"

mcfedr — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:02:55 +0000

the first words on the site - this is for American sites...

New comment by mcfedr in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

mcfedr — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 06:31:21 +0000

wow, look at me stuck in the world of freeciv (civ 2)

New comment by mcfedr in "What came first: the CNAME or the A record?"

mcfedr — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:20:08 +0000

everything about this reads like an excuse from a team that doesnt want to admit they screwed up

nitpicking at the RFCs when everyone knows DNS is a big old thing with lots going on

how do they not have basic integration tests to check how clients resolve

it seems very unlike cloudflare of old that was much more up front - there is no talk of the need to improve process, just blaming other people

New comment by mcfedr in "What came first: the CNAME or the A record?"

mcfedr — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:16:29 +0000

its pretty concerning that such a large organisation doesnt do any integration tests with their dns infrastructure

New comment by mcfedr in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

mcfedr — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:22:29 +0000

i like to think of LLMs as random number generators with a filter

New comment by mcfedr in "Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup"

mcfedr — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:03:30 +0000

Quality of the rails makes a big difference, take the train from Ukraine to Poland and it's suddenly super smooth once you cross over into the EU

New comment by mcfedr in "How to have the browser pick a contrasting color in CSS"

mcfedr — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:49:43 +0000

Choose is a strange word here. There is an algorithm that calculates the color.

New comment by mcfedr in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"

mcfedr — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:11:20 +0000

Why are your police not investigating this? The guy is actively breaking the law

New comment by mcfedr in "Company built its own rail terminal in NYC to avoid relying on trucks"

mcfedr — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:05:27 +0000

Only Americans call trains old fashioned

New comment by mcfedr in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

mcfedr — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:03:59 +0000

Do you even remember the IE6 days? - this opinion seems quite widespread but the open web is great for all of us.

New comment by mcfedr in "All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding"

mcfedr — Thu, 01 May 2025 04:01:38 +0000

I think you are probably right for other reasons

Safari has long lagged on other browsers, Apple would rather it didn't exist but have to keep it ticking over

With less competition they will likely be happy to lag behind even further again

New comment by mcfedr in "Fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and its not clear YouTube can stop it"

mcfedr — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:01:03 +0000

Surely if you sue fake Nintendo, you don't need to discuss the licensing, you'd be sueing them for filling a claim they have no standing to claim