Hacker News: mclanett

New comment by mclanett in "Show HN: 18 Words"

mclanett — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:16:44 +0000

Surprisingly fun!

New comment by mclanett in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

mclanett — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:24:55 +0000

I don't hate AI but AI writing is SO boring. Not worth suffering through to read the article.

New comment by mclanett in "FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs"

mclanett — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:23:16 +0000

What happens if ffmpeg ignores (after triage) the minor CVEs?

New comment by mclanett in "The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom"

mclanett — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:28:44 +0000

Wow this is quite a rant.

However Zitron seems to have forgotten that Google exists or makes TPUs. He mentions Google only 10 times in the entire article, always in a minor way.

New comment by mclanett in "Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself"

mclanett — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 20:06:02 +0000

Did not load, sad.

Failed to load resource: net::ERR_BLOCKED_BY_CLIENT ^ I'm not exactly sure what this is about. I think it is https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/vcd15cbe... which I would imagine is probably not necessary.

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot convert undefined or null to object at Object.keys () at review/?pr_identifier=xxx/xxx/1974:43:12

These urls seem to be kind of revealing.

New comment by mclanett in "Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself"

mclanett — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:46:53 +0000

I love this idea, trying it out now. There is QUITE a delay doing the analysis, which is reasonable, so I assume as a productionized (non-demo) release this will be async?

New comment by mclanett in "Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord"

mclanett — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 02:27:58 +0000

I'm at a total loss why social chat boards want to have the most antisocial names.

New comment by mclanett in "He spent his life building a $1M stereo"

mclanett — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 03:04:01 +0000

A very old NTSC TV will be 525 scan lines @ 30 frames / second => 15,750 hz.

The source of the sound is the transformer which resets the scan line back to the original side of monitor.

New comment by mclanett in "MeshGPT: Generating triangle meshes with decoder-only transformers"

mclanett — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 18:43:06 +0000

This is very cool. You can start with an image, generate a mesh for it, render it, and then compare the render to the image. Fully automated training.

New comment by mclanett in "Reflecting on 18 Years at Google"

mclanett — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 22:45:02 +0000

Interesting to hear the author complain about Android, which today is held up as the one part of Google which knows how to ship product.

New comment by mclanett in "Animated Knots"

mclanett — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 17:27:46 +0000

This has been the best app for years.

New comment by mclanett in "Shifting attention to accuracy can reduce misinformation online"

mclanett — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 17:35:24 +0000

What I find both amusing and frustrating is that the linked article uses the word "accuracy" 110 times but never explains what is meant by it. For example in the headline "Over 500 ‘Migrant Caravaners’ Arrested With Suicide Vests", what is meant by rating for accuracy? Is it the number 500 and whether it is low, exact, or high? Is it whether the people were migrants? Is it whether the vests were explosive? Is it whether the story is in any way truthful? I really have no idea. Is "accuracy" an alias for "truthful" or something else? The article doesn't explain.