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New comment by nathanwh in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

nathanwh — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:11:42 +0000

Another happy aerospace here! IMO it does a great job with barely any configuration required (the default config works great, I have barely tweaked it over years of use), that said I’m not exactly power user of tiling WMs, I have one app per workspace 90% of the time

New comment by nathanwh in "Delve sets the record straight on anonymous attacks"

nathanwh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:32:07 +0000

I don’t understand the screenshot, the “attacker” sent that to customers? Or Delve created this screenshot as a dramatic reenactment? The post is not clear

New comment by nathanwh in "Recursive Language Models (RLMs)"

nathanwh — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:26:45 +0000

This reminded me of ViperGPT[1] from a couple of years ago, which is similar but specific to vision language models. Both of them have a root llm which given a query produces a python program to decompose the query into separate steps, with the generated python program calling a sub model. One difference is this model has a mutable environment in the notebook, but I'm not sure how much of a meaningful difference that is.

[1] https://viper.cs.columbia.edu/static/viper_paper.pdf

New comment by nathanwh in "Listening habits and effects of background music in people with and without ADHD"

nathanwh — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 04:41:03 +0000

I only skimmed this but it has several things that make me suspicious. Mainly that they did not require a diagnosis for ADHD but instead separated participants based on a questionnaire regarding symptoms. Additionally their participant pool somehow contained more than 20% of neurodevelopmental disorders and other mental health disorders which seems very high.

New comment by nathanwh in "Are LLMs able to play the card game Set?"

nathanwh — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:18:08 +0000

Not only that, but 2,6,7 is also a set but not included in the results

New comment by nathanwh in "Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints"

nathanwh — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 04:58:24 +0000

Ah makes sense, thank you

New comment by nathanwh in "Show HN: Unbug – Rust macros for programmatically invoking breakpoints"

nathanwh — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:04:39 +0000

Neat project! Maybe this decision is copied over from unreal engine, but instead of `ensure` and `ensure_always`, having names like `ensure_once` and `ensure` would have been more clear to me.

New comment by nathanwh in "Evolving the ASF Brand"

nathanwh — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:26:28 +0000

I did read that part, I just feel that the idea that somehow something good comes from removing the feather (which is negligible expense relative to changing the name), is just plainly saying that we care about inclusivity but only so long as it’s not expensive. Which is more or less the policy of every large organization, but it’s rare that it gets said.

New comment by nathanwh in "Evolving the ASF Brand"

nathanwh — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 18:18:34 +0000

I don’t know that I’ve ever seen such a short article so clearly demonstrate how much don’t actually care about the people who they are to trying to placate. They’re changing the feather because it’s apparently offensive to reference it, but they’re not changing the name because it would cost money. Even though the name is way more tightly tied to the people than the feather. I don’t actually care about the logo or the name I just find having the dichotomy so clearly spelled out interesting.

New comment by nathanwh in "I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Page I Visit (2020)"

nathanwh — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:17:49 +0000

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Color Filters > Greyscale

New comment by nathanwh in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

nathanwh — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 23:31:58 +0000

Previously your unit test was broken one day every four ish years. Now it's broken every day :)

New comment by nathanwh in "Patterns with Rust Types"

nathanwh — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 18:40:52 +0000

> Name a language and I'll tell you a much worse issue.

Not sure if the offer was only open to OP but I'll bite. How about Java?

New comment by nathanwh in "Do you know how much your computer can do in a second? (2015)"

nathanwh — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:24:36 +0000

"68,000 iterations of an empty loop in a millisecond" The factor of 1000 comes from the conversion from seconds in the question, to milliseconds in the blurb.

New comment by nathanwh in "Health officials delayed report linking fluoride to brain harm"

nathanwh — Mon, 29 May 2023 03:23:40 +0000

Don't you have the same problem with the salt that you have with the water, no way to tell what dose everyone is receiving?

New comment by nathanwh in "Measured: Typing latency of Zutty compared to other terminal emulators (2021)"

nathanwh — Wed, 03 May 2023 22:05:22 +0000

Alacritty being so slow is surprising to me here. I only use it on macOS, but it feels faster than kitty when I'm looking at application logs scrolling quickly across the screen. Perhaps responding to typing events has different latency than tailing a log file or listening to stdout?

New comment by nathanwh in "19 random digits is not enough to uniquely identify all human beings"

nathanwh — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 01:25:36 +0000

Pedantic, but UUID v4 (which is the random one) only has 122 bits of randomness, 6 bits are used to identify the version and variant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

New comment by nathanwh in "Dooble Web Browser"

nathanwh — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 06:01:39 +0000

Perhaps Carbonyl may be of interest to you?

https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

New comment by nathanwh in "So you've installed `fzf` – now what?"

nathanwh — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:29:21 +0000

Something I've always wanted from my shell history is to be able to record relative filepaths as their absolute equivalent in the history, is that supported in atuin?. If you do a lot of data munging on the CLI, you end up with a lot of commands like `jq 'complicated_selector' data.json`, which if I want to remember the selector is good, but if I want to remember which data I ran it on is not so good. I could do it with better filenames but that would involve thinking ahead. I also run into this a lot trying to remember exactly which local file has been uploaded to s3 by looking at shell history.

New comment by nathanwh in "Show HN: ChatGPT and Document Parser = Ghost"

nathanwh — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 19:52:02 +0000

This explains why "What if I move out early?" for the sample document doesn't mention any of the information in the lease break section, which is definitely the most important section for moving out early. Whatever space they're projecting the question into doesn't capture that "lease break" and "moving out early" are synonyms.

New comment by nathanwh in "Mario Kart Tour Triggers You into Gambling Your Money"

nathanwh — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 18:32:49 +0000

Something about how this article was animated out hurt my brain to look at. It had a lot on page telling me about how much there was too much information on the screen of the phone which was nested inside the page. And then every arrow press would move around the dialog boxes (some of which jiggled to fight for my attention extra hard) and update the little avatar. The content was interesting but it felt kind of ironic that a product psychology website was this mentally taxing to use.