Hacker News: phinnaeus

New comment by phinnaeus in "Simplest Hash Functions"

phinnaeus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:13:08 +0000

Here is a hash function that does not have hash collisions:

  fn hash(data):
    return data

New comment by phinnaeus in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

phinnaeus — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:49:11 +0000

Why pick elixir specifically here? I’m using opus/sonnet via Claude code for a moderately complex personal project built on phoenix and have had a good experience

New comment by phinnaeus in "Flighty Airports"

phinnaeus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:00:28 +0000

Similar in Australia, BNE shows up before SYD.

Edit: actually it's even weirder. Here's the zoom levels I see, from zoomed out, to zoomed in:

- BNE, MEL

- BNE, SYD, MEL

- BNE, CBR, MEL (??)

- BNE, SYD, CBR, MEL

New comment by phinnaeus in "jQuery 4"

phinnaeus — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 05:22:05 +0000

Are those people/products upgrading jQuery though?

New comment by phinnaeus in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

phinnaeus — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 11:54:09 +0000

I’m not a sparky but would you need inverters if the panels are just for charging batteries? On the other hand, there is probably already inverters onboard to provide AC power to passenger power points.

New comment by phinnaeus in "The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice"

phinnaeus — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 13:20:42 +0000

The local archaeologist? Incredible

New comment by phinnaeus in "Ireland’s Diarmuid Early wins world Microsoft Excel title"

phinnaeus — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:10:55 +0000

Maybe the files store the formulas in an intermediate format that can be localized by the client

New comment by phinnaeus in "AI's Dial-Up Era"

phinnaeus — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:01:22 +0000

What on-device app does Apple charge a subscription for?

New comment by phinnaeus in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

phinnaeus — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:49:53 +0000

What the heck? Most internal tools were in Oregon when I worked in BT pre 2021.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Caveat Prompter"

phinnaeus — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 12:22:44 +0000

At first I thought this was a typo, but actually I fully agree with this. If we use LLMs (in their current state) responsibly we won’t see much benefit, because the weight of that responsibility is roughly equivalent to the cost of doing the task without any assistance.

New comment by phinnaeus in "The Flummoxagon"

phinnaeus — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:45:22 +0000

As an aside, nervo.us is way easier to type than the hyphenated domain. Just curious if you ever considered reversing the redirect?

New comment by phinnaeus in "The Flummoxagon"

phinnaeus — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:38:29 +0000

Love Nervous System design. I have quite a few pieces from them including one of their infinity puzzles. Very high quality work.

New comment by phinnaeus in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

phinnaeus — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:16:56 +0000

And Australian companies often list in the US.

New comment by phinnaeus in "US cities pay too much for buses"

phinnaeus — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:50:35 +0000

No we don’t. Put another one in if need arises.

New comment by phinnaeus in "You did this with an AI and you do not understand what you're doing here"

phinnaeus — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:18:12 +0000

Best I can do is a system that gives you a random answer no matter how much time you give it.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?"

phinnaeus — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:52:55 +0000

iOS has had this feature for several versions now, I think it predates focus modes even. But today it lives under that umbrella as the Driving focus, which can activate automatically based on certain kinds of detected motion.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

phinnaeus — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 13:12:44 +0000

Humans have the most sophisticated processing unit in the known universe to handle the data from the eyes. Is the brain a crutch?

New comment by phinnaeus in "Expert: LSP for Elixir"

phinnaeus — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:05:57 +0000

How did you find out about it in the first place? I remember seeing the Elixir blog post announcing the LSP project ages ago and then nothing since then.

New comment by phinnaeus in "Beginning 1 September, we will need to geoblock Mississippi IPs"

phinnaeus — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 21:43:57 +0000

Right, they might get an MS IP and be blocked :P

New comment by phinnaeus in "Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso"

phinnaeus — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 07:22:09 +0000

If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch…