Hacker News: phowat

New comment by phowat in "Bus travel from Lima to Rio de Janeiro"

phowat — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:02:37 +0000

There is also "leito-cama" which is the top category, one above "leito".

New comment by phowat in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

phowat — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:31:45 +0000

Regardless of the vegan part the point still stands. It was also my first though reading the article before I came here to read the comments.

New comment by phowat in "An informational website about why I went to prison"

phowat — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:11:19 +0000

Yeah, I never actually used or shared/sold any of it since it was mostly a game for me. But nowadays I understand it is a very bad idea even just to store this kind of stuff.

New comment by phowat in "An informational website about why I went to prison"

phowat — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:36:13 +0000

I don't know how old OP is but I did a lot of dumb stuff on the internet 25+ years ago when I was a teenager. Including writing viruses and stealing credit card information. I'm glad things were a lot different back then.

New comment by phowat in "We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own"

phowat — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 14:31:41 +0000

Frankly I think it's a lost cause and sadly doesn't make sense to waste energy on it anymore. I eventually abandoned my de-googled phone exactly because I couldn't use my bank with it.

New comment by phowat in "Plain – a web framework for building products with Python"

phowat — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 04:45:35 +0000

I really don't understand why every time a big project is forked People are so upset. IMO, one of the great things about open source software is that a fork is possible. Maybe it will go nowhere, maybe some good ideas will be fed back to Django, maybe it will become the new standard. Most of the time , we will end up with better software overall.

New comment by phowat in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

phowat — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 12:30:09 +0000

What about using vpns to connect through different timezones ?

New comment by phowat in "Who killed the rave?"

phowat — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 03:29:27 +0000

100% agree. The article does not seem to be written by someonene who is particularly interested in this subject. The fact that it starts talking about what is IMO the most overrated scene ever, Berlin, says a lot.

New comment by phowat in "Meta's Hack (HHVM) language appears to be no longer maintained"

phowat — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:51:54 +0000

I don't think this was used much outside of meta anyway.

New comment by phowat in "Comma.ai: Refactoring for Growth"

phowat — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:36:29 +0000

Exactly! And I would expect hacker news of all places to understand that.

New comment by phowat in "Ask HN: Do you already see the impact of LLMs on the job prospects for dev's?"

phowat — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 14:41:25 +0000

Also when you wear multiple hats. Recently I had to setup an OpenResty including writing some fairly complex Lua scripts, both which I had never touched before, and it was much faster with the help of an llm.

New comment by phowat in "The Ruin of Mumbai"

phowat — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 13:22:42 +0000

I 100% clicked the link expecting an article about how the open source PBX software Asterisk was being used in some nefarious way.

New comment by phowat in "Nokia made too many phones"

phowat — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 03:45:36 +0000

I remember it also had native SIP support and you could configure an account to connect automatically only when the phone connected to a certain wifi network. So I had my work extension on when I connected to the work wifi. It was really nice

New comment by phowat in "Hidden Changes in GPT-4, Uncovered"

phowat — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 03:33:13 +0000

Because we're aiming for AGI

Attack of the Naked Short Sellers

phowat — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 03:00:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonkochkodin/2023/12/27/attack-of-the-naked-short-sellers-mythical-beasts-of-the-night-or-how-meme-stock-investors-went-cult-y/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935610

Points: 14

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New comment by phowat in "Maestro: A Linux-compatible kernel in Rust"

phowat — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 15:46:42 +0000

The point is someone decided to write it and here it is.

New comment by phowat in "How big is YouTube?"

phowat — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 02:57:43 +0000

63 is such an oddly specific number too.

New comment by phowat in "Ex-owners of sex work site Backpage convicted of prostitution scheme"

phowat — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:41:19 +0000

Sure! Why not outlaw adultery then ? Let's even stone them to death!

New comment by phowat in "After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing"

phowat — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:31:07 +0000

One thing I noticed recently and was able to reproduce a bunch of times is asking dall-e the exact same prompt where the only difference is the subject being described as a male or female and it refuses to generate the female one. I don't know what to think of it but it's weird.

New comment by phowat in "Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt"

phowat — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:09:18 +0000

We most certainly do get to choose if we want to. Why not ?