Hacker News: pickdig

New comment by pickdig in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

pickdig — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 22:58:34 +0000

...and still fails to win the ai race at least for now

New comment by pickdig in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

pickdig — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:20:58 +0000

can you use a faked account that looks like you but hides all the important information so when your phone is in search mode you just show the agent that, giving them something to work on and protecting your privacy

New comment by pickdig in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

pickdig — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:43:44 +0000

why does the url say 2035?

New comment by pickdig in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

pickdig — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 03:09:22 +0000

interesting how it generated 'google killed gemini cloud service' lol

New comment by pickdig in "Talent"

pickdig — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:17:39 +0000

its much easier to learn math now. it's good we have chromebooks + various llms for a low price / for free for poor kids. but i guess being poor means you dont have time to learn math or something.

doing math is way easier nowadays though i mean there's discord, stack exchange, various llms that help you, etc.

erdos & ramanujan have amazing mathematica intuition which is kinda the 'heart' of math imho. btw...

New comment by pickdig in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

pickdig — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 12:16:33 +0000

mullvad with DAITA is pretty good you can also purchase mullvad with cryptocurrencies, cash, etc.

New comment by pickdig in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

pickdig — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 11:41:25 +0000

staying kinda anonymous saying this... oftentimes for most programmers the road is a pretty simple one yet the fence or gate is a tolling station of some private interest, so yeah if possible just quit arguing and try to destroy it.

New comment by pickdig in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

pickdig — Sat, 10 May 2025 04:14:30 +0000

i feel the same

is this one of knuth's 'premature optimizations'?

New comment by pickdig in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

pickdig — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:44:02 +0000

a tiny advice: can the blog author do some separation between his next and previous article? it's really hard to read unless you hover your mouse over one of them otherwise. link to what i'm talking about:

https://ibb.co/kc0HKy9

New comment by pickdig in "In Praise of Open Source Textbooks"

pickdig — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 05:17:34 +0000

jeff erickson's 'algorithms, etc.' is the textbook for our university's algo class. it's brilliant.

in case, link: https://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/