Hacker News: rd

New comment by rd in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

rd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:09:13 +0000

Submarine marketing?

New comment by rd in "Oregon school cell phone ban: 'Engaged students, joyful teachers'"

rd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:49:52 +0000

A combination of https://selfcontrolapp.com/ and Hammerspoon automation and you can lock yourself out of pretty much everything.

New comment by rd in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

rd — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:14:53 +0000

It would be easier if we could just block comments from green users. I get that it loses ~.1% of authors who might have made an account to comment on a blogpost of theirs that was posted here. I'd rather have that loss than have to deal with the 99.9% of spam.

New comment by rd in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

rd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:14:15 +0000

This can't be a to-die-on rule though. Retail would've never bought GOOG, or TSLA, or AAPL if that were the case. Maybe I'm just being pedantic.

GitHub Having Issues

rd — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:02:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/02z04m335tvv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47346682

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by rd in "GPT-5.4"

rd — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:07:44 +0000

Noticeably yes much more than usual. It’s quite bad. I need to start blocking accounts.

New comment by rd in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

rd — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:40:54 +0000

Is there any hard evidence that this is true compared to say 20 years ago. I’ve heard it repeated a million times but no one’s ever provided evidence

New comment by rd in "Launch HN: Cardboard (YC W26) – Agentic video editor"

rd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:36:31 +0000

Who do you think your target customer is? Curious to know if you think the money is in short form, traditional YouTube videos, or even movie studios one day.

Great website btw. The onboarding was very pleasing

New comment by rd in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

rd — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:48 +0000

what qualifies as old?

New comment by rd in "The Misuses of the University"

rd — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:20:05 +0000

This is true! I hadn't thought about it like this to be totally honest. It's hard to point fingers at old institutions, especially given they're mostly located in prime real estate locations across the country (Cambridge, Palo Alto, etc.), and it's not really their fault that they need land to operate.

Fire Them All; God Will Know His Own

rd — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:34:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-bureaucratic-bloat-harvard/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154759

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by rd in "The Misuses of the University"

rd — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:33:53 +0000

I recently graduated (class of '25), and the thing I heard most often about my school's management was that over the past couple of decades, they more closely resembled a real estate holding company than a research university.

There's a great student op-ed about _a_ proposed solution (firing the deans): https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2022/11/29/anderson-burea...

New comment by rd in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

rd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:08:08 +0000

Just check comment history, each comment follows the exact same structure

New comment by rd in "OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine"

rd — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:04:03 +0000

The amount of green accounts that are obvious LLM spam has increased what seems to be 10x in the past couple of months. What's going on?

New comment by rd in "MinIO repository is no longer maintained"

rd — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:13:25 +0000

Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT

rd — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46816539

Points: 300

# Comments: 415

New comment by rd in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

rd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:45:49 +0000

Anyone who disagrees with this, please check the OP's previous comments. That's all the proof you need.

And then, as an exercise, ask yourself why you were willing to give this comment leniency?

New comment by rd in "Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?"

rd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:29:34 +0000

I don't know why more school districts don't force this for essays. It's so straightforward with Google doc editing history too. And yeah, sure, you can get around it if you _really_ want quite trivially, but I imagine it would solve for 99% of students, and force them to actually engage with whatever AI-generated stuff they inevitably type by hand more than they were before.

New comment by rd in "Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?"

rd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:28:00 +0000

I've always wished there was a "block comments from this user" feature that didn't rely on vibe-coding my own Chrome extension (and thus not work on Safari where I spent at least 50% of my HN time). I imagine it could even work like Sponsorblock does, and we could crowdsource people who's comments are inflammatory.

I've also noticed that very obviously LLM-generated comments are called out, and the community tends to agree, but those that have any plausible deniability are given far too much leniency, and people will over-index on the guidelines to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I don't think a captcha is the solution, as it'll degrade conversation by an OOM though.

New comment by rd in "Launch HN: Browser Buddy (YC W24) – A recommendation system for Internet writing"

rd — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:37:34 +0000

Go Hoos good work Wadehra