Hacker News: roselan

New comment by roselan in "Show HN: Hacker News, but every headline is hysterical clickbait"

roselan — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:58:38 +0000

These headlines really sound like the glorious The Register of Old, before the suits showed up and murdered it.

New comment by roselan in "A flat pricing subscription for Claude Code"

roselan — Fri, 09 May 2025 07:16:44 +0000

This is a great report. Using a claude.md like that is honestly genius.

New comment by roselan in "UCSD: Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test"

roselan — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 15:09:00 +0000

I'm surprised there was no human tested for a base reference point. I'm pretty sure some of us would not pass the test held by another human.

New comment by roselan in "A design flaw in the Windows 3D Pipes screen saver pointed out by a customer"

roselan — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 11:51:38 +0000

On my very first job at the turn of the century, I remember I was by a client seating in front of a server, looking at a black screen waiting for something to happen, highly doubting the claim of the client.

"It only works when you guys are here". Yeah, right.

Already 3 coworkers had to deal with this but couldn't find anything, this was more than strange. So I asked them to yell as soon as something happen.

15 minutes later my wandering thoughts were interrupted by Pipes materializing itself into existence. Oh. And for that day I was the hero.

New comment by roselan in "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"

roselan — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:33:25 +0000

If you turn them on when it's not raining, it explodes.

New comment by roselan in "Total Commander"

roselan — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:40:13 +0000

As many here I'm in love with Total Commander for a long time and it was my first purchase.

I find equally amazing that it's a one man shop. Christian Ghisler created, maintains and supports this application for 30 years (initial release: 29th Sep 1993).

I have boundless admiration for this kind of dedication.

New comment by roselan in "Joins 13 Ways"

roselan — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 07:55:21 +0000

I still like to have a unique id field per table. It helps logging and it doesn't care about multi fields "real" key.

However I keep an unique index on the string value and more importantly point integrity constraints to it, mainly for readability. It's way easier to read a table full of meaningful strings rather than full of numerical id or uuids.

New comment by roselan in "Midjourney v5 can do hands"

roselan — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 14:21:46 +0000

Another reason I saw was that models were trained on 512x512 "portrait" images including very few hands. Added to the inherent complexity of hands, this throw off their generation.

New comment by roselan in "ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section"

roselan — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:42:23 +0000

Has it been trained on HN comments??

New comment by roselan in "FINRA Orders Record Financial Penalties Against Robinhood"

roselan — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:28:04 +0000

Where does this amount go? Back to Finra members?

New comment by roselan in "The UK’s pursuit of the perfect pitch changed football"

roselan — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 09:51:26 +0000

In addition English clubs were the first to solve the hooligans problem and as such were the first to remove "prison camp" like fences between the pitch and public, giving games a fantastic atmosphere.

New comment by roselan in "Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B"

roselan — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:30:23 +0000

I went to the website and my first reaction was literally "wtf is that shit?"

Why should I drop discord? Why should I create an account? Why should I download the app and not test in browser?

Even at the bottom: > Ready to try Guilded? > It's easy and free.

If there is a try, there is a catch. (maybe not but on the web it's implied nowadays)

This is not appealing at all.

I'm pretty sure the product is good but your "marketing" sounds completely off to me.

New comment by roselan in "Google Stories"

roselan — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:53:47 +0000

google++

That's what popped in my mind when the title ("Stories meet their widest audience ever").

New comment by roselan in "TSMC and Google push chipmaking boundaries with 3D 'stacking'"

roselan — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 08:45:30 +0000

Wasn't it simply a marketing stunt?

New comment by roselan in "Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented the World's Crappiest High-Speed Rail"

roselan — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 10:30:46 +0000

I'm surprised the vibration shown in the video was not addressed at all. I thought maglev trains, without friction, would ride smoothly even when accelerating.

New comment by roselan in "Just how fast is too fast when it comes to web requests?"

roselan — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:43:09 +0000

I use jquery ui "highlight" effect as visual confirmation for action completion. It's a background easing animation, basically it "flashes" before fading out.

It might not be fancy but it's simple and helps.

New comment by roselan in "Dual AMD EPYC 7742 Crushes Quad Intel Xeon 8180M's in Geekbench 4"

roselan — Mon, 02 Sep 2019 16:26:15 +0000

AMD cpu and gpu are in playstation and xbox, and I guess that won't change next generation. Game devs optimize perf for console first I believe, so it might favours AMD in games too, albeit indirectly.

New comment by roselan in "U.S. Changes Visa Process for High-Skilled Workers"

roselan — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 11:40:17 +0000

With children staying with their parents into adulthood and earning a wage, we might even speak of 3 wages per household.

This might be compensated my the raise of monoparental households.

New comment by roselan in "Childhood's End: The digital revolution has turned into something else"

roselan — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 11:50:40 +0000

Ah, stand alone complex.

New comment by roselan in "Open Location Code"

roselan — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 10:58:42 +0000

In some places it can be -1 or 2 indexed so that a building can have more floors than legally specified.