Hacker News: sebnukem2

New comment by sebnukem2 in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

sebnukem2 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:18:26 +0000

The epitome of conservatism.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "The World's 2,400 Castles"

sebnukem2 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:31:30 +0000

The ones in the area where I used to live are all missing.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

sebnukem2 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:17:13 +0000

Oh boy this hits home.

At this point I entered surviving mode, and curious to see where we will be 6 months, 2 years from now. I am pessimistic.

I want to tinker with my beloved Z80 again.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info"

sebnukem2 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:15:44 +0000

A web site as old as the internet, and still relevant.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

sebnukem2 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:27:48 +0000

The idiotic rounded corners of Tahoe are so ugly I just wish I didn't upgrade. I hope Apple will make the radius configurable.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"

sebnukem2 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:14:40 +0000

I didn't know they skipped 10 version numbers.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

sebnukem2 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:28:38 +0000

> hallucinations aren’t a bug of LLMs, they are a feature. Indeed they are the feature. All an LLM does is produce hallucinations, it’s just that we find some of them useful.

Nice.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Volcanoes can affect climate"

sebnukem2 — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 20:32:25 +0000

This post is most likely related to a recent post on HN: https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/p/so2-injection

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Ask HN: Why is nobody manufacturing low tech electric cars in 2024?"

sebnukem2 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:21:59 +0000

The bicycle is definitively the best mean of _transpiration_.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "lsix: Like "ls", but for images"

sebnukem2 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 18:21:03 +0000

Quite the list of deps (from brew install): dependencies for lsix: bash, libpng, freetype, fontconfig, jbig2dec, jpeg-turbo, libidn, libtiff, little-cms2, openjpeg, ghostscript, brotli, giflib, highway, imath, openexr, webp, jpeg-xl, libvmaf, aom, libde265, glib, shared-mime-info, x265, libheif, liblqr, jasper, libomp, libraw, m4, libtool and imagemagick

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Sieve is simpler than LRU"

sebnukem2 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 14:22:37 +0000

This is presented like the best cache algorithm ever invented, but it's not simpler than LRU.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles"

sebnukem2 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:58:24 +0000

From the article, now, this air battery is only vapor.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Argonne: Lithium-Air battery 1200 wh/kg, 1000 cycles"

sebnukem2 — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:53:48 +0000

People driving oversized cars from US in EU have no qualms about taking 2 parking spots.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Wikipedia is not short on cash"

sebnukem2 — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 19:20:50 +0000

I donate a little to the most useful site on the internet. It's a bargain. It doesn't matter if they don't need my donation to survive.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "The most dangerous road for cyclists in America"

sebnukem2 — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 18:58:07 +0000

If a driver cannot react fast enough to someone on a crosswalk, then the driver is driving too fast. Cyclists don't throw themselves right in front of a moving car. It's a lot safer to cross on a crosswalk, even on a bike.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Too many Americans live in places built for cars – not for human connection"

sebnukem2 — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 17:47:04 +0000

I argue that the car is mankind's worst invention, by many metrics.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "GraphQL kinda sucks"

sebnukem2 — Sat, 06 Aug 2022 16:18:59 +0000

I'm happy to read this. I had to use GraphQL once in an old job and I hated, hated the freaking thing with a passion, but there was so much hype about it I concluded the problem with it was caused by myself, a getting older and more close minded self. I see now that GraphQL may not be that wonderful, after all.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "In Praise of Writing (2021)"

sebnukem2 — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 14:31:29 +0000

Which Babel tool are you referring to?

New comment by sebnukem2 in "Ask HN: How did dark mode win?"

sebnukem2 — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 21:41:03 +0000

What I want to know is why I'm not reading this in dark mode.

New comment by sebnukem2 in "NOAA upgrades the U.S. global weather forecast model"

sebnukem2 — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 15:31:39 +0000

Wouldn't this kind of problem be a perfect match for machine learning? It would have a huge dataset to learn from. Why isn't it happening or what prevents AI tech from forecasting the weather?