Hacker News: simongr3dal

New comment by simongr3dal in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

simongr3dal — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:30:51 +0000

The twingo is for sale and on the road already.

New comment by simongr3dal in "We're working on a new RuneScape MMO"

simongr3dal — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 18:11:32 +0000

In theory you could make a game where you’re max level everything from the start, but I think the pointlessness of that is obvious. The journey is the game to an extent, and the low attention requirements allow us to dream of all the possible efficiencies.

New comment by simongr3dal in "SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030"

simongr3dal — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:39:55 +0000

Why not? The income statements can’t lie. And if those fall short of expectations then the stock market is also gonna grill you.

New comment by simongr3dal in "iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com"

simongr3dal — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:14:43 +0000

But the private relay domain is only used when you sign up through “Sign in with Apple”? A thing you have to support if your iOS app already supports sign up with other third party authentication providers.

New comment by simongr3dal in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"

simongr3dal — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:40:34 +0000

Some apps used the disk image as a simple way to bundle up a little “installer”. This is lost by sending a .zip file.

The disk image could put a background image with instruction visual, decide the visual placement of icons. Applications could include folders with brush packs, example documents, user manuals and such.

The fact that it was a disk image could be seen as confusing if you read that closely, but if you ignore the file type it was simply an icon that you could double click to open a piece of installer UI.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Timeline Scan – AI fixes the dates on your scanned photos"

simongr3dal — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:08:35 +0000

The last one seems like it could also be problematic, how do you distinguish the 1960s decade from the literal year 196. In this case it’s kind of obvious since photography wasn’t very popular in the year 196.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

simongr3dal — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:27:37 +0000

I think plagiarism in academia is mostly concerned with morality, not so much legality, i.e. copyright law isn't really what we're considering here.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

simongr3dal — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 21:34:19 +0000

Getting the feeling that Socrates had a different definition for "powerful" than most.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

simongr3dal — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:36:22 +0000

Lots of people have a hard time just freebasing in an abstract conversation about how they work and storytelling “My Journey” type stuff but work just fine in an actual team setting with concrete products, features, and problems to think and talk about.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

simongr3dal — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:51:43 +0000

That’s funny, but most new cpus today have more L3 cache than those computers had memory and disk space combined.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

simongr3dal — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:19:57 +0000

THey need to provide all the API's that nodeJS provides. I'm sure nodejs has a lot of lines too even though they also have the js engine as a library.

New comment by simongr3dal in "I Spent My Sabbatical Building a Power Meter for Sledgehammers"

simongr3dal — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:34:34 +0000

Kind of like how “Stuff Made Here” has devolved into mark rober content.

New comment by simongr3dal in "AI chatbots could be making you stupider"

simongr3dal — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:04:30 +0000

I hope you count "stimulating our minds for either learning or imaginative purposes" as one of those outcomes because if you only count "work produced and kpis met" as an outcome then that sounds pretty bleak.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Boneyard: Generate pixel-perfect skeleton screens from your real DOM"

simongr3dal — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:05:04 +0000

Their doc linked at the bottom actually has a pretty nice example.

https://boneyard.vercel.app/how-it-works

New comment by simongr3dal in "Exploring PostgreSQL 18's new UUIDv7 support"

simongr3dal — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:48:11 +0000

I believe the concern is if your primary key in the database is a serial number it might be exposed to users unless you do extra work to hide that ID from any external APIs and if there are any flaws in your authorization checks it can allow enumeration attacks exposing private or semi-private info. With UUIDs being virtually unguessable that makes it less of a concern.

New comment by simongr3dal in "AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025"

simongr3dal — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 19:06:49 +0000

I feel like there are probably cinematic film-making tricks you can use to imply a very dark scene without serving #111 pixels all over the screen.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Denmark close to wiping out cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out"

simongr3dal — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:22:32 +0000

Because HN is not really a forum geared towards sarcastic quips unless they are extraordinarily funny.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Denmark is returning 15% of its farmland back to nature"

simongr3dal — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:47:49 +0000

Farmland is approximately 2/3 of the country. Most is being used for animal feed and then the animals are exported. I think we’ll make due.

New comment by simongr3dal in "Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them"

simongr3dal — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 20:14:50 +0000

Those vehicles typically have many more axles and double-wide wheels to distribute the load.

New comment by simongr3dal in "I kind of like rebasing"

simongr3dal — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 21:39:25 +0000

You sort of get that if you're consistent in working on a separate branch, rebasing, and keeping the merge commit when you finally merge.