Hacker News: teach

New comment by teach in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

teach — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:10:51 +0000

One could argue that, given how singularly awful it is, GitHub's historical uptime might qualify as "historic".

New comment by teach in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

teach — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:29:39 +0000

Dumb question, but if this is "open source" is there source code somewhere? Or does that term mean something different in the world of models that must be trained to be useful?

New comment by teach in "Runners who churn butter on their runs"

teach — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:48:23 +0000

This is amazing but even as a runner who loves to make my own "processed" food this really reads like a submarine article for the dairy industry.

"I used to be vegan, but you know I just can't liveeeeeeee without that real butter!!!!!!!"

New comment by teach in "Bubble Sorted Amen Break"

teach — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:41:11 +0000

If you never play the original sample, you never have to worry about royalties.

:rollsafe-think-about-it:

New comment by teach in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

teach — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:23:09 +0000

I've seen this story making the rounds, but this isn't news, is it?

All self-driving companies maintain teams that make a decision when the cars get confused or stuck, and they report the number of such handoffs to NHTSA.

Is it just that there are teams in the Philippines specifically?

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:26:18 +0000

That makes sense to me. I really enjoyed the personal anecdotes and I thought they made the article a lot stronger for me, but a dry gas mask review would have also been an excellent, albeit different, article.

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:24:32 +0000

A permanent ban seems strong, but it sure does seem like folks are using flagging as a super downvote in this case

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:15:00 +0000

Could it be that people who have commented in a flagged post are forbidden from vouching?

New comment by teach in "Best Gas Masks"

teach — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:49:39 +0000

Yet another interesting article flagged because it touches on American politics.

What's the procedure for flagged articles become unflagged? Maybe do I need more karma or something before I can vouch for them?

New comment by teach in "Show HN: Typing Tennis"

teach — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 20:05:11 +0000

I LOVE the style, but it's currently unplayably buggy!

* I type "hit" to serve (note: for consistency you should require ENTER on this word, too)

* Ball slowly travels, CPU returns it

* Return word appears

* I type the return word and press ENTER

* No matter what I do, once the ball gets close to my side, the "HINT" pops up and won't go away until I start typing the return word again

* Whether I type the word correctly or not, my guy fails to return the ball

Latest Firefox on MacOS.

Hope you get this sorted out -- it looks fun

New comment by teach in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

teach — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:25:52 +0000

I guess I can see how pre-installing some LLM agents makes it potentially seem "AI-centric", but I don't understand at all how this could be "US-centric".

New comment by teach in "Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants"

teach — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:02:52 +0000

I actually switched to Ruby for this very reason and used it for a few years. I still have a soft spot for Ruby as well.

Unfortunately I had a different experience with the Ruby community, so I eventually switched to Python along with apparently everybody else.

New comment by teach in "Perlsecret – Perl secret operators and constants"

teach — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:41:09 +0000

Perl was the first language I learned on my own after graduating university many years ago. I fell in love with it because of quirks like these and because code written in it can have a poetic quality you don't see often.

Now I am old and joyless and I want the code I write for work to be boring and unsurprising.

But sometimes one can still want to write poetry.

New comment by teach in "Show HN: I built a "Do not disturb" Device for my home office"

teach — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:54:37 +0000

> My router assigns dynamic IP addresses, meaning my server location kept changing.

I've had a similar problem in the past. It turns out that most routers have a way to assign an IP address statically based on the MAC address of the requesting device without affecting the other DHCP devices on the network.

I do this for my pi-hole, my NAS and my gaming PC.

New comment by teach in "Some Epstein file redactions are being undone"

teach — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:02:39 +0000

For me, the top comment is currently cmarschner's day-old comment enumerating a bunch of other examples of botched redaction

New comment by teach in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

teach — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:53:45 +0000

https://textarea.my/#Cy4tsOfi8ssvUcgtTc7QU_DIz0stLsmpVPBUSK0...

New comment by teach in "It's Always TCP_NODELAY"

teach — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 21:44:17 +0000

I've been on HN a long time and this comment was the one to finally make me realize that "animats" is "stamina" spelled backward.

New comment by teach in "I'm tired of Hacker News slop"

teach — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:07:27 +0000

Is it possible that the fairly-specific term "slop" has ALREADY been co-opted to mean "LLM-generated context which I don't like"?!?

Because personally I'M tired of folks using that word inappropriately.

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

teach — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:30:05 +0000

Clickbait WORKS.

There's a reason it's banned in HN submissions

New comment by teach in "How SQLite is tested"

teach — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:20:06 +0000

> Is it used outside of Sqlite?

Not really. It's one of the early _distributed_ version control systems, released a little after git but before git gained widespread acceptance.

It has a built-in (optional) web UI, which is cool, and uses SQLite to store its state/history.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_(software)