Hacker News: watson

New comment by watson in "Om Malik has died"

watson — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:56:04 +0000

Or maybe even more if you do send it

New comment by watson in "Claude Opus 4.6"

watson — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:57:33 +0000

I've heard rumors this might be Sonnet 5 rebranded as Opus 4.6. But why? Profit? WDYT?

Ask HN: Best Email AI Assistant?

watson — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:42:21 +0000

I’m looking for an AI assistant that works with Gmail. My main requirements are that it should remind me of important mails requiring my attention and draft replies. Pricing is almost irrelevant if it can remove the stress, mental load and missed emails that is my current reality. But there’s a lot of options out there. Which do you recommend and why?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404079

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by watson in "S.A.R.C.A.S.M: Slightly Annoying Rubik's Cube Automatic Solving Machine"

watson — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:17:10 +0000

This is one of the best arguments for purchasing a 3D printer

New comment by watson in "GPT-5"

watson — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:54:52 +0000

Yes MS owns 49% of OpenAI

New comment by watson in "Don't guess my language"

watson — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:03:07 +0000

MacOS has this feature under Settings -> General -> Language & Region -> Preferred Languages. Here you can have an ordered list of languages you wish apps and websites (I _think_ only works for Safari) to use. I don't know how widespread this is in other OS'es or browsers.

A Student Who Revolutionized Hash Tables and Shattered a 35-Year-Old Myth

watson — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:59:19 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@yashwanthnandam/meet-the-student-who-revolutionized-hash-tables-and-shattered-a-35-year-old-myth-e7c7ed28361b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43163411

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

EV startup Fisker files for bankruptcy

watson — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 07:01:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ev-startup-fisker-files-bankruptcy-2024-06-18/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714863

Points: 22

# Comments: 14

New comment by watson in "A proposal to add signals to JavaScript"

watson — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 18:47:23 +0000

> Promises are a nice success story, but without async/await it wasn't really necessary to standardize

One benefit of standardisation that's not tied to async/await is that the JavaScript engines has been able to do performance optimisations not otherwise possible which benefit Promise-heavy applications

Apple plans to update new iPhones without opening the box

watson — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:52:50 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/this-device-can-update-new-iphones-while-theyre-still-in-the-box/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39855856

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by watson in "“Wherever you get your podcasts” is a radical statement"

watson — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:14:44 +0000

You most likely just don’t realize that your podcast app of choice actually gets its list of podcasts from Apple. That’s the authors point of Apple hosting it for free for everyone.

New comment by watson in "When Google Fiber abandons your city as a failed experiment (2019)"

watson — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 05:03:30 +0000

The ISP sets up rack-cabinets full of equipment in central buildings where the “last mile” fiber terminates, close to the neighborhoods that they service. Each ISP that provides service to the area needs to have their own equipment there. This is how they differentiate and how one ISP can do 1Gbps while another might be able to do 2Gbps. Simply because they have installed different equipment. The fiber itself can of course support much more

New comment by watson in "Google is deleting inactive accounts. Here's what that means"

watson — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 14:14:04 +0000

They want to close accounts with poor security (i.e. no 2FA enabled). These accounts has a higher risk of being compromised and used to get access to whatever they control

Bank of Ireland ATM bug allows withdrawal of unlimited amounts

watson — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 04:27:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crgk4ky17lwo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37171401

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by watson in "You need 27 tickets to guarantee a win on the UK National Lottery"

watson — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 13:40:41 +0000

Matt Parker video on the subject: https://youtu.be/zYkmIxS4ksA

New comment by watson in "Company builds 500cc ‘one-stroke’ engine"

watson — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 19:15:36 +0000

I would assume so, yes. This is exactly how regular motors get started, unless you have one of those old-timy cranks you had to manually turn to get the motor running

New comment by watson in "ChatGPT January 9th Release Notes"

watson — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 05:50:30 +0000

When you enter a query ChatGPT will generate a response that slowly scrolls down the screen. I presume they mean to stop that.

New comment by watson in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

watson — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:21:40 +0000

https://wa.tson.dk

Static one page site built by hand. Nothing fancy, just a portfolio of sorts

Source: https://github.com/watson/wa.tson.dk

New comment by watson in "Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack"

watson — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:15:56 +0000

Here's an official update from Twitter: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128359184496275046...

New comment by watson in "Hyperdrive v10 – a peer-to-peer filesystem"

watson — Fri, 15 May 2020 12:45:03 +0000

Last I checked you can't update a torrent. So if Wikipedia changes even a single letter, you'd need to download all the data once more