Hacker News: wfurney

New comment by wfurney in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

wfurney — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:27:04 +0000

Interesting point that I haven't thought about before, thanks for sharing.

New comment by wfurney in "Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters"

wfurney — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:44:41 +0000

> Luxury Yacht reads your .kube directory and loads your existing kubeconfig files. It does not create kubeconfig files, nor will it ever modify them in any way. It's up to you to get those working correctly for your clusters.

I'm wondering if the author or anyone else familiar could suggest some good tools to help manage kubeconfig files. I don't have this problem using Rancher for example, and it's a big reason why I've struggled with K9s and OpenLens.

New comment by wfurney in "Show HN: I built desktop app for keeping track of your PC gaming sessions"

wfurney — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 01:26:28 +0000

Devil’s advocate here. Huge drawback is a relative POV considering the vast majority of people who play computer games do so on Windows, using Steam. I feel it worth mentioning that the HN crowd may be biased in ways that your other users don’t care about. Joe Schmo on Windows using Steam doesn’t care if you expand out to Epic Games on FreeBSD or whatever instead of adding more featurez. Best of luck with your app, it looks cool :)

New comment by wfurney in "Extropic is building thermodynamic computing hardware"

wfurney — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:31:24 +0000

Interesting you say that, I had an instinctual reaction in that vein as well. I chalked it up to bias since I couldn’t think of any concrete examples. Something about the webpage being so nice made me think they’ve spent a lot of time on it (relative to their product?) Admittedly I’m nowhere close to even trying to understand their paper, but I’m interested in seeing what others think about it

New comment by wfurney in "Prolog Adventure Game"

wfurney — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:35:52 +0000

I have never heard of Prolog before so this was cool. I did think the "make sure the flashlight is turned on" point was kind of confusing. I have the battery and flashlight, but there's no way to turn it on. I couldn't run it with gprolog but swipl works fine.

New comment by wfurney in "When You Call a Restaurant, You Might Be Chatting with an AI Host"

wfurney — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:56:29 +0000

I was at a hotel and called down to the front desk when an obvious “AI” answered. It was easy enough to ask for more towels but they never showed up, who knows why.

Maybe the request got sent to the housekeeping staff who knew that they could ignore it and blame the “AI”.

Maybe it got confused and thought it did what it asked. I didn’t think it was worth it to call back

New comment by wfurney in ""Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows"

wfurney — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 21:35:15 +0000

PowerToys run and FlowLauncher both have good plugins that use Everything:

https://github.com/lin-ycv/EverythingPowerToys

https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher.Plugin.Everyt...

New comment by wfurney in "When Americans Abandon the Constitution"

wfurney — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:26:52 +0000

Works for me on a dedicated IP. They were down the other day so maybe some residual issues. Try here

https://web.archive.org/web/20230915001212/https://www.theat...

New comment by wfurney in "When Americans Abandon the Constitution"

wfurney — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 02:20:03 +0000

https://archive.ph/SkKbm

New comment by wfurney in "Free Download Manager backdoored – a possible supply chain attack on Linux"

wfurney — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 22:23:40 +0000

Nice classic email spam at the end of that thread!

> "All we require from you is your willingness and ability to receive the funds in question"

New comment by wfurney in "Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B"

wfurney — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:47:39 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20230911143418/https://www.nasa....

Webb Discovers Methane, Carbon Dioxide in Atmosphere of K2-18B

wfurney — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 15:04:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/2023/webb-discovers-methane-carbon-dioxide-in-atmosphere-of-k2-18b/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37468342

Points: 235

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New comment by wfurney in "How Is LLaMa.cpp Possible?"

wfurney — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:43:59 +0000

I've also been experimenting with the C# implementation

https://github.com/trrahul/llama2.cs

New comment by wfurney in "Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI"

wfurney — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:12:10 +0000

Or start with more common languages then switch to another type of grouping. For example, Swedish, Finnish, Norweigan, German, Dutch, etc

New comment by wfurney in "Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI"

wfurney — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:06 +0000

Cool project, I might recommend ordering the language list alphabetically

New comment by wfurney in "Horrible Code, Clean Performance"

wfurney — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:32:04 +0000

https://archive.is/Q82MY

New comment by wfurney in "The best kimchi is made in earthenware pots"

wfurney — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 21:49:59 +0000

https://archive.is/cy3gq

New comment by wfurney in "I Am Haunted by What I Have Seen at Great Salt Lake"

wfurney — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:08:22 +0000

https://archive.is/aHdz9