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Re:I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
on Sunday October 04, 2026 @03:37PM (#49957070)
Historically you’re exactly right. I wonder if the situation has changed recently?
People understand why food, water, building and energy systems standards matter because they understand those systems can cause injury. Building codes, food inspections, FDA and FAA approval emerged as a result. Until recently, people didn’t understand that software can cause real-world injury. That understanding seems to be spreading now as examples become increasingly common.
Re:How good are frontier models at physics?
on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:30PM (#49734945)
Are models able to do math now, or do they still rely on “tools” to do the math?
Re:Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox
on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @09:00PM (#48288121)
Think of it as a collab between two leading open source organizations. Adafruit has contributed a significant amount of open source software and hardware that improves developer experience on microcontrollers, embedded Linux, and Circuit Python.
Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox
Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look...
on Saturday January 17, 2026 @08:26AM (#46657887)
This article is talking about Portal:Current Events on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events). The current events articles are fantastic! Normal newspaper articles are status updates. Current events articles synthesize news to present the current, comprehensive understanding about an event. It’s cool to monitor how current events articles evolve over time.
Re:After 25 years, Wikipedia has proved that news doesn't need to look...
on Saturday January 17, 2026 @08:06AM (#46657765)
I’m continually impressed by Wikipedia’s quality controls. In my experience people underestimate them.
Re:Helm v4.0.0
on Thursday November 13, 2025 @02:26AM (#45911820)
Can you recommend any articles about minimum scale necessary to make Kubernetes worth it?
Re:Show HN: I wrote a "web OS" based on the Apple Lisa's UI, with 1-bi...
on Monday July 07, 2025 @08:50PM (#44495959)
The mouse actually works quite well with trackpad mode disabled. I’m using an iPhone Mini. One trick: To select a menu option tap-and-hold a menu title then drag to an option and let go to select.
Really cool!
Re:Ask HN: What are non-social media ways to share photography/art
on Saturday July 05, 2025 @12:55AM (#44470170)
Are there any artist groups in your area? You might like participating in critique groups, meet ups, or entering shows.
Re:Addictions Are Being Engineered
on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:26PM (#44417123)
Those interested in this branch of the discussion might find Dave Winer’s blog series about building an open social network on top of the RSS standard worth a read. Here’s one of many posts: http://scripting.com/2025/06/28/211301.html
Re:Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model
on Friday April 25, 2025 @09:47AM (#43793522)
“Explain your terms of service to me.”
Re:Are fantasy games like Dungeons and Dragons a cure for US's lonelin...
on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:11AM (#43494482)
Fully Automated is a Solarpunk RPG game manual with fun game systems for exploring optimistic tech futures, https://fullyautomatedrpg.com/
Re:The skill that never goes obsolete
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @04:28PM (#43223856)
> even seemingly simple systems are infinitely complex. (As Carl Sagan put it: “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”)
Wikiquote cites the book “Cosmos” page 218 as the source of this cool quote. https://lccn.loc.gov/80005286
Re:Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full d...
on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @02:08AM (#42694594)
Since the website doesn’t have pictures or videos… Is “webtop” a way to package GUI desktop apps in a Docker container so that the only dependencies to run the app are Docker Desktop and a web browser?
Re:I deleted my social media accounts
on Sunday January 12, 2025 @07:47PM (#42678724)
By the dictionary definition, yes. However, there are three key differences. (1) People rank the HN feed instead of an algorithm; (2) the incentives of YC, companies, and the HN community seem better aligned; (3) the user experience degrades significantly when posts get too many comments.
Re:U.S. Appeals Court Strikes Down FCC's Net Neutrality Rules
on Thursday January 02, 2025 @10:41PM (#42582140)
Your point seems spot on to me. We’ve fallen into the trap of differentiating legislation by implementation (technology) instead of job-to-be-done (societal OKRs). Email is just mail is just a way of exchanging letters. Digital packets and analog signals are just ways of sending data over a wire.
Re:Blogs rot. Wikis wait
on Thursday January 02, 2025 @09:51PM (#42581787)
Building on your idea, it’s also important to look at how wikis use Mediawiki. Different wikis in the Wikimedia ecosystem apply different sets of patterns appropriate to their size and purpose. Wikivoyage is a useful example of hierarchical information. Wikibooks shows how subpages can be used effectively.
Aside from Mediawiki.org, Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, has written extensively about wiki patterns. He’s also created a reference implementation for a federated wiki that attempts to solve the fork & revision control use cases centralized wikis struggle with. See https://github.com/fedwiki
Re:Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?
on Monday December 09, 2024 @11:09AM (#42367493)
Adafruit has a couple holiday guides based on their Feather boards and NeoPixel lights.
https://learn.adafruit.com/festive-feather-holiday-lights/ov...
Re:Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
on Thursday December 05, 2024 @11:25PM (#42336324)
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/gitlab
The team that runs this Hacker News comment site also invests in startups from time to time. GitLab did pretty well.
:-)
Re:Procrastination and the fear of not being good enough
on Sunday November 10, 2024 @02:00PM (#42101899)
Focus on your docs, code, and blog because they’re under your control. Write for yourself. Write for the people who use your work. Publish smaller chunks of work. Add value to your real network.
X, HN, and other socials are far less important. You have no control over whether the algorithm decides to amplify your content. Most work that’s foundational to society isn’t popular on socials today and won’t ever be. There’s a lottery chance you’ll get picked for amplification. Winning that lottery is great, but playing the lottery is not investing in your future.
Re:Physical Intelligence's first generalist robotic model
on Friday November 01, 2024 @01:34AM (#42014333)
Your question is great. It’s easy to forget that people are the point, not the tech.
When I was in college, automation was envisioned to reduce injuries to people, increase access to goods, and to create more discretionary time. Somehow we’ve lost the focus on human outcomes.
Re:Show HN: I built a task manager that finally separates "Do" & "Due"...
on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:13AM (#41932448)
Excited to try this out. Will the app edit my iOS calendar, or is it isolated off?
I love that you’re treating tasks as calendar events. Tasks take time, so that’s how it should be.
Re:Show HN: HTML for People
on Thursday October 10, 2024 @11:39PM (#41805811)
It’s ridiculous how complicated it’s gotten to answer my parents’ questions about stuff like this. The old desktop metaphors are gone. Screens are difficult for older eyes to read. Every app has a cloud service. Really seems like huge step back in usability.
Re:Too much efficiency makes everything worse (2022)
on Sunday September 29, 2024 @03:35PM (#41689784)
Really interesting to learn about the ML perspective of the cost of localized efficiency. Local efficiency can also make things worse from a queueing theory perspective. Optimizing a process step that feeds a system bottleneck can cause queues to pile up, decreasing system-level productivity. Automating production of waste forces downstream processes to deal with added waste.
Re:Ask HN: Experience with Large K8s Clusters?
on Sunday July 14, 2024 @11:01AM (#40961349)
Thank you for taking time to comment.
Ask HN: Experience with Large K8s Clusters?
I’ve read “considerations for large clusters” (https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/best-practices/cluster-large/).Can anyone share practical examples or stories about working with large clusters?How do you decide when to partition k8s workloads across clusters? Are there general rules/heuristics that are helpful?
Re:LLMs Can't Do Probability
on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @03:59PM (#40228583)
Can you recommend any references that explain why LLMs can’t do math?
Re:Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout
on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @11:41AM (#40133208)
Constraint-based layout using the Cassowary algorithm seemed like a popular alternative for a while (see https://github.com/slightlyoff/cassowary.js/?tab=readme-ov-f...). It’s designed to solve for variance in screen size and shape. Apple switched to Swift UI and may have moved on from this approach.
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on Monday April 22, 2024 @08:21PM (#40127129)
Thanks