I had a post here sit at #1 once for a day, I had 200k views from it. I think an ad would have been $2k? Not to bad I think
I’ve hit #1 multiple times. HN views are low-value and non-sticky, IME.
Readit Newsjdlshore commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
jdlshore commented on Do the simplest thing that could possibly work seangoedecke.com/the-simp... · Posted by u/dondraper36
It's a shame he doesn't give the origin of this expression in programming. It comes from Ward Cunningham (inventor of the wiki) in his work with Kent Beck. In an interview a few years back on Dr. Dobb's, he stated that as the two of them were coding together in the late 80s, they would regularly remind each other of the principle. Eventually, it became a staple of their talks and writing.
They were cognizant of the limitations that are touched on in this article. The example they gave was of coming to a closed door. The simplest thing might be to turn the handle. But if the door is locked, then the simplest thing might be to find the key. But if you know the key is lost, the simplest thing might be to break down the door, and so on. Finding the simplest thing is not always simple, as the article states
IIRC, they were aware that this approach would leave a patchwork of technical debt (a term coined by Cunningham), but the priority on getting code working overrode that concern at least in the short term. This article would have done well to at least touch on the technical debt aspect, IMHO.
Kent Beck went on to formalize Extreme Programming, which is a collection of practices for allowing simple systems to evolve as requirements change.
jdlshore commented on ChatGPT offered bomb recipes and hacking tips during safety tests theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/pseudolus
So does Google if you ask it.
This whataboutism that crops up every time someone says something negative about LLMs is not helpful. Yes, humans are imperfect. Yes, Google is imperfect. So what? The discussion at hand is about how LLMs are imperfect.
jdlshore commented on Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson twitter.com/nealstephenso... · Posted by u/SLHamlet
For people missing the irony here, the term “metaverse,” that Meta is named after, was coined by Neal Stephenson in his 1992 book “Snow Crash.”
In the book, the metaverse is a VR version of the internet with an emphasis on accurate sword fights and realistic facial expressions.
jdlshore commented on Phone searches at the US border hit a record high wired.com/story/phone-sea... · Posted by u/mikece
I'm pretty sure the 100 miles only really applies to the border and the coast and not internal ports of entries. It's still a travesty.
Shame you’ve been downvoted. According to the ACLU, you’re correct: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/border-zone
From the CEO's response:
> On January 24, 2025, security researchers from Kudelski Security disclosed a vulnerability to us through our Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP). The researchers identified that Rubocop, one of our tools, was running outside our secure sandbox environment—a configuration that deviated from our standard security protocols.
Honestly, that last part sounds like a lie. Why would one task run in a drastically different architectural situation, and it happen to be the one exploited?
Not sure why it seems like a lie. Oversights like this happen all the time.
jdlshore commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx
I know. Those cable covers are also illegal, something city law enforcement and spokespersons confirmed. Don't ask me why a cover is illegal, it seems strange to me. Maybe it's because of the danger of snow clearing equipment chewing it and the cable to pieces, but I'm just spit balling here.
And it's not like it's a new issue, I've heard public complaints about lack of solutions to this brought city council for years now. Haven't heard anything about the law being changed at this point.
It might be illegal here, too, for all I know. So is parking on the wrong side of the street, or blocking your own driveway. Some laws get ignored and no one cares.
jdlshore commented on Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing linch.substack.com/p/ted-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
I think you are mixing up Chang and Ken Liu.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)
Oh, I think you’re right. Oops!
jdlshore commented on Ted Chiang: The Secret Third Thing linch.substack.com/p/ted-... · Posted by u/pseudolus
If you like Chiang, Netflix has an adaptation of his work called “Pantheon” that’s very good. Animated, two seasons, about the rise of uploaded humans.
I don’t know which of his works it’s based on, so can’t say how true it is to the original, but I enjoyed it.
jdlshore commented on How much do electric car batteries degrade? sustainabilitybynumbers.c... · Posted by u/xnx
Where I live in Canada, that's illegal. Tripping hazard on the ground, I don't know the exact reason why overhead is also illegal (though I can make a few guesses).
I don’t know about the law, but the cable covers are the big industrial ones they use at concert venues etc. So no significant tripping hazard.