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danparsonson··on I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle
You know that's true of most films, right? "Aging well" doesn't refer to howly closely it matched reality.
danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
So many notifications - my life would be a mess without them :-) Thank you!
danparsonson··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
So you'd produce the code using Claude, and then use Claude to verify it? Would you accept my review of my own code?
danparsonson··on When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
And how would you verify that the review was accurate?
danparsonson··on Ask HN: Time loop and partial blackhole?
Are you familiar with the ScienceClic channel on YouTube? They have some really nice videos about subjects like this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NfTmy1ApCvI

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GQZ3R81iyE0

danparsonson··on Associative learning turns DEET from aversive to appetitive in Aedes aegypti
It's OK, we still have picaridin
danparsonson··on Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)
Statistical significance is about whether an effect can reliably be said to have been measured at all; it's not about whether or not the effect itself would be significant in the sense of moving some other needle.

The ~5% improvement reported here might just be an artefact of the data collection or random variation, rather than a consistent repeatable change.

danparsonson··on Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order
Nana's Archive would have a nice cozy feel to it
danparsonson··on The Futility of Lava Lamps: What Random Means
They're very calming
danparsonson··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
Do we need to keep pointing this out though? LLMs are not going anywhere any time soon and people will keep using them to generate articles.

If the content is also nonsense then that's worth talking about, but otherwise comments about LLM style are about as interesting as remarks about typos.

danparsonson··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
Mobile wireguard clients are very good as a solution to the access problem.
danparsonson··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
Yeah... in my experience people who code like that 'successfully' make modifications that fix an immediate problem while kicking another bug or two further down the road in a never-ending sunk-cost-fallacy of job security...
danparsonson··on Traceway: MIT-licensed observability stack you can self-host in ~90s
Aren't they two different things? Vendor SDKs to get the data in, client SDKs as an option to get the data out?
danparsonson··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
You're right, thanks - that makes more sense.

> In conclusion, Google must be destroyed

Yeah they've had their time XD

danparsonson··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Ah got it - I guess I was having a slow day that day.
danparsonson··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
Ahhh I apologise - I misparsed your comment. I read it as:

> Why is someone making that much money [from] stealing a MacBook

instead of

> Why is someone [who is] making that much money stealing a MacBook

Sorry about that.

danparsonson··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
Edit: my bad, see my other comment

The final paragraph:

"Court overtime

For every DUI arrest made, state police troopers must appear in court, and in evidence motions filed with the court, attorneys have said this has led to a staggering amount of overtime pay for Trooper Bradley.

State records show in 2024, Bradley nearly tripled his salary, earning nearly $250,000 in one year."

danparsonson··on Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house
Here's a radical idea... you could... read the article :-O
danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
You can do it by cutting and folding a sheet of clear acetate or similar from a net like this: https://wp.optics.arizona.edu/oscoutreach/wp-content/uploads...

Or you could cut the four sides separately and just sellotape them together.

edit: not much help without measurements sorry - try this: https://www.holeinthewallgang.org/Customer-Content/www/CMS/f...

The required angles appear to be 54 or 126 degrees: https://data.formsbank.com/pdf_docs_html/304/3049/304991/pag...

danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Yeah that would work! Or @progbits' suggestion of "goes with" works for me too.

In any case thanks for your consideration and thanks again for a great game!

danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
> To me a "stop watch" is a type of watch

Right but the answer in this case is not "stop watch" - the answer is just "stop". Name a type of watch: "stop".

> I saw someone on here recently say they like to do the puzzle without looking at the clues

Yeah I do that sometimes too, especially finishing off can be easier that way

danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
You're right - all of mine instantly stopped working and I'm just gonna switch over to pen and paper.
danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
You can create the same effect on a smart phone screen with a video like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CIszi2Kv_lk and a some clear plastic sheet put together like this: https://www.twowaymirrors.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pep...

OP: beautiful work with your surf projector!

danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Thank you for Tiled Words which I play regularly! I introduced it to a couple of friends and now they compete every day for the best time to finish :-)

While you're here if I could make a small suggestion - the wording of the 'type of' questions was confusing to me until I got used to it; 'stop' is not really a type of 'watch' for example, so maybe you could find a different way to phrase those? Maybe there isn't a neater way to encapsulate the idea of 'is a prefix or suffix to', I don't know, but I found it difficult. Anyway kudos to you and your wife, it's a great game!

danparsonson··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)
Very nice! Does the sharing feature allow live location sharing? That seems like it would help a lot, especially when group members are in separate vehicles.
danparsonson··on Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
I run WhatsApp concurrently on two phones and receive all messages on both devices. But generally speaking this is where we disagree - requiring all devices to be authorised by me is feature not a bug as far as I'm concerned.
danparsonson··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Sure but how do I know that the person I'm buying from legitimately owns the account? Won't scam me? Or try to con me out of my existing account? I'm just saying not everyone is as relaxed about that sort of thing.
danparsonson··on Bitter Lessons from the ISSpresso
Also it's really hard to get up in the morning when the days are so short
danparsonson··on Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
Well then, I think E2EE is a good thing and I'll take the minor inconveniences.
danparsonson··on Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
Are you asking for technical details about E2EE in messaging apps, or simply making the point that you don't like it? If you don't like it, then fine, you do you, however I would point out that we all accept some inconvenience in our lives as a trade off for improved security; the lock on my front door is inconvenient but I'd rather have it than not.

As to whether or not Meta have been lying about it, then that would be on-brand for them, but then what are they turning off if so? Or maybe the whole thing is theatre, and I should better disconnect from the internet altogether? I don't see the value in speculating about that.

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