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madmaniak··on Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
For truth checking actual thinking and logic is required. It doesn't seem to be a proper tool for the task.
madmaniak··on Do we need billionaires?
Billionaires are infinitely smaller than money printers (and they are created by them). Did you got the scale?
madmaniak··on Carbon dioxide levels are higher than humans have ever experienced
"The study did not take into account other potential influencing factors"
madmaniak··on Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC
But when I install Firefox or Chrome it's much faster, much better and also someone else's code. Also copied and pasted by machine. Just I don't claim it's mine.
madmaniak··on Self Sanitizing Door Handle
Hundreds year old technology used in houses, hospitals and public places - handles made of bronze.
madmaniak··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://mad.maniak.pro
madmaniak··on Response to "Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language"
Well said.
madmaniak··on React vs. Backbone in 2025
Yes it's TS and types compatible. What about Rails or Redis or Linux? The most brilliant projects I know come from one person. Everything is hard to sell if you don't have corporate money stream for marketing :) No?
madmaniak··on React vs. Backbone in 2025
Look for Imba (imba.io) which is being ignored for years. Predecessor of React with features of React and no flaws of React. Works great with just devtools - for debugging.
madmaniak··on How the “Kim” dump exposed North Korea's credential theft playbook
It's funny to say that because we're living in a bubble too.
madmaniak··on Conspiracy theorists unaware their beliefs are on the fringe
Article's author doesn't believe his awareness is on the fringe :))
madmaniak··on Bluefishjs: A diagram drawing framework for JavaScript
What's wrong with SVG?
madmaniak··on AI killed the tech interview. Now what?
Come on - it was already dead for a long time.
madmaniak··on Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]
In this context those are all states noted by your brain till current state.
madmaniak··on Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]
Maybe this analogy will be helpful for you. We have CPU with mutable RAM. You can create immutable language on top and start arguing that you can go both ways in mutations back and forth in RAM. But this is the feature of the abstraction you applied not the core feature of "reality".
madmaniak··on Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]
This is what differs model from reality. You're talking about abstract concept which helps you to measure mutations but as I tried to explain above - is not a real thing. It's just working and useful idea.
madmaniak··on Time is an illusion, and these physicists say they know how it works [video]
Time doesn't exist. This is a human concept to measure mutations. Brain preserves previous states - it is a feature of a brain. It doesn't require time - it just preserves previous states like a history pattern. What exist is constant change - here and now. There's no time.
madmaniak··on AdonisJS
Hehey! I'm late for the party :D I just wanted people interested in frameworks to take a look on comparison with (my) framework which purposefully takes another approach https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40743058
madmaniak··on Another approach framework 'Pro' (Re: Adonis)
You're right!
madmaniak··on Another approach framework 'Pro' (Re: Adonis)
I did a quick comparison of framework promoted today on HN and framework I built. Is it impressive to anyone?
madmaniak··on Daily-Driving a Blackberry in 2023
Indeed. I had disputes with my bank on that and even digitization ministry of my country. Both are breaking the law on this field but I can't do anything about it. To proceed in such cases I use number of trusted person.
madmaniak··on Daily-Driving a Blackberry in 2023
I can call to anyone's phone if needed - for example using Skype service - but I have no number to call me. To have a VoIP number - I bought one for 1 month in that period while applying for a job to one huge corporation. HR didn't wanted to pass me further without phone number - but to have a number it was 5 minutes.
madmaniak··on Daily-Driving a Blackberry in 2023
I went that path. At first my smartphone stopped working for no reason. I thought it's great moment to downgrade to dumb phone. After about a year I lost my sim card... Then I thought it's great moment to get rid of my phone at all. I needed to detach all services related to my phone - which sometimes is tricky. After all I'm phone-free since 2018. In the meantime I was traveling a lot, working for different companies and I was in touch with friends. I'm known in my circle that I have no phone. At work they don't even ask.
madmaniak··on React Labs: What We've Been Working On – February 2024
Memoizaition - since over 10y in imba.io. Just sharing.
madmaniak··on Gemini AI
It is on purpose to have an excuse of wiping out search results for interesting piece of technology. The same was with serverless which became "serverless".
madmaniak··on Web server 'hello world' benchmark: Go vs. Node.js vs. Nim vs. Bun
Obviously Crystal is missing here. Another benchmark: https://github.com/costajob/app-servers
madmaniak··on WiFi Routers Used to Produce 3D Images of Humans
It's not new as you could think after reading the article. I remember reading about this technology - seeing humans through walls basing on internal wifi signal for some US government agencies - at least 7y ago. Also OpenWRT software for routers has plugin for gestures for MANY years already. Possibilities of reading gestures by your home router implies all mentioned use cases.

It's past, but written here as a future. It's truism but written as discovery.

Another truism would be saying that it scales for any radio antennas - like GSM. Especially if you have dense grid.

madmaniak··on When do we have a scientific fact?
There are no scientific facts. There are only scientific proves. Didn't need to read the article thanks to the title.
madmaniak··on Making popular Ruby packages more secure
Does MFA exists to force people to have/carry all the time smart phones or there's a way to use it without a phone? I mean in practice for repositories like npm or rubygems?
madmaniak··on Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?
Appreciate your comment.
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