Hacker News: 113

New comment by 113 in "The Water Footprint of AI"

113 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:42:54 +0000

You can't drink it once it's gone through a bunch of mouldy pipes, no.

New comment by 113 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

113 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:18:24 +0000

Good writing shouldn't just be how you talk out loud.

New comment by 113 in "Thiel moves family to Milei's libertarian Argentina"

113 — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:14:32 +0000

> come together and build them or pay for them to be built

That's just taxes!

New comment by 113 in "Discord Incident – Resolved"

113 — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:17:35 +0000

It's not a novel opinion but I'm tired of things being fucked all the time.

New comment by 113 in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"

113 — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:29:31 +0000

Millions of people died and the main takeaway for the US seems to be giving up vaccines and cutting programs that would mitigate future disasters. Not sure how you've come to that conclusion.

New comment by 113 in "Programming Still Sucks"

113 — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:30:58 +0000

Of course there is. The person I'm responding to is still rich though.

New comment by 113 in "Programming Still Sucks"

113 — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:39:22 +0000

You are the rich people.

New comment by 113 in "Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks"

113 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:19:27 +0000

I first encountered cyberdecks a while ago and thought they were a fun idea for hacking about but more recently I've started seeing videos of beginners making them by cramming raspberry pis into random cases salvaged from second hand shops.

It's been really cool to see people creating hardware without worrying about the usual limitations of soldering or 3d printing. Some have more technical ability than others and have salvaged screens or other bits from random electronics.

It feels like a rediscovery of hacker ethos without the slightly toxic baggage of maker culture.

New comment by 113 in "New unsealed records reveal Amazon's price-fixing tactics, California AG claims"

113 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 23:33:52 +0000

Seems like that's just for protesters.

Backpacks got worse on purpose

113 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:42:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777209

Points: 432

# Comments: 386

New comment by 113 in "White House staff told not to place bets on prediction markets"

113 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:24:48 +0000

Whew! Glad that's sorted.

New comment by 113 in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

113 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 22:18:55 +0000

Okay well we have those already and it hasn't really changed anything.

New comment by 113 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

113 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:38:36 +0000

Not really!

New comment by 113 in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

113 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:36:33 +0000

Because it's only an option if you're rich and most of us aren't rich.

New comment by 113 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

113 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:15:58 +0000

That is a blog.

New comment by 113 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

113 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:01:54 +0000

Here is a meta-analysis that says trans women don't exhibit significant differences in performance: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/60/3/198

New comment by 113 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

113 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:10:14 +0000

Does that work?

New comment by 113 in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

113 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:18:28 +0000

> I get the feeling that it's not worth looking at because it was probably made using LLMs

This is the big one for me. Small toy website someone has made as a passion project used to be the big draw of HN for me but now I just a assume it's a vibe-coded mess that'll 404 in 7 months.

New comment by 113 in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

113 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:58:03 +0000

> If I had fewer orders, I would work more to increase the quality of my product

Really? Because most of the time what you see is huge layoffs and gutting the company's assets.

New comment by 113 in "Fire the CEO, Introducing the AxO's"

113 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 21:21:09 +0000

> Workers ultimately have a job because they are useful to managemen

Workers have a job because their labour produces value