Hacker News: 1shooner

New comment by 1shooner in "Tailwind and slop apps"

1shooner — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:08:21 +0000

And I don't really believe them. Are they claiming to identify every site using tailwind-compatible utility classes, and within that set, they all look similar?

I think what they're actually experiencing is that they can instantly tell a default Tailwind site with reused components, which is not much of a claim at all.

New comment by 1shooner in "European sunscreens are safer than American (2024)"

1shooner — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:18:13 +0000

Consider the potential for economic growth in private testing services. It's called job creation!

New comment by 1shooner in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

1shooner — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:50:25 +0000

Having recently switched to Tahoe with a new computer, I honestly wonder what kind of life these people lead that this is where there mental and expressive effort goes. It's just not a big deal.

New comment by 1shooner in "American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires"

1shooner — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:25:41 +0000

>Barrels of newspaper ink have, for instance, been spilled over the political influence of Elon Musk, who may soon become the world’s first trillionaire. Far fewer have been dedicated to explaining why most American states ban or severely limit carmakers, including Tesla, from selling vehicles directly to customers.

This is a terrible example. Musk has changed the laws in 15 states to exempt Tesla specifically from these bans.

New comment by 1shooner in "Even light drinking raises risk of cancer, heart disease, and early death"

1shooner — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:22:22 +0000

>It turns out that two drinks per day, which might be considered ‘moderate’ from a social standpoint, is associated with a substantially elevated risk of a premature death caused by alcohol, they explain.

Two drinks sounds moderate to me. Averaging two drinks a day does not.

New comment by 1shooner in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

1shooner — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:28:18 +0000

>What does “understand” mean?

Exactly.

New comment by 1shooner in "Please Use AI"

1shooner — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:36:18 +0000

I just don't think moralistic condescending poetry really helps any of that.

New comment by 1shooner in "Please Use AI"

1shooner — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:02:24 +0000

>but surely you know somebody into SOMETHING you could ask about

But this is the thing. Many people don't, or have some other real or imagined barrier preventing them from it. Many people are really extraordinarily isolated.

While I relate to the heart of the poem, there is an aspect of it that's essentially criticizing people for their suffering. There's a "just stop drinking" vibe.

New comment by 1shooner in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

1shooner — Fri, 29 May 2026 03:40:55 +0000

I can't imagine it's designed to not log unless it had a live network connection.

New comment by 1shooner in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

1shooner — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:56:26 +0000

Healthy skepticism of procedure over-prescription is reasonable and maybe even wise, but I wouldn't really take the celebrities section of USA Today as a data point, maybe not even as a reliable anecdote.

Based on your concern, the question is whether 'botched' procedures are more or less of a risk (both in incidence and consequence) than non-screening.

New comment by 1shooner in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

1shooner — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:05:47 +0000

Do you see coal mining towns as a model to pursue?

New comment by 1shooner in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

1shooner — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:01:44 +0000

I ought to do a write up, but If you open it up the UART pads are available to get a U-Boot console. U-boot is in HAB mode, with a custom signed debian buster kernel. This was my first time dealing wit u-boot, but it was otherwise pretty open and was able to write to ENV and FS from the u-boot console, which let me stop the Freewrite app from starting, boot into root shell, turn on SSH, etc. So you can get into userspace and replace the UI and whole app. When I dropped this project I had it booting shell onto the e-ink, with a command to drop back into the Freewrite app if I wanted.

Then they released the new app, which looked like it was also just in userspace (not a kernel or fw update) so I wanted to start over with the update, but never got back to it.

New comment by 1shooner in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

1shooner — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:53:30 +0000

I was gifted a Traveler several years ago. It is overpriced and bound to the vendor data service for any connected functionality. You can read and write off of it via USB, but it doesn't actually use a true filesystem for your text files, it writes them into the main app's sqlite DB, which in the past has had data loss issues.

My version uses ancient releases of Node and React for the UI for some horrible reason, and it is painfully slow.

I've rooted mine and have it as a project to look at the new OS and decide what to do with it, but if I had the cash I'd look elsewhere.

New comment by 1shooner in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

1shooner — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:13:04 +0000

I know this doesn't work for most subscribers to mass media culture, but I'm right there with you. Personally I kind of hate celebrity as a social phenomenon, and I love seeing an amazing talented set and then getting to talk with the musician afterward. I don't give Live Nation my money.

New comment by 1shooner in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

1shooner — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:54:50 +0000

Have you somehow sourced unsubsidized inference? Isn't all of this built on the false economy of a handful of very large vendors trying to capture you?

New comment by 1shooner in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

1shooner — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:07:47 +0000

"My bubble is more correct then the bubble of those I disagree with". There are objective data to refer to:

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/03/12/key-findi...

https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3955

New comment by 1shooner in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

1shooner — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:52:54 +0000

The heading " Why it's wrong" and the structure:

>Worse: it's a conversation killer. There's nothing to respond to. Your wall of text suppresses dialogue. They can't reply, can't push back, can't clarify. It's a weapon disguised as helpfulness.

This is slop. What it's saying is not even true, it's just punchy.

New comment by 1shooner in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

1shooner — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:17:16 +0000

You're asking if verified user accounts on a porn site are more or less invasive than the government banning or restricting access to VPNs?

New comment by 1shooner in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

1shooner — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:45:40 +0000

This is (imo) the most valid argument for Tailwind: the UI semantics of "hero" "card" etc aren't put in CSS, they're put in the module. Modules are typically designed for this encapsulation, and CSS was not.

New comment by 1shooner in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

1shooner — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:11:28 +0000

I don't personally support this surveillance, but that isn't what the articles says. It says they will be "scanning for suspects from above." And later quotes the Met making reference to 'intelligence'. So conceivably they could have information about the plans of specific individuals at this event.