Hacker News: 6031769

New comment by 6031769 in "Write Like It's 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese"

6031769 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:04:47 +0000

> Caveman was cool, but hand wavy.

Cavey-wavy. Ahem.

New comment by 6031769 in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

6031769 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:50:57 +0000

You are probably already aware of https://shlinkedin.com/ but it is worth a mention just in case. I think you might enjoy it.

New comment by 6031769 in "Cube"

6031769 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:23:51 +0000

It's a javascript animation library. I can only presume that this info was left out of the headline in order to generate clicks.

New comment by 6031769 in "Everybody's Lost Their Minds"

6031769 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:55:55 +0000

Consume it how, exactly? Are the staff drinking it all? Because the the kit sure as hell isn't. :-/

New comment by 6031769 in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

6031769 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:27:41 +0000

It may not inherently make it better (for some meanings of "better") but it certainly makes it more secure and more stable. Those are attributes which I would value very highly in coreutils.

New comment by 6031769 in "CSS Curiosities of the Past"

6031769 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:10:51 +0000

And that point was when the public sector finally abandoned IE6. It has all been peachy since then.

New comment by 6031769 in "Claude is no longer available for minors"

6031769 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:08:13 +0000

So, if I can fake being under 18 then all these AI bots will now leave me be, right? This sounds like a winner.

New comment by 6031769 in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

6031769 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:16:18 +0000

"saying technically true things in ways to mislead large numbers of people" is pretty much the textbook definition of marketing in general. I'm not sure why one might expect the marketing for gaming generally or this game in particular to be any different.

New comment by 6031769 in "The Amazon tax"

6031769 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:09:48 +0000

Or a dried-fruit retailer.

IGMC.

New comment by 6031769 in "An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail"

6031769 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:32:03 +0000

I do hope not. That sounds utterly horrendous.

New comment by 6031769 in "Incident with Github.com"

6031769 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:41:07 +0000

At this point github is barely managing one nine.

New comment by 6031769 in "Incident with Github.com"

6031769 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:07:35 +0000

An alternative set of ideologies is part of what makes it ... an alternative!

I mean, that plus better uptime.

New comment by 6031769 in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

6031769 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:20:38 +0000

And of course by extension it is also one of the core reasons not to use Cloudflare.

New comment by 6031769 in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

6031769 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:27:51 +0000

Two words: Ling's Cars.

New comment by 6031769 in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

6031769 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:56:03 +0000

No they aren't. All they are doing is pointing out a temporal correlation. Inference of causality is left to the whim of the reader.

New comment by 6031769 in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

6031769 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:03:07 +0000

Individuals are able to sue Meta for their own redress, are they not?

New comment by 6031769 in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

6031769 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:41:58 +0000

As those are heavily vying to be the three worst things in IT, I'll pass.

Thanks for the warning!

New comment by 6031769 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

6031769 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:22:05 +0000

It isn't virtue signalling if they actually do it. Then it is just virtuous.

New comment by 6031769 in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

6031769 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:15:00 +0000

Using your phone in a cinema was, is and ever will be a massive faux pas. I have no idea at all why you think it might be otherwise.

New comment by 6031769 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

6031769 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:20:25 +0000

Grot is usually intentionally and always utterly unfit for purpose.