Hacker News: Apocryphon

New comment by Apocryphon in "Just 'English with Hanzi'"

Apocryphon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:34:18 +0000

I don’t think there’s an inherent modern bias against the laconic traditional style. It actually sounds more in line with the simple sentences children learn in grade school. Really, that ‘traditional’ version is only missing a noun for the second part and then that’s sufficient for modern use. Could remove the last character, even.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Just 'English with Hanzi'"

Apocryphon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:30:33 +0000

I wonder how this accounts for regionalisms, let alone different Chinese dialects. Taiwanese Mandarin uses 研究 as a verb easily enough.

New comment by Apocryphon in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

Apocryphon — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:49:56 +0000

Entropyless? So you’re saying they’re highly efficient?

New comment by Apocryphon in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

Apocryphon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:29:29 +0000

Rather unfortunate timing that the original Apollo moon landing also happened in the middle of the Vietnam War.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

Apocryphon — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:23:27 +0000

And yet, employers love to use the "we're a family", "we're a team", and other such messaging, especially in the tech industry. They elide the transactional nature of the entire relationship.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

Apocryphon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:32:43 +0000

You’re gonna have to try harder to sneak in the a priori assumption that LLMs have any character beyond which corporation deployed them.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

Apocryphon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:15:15 +0000

Tech is just a series of arms races

New comment by Apocryphon in "The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis"

Apocryphon — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:28:42 +0000

I have to wonder how GenAI would have fared if these LLMs had become available anytime before 2020, during the “normal” tech bubble. It feels like the faith in it is as much to slash costs while appearing to be cutting-edge (and thus, worthy of what little investment is still available), as it is because of its capabilities. Where would we be if the tech industry wasn’t in such a dire state due to the end of ZIRP?

New comment by Apocryphon in "The bespoke software revolution? I'm not buying it"

Apocryphon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:34:11 +0000

Because interest rates gone up, tech bubble hype now almost exclusively focuses on AI, and SaaS was commodified a decade ago?

New comment by Apocryphon in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

Apocryphon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:02:13 +0000

Maybe they'll do something like what Anna’s Archive did

New comment by Apocryphon in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

Apocryphon — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:56:22 +0000

Turns out all of the frenzy of the ZIRP era is piddling compared to what happens when ZIRP is taken away.

New comment by Apocryphon in "AI coding is gambling"

Apocryphon — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:13:04 +0000

To be fair, the shoppers of the InfiniteAppStore can still bikeshed endlessly about the merchandise.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Have a fucking website"

Apocryphon — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:08:47 +0000

Don’t have a cow, man

New comment by Apocryphon in "Have a fucking website"

Apocryphon — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:06:44 +0000

You’re so Julia

New comment by Apocryphon in "Have a fucking website"

Apocryphon — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:27:34 +0000

Ironically, this kind of performative outrage (over a performative thing or not) is also very Gen X or millennial-coded. I can’t even. Take a chill pill.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Have a Fucking Website"

Apocryphon — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:16:30 +0000

Really the previous comment should have mentioned Yelp, and perhaps Tripadvisor for non-American customers.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Animated 'Firefly' Reboot in Development from Nathan Fillion, 20th TV"

Apocryphon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:02:37 +0000

Before SyFy self-imploded a decade ago it had multiple “ragtag rogues adventure across a sci-fi setting with frontier elements” - Dark Matter, Killjoys, Defiance. Feels like the subgenre Firefly occupied is well-settled by now.

New comment by Apocryphon in "LLMs can be exhausting"

Apocryphon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:10:15 +0000

I mean, how often do we feel the same thing about the compiler?

New comment by Apocryphon in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

Apocryphon — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:28:44 +0000

Every time there’s an article about the “good ol’ days of Hollywood” I like to trot out this comic strip- looks like last time I posted it was five years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024059/https://www.gocom...

Hollywood has been a franchise and licensed IP sequel/remake/reboot farm since the ‘80s, since Star Wars and Jaws blockbusters killed off the experimental period of New Hollywood. And even before that it was Cecil B. DeMille bombastic productions and westerns and musicals everywhere. The movie industry has always been characterized by crowd pleasers.

New comment by Apocryphon in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

Apocryphon — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:16:24 +0000

F1 is also nominated what’s your explanation for that picture