Hacker News: BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BigTTYGothGFHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:36:37 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"]]>Don't those people tend to have their own setups to do that sort of thing?

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:49:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783477BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783477https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783477<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "A communist Apple II and fourteen years of not knowing what you're testing"]]>> Western AI labs keep claiming the Chinese labs are distilling them like crazy

It's been a couple years since I've seen a 'the Chinese can't innovate' post here and I can't say that I've missed it.

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:45:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783425BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783425<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "God sleeps in the minerals"]]>Why wouldn't you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huwasi_stone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baetyl

]]>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:01:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781928BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781928https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47781928<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"]]>You're not supposed to write down the unwritten rules.

]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:24:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752450BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752450https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752450<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Internet outage in Iran reaches 1,008 hours"]]>> Apparently they are also (at least in some cases) dressing as women to avoid airstrikes

Didn't help anybody in Minab.

]]>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:14:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742082BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742082https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47742082<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates"]]>Looking at the rest of the tech industry in 2026 that might be a blessing.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:49:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692803BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692803https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47692803<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]>Jesus I've seen what you've done for others and want that for myself.

]]>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:02:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691208BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691208<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"]]>The stated policy of HN is "don't be mean to the openclaw people", let's see if it generalizes.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:17:39 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665545BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47665545<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"]]>There's a lot fewer Native Americans left to genocide these days tho.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:50:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660259BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660259https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660259<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"]]>Fuel prices need to be a lot higher.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:48:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660242BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47660242<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Just 'English with Hanzi'"]]>Wiki says Assamese has 15 million speakers. Maybe it "died out" in the same way old English did?

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:06:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653882BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653882https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653882<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Just 'English with Hanzi'"]]>> written using Indian abugidas and largely prisoner to a confluence of religious affectation, court ritual and the popular language of the peasantry as popular literacy never occurred

I agree that Thai is in a completely different language family than Chinese, but I don't see what this quoted bit has to do with anything. (And surely it would apply just as well to their neighbors to the west, who do speak a Sino-Tibetan language)

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:04:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653861BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653861https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653861<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Just 'English with Hanzi'"]]>How do we know this isn't just a difference in register? Classical Chinese was extremely literary, but did people actually speak that way?

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:10:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652202BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652202https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47652202<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"]]>That's because it's the near side, not the far side.

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:06:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650193BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650193https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47650193<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]>There's a day care center across I-95 from the Pentagon.

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:11:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639705BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639705https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639705<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]>> Who will trust US treaties going forward?

Who trusted them before?

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:07:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639678BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639678<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]>So you're saying you want a solution, and you want it to be a final one?

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:04:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639653BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639653https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639653<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"]]>> I am shocked

You shouldn't be, especially considering that Schumer and Durbin both voted for the Hague Invasion Act.

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:02:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639637BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639637https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47639637<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"]]>> they have to have a diverse catalog.

They have to have a diverse catalog because they don't know in advance which books will be the big sellers.

]]>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:23:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638851BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638851https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638851<![CDATA[New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "What Category Theory Teaches Us About DataFrames"]]>"The only tool I'm willing to use is a hammer, and by god I'll turn everything into nails."

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:36:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633256BigTTYGothGFhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633256https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633256