Hacker News: FractalHQ

New comment by FractalHQ in "Purely AI-generated art can't get copyright protection, says Copyright Office"

FractalHQ — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:32:03 +0000

Are the AI bro lobbyists asleep at the wheel? I assumed human creativity was already sold to the highest bidder.

New comment by FractalHQ in "CDC data are disappearing"

FractalHQ — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 15:11:08 +0000

“The people” are too stupid to blame unfortunately, they have no idea what’s going on.

Average IQ Americans freebase propaganda and Joe Rogan for thoughts. The Kremlin and the Republican propaganda empire have been paving the way for a Project 2025 Neo Nazi hostile takeover for decades.

John Doe from Florida doesn’t stand much of a chance when every TV, cell phone, and Facebook bot in his state is beaming the world’s largest psy-ops laser-beam at his head for half of his life.

I tend to blame the Fascists. But yea, the future is bleak. We’re cooked in America, at least.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Oh Shit, Git?"

FractalHQ — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:40:32 +0000

lazygit ! Just needed to throw out a mention because it’s an amazing tui for visual orientation, is super fast, and can be used with a mouse and keyboard (or just keyboard) from the terminal. I saw it mentioned on a thread here last year and have preferred it as a fast “oh crap I think I made a mess lets back up” tool over the more complex gui apps I’ve tried (almost all of them).

New comment by FractalHQ in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

FractalHQ — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 16:57:12 +0000

The games are crippled by how archaic and underpowered the hardware is. TOTK is beautiful _despite_ the hardware limiting its true potential, robbing world class studios, and forcing them to cut corners.

It’s indefensible considering how much legendary IP that potato is holding hostage.

New comment by FractalHQ in "ChatGPT Saved Chats: Save and organize your important conversations in ChatGPT"

FractalHQ — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:19:11 +0000

This is what Brave browser tried to do, but everyone on HN had a spasm cus “boo crypto”.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Something is wrong on the Internet"

FractalHQ — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:44:15 +0000

Exactly this. Because capitalism tells us to pay people the minimum (which isn’t enough) and charge them the maximum (which is too much) and suddenly living is unaffordable for the majority.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Something is wrong on the Internet"

FractalHQ — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:32:01 +0000

Airlines should be a federal service like the post office, not for profit companies cramming the poor like sardines and scamming them over baggage space.

New comment by FractalHQ in "AI 'Street Photography' Isn't Photography: What We Lose by Simulating Experience"

FractalHQ — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 19:21:46 +0000

When the “tools” are built from countless lifetimes of blood sweat and tears dedicated to mastery and bottled by mega corps to siphon all of the value and sell it back to the people by laundering their intellectual property, your angle falls flat. The “poor” can’t eat art. They used to be able to sell their art to buy food. Now 5 tech bros are seizing all of that food money, artists are starving, humanity is being regurgitated into slop, and you’re cheerleading for molloch.

New comment by FractalHQ in "How types make hard problems easy"

FractalHQ — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 22:23:29 +0000

This isn’t true, is it? I’ve only ever heard that TypeScript has one of the most advanced type systems of any mainstream language.. but I don’t have enough experience with other languages to know how true that is.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Computing Inside an AI"

FractalHQ — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:57:52 +0000

MacOS has this by default on every app because it indexes all menu actions and makes them accessible via `cmd + shift + ?`.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Ask HN: Is NPM Having an Outage?"

FractalHQ — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 23:43:22 +0000

JSR is better so use that. And you can install npm deps from esm.sh instead.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Nvidia Fugatto: "World's Most Flexible Sound Machine""

FractalHQ — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 04:48:39 +0000

I'm the same way! But there is a _lot_ of music that's designed to repeat _just_ enough for you to enjoy / learn a pattern before evolving. Almost all of the music I made back in the day followed these rules, like Omni or Mountain Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BJ0smdh4QI

New comment by FractalHQ in "Show HN: Feels Like Paper"

FractalHQ — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:49:13 +0000

I liked the fun animation, but I agree that the text should be darker for readability / accessibility.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Show HN: Feels Like Paper"

FractalHQ — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 00:47:34 +0000

I often proxy Vercel through Cloudflare for a free cache layer on their edge cdn.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Show HN: Tips.io – A Tailwind playground with AI, page management, and theming"

FractalHQ — Sun, 24 Nov 2024 02:55:59 +0000

Unless my designs are predictable and cookie-cutter, why would I want copilot to generate them? How would it know exactly what aesthetic each element should have? I love unique, expressive designs that capture a brand, so Tailwind only serves to make my markup harder to read.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematical thinking"

FractalHQ — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 20:51:01 +0000

I would love to learn about some of these anti-pattern proofs if you have any examples or references you can share!

New comment by FractalHQ in "Ask HN: Do you consider working for Meta an ethical issue?"

FractalHQ — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:40:34 +0000

Capitalism is unethical. Name a public company that gives a flying fart about what is ethical beyond the bare minimum. The ones that can afford the fines don’t even bother with the minimum.

New comment by FractalHQ in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

FractalHQ — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 11:38:17 +0000

What about when he said he wanted to be dictator so people wouldn’t have to vote anymore? And when he made himself above the law with MAGA court justices? Or talked about a firing squad for his opponents and opening fire on peaceful protestors? Or when he attempted a violent coup on the White House? Or when he praised Hitler and asked for generals like Hitlers that will do anything he says without question? Or when he praised Putin, Kim Jun Un, and other the dictators of the world?

New comment by FractalHQ in "A React Renderer for Gnome JavaScript"

FractalHQ — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 10:12:12 +0000

As a (mostly) Typescript / Svelte dev, React is like a shitstorm of bad abstractions, and looking at it makes me irrationally upset. I refuse to flush any brain cycles down that drain.

New comment by FractalHQ in "M4 MacBook Pro"

FractalHQ — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:32:32 +0000

My MacBooks are built like a tank and outperform/outlive everything else easily for a decade. I don’t need more than 128GB of RAM or 2TB of storage… and I don’t need to repair what doesn’t break. It would be nice to have the option, but the time I save using an OS that just works like MacOS is worth more to me. And the best software in the world always runs on it. It’s a no brainier for me.