Hacker News: Gigablah

New comment by Gigablah in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

Gigablah — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:05:03 +0000

The ageism in this comment is revolting.

New comment by Gigablah in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

Gigablah — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:13:25 +0000

Your favorite LLM can probably reproduce this entire discussion thread so what’s the point, right?

New comment by Gigablah in "Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall"

Gigablah — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 20:05:18 +0000

One of the shallowest “articles” I have read on HN. Full of unsubstantiated statements and banal platitudes. Non sequiturs everywhere. Weak conclusion built upon a list of unrelated grievances.

Oh, that’s because it’s LLM slop.

New comment by Gigablah in "Artificial sweetener found in Diet Coke and gum could trigger heart brain damage"

Gigablah — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 06:27:59 +0000

What’s interesting is that the linked study suggests that aspartame has appetite suppression effects.

The weight loss was not just due to reduced sugar intake, the mice ate less overall.

This directly contradicts some claims that aspartame increases appetite.

New comment by Gigablah in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

Gigablah — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:54:51 +0000

This is ironic because I’m now seeing comments that are way more sycophantic (several calling this the “best HN post ever”)

New comment by Gigablah in "The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat"

Gigablah — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:20:32 +0000

this would likely make the test administrators liable if any of the phones went missing.

New comment by Gigablah in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

Gigablah — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:35:41 +0000

There’s data scoping per request:

https://docs.developer.singpass.gov.sg/docs/getting-started/...

https://docs.developer.singpass.gov.sg/docs/data-catalog-myi...

As part of the flow you’ll be shown the list of data that’s being requested.

New comment by Gigablah in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

Gigablah — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:58:47 +0000

Well, would the community be willing to respond to AI-submitted CVEs without funding?

New comment by Gigablah in "LLM policy?"

Gigablah — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 04:51:19 +0000

Humans are far more effective at producing garbage than LLMs will ever be :)

New comment by Gigablah in "Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes"

Gigablah — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:38:44 +0000

Meanwhile, the US carries out extrajudicial killings over drugs

New comment by Gigablah in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

Gigablah — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:56:48 +0000

Just say “virtue signaling”, it’s not that deep

New comment by Gigablah in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

Gigablah — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:43:56 +0000

I’m not going to resize my browser each time I follow a link or switch between tabs.

New comment by Gigablah in "I kissed comment culture goodbye"

Gigablah — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 05:22:35 +0000

> We're going to I expect this to

Is this another instance where a strikethrough was supposed to be placed

New comment by Gigablah in "Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

Gigablah — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 06:56:47 +0000

Is that the du jour unit of measurement for morality now?

New comment by Gigablah in "OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%"

Gigablah — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 06:08:24 +0000

This is just “f—- off” dressed in formal language, so not much better.

New comment by Gigablah in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

Gigablah — Sat, 03 May 2025 06:51:19 +0000

“Developers are lazy sacks who are held skyward because of hardware designers alone”

As a programmer who studied computer and electrical engineering in university, never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with

New comment by Gigablah in "PHP Core Security Audit Results"

Gigablah — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 08:45:35 +0000

Laravel (when it started) was mostly built upon Symphony components, which in turn was inspired by Java frameworks.

New comment by Gigablah in "Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?"

Gigablah — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:03:50 +0000

> This is a logic driven community

Without evidence, that’s an emotional claim.

New comment by Gigablah in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

Gigablah — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:36:32 +0000

Yandex is the only search engine with a working image search these days that I know of.

New comment by Gigablah in "TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday"

Gigablah — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:23:36 +0000

But for a lot of people, the character 红 / red is already enough to trigger the association with communism and Mao.