Hacker News: Halian

New comment by Halian in "AI slop is killing online communities"

Halian — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:23:07 +0000

> I am not an AI-hater. In fact, I think AI-haters are on the wrong side of history. Incorrect.

New comment by Halian in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

Halian — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:05:31 +0000

I took the Floridian and Silver Meteor last April in coach round-trip to DC. 19 hours getting bounced around so badly I couldn't sleep. :(

New comment by Halian in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

Halian — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:03:29 +0000

Would that USB 2.0 Type-C were somehow outlawed, or even better that every device that used Type-C supported everything it can do.

New comment by Halian in "Goodbye to Sora"

Halian — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:29:25 +0000

Good riddance to bad garbage.

New comment by Halian in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

Halian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:40:57 +0000

AI slop must be crushed.

New comment by Halian in "Warranty Void If Regenerated"

Halian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:40:29 +0000

Based. I need to use domain blocking more.

New comment by Halian in "macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal"

Halian — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:23:47 +0000

Not parent commenter, but my answer is "no to all".

New comment by Halian in "Ask HN: How much money did you get from the Facebook privacy settlement?"

Halian — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:05:07 +0000

$20

I was hoping it’d be an actually meaningful amount, especially since I’m on disability.

New comment by Halian in "Tell HN: OpenAI now requires ID verification and won't refund API credits"

Halian — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:04:27 +0000

Thus be it for slopherds.

New comment by Halian in "Paramount Buys the Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News"

Halian — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:16:41 +0000

I’m sick of living in interesting times. ;-;

New comment by Halian in "Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs"

Halian — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:17:02 +0000

AI slop must be abolished.

New comment by Halian in "This website is for humans"

Halian — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:27:46 +0000

Anubis or, like Xkeeper of The Cutting Room Floor has done, block the major Chinese cloud providers.

New comment by Halian in "About the BLOBs in Ventoy"

Halian — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:18:29 +0000

I’ve never had issues using Ventoy to install Arch.

New comment by Halian in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

Halian — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:52:44 +0000

Shut the fuck up and start calling lawyers now.

New comment by Halian in "Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option"

Halian — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 01:01:33 +0000

I *hate* magic links. Just let me use a damn password.

New comment by Halian in "Wuppertal's suspended monorail proved its doubters wrong [video]"

Halian — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 02:55:59 +0000

Needs more woopers. 'o'

New comment by Halian in "Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history"

Halian — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 17:45:35 +0000

I think something like game/30 would be better, but I’m not terribly edumacated on the intricacies of classical chess time controls.

New comment by Halian in "Accidentally writing a SAT solver"

Halian — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 04:24:59 +0000

For some reason, I thought this would have to do with the standardized test, lol.

New comment by Halian in "Half-Life 2: 20th Anniversary Update"

Halian — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:24:02 +0000

That seems less than optimal.

New comment by Halian in "Cyph – A cryptographically secure messaging and social networking service"

Halian — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 00:29:23 +0000

https://www.cyph.com/pricing