Hacker News: Hammershaft

New comment by Hammershaft in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

Hammershaft — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:58:52 +0000

That... doesn't seem true?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cbeJIwF1pVY

Here's an Illinois professor going through the economics compared to a gas plant.

Nuclear power can become dramatically cheaper than other energy sources in the long run.

New comment by Hammershaft in "LG Says We're Fake News [video]"

Hammershaft — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:02:33 +0000

Unless it is factory reset (and even then?) it presumably still has saved wifi credentials?

New comment by Hammershaft in "LG Says We're Fake News [video]"

Hammershaft — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 20:01:22 +0000

The "average joe" can absolutely do that...

It's as simple as buying a TV, never hooking it up, and then buying something like an Apple TV that you do hook up to the internet.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

Hammershaft — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:47:42 +0000

I'm not talking about conservatives.

I mean I went from fresh account to unprompted groypers posting hitler hype edits and white nationalists posting happy merchant memes about the great replacement.

This is uniquely an X thing. It wasn't like this when I used twitter, and it isn't like that on any other socials I know.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

Hammershaft — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:54:15 +0000

I understand you can still tailor a good experience, but if you create a fresh X account the density of Elon Musk posts is genuinely absurd. There's no way he isn't putting his thumb on the algorithm to boost his reach.

Also the density of pure hate & ragebait by mask-off fascist accounts! It shocks me how much of that I saw unprompted right away after making a new account recently.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

Hammershaft — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:32:58 +0000

I've found Raindrop to be a better stand in, but I jumped ship from Pocket a long time ago.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:52:50 +0000

Unfortunately there are a lot more than 5 people saying the same misinformation in the comments.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:05:53 +0000

Economists universally think tariffs are dumb policy.

https://kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/steel-and-aluminum-tarif...

Literally 100% of the 50 expert economists polled by the Kent Clark Center think tariffs overall make Americans worse off.

Nobody in politics can say this simple truth because the rust belt states are critical swing states.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:05:06 +0000

Have you ever heard of comparative advantage?

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:02:23 +0000

Economists universally think tariffs are dumb policy.

https://kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/steel-and-aluminum-tarif...

Literally 100% of the 50 expert economists polled by the Kent Clark Center think tariffs overall make Americans worse off.

Nobody in politics can say this simple truth because the rust belt states are critical swing states.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:01:42 +0000

Economists universally think tariffs are dumb policy.

https://kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/steel-and-aluminum-tarif...

Literally 100% of the 50 expert economists polled by the Kent Clark Center think tariffs overall make Americans worse off.

Nobody in politics can say this simple truth because the rust belt states are critical swing states.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:00:13 +0000

Economists universally think tariffs are dumb policy.

https://kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/steel-and-aluminum-tarif...

Literally 100% of the 50 expert economists polled by the Kent Clark Center think tariffs overall make Americans worse off.

Nobody in politics can say this simple truth because the rust belt states are critical swing states.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:52:02 +0000

Advanced manufacturing requires cheap global inputs.

Before tariffs, unemployments was ~3.5% and real wages were rising, and part of why wages have been rising is because the cost of goods like TVs have been falling.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Trade (and Tariffs)"

Hammershaft — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:48:38 +0000

It's just an immensely dumb policy.

Unless we plan on manufacturing our own shoes and clothes, competitive advanced manufacturing is going to require cheap industrial inputs from around the world.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

Hammershaft — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:02:26 +0000

I find MacOS miserable even if the hardware is good.

I can vouch for Aerospace, it brings i3 windowing to MacOS well.

New comment by Hammershaft in "The service XCancel is stopped until further notice"

Hammershaft — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:53:29 +0000

I think the signal on X has been deteriorating for years. Many valuable communities that existed purely on Twitter have scattered across the internet after Elon's transformation, often to many disconnected small communities across X, Mastodon instances, BlueSky, and reddit.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

Hammershaft — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:00:00 +0000

Reforming tax incentives to prevent health insurance from being coupled with employment would be a major improvement on this front.

New comment by Hammershaft in "What's the best programming language for coding agents?"

Hammershaft — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:02:19 +0000

Clojure's performance improves dramatically with an MCP REPL server. Part of that improvement is that the LLM gets parens balancing for free.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

Hammershaft — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 23:25:41 +0000

I'm skeptical a counterexample is good evidence of creative intuition.

New comment by Hammershaft in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

Hammershaft — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:05:47 +0000

I hadn't heard any of these claims before.

Without a source, I decided to ask chatgpt. Its assessment is that essentially every claim in this comment is false. If you think chatgpt is wrong can you explain why?

https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6a72ee6f965c81919cc6e4bf8da64262