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New comment by Handprint4469 in "MacBook Neo"

Handprint4469 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:29:56 +0000

> feels like I'm being flash-banged by a Cocomelon episode.

This is by design, who do you think the target market for this Macbook is?

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Can Ozempic Cure Addiction?"

Handprint4469 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:42:44 +0000

> Are paywalls ok? [0]

>> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.

>> In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html#:~:text=Are%20payw...

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Google AI Overviews cite YouTube more than any medical site for health queries"

Handprint4469 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:07:06 +0000

> Google AI (owned by Meta) favoring YouTube (also owned by Meta) should be unsurprising.

...what?

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Ubisoft cancels six games including Prince of Persia and closes studios"

Handprint4469 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:00:51 +0000

that depends. how much money do your kids have?

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me"

Handprint4469 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:16:39 +0000

> as search with ads is their flagship product.

no, ads are their flagship product. Anything else is just a medium for said ads, and therefore fair game for enshittification.

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server"

Handprint4469 — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:08:58 +0000

If you have uv installed, you can test it without installing by running:

  uvx ty check

New comment by Handprint4469 in "An appeal to companies doing AI"

Handprint4469 — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:12:21 +0000

> But there is a feedback loop: If you change the incentive structures, people’s behaviors will certainly change, but subsequently so, too, will those incentive structures.

This is a good point, and somewhat subtle too. Something that worries me is the acceleration of the feedback loop. The Internet, social media, smartphones, and now generative AI are all things that changed how information is generated, consumed and distributed, and changing that affects the incentive structures and behaviors of the people interacting with that information.

But information is spread increasingly faster, in higher amounts and with higher noise, and so the incentives landscape keeps shifting continuously to keep up, without giving people time to adapt and develop immunity against the viral/parasitic memes that each landscape births.

And so the (meta)game keeps changing under our feet, increasingly accelerating towards chaos or, more worryingly, meta-stable ideologies that can survive the continuous bombardment of an adversarial memetic environment. I say worryingly, because most of those ideologies have to be, by definition, totalizing and highly hostile to anything outside of them.

So yeah, interesting times.

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym"

Handprint4469 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:24:09 +0000

> we were required to engage in 'reflexive practice', meaning at the end of the school day, we were expected to sit down and think about - reflect - on what had happened that day.

That is _reflective_ practice (which involves reflection). Reflexive otoh comes from 'reflex', which does suggest unthinking automaticity.

New comment by Handprint4469 in "What's Happening to Students?"

Handprint4469 — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:44:40 +0000

Everyone with an imagination is dead inside. Dead. Inside. But it's not so bad, they don't want to bite you, and there are a few living still out there; I reckon a couple of thousand in London. We recognise each-other and give a nod or a raise of the eyebrow, then back into the crowds of the undead stumbling along daydreaming about celebrity's dinners or whatever the fuck it is they find so compelling ...

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation"

Handprint4469 — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 21:15:02 +0000

It will be Grok 3, mark my words

Thermostat maker Tado performs psychological experiments on customers [video]

Handprint4469 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 07:27:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAchfFXghc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43124994

Points: 1

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New comment by Handprint4469 in ""A computer can never be held accountable""

Handprint4469 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:46:01 +0000

I disagree. The main point of this line is not about what to do _after_ a mistake (assign blame, punish, etc), but rather about setting up the correct incentives _before_ anything happens so that a mistake is less likely.

When you're accountable you suddenly have skin in the game, so you'll be more careful about whatever you're doing.

New comment by Handprint4469 in "The FAA's Real Air Traffic Control Crisis Runs Much Deeper"

Handprint4469 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 18:58:42 +0000

Reddit comments seem reasonable until they talk about something you're an expert on. Then you realize the "Reddit consensus" is worthless: uninformed at best, actively misleading at worst.

A corollary to this: people who don't have expertise in any field might never realize this, and will believe whatever Reddit (or HN, Twitter, etc) tells them that matches their previous-held beliefs.

I recommend people become technically proficient at at least one thing in their lives. It gives you an anchor to reality (you can easily recognize bullshit), and it will cure you of the illusion that most people know what they're talking about.

New comment by Handprint4469 in "How I Use Home Assistant in 2025"

Handprint4469 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 09:24:25 +0000

yeah, for someone who wrote a book called "The Coding Career Handbook"[0], not being able to actually read the instructions, getting mad about it, and then posting a rant called "Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess"[1] is not a good look.

[0]: https://learninpublic.org/

[1]: https://github.com/swyxio/swyxdotio/issues/525

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Used Meta AI, now Instagram is using my face on ads targeted at me"

Handprint4469 — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:07:41 +0000

> These are not ads, rather something that is generated natively by the platform, not leading anywhere else but the platform that the user is already on

So if Instagram shows you ads about Meta AI, it doesn't count as ads because both are owned by Meta?

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Ask HN: Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena"

Handprint4469 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:50:35 +0000

I might be missing some context, but this seems a bit unhinged? What do you mean?

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Help! Politics Blog Cloudflare Subpoena"

Handprint4469 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 17:48:33 +0000

> Unfortunately every attorney I've contacted so far is not in a position to help.

What? Why?

New comment by Handprint4469 in "Olympians turn to OnlyFans to fund dreams due to 'broken' finance system (2024)"

Handprint4469 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:04:58 +0000

> "With OnlyFans, athletes are actually providing a product or service, something of value for the money they're receiving," he explained, emphasizing the need to reframe thinking.

> "It's making athletes entrepreneurs."

New comment by Handprint4469 in "OpenAI’s board, paraphrased: ‘All we need is unimaginable sums of money’"

Handprint4469 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:06:16 +0000

Doesn't matter. In fact, it makes it even funnier: all these investors spending billions of dollars on OpenAI just end up subsidizing the competing models.

New comment by Handprint4469 in "EmacsConf 2024 Notes"

Handprint4469 — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:11:08 +0000

What was different about it compared to the neovim conf?