Hacker News: Hugsbox

New comment by Hugsbox in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

Hugsbox — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:52:51 +0000

You realize you're the one repeating demonstrably false statements?

New comment by Hugsbox in "Three schoolgirls in Kinsale pulled up a pea plant covered in warts (2016)"

Hugsbox — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:02:09 +0000

For real, I thought it was just me but I find the unfinished g's really distracting, even though I understand it's a stylistic choice my brain keeps thinking it's being rendered funky

New comment by Hugsbox in "Salad Theory"

Hugsbox — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:46:17 +0000

The difference here is, the fruit pizza couldn't possibly be a pizza, because it's a salad :) /j

New comment by Hugsbox in "Salad Theory"

Hugsbox — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:01:17 +0000

>After all, do you really expect to cover, for instance, “word salad”?

This is covered further down in the article where it's pointed out that one of the Merriam-Webster definitions is

>"A usually incongruous mixture : HODGEPODGE"

The author points out that Merriam-Webster actually has a looser definition of salad than they do, because the article is only considering edible things to count.

Also, I disagree - I don't think "fruit salad", or "chicken salad", or "egg salad" etc are "figurative" (not sure what you even mean by that), I would absolutely consider them legitimate salads.

Not saying I agree with the rest of the claims, but it is funny to think of a bowl of skittles as being a salad, and it's always a mindfuck to think about just how impossible it is to categorize every little thing into a neat little box.

New comment by Hugsbox in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

Hugsbox — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:21:35 +0000

Maybe we have a different definition of "donation", but it requires you to pay at least $2.50 to access it. Sounds like a purchase, not a donation. And for a demo of an HTML document.

New comment by Hugsbox in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

Hugsbox — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:17:54 +0000

Ah yes, let me just whip out my wallet real quick and pay for a demo of an HTML file. I'll _definitely_ be doing that.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Lake Ontario ("Lake America")"

Hugsbox — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:14:32 +0000

It's a transparently disrespectful move. Apologizing for disrespectful behaviour is pretty normal.

New comment by Hugsbox in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

Hugsbox — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:05:42 +0000

Says it's in one HTML file... well, where? Why post a video if you could just link to it? I don't see a link to it anywhere, and I'm not watching a youtube video to look at an HTML file.

New comment by Hugsbox in "AI-written code is still your code"

Hugsbox — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:45:07 +0000

IMO human-verifying will always be a must, no matter how good the LLMs get. If I'm shipping code that I don't understand and it ends up having major problems, I'm still the one who's responsible for it, not the LLM.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino"

Hugsbox — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:15:01 +0000

At what point would it be worth it for clubs to just decouple from FIFA and start a new international federation without all the bullshit? I know as long as there's massive amounts of money involved corruption is bound to seep in, but the optimist in me wants to believe a new federation could be structured to be slightly more resistant to it.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Meta reaches $17B settlement over social media harms to children"

Hugsbox — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:03:41 +0000

I could see unregulated platforms blowing up, which would directly expose minors to far worse.

Like imagine if they all flock to 4chan, or similar.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

Hugsbox — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:26:34 +0000

I'm somewhat out of the loop, and it's not really mentioned in the article, but what's with Omarchy getting this crazy amount of financial support from this list of fairly prominent individuals? Until a few weeks ago I'd never heard of it, then what I did hear is that it's being made by a very... uhh, eccentric(?) individual, and now it's suddenly got a crazy amount of funding. What am I missing?

New comment by Hugsbox in "Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones"

Hugsbox — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:44:21 +0000

LLMs in general have a tendency to be overly verbose, in my experience.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

Hugsbox — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:33:07 +0000

You may underestimate just how petty we can be.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

Hugsbox — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:27:04 +0000

Still way too high.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?"

Hugsbox — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:51:51 +0000

I thought that link was safe to click at work.

I thought wrong :(

New comment by Hugsbox in "Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?"

Hugsbox — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:52:13 +0000

It at least landed with me, I had a sensible chuckle :)

New comment by Hugsbox in "Why Microsoft Entertainment Pack had a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?"

Hugsbox — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:51:29 +0000

Microsoft is run by a collective of aliens who are pretty good at imitating humans, but fall just a bit short.

New comment by Hugsbox in "Don't Paste the AI, please"

Hugsbox — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:02:12 +0000

In that case why not just say you'd prefer not to answer and move on? They're asking for your input, not AI input - if you'd prefer not to contribute literally just say so.

New comment by Hugsbox in "A faster way to calculate the day of the week"

Hugsbox — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:38:44 +0000

I reckon it makes for a pretty neat party trick, I guess