Hacker News: LambdaComplex

New comment by LambdaComplex in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:31:38 +0000

> Ask Fable to conduct an adversarial /ultareview of their PR and send the same wall of text back to them.

This won't help. Your wall of text will just get fed right back into the LLM.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

LambdaComplex — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:19:55 +0000

I think most of the people who use the term in the context of Linux desktops don't know the term's origin (or at least don't stop to think about it), so the possibility of it being racist never occurs to them.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "It is time to build a new internet"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:39:29 +0000

I don't remember the name of the software/protocol, but I once saw a demonstration of something that seemed similar to the Internet using amateur radios communicating with each other. I think they had either email or something functionally similar, but I was told that it didn't use Ethernet or IP at all (if I'm remembering correctly).

Edit: found it, it was TARPN https://tarpn.net/t/packet_radio_networking.html

New comment by LambdaComplex in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

LambdaComplex — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:54:52 +0000

> here's an archive from yesterday, for when that changes

GitLab's "internal" workings are surprisingly public, so you can just look at the git history yourself: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/content-sites/handbook/blob/ma...

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Why IPv6 is so complicated"

LambdaComplex — Sat, 02 May 2026 16:40:07 +0000

What purpose do you have for NAT other than putting it where you should actually be putting a firewall?

New comment by LambdaComplex in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

LambdaComplex — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:35:36 +0000

Nah, that honor goes to Network Solutions. GoDaddy is definitely in 2nd place though.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:21:14 +0000

So what does it mean, concretely? What repercussions will he personally suffer?

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:59:35 +0000

> My grandmother would often identify stitching on my slacks. I was, quite literally, blind to it!

I'm telling myself that this is an intentional "blind hem" joke.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:54:40 +0000

Enterprises love Windows for the ability to centrally manage an entire fleet's configuration using Active Directory. Is there anything for Linux that comes close to that?

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:02:59 +0000

> No custom tailoring, no AI guidance, no real automation. Just pre-populated forms that required you to click “save”.

I hate that I've become this cynical, but it's gotten to the point where reading the "no x, no y, just z" construct makes me assume that writing is AI generated (and then I immediately stop caring about reading it)

New comment by LambdaComplex in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

LambdaComplex — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:05:50 +0000

As much as I want to agree with you, the people who like TikTok make up a significant amount of the population, and their opinions do matter--arguably more than yours, due to sheer numbers.

Smugly dismissing them doesn't do you any favors except for making you feel good about yourself for a few seconds.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

LambdaComplex — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:33:00 +0000

I feel the same way every time I read that someone did something "quietly" in a headline.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:31:55 +0000

Yeah, this is an incredibly common metonym.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Ask HN: Why do so many people dislike the Opera browser?"

LambdaComplex — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:53:17 +0000

Personally, I'm diametrically opposed to the idea of letting Google dictate how web browsers must function, which is what happens if everyone uses Chrome (or a fork) and web developers start targeting features that are only supported by Chrome (and its forks).

The question is not "Is Opera a valid choice instead of Chrome?"

The question is actually "Is Chrome, or anything that's based on it, a valid choice?" and the answer is "no."

Ten Candles

LambdaComplex — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:52:01 +0000

Article URL: https://cavalrygames.com/ten-candles-info

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47057304

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

LambdaComplex — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:31:55 +0000

You just reminded me that I got about halfway through Soul of a New Machine. Maybe I'll pick it back up this week.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Privilege is bad grammar"

LambdaComplex — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:31:37 +0000

Using the example from the article: "K let circle back nxt week bout it . thnks"

I'm not buying your argument. The amount of additional time that it would have taken to write that same message with proper grammar and spelling is minuscule.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "Engineers: Stop trying to win other people's game"

LambdaComplex — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:40:33 +0000

"Your employability is higher if you get good at doing things that few other people are good at doing."

There, I just condensed the entire article into one sentence.

New comment by LambdaComplex in "What if our ancestors didn't feel pain the way we do"

LambdaComplex — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:08:58 +0000

https://archive.is/id5vM

New comment by LambdaComplex in "PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases"

LambdaComplex — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 07:28:21 +0000

Yeah, $5 databases is something that maybe I would actually use for some hobby projects, but that one sentence just killed any interest that I had in ever giving this company my money.