Hacker News: Martinussen

New comment by Martinussen in "Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete"

Martinussen — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:33:35 +0000

> "This was the final update, thanks for playing my game, there will be no more updates"

So you're only going to call abandoned and/or end-of-support games "done"? Even if they were abandoned because there wasn't more that needed fixing/balancing, you're still using a definition I have never seen any other human being use. If it would be done at a given version if the dev just left, isn't any game that provides access to run any version better than "done"? (Minecraft, for example.)

For any multiplayer game this seems to just favour yearly release slop over actually good games with good teams behind them.

New comment by Martinussen in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

Martinussen — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:10:01 +0000

How does Zed compare to the tab completion in Cursor ("Cursor-tab")? It's honestly the only reason I have stuck with cursor in spite of the UI/UX being worse every single time I update it. Can I get something equivalent or better from Zed or some vscode fork/extension now? Admittedly I haven't looked in a bit, but it's seemed like nobody really cared about this workflow when I've tried in the past.

New comment by Martinussen in "We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng"

Martinussen — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:30:54 +0000

Or even simpler: why on earth are you using double quotes for a string if you don't want double-quote behaviour? Anything like this should just be in 'single quotes'... Any developer getting to "its parser changed a secret while reading it" and "By the time the bcrypt bug blocked SecretSpec," from basic shell semantics is frankly astonishing. I mean this on an organisational/team level, not as a personal attack on anyone, but the hubris is incredible to me.

This feels like the exact type of solution a badly prompted and poorly piloted AI tool manically follows to an absurd conclusion if you don't step in and tell it to do it the obvious and correct way instead of re-inventing the wheel.

(I would also argue most of the point of a .env file being what it is that you can source it in a shell? Does the author here have any sane argument for not using a yaml/json/whatever file and XKCD-927ing it instead? Is this not just introducing a flaw when `source .env` stops behaving like expected?)

New comment by Martinussen in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

Martinussen — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:58:35 +0000

This seems to say that an individual going vegan would save an entire transatlantic (!) flight for their footprint every single year, and recommends it as one of the four most effective things one can do?

New comment by Martinussen in "In Japan, 'calf hair harassment' exposes gender-based appearance conflicts"

Martinussen — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 23:06:56 +0000

> I think a lot of men would also say it's unattractive if women wore shorts with hairy legs.

Not actively attractive is one thing, but "unattractive" feels extreme. A sane person, man or woman, caring about the hairiness of someone else and if they're wearing shorts or not is absurd. Are rolled-up sleeves and t-shirts off limits if my arms are hairy too now? :b

New comment by Martinussen in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

Martinussen — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:25:04 +0000

Even though I agree that what the other commenter is saying is a fever dream, I do have to note that crops grow great in Norway and Sweden... so it's at least a little to do with temperature, surely.

New comment by Martinussen in "I won't read LLM authored fiction"

Martinussen — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:21:00 +0000

You're thinking of _entertainment_, not art.

New comment by Martinussen in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

Martinussen — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:36:02 +0000

Just add video and a better voip endpoint to existing setups and you're already there. A lot of scams can be (and are) run by a small handful of people now. Phishing at scale with stuff like fake tracking links etc. is already fully automated by people in a ton of ways and can definitely handle some back-and-forth over sms/whatsapp/whatever.

New comment by Martinussen in "What `for x in y` hides from you – From Scratch Code"

Martinussen — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:53:46 +0000

Is "hiding" in the sense that you just need to have read the docs or know how the language works at a pretty basic level really a problem, or even a negative? I would certainly say that the readability and clarity on the form of loop being used is a bigger win, either way.

New comment by Martinussen in "GPT‑Live"

Martinussen — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:25:34 +0000

It's just... Very robotic and clearly generated, makes random inhuman pitch shifts, etc.. Very alien overall.

New comment by Martinussen in "GPT‑Live"

Martinussen — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:25:05 +0000

This voice is awful, possibly one of the worst AI/computer voices I have heard in like two years now - what's up with that? Is this seriously the best a company burning this much money can do, and they consider this acceptable to release? Like two syllables in and my first response was to grimace and physically cringe. Does anyone here think this sounds good, or even just "fine enough"?

Do engineers that work on this for long periods of time stop seeing the forest for the trees and think this could be mistaken as human? I'm saying this as someone that assumes all narration/most VO work will be fully AI fairly soon (for better or worse.)...

New comment by Martinussen in ".garden TLD's change to a bad neighborhood"

Martinussen — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 23:09:33 +0000

Unacceptable for who? It's definitely more than acceptable for a lot of people.

New comment by Martinussen in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"

Martinussen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:51:45 +0000

Far from the richest by capita, average income, PPP average income, mean/median household wealth, etc., which feels like what we're actually talking about here. A lot of countries in the EU/Europe that would make the US look far worse, no?

Either way, no, if unions don't reduce how much people make and provide stronger worker's rights, protection from corporate abuse, workplace safety, collective bargaining for things like holidays, you can think it doesn't change your take-home at all and pretty undeniably see the benefits. How many weeks of legally mandated paid time off do you get, and how many additional days do you get on top of that as a median worker in the US? :b

New comment by Martinussen in "Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition"

Martinussen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:32:36 +0000

You'd similarly factor in comparable medical insurance/ avg. out of pocket medical expenses, taxes etc. for a median income earner the other side then, right? At median income, does that really tilt the scales much when all is said and done?

New comment by Martinussen in "Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking union recognition"

Martinussen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:18:39 +0000

As in you can subtract it from your taxable income, I assume. I think it's fairly normal (in this part of the world*).

New comment by Martinussen in "Continue has been acquired by Cursor"

Martinussen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:54:47 +0000

Doesn't that make using the MIT license a dark pattern by itself?

New comment by Martinussen in "Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE"

Martinussen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 11:18:22 +0000

I think you are heavily underestimating the level of contempt he has built towards Americans and the US in the last month or two. I don't think Europeans, certainly not Scandinavians, will forget this for decades. This isn't like some random normal boycott-type movement that goes viral, I legitimately think Americans are teetering on being persona non grata as a people unless they prove they've divorced themselves from the mess at home.

It might be manipulating people at home, but you're closer (still not close, obviously) to Russia than Sweden as far as a trustworthy business partner or ally now. We're suddenly not making any long term plans that rely on America or American companies where it's avoidable, I don't know if you understand how big of a shift that is.

New comment by Martinussen in "Open SWE: An open-source asynchronous coding agent"

Martinussen — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:51:54 +0000

Data storage has gotten cheaper and more efficient/manageable every year for decades, yet people seem content with having less storage than a mid-range desktop from a decade and a half ago, split between their phone and laptop, and leaving everything else to the "> cloud" - I wouldn't be so sure we're going to see people reach for technological independence this time either.

New comment by Martinussen in "PHP 8.5 adds pipe operator"

Martinussen — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 09:37:50 +0000

When you say chaining, do you mean autoboxing primitives? PHP can definitely do things like `foo()->bar()?->baz()`, but you'd have to wrap an array/string yourself instead of the methods being pulled from a `prototype` to use it there.

New comment by Martinussen in "Cursor 1.0"

Martinussen — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:24:23 +0000

Cursor also does this.