Hacker News: Martinussen

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.

New comment by Martinussen in "I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)"

Martinussen — Fri, 09 May 2025 16:44:20 +0000

Sorry, maybe/probably should have clarified I meant a different medication - meant to comment more on the general utility.

New comment by Martinussen in "I can’t understand Apple’s Critical Alert policy (2023)"

Martinussen — Thu, 08 May 2025 10:57:32 +0000

If I miss the dosing window by more than an hour or so it'll either ruin my sleep or ruin my day after lunch, I have responsibilities and can easily lose track of time for an hour or two while working or in meetings, so the iOS medication reminders are very useful to me personally, at least.

edit: though if I remember or see the initial reminder and log it, it obviously won't go off with sound. If it pings, I've basically always already forgotten.

New comment by Martinussen in "Tesla Showroom Set on Fire"

Martinussen — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 07:10:01 +0000

> Those who "dislike Musk" usually cannot come up with any solid example of what he has done to deserve the hate.

If this is a genuine belief you have, I think you need to break out of your echo chambers a lot more.

New comment by Martinussen in "Nebu: A Spreadsheet Editor for Varvara"

Martinussen — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:30:59 +0000

I assume you've seen it, but Screeps was(/is?) a very enjoyable game to play around with for the programming-strategy/RTS blend.

New comment by Martinussen in "DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data"

Martinussen — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:16:15 +0000

Calling a guy a pedophile repeatedly because you made yourself look stupid getting excited about your cool submarine and how awesome everyone will think you are when you save some kids wasn't really worth much money either. I don't think Musk has the self-control to think like that, honestly.

New comment by Martinussen in "JJ Cheat Sheet"

Martinussen — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:57:31 +0000

That looks more like a git alias than a job for an entirely new tool, to me. How many of the core functions do you really need to cover before `jj` itself becomes redundant?

New comment by Martinussen in "ElevenReader"

Martinussen — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 10:19:32 +0000

Doesn't apply to all situations, but "replace things that were done by humans" in arts can absolutely be a loss by itself. Making graphics/speech/video a commodity doesn't replace designers, voice actors, or directors, but we've definitely see it can directly harm them and the people that enjoy their work.

> can't find better things to do, such that it makes them poorer, or anti-social its a loss

I feel like this misses the point a bit - lost income/sustainability for artists is obviously a big issue we'll be facing, but looking for a performance indicator in an artistic endeavour doesn't really get you anywhere. There's more ways to value a painting than "what the market would pay" and "potential heat output as firewood", right?

New comment by Martinussen in "It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor"

Martinussen — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:16:40 +0000

You... Might want to check what Mel Gibson has gotten up to over the years if that's your impression of the man. Not much of an edge case, and you're being pretty intentionally obtuse if you're arguing Ford or Gandhi are useful comparisons here.

Anyone promoting Bill Cosby the person is definitely doing something questionable, which is the relevant point.

New comment by Martinussen in "My Favorite Self-Hosted Apps Launched in 2024"

Martinussen — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:52:19 +0000

I think flat rates either make you too expensive for a small/scrappy operation getting off the ground, or too cheap to be able to offer what a large client might want (without additional agreements). In practice, this feels like the space that individuals doing sysadmin/IT stuff for local businesses are covering to me, but with even more caveats.

New comment by Martinussen in "I'm quitting the Washington Post"

Martinussen — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:41:39 +0000

Those blurbs all seem to pretty clearly indicate it's not an unbiased news reporting show? Do you legitimately feel "hear the news from our guests" after "news commentary and informed perspectives" is proof that they are trying to make you think it isn't a talk/discussion/opinion-centric show?

New comment by Martinussen in "The huge stakes for free speech in a new Supreme Court case about porn"

Martinussen — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:26:33 +0000

The American College of Pediatricians are basically a fraud. It's a conservative abstinence/anti-LGTB advocacy group hoping you confuse it with the (legitimate) American Academy of Pediatrics.

New comment by Martinussen in "Small Businesses vs. Corporations: What Tech Tools Are We Missing?"

Martinussen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:28:04 +0000

How do other companies come into play if you buy a car and are suddenly told 6 months later that you need to pay up or they will disable the heated seats you got?

New comment by Martinussen in "Canada euthanasia now accounts for nearly one in 20 deaths"

Martinussen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:26:22 +0000

Yes, my point was that that person having a position where they are able to do that is already wrong. If a car salesman was telling every woman that came in they should get an abortion, there are places that person should be, and none of them are a car dealer's.

New comment by Martinussen in "Certain names make ChatGPT grind to a halt, and we know why"

Martinussen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:53:49 +0000

If someone doesn't have the skills to parse text programmatically, the situation can often be something like "a Word table of names in a 4-wide grid with random missing fields, spanning three different pages, one of which is no longer a true table because it was copied out and pasted in again from a messenger chat someone sent last year", and LLMs can be quite good for one-off tasks like that. Definitely good enough that people will keep using them like that, at least.

New comment by Martinussen in "Small Businesses vs. Corporations: What Tech Tools Are We Missing?"

Martinussen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:43:26 +0000

> Just a monthly fee for everything from heated seats to garage doors and forced obsolescence for everything that hasn't been turned into a subscription yet.

To be fair, that type of nonsense is something only the government can really deal with on a general level. (Obviously we need to actually care about it enough for that to happen, but still.)

New comment by Martinussen in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

Martinussen — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 10:14:07 +0000

I think these are valid concerns, but I would also say that there is an underlying issue with medical malpractice and disregard for the suffering and needs of certain groups of society which we tend to brush under the rug. I'm going to assume the concerns you have probably don't stop at just euthanasia - mine definitely don't, and I worry that a ban just makes the issue more... abstract, and PR-friendly.

If an individual in a difficult life situation comes to the state for help as a last resort, and there is a chance the representative they are assigned would recommend they should consider just dying as their last resort, the state has already failed to protect someone vulnerable, and obviously won't be giving them the help they deserve/need/should be entitled to as a human.

Any wrongful death is horrible, but I sincerely believe a "representative" like this and the harm they inflict is going to have an almost identical death toll, even if it's by way of consigning people to sub-human lives of physical or mental torment instead of pushing them towards a tool that "everyone" understands we need to keep a close eye on. My utilitarian take would be that many would happily extend the torment of the terminally ill and suffering, as long as they don't have to deal with the suffering their neglect inflicts on countless vulnerable people and the terminally ill already. (For e-clarity, I don't mean to imply that's your motivation here!)