Hacker News: NoGravitas

New comment by NoGravitas in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

NoGravitas — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:40:54 +0000

I AM YELLING, CARL!

New comment by NoGravitas in "I think I hate the internet"

NoGravitas — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:06:44 +0000

I yearn for the urn.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Jellyfin 12.0"

NoGravitas — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:01:34 +0000

Intro skipping should work; requires a plugin, may only work with the web client? I have the plugin installed, but it doesn't work with the Jellyfin addon for Kodi. Ending detection works fine; don't remember if it requires a plugin.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Jellyfin 12.0"

NoGravitas — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:57:52 +0000

They probably had it set up that way for Plex, and didn't read the documentation about how Jellyfin needs its libraries organized.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Jellyfin 12.0"

NoGravitas — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:56:11 +0000

Interesting! I have been using the Jellyfin addon for Kodi as my main client, but it would be interesting to try Android TV again on the same device, since I 90% only use it for things on Jellyfin. How is the music player on it?

New comment by NoGravitas in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

NoGravitas — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:49:29 +0000

> One child walks to another child's home then they walk to another child's home and so on until you have a big group of kids walking to school together.

That's what I did when I was in first grade. Suburban US, late 70s. Lived at the end of a cul-de-sac. Met with the other kid who lived at the end of the cul-de-sac, walked to the house of a kid who lived at the other end of the street. Then the three of us got on the sidewalk of the main road and walked to the school.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

NoGravitas — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:25:14 +0000

Biden and Harris were both centrist choices. Harris specifically campaigned with never-Trump Republicans by her side. It didn't matter. Republican campaign ads and their captive media ecosystem portrayed them as radical leftists.

New comment by NoGravitas in "NASA: Fill in a name, and you can have an exclusive coordinate in the universe"

NoGravitas — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:38:04 +0000

My exclusive coordinates are whatever space I currently occupy.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

NoGravitas — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:01:08 +0000

There is a fairly wide spectrum short of photographic memory, though. I can see a fair bit of detail in mental imagery, but only if I trade off other things like the size of the area I'm imagining, or how long I can hold it in my mind.

New comment by NoGravitas in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

NoGravitas — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:24:02 +0000

Unfortunately, our cultural imagination around AI has been hopelessly poisoned by sci-fi tropes.

New comment by NoGravitas in "The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead"

NoGravitas — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:18:12 +0000

On the other hand, I think a lot of intelligent people overestimate the value of intelligence (in a vacuum). And problematically, the concept of superintelligence seems to have been defined by these very people, so we can't really have a reasonable conversation about what greater-than-human intelligence would really look like or be capable of.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Nebula Sans"

NoGravitas — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:37:05 +0000

Wasn't Abigail PhilosophyTube, a British woman, one of the Nebula founders? I guess perhaps it has changed since the early days.I remember them kicking off JT Second Thought.

New comment by NoGravitas in "The TEMU-Fication of Software, Digital Goods and Services"

NoGravitas — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:19:00 +0000

Oracle's codebase got the way it is over several decades of human programmers and customers with changing needs and ambient technological environments. LLM code can get that way in a weekend.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Donkey.bas is 45 Years Old – 131 line of Glory"

NoGravitas — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:49:42 +0000

This was on a 386, not an XT, but I had a shareware driver for Windows 3.1 that provided that for the regular Windows sound APIs.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?"

NoGravitas — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:47:41 +0000

It's too bad that SBCL has accepted LLM code.

New comment by NoGravitas in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

NoGravitas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:39:28 +0000

All Hail!

New comment by NoGravitas in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

NoGravitas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:56:48 +0000

> The court specifically determined that the Internet Archive was guilty of unauthorized copying.

That's what the "successfully" in "successfully sued" means.

New comment by NoGravitas in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

NoGravitas — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:54:45 +0000

I really wish Memory Alpha would migrate off of Fandom.

New comment by NoGravitas in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

NoGravitas — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:50:21 +0000

You shouldn't count on the phone ever being returned to you, at least not in working order. Otherwise, yeah.

New comment by NoGravitas in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

NoGravitas — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:07:47 +0000

That's the combination on my luggage!