Hacker News: QuadmasterXLII

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

QuadmasterXLII — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:31:11 +0000

If my phone buzzes and I look at it and the reason was dumb, I delete the offending app and leave a 1 star review. I don’t know which of these steps are loadbearing, but my phone has gotten much quieter.

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

QuadmasterXLII — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:10:15 +0000

You don’t get to choose whether they allow you to join them.

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Cannibalistic attacks between gray seals leave telltale “corkscrew” injuries"

QuadmasterXLII — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:22:09 +0000

I’m not sure there’s a philosophical understanding yet, but the learned flinch response from how badly the last X interventions went is real

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

QuadmasterXLII — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:52:05 +0000

WW1 shellshock was a diagnosis consisting of an undifferentiated mix of concussion and ptsd, the diseases may have been completely untangled by now but it’s not impossible that there is still some blurring

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

QuadmasterXLII — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:46:39 +0000

If this was a study on ptsd in assault survivors you could make the exact same comment asking why they didn’t try it in veterans (and I have no reason to doubt someone would)

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

QuadmasterXLII — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:18:06 +0000

A complementary policy is to not give six year olds publicly funded mandatory chromebooks their parents don’t control. This can reduce the pressure coming from these parents to warp and twist the web till it is safe for a six year old to have free access to an uncontrolled chromebook.

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Claude for Legal"

QuadmasterXLII — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:49:42 +0000

If you use a stateless client (like just rawdogging cli llama.cpp) there’s nothing to discover. Setting a program with an option to have logs to not do that could conceivably get you in trouble but using a widely used program that never had logs seems like it has to be fine. Maybe they could nail you for googling “which local llm approach generates logs?” also, don’t get nailed by your bash history!

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "The AI Zombification of Universities"

QuadmasterXLII — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:13:45 +0000

The universities can survive a wave of student ai laziness- blue books and pass fail homework. cfg. I can’t see how they survive a wave of professor ai laziness. Paying $200,000 for $40 of tokens is such a brutal way to be scammed and the resentment will get refreshed by loan payments every month for decades

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

QuadmasterXLII — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:53:20 +0000

intentionally cannibalizing their own sales is iirc the official apple policy: iphone destroyed ipod and was one of the best business mives of all time

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Googlebook"

QuadmasterXLII — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:54:53 +0000

lmao can’t render on safari, get “this page was reloaded because a problem repeatedly occurred.”

Maybe someone could invent a format for presenting text and images over the internet that didn’t each require each text presenter to write custom (buggy) shader code?

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

QuadmasterXLII — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:29:08 +0000

i have bad news

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Mojo 1.0 Beta"

QuadmasterXLII — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:31:25 +0000

julia StaticCompiler.jl is the closest to doing this but its buggy, the error messages are terrible, theres no documentation and its ambiguous whether its still in development. but ive looked, nothing better exists.

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "U.S. Schools Face a Crisis as the Number of Children Drops"

QuadmasterXLII — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:39:34 +0000

Immigrants to europe are not statistically similar to immigrants to the US.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/political-backflow-from-eur...

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "The operating cost of adult and gambling startups"

QuadmasterXLII — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:18:00 +0000

The argument you are presenting is recycled from debates about newly banning things that have been legal for forever, but doesn’t make any sense at all as a response to people bemoaning disasters caused by an activity being newly legalized.

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Borrow-checking without type-checking"

QuadmasterXLII — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:01:55 +0000

I deeply deeply want to love OCaml but its inherent lack of dynamic dispatch for int / float / complex is brutal

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Claude Code to be removed from Pro Tier?"

QuadmasterXLII — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:46:43 +0000

Although the ones that never touch claude code are a free $20 a month, the ones that do are potentially a seventy to eighty dollar twenty dollars a month . it’s not instantly obvious which customers you prefer (revenue vs cash negative growth- on second thought obviously they prefer the second)

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Bouncer: Block "crypto", "rage politics", and more from your X feed using AI"

QuadmasterXLII — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:20:43 +0000

here I vibecoded an app to fix your twitter experience

sudo cat 0.0.0.0 x.com >> /etc/hosts

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "A perfectable programming language"

QuadmasterXLII — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:05:36 +0000

its not caused by a habit of writing authentically formatted Homestuck rp smut

but surely its correlated

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

QuadmasterXLII — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:48:24 +0000

They expect the coming crop of data centers will be used to hurt them, and don’t want them built anywhere?

New comment by QuadmasterXLII in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

QuadmasterXLII — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:56:38 +0000

I could believe that perma-cameraing every inch of public space is more akin to chemo than to vitamin gummies, that SF had the city equivalent of bone cancer, and that this doesn’t mean healthy midwestern towns need Flock in any way.