Hacker News: RGamma

New comment by RGamma in "We've made the world too complicated"

RGamma — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:22:08 +0000

The natural ("prehistoric") state used to be a low density distribution of mobile tribes, which sidestepped a lot of the problems that afflict civilizations, like pandemics and local resource exhaustion.

New comment by RGamma in "Rotten Dot Com"

RGamma — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:32 +0000

Bestgore, TheYNC

New comment by RGamma in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

RGamma — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:19:35 +0000

gpedit.msc

New comment by RGamma in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

RGamma — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:38:16 +0000

Like https://gamecopyworld.com :>

New comment by RGamma in "This year’s insane timeline of hacks"

RGamma — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:13:31 +0000

"Amusing ourselves to death" was eerily prescient. Now that the amusement stopped, what might happen next? Not the metaverse, that's for sure.

New comment by RGamma in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

RGamma — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:25:30 +0000

Fabric is the one place for all your data!

New comment by RGamma in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

RGamma — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:07:35 +0000

They also use .microsoft now (e.g. for the M365 admin portal).

New comment by RGamma in "You are falling behind because you haven't fed the insincerity machine"

RGamma — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:45:34 +0000

The obsession with constant content production combined with algorithmic, feed driven consumption frontends with terrible discoverability and intense bubblification lead to today's screaming contest that ruins our sanity. On average I find it much worse than the old infosphere (TV+print+radio) used to be, for producers and consumers. It's quite tragic, really.

Though I also notice awareness around this issue is rising (e.g. smartphone bans in school, initiatives like bluesky), which is good, I guess. All of this is still a society-wide experiment without control group.

New comment by RGamma in "Is it a pint?"

RGamma — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:33:19 +0000

Measuring beer is serious business in Germany to the point the EU commission had to comment on a rule change that supposedly forbade the usage of steins for foaming drinks (it didn't, but Germany wanted to be extra strict): https://www.bayern3.de/bier-steinkrug-eu-richtlinie

https://germany.representation.ec.europa.eu/news/klarstellun...

New comment by RGamma in "An update on Steam / GOG changes for OpenTTD"

RGamma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:19:16 +0000

Until the IP is flipped to another owner and the final squeeze begins. Gotta mirror this.

New comment by RGamma in "'Your Frustration Is the Product'"

RGamma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:35:33 +0000

Yes, and yet we would do well to distinguish hobbies from necessities, like quality journalism. Not saying there's an easy fix, but there better be one.

New comment by RGamma in "We Have Learned Nothing"

RGamma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:50:31 +0000

Yes, and customers are less informed than ever. RMS's "useds" (instead of users) comes to mind often in recent years. To clarify, I don't think one should considers it solely the user's fault, because user pedagogy is a shared responsibility, that needs to be offered and taken.

New comment by RGamma in "We Have Learned Nothing"

RGamma — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:41:43 +0000

"Solving for product" is VC pidgin speak. Much contemporary software hardly solves anything anymore; it's getting shittier every iteration without fundamental progress in the field as everything turns into yet another dumbed down web-based abomination that robs us of more of our sanity (exceptions excepted!). There are good explanations for this, but I still don't like it.

New comment by RGamma in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

RGamma — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:20:54 +0000

And goatse is harmless compared to the shit that's out there, especially because it only affects the dude himself. Even 3 guys 1 hammer isn't the worst yet (though pretty bad already).

New comment by RGamma in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

RGamma — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:44:48 +0000

Psychopaths don't care about ethics, much less if money is involved. At best they feel indifference, at worst enjoyment.

New comment by RGamma in "We are building data breach machines and nobody cares"

RGamma — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:07:41 +0000

> Not only is this pure science fiction at this point, but injecting non-determinism into your defensive layer is terrifying and incredibly stupid. If you use an LLM to evaluate whether another LLM is doing something malicious, you now have two hallucination risks instead of one. You also risk a prompt-injection attack making it all the way to your security layer.

I've found fictional displays of "system compromise" kinda ridiculous in e.g. Halo. Now I know that Cortana throws AI slop input into AI slop infrastructure with thousands of subagents until she's in.

New comment by RGamma in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

RGamma — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:18:04 +0000

Why is Yandex a problem? All the mainstream providers are heavily censored.

New comment by RGamma in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

RGamma — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:57:20 +0000

It's best to work with the system, while you think you can still influence it.

New comment by RGamma in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

RGamma — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:26:41 +0000

They're part of the reason we're doing so well. Source: Know some.

New comment by RGamma in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

RGamma — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:20:06 +0000

Seems like a good time to donate one's resources to fix it. The internet is super hostile these days. If Wikipedia falls... well...