Hacker News: ShinyLeftPad

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "OpenMandriva: Statement regarding attempted distribution sabotage"

ShinyLeftPad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:59:58 +0000

> How did it go from "He even performed a backup/mirror of several dozen of our repositories." to "He deleted part of our repository from GitHub

What's unclear? This guy was part of the project for some time and got maintainer trust. Then he brings in his mate. His mate is a crap person and gets kicked out of the project. The original guy then goes bananas and nukes stuff.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Notes on Software Quality"

ShinyLeftPad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:48:27 +0000

Because different toothpaste is helpful for different cases and reasons?

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Camera with transparent display launches for the equivalent of $29"

ShinyLeftPad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:41:10 +0000

Most people (even pros) even with expensive cameras and great viewfinders still take mostly garbage shots and only some are good by luck. Same will be true here

Often switching from using your eye to looking through the viewfinder and fiddle with composition is how you ruin a genuine shot and miss the moment.

Also I used a camera without a viewfinder for some years, I guarantee if it's a fixed lens you learn what you get quickly.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

ShinyLeftPad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:22:08 +0000

Are you also German?

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

ShinyLeftPad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:28:19 +0000

Cancer & heart disease you're counting basically all natural causes.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

ShinyLeftPad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:27:08 +0000

Guy probably doesn't personally know any of those 12k...

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

ShinyLeftPad — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:25:53 +0000

Maybe transdermal alcohol monitor could be put on the wheel

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene"

ShinyLeftPad — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:28:55 +0000

There's people with disabilities or conditions whom you could say are not persons (in some cases anymore, in some cases ever) but there's no boolean test to say for sure. Do you think they should be allowed to be experimented on? What exactly makes a person? Is serial murderer a person? What about his victim in a coma or vegetable state?

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

ShinyLeftPad — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 23:50:41 +0000

But that's the thing, legal stuff is not fully divorced from moral stuff and those things evolve with our morals

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:37:02 +0000

Interesting, I wish I read the paper but somehow didn't encounter links. This takes it from bad writing to terrible journalism to be honest. Can't defend it...

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Has China obtained the most important machine?"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:34:19 +0000

There's some new verification there that I can't view the site unless I install something... huh.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 08:15:32 +0000

Why do you think an LLM is following only your instructions? Unless maybe you are in a tiny minority running locally

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 05:11:28 +0000

I know people who didn't:) Looks like we both know people.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:16:14 +0000

Yeah, like nobody uses em dashes anymore right?

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:23:58 +0000

What that is is a tell of bad writing

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:18:24 +0000

> I don't really expect anything.

You are a self described youtube watcher. Unless you pay for youtube premium, you expect free content literally every time you open youtube. By definition.

> All the people who want to make money from YouTube can just stop making stuff if money is what's motivating them.

I don't know how old are you but after certain age things are not so black and white. We don't live in severance where we can slave away at a denigrating unethical job we hate just to earn money. People prefer to do something they love AND earn money from it. If they don't do the latter they starve and go bankrupt. Guess what then they can't provide free content for you.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:12:39 +0000

That's not an "AI tell". If you read anything in recent decades, this is a turn of speech human writers wrote for ages and still write.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:27:41 +0000

> the power of smart copy pasting is now also in the hands of non-geeky people

Why? they didn't know how to copy before or something?

> spin up and manage dozens of juniors

Let's not call it a "junior" if one trigger word deep in the filesystem can make it forget it's a programmer and start building Minecraft castles. Your comparison is unfair to anyone with even 1 week of programming experience.

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress"

ShinyLeftPad — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:23:57 +0000

> will you simply pass on what your LLM of choice writes for you?

But it will be as least 17% correct!

New comment by ShinyLeftPad in "Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts"

ShinyLeftPad — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:50:03 +0000

Can we acknowledge how it is sad that people get LLMs to basically play computer games for them. What's the point of fun?