Hacker News: The_Blade

New comment by The_Blade in "FarOutCompany"

The_Blade — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:23:21 +0000

oh my [deity] i LOVE Can

Holger Czukay is what happens when you combine Stockhausen and that amazing mustache. him Liebezeit Karoli and Schmidt were so far out there they drove not one but two singers crazy (take that, Roger Waters). there was a band Mooney Suzuki named after them although their chief achievement was that one of the members later joined The Strokes (Nikolai Fraiture)

i just listened to some Steve Reich last week. since the Guards game was rain delayed alongside whatever the hell happened ith Fable i might have to interpolate a Tago Mago / Ege Bamyasi / Future Days triple frontier with the WC on this fine Sunday

New comment by The_Blade in "Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants"

The_Blade — Sun, 24 May 2026 01:20:41 +0000

ref unpersons

New comment by The_Blade in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

The_Blade — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:39:23 +0000

(In slight contrast to my other comment) I think Larimer Square in Denver is trying to do something akin. There was a land-edge-lord kerfuffle and gone are staples like The Market and Ted’s Montana Grill (RIP, I was also just in Bozeman). rn one side is bookstore - jewelry & artsy - African jewelry & artsy - Rioja (Denver famous food) - John Fluevog (Vancouver shoes) - Osteria Marco (Denver less famous Italian) - Van Leewuen (NYC ice cream). I hope it all works...

now, bookstores here are a whole other mess. two words, Tattered Cover. there are ample used bookstores, though, i found a copy of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals for $6.50 on Colfax that should probably be handled with BSL-3 precaution which is as it should be

New comment by The_Blade in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

The_Blade — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:27:24 +0000

There is a really cool place in Denver called Wizard’s Chest. I think they make good money off costumes, but also Warhammer 4k (and to a related lesser extent DnD). Nice people, too.

New comment by The_Blade in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

The_Blade — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:41:20 +0000

hell is round the corner where i shelter, isms and schisms

i really enjoyed Crusader Kings 2, for 3 you need a mod to antipope

New comment by The_Blade in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

The_Blade — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:51:38 +0000

they took down the burrito bracket, it must be resurrected

when i lived in SF i found al pastor at Tacqueria Cancun messianic

New comment by The_Blade in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

The_Blade — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:40:35 +0000

who is the Starbuck of AI?

plot twist: it's Starbuck

New comment by The_Blade in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

The_Blade — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:35:18 +0000

if you are invested heavily in the AI space, isn't it in your best interest for the froth around Mythos to be true and the comment you are responding to to be invalid? even if you are competing with Anthropic, a rising tide raises all ships

i'd like to see more facts and data one way or another!

New comment by The_Blade in "The Other Half of AI Safety"

The_Blade — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:38:22 +0000

> ...straight through to enshittification and non-repairability.

funny as "enshittification" was the topic of a 99% Invisible pod just a few days ago and I also was listening to the new Stewart Brand book that Stripe published. i fixed a Norwegian desk I bought a decade ago on Valencia. happily not feasible at scale but neither was how i broke it :)

New comment by The_Blade in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

The_Blade — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:44:01 +0000

same, it was a step up from dopewars, but not quite leisure suit larry which one of our friends had

years later i defeated the high score of Stephen Meek and realized with horror Oregon Trail was intended to teach patience not just dysentery damn you MECC!!

New comment by The_Blade in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

The_Blade — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:22:59 +0000

it will be fine if we all take ivermectin

New comment by The_Blade in "YC's Biggest Scandals"

The_Blade — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:20:25 +0000

is it in a rimworld mod

New comment by The_Blade in "Think Linear Algebra (2023)"

The_Blade — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:43:33 +0000

Linear Algebra is dope, as in when we got to apply some mid-level linear to a real business problem and it worked i got high

New comment by The_Blade in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

The_Blade — Wed, 06 May 2026 04:03:27 +0000

i like MLB catchers, but maybe that is just because future HOF manager Austin Hedges is out there ripping an 0.824 OPS, vibes but no vibe coding

New comment by The_Blade in "Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability"

The_Blade — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:26:35 +0000

> So you get people deploying API keys client side and dbs without rls. Or deploying service keys client side when they should be anon. I mean really basic stuff.

Claude Code will do this, and actively encourage bypassing any verification before pushing to prod. I saw that first hand with its attempted handling of a major CIAM provider, and then Vercel using whatever OAuth provider in the ol' transitive breach

That is common knowledge now, right? Or am I just smoking yellow tops

New comment by The_Blade in "Zugzwang"

The_Blade — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:19:59 +0000

Zwischenzug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwischenzug) is also a good one and is equivalent to intermezzo as an "in-between move"

i feel like Musk does it on a daily basis with all the heavy artillery he has on the board

New comment by The_Blade in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

The_Blade — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:35:58 +0000

usually Claude Code and I just tape a bunch of cats together

New comment by The_Blade in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

The_Blade — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:33:37 +0000

go run 30 minutes a day and get back to me

i prefaced for those who have legit medical issues

more people adopt your "banal" viewpoint and are just lazy

c-r vibe coding

New comment by The_Blade in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

The_Blade — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:55:29 +0000

that is good to know. presented this way i find LLM behavior to be a feature, not a bug. then again i think everything is value add over pen and paper / notepad / spreadsheet and maybe a friend or doctor (or specialized equipment if you need more than calorie in, calorie out). just go exercise and don't be a lard lad

New comment by The_Blade in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

The_Blade — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:29:59 +0000

> Who is We?

Adam Neumann is back!

in agent form