Hacker News: Thegn

New comment by Thegn in "Two high-speed trains collide near Toledo, Spain"

Thegn — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:26:49 +0000

Won’t speak for the poster, but in my experience the incompetence of the average person is only exceeded by the incompetence of the ownership class. The people Ayn Rand lauded are usually the largest obstacle to actually Getting Shit Done.

New comment by Thegn in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

Thegn — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:55:52 +0000

I am from the US and the headline is accurate. Not “the largest,” but “one of the largest.” We’ve been here before. The question is does it get kneecapped or does it spin out of control?

New comment by Thegn in "US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership"

Thegn — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 20:27:53 +0000

I am a gamer who has played around with private servers and emulators to revisit my gaming past - one thing I wonder about is how laws would handle game-changing updates? World of Warcraft famously does major renovations to game mechanics each expansion and minor changes each patch. What is to prevent a company from releasing an “update patch” that essentially cripples the game, then shutting down the game at that point and releasing the crippled code as the only available version?

New comment by Thegn in "The cost of lies: A Mineserver story"

Thegn — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:14:02 +0000

Not unless he's using TCP/IP over Ouija board...

New comment by Thegn in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

Thegn — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:43:49 +0000

Those who would ask you to trade your privacy for security don’t have your security in mind.

New comment by Thegn in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

Thegn — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:09:28 +0000

“Gomi” is the Japanese word for garbage. Gotta wonder if someone has a sense of humor…

New comment by Thegn in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

Thegn — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:36:26 +0000

Yeah, if you watched Obama’s energy he had kind of a “Thanks guys, but why?” air about him through the whole thing.

New comment by Thegn in "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"

Thegn — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:27:28 +0000

Let me know when we have actual AI and we can get right on it.

New comment by Thegn in "Accelerando (2005)"

Thegn — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:47:31 +0000

At the time I read the story, Economics 2.0 and its effect on humans that installed the upgrade paralleled with some stuff I had read about sociopathic behavior. Stross later wrote about the same ideas in Rule 34.

New comment by Thegn in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

Thegn — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:09:05 +0000

He did, but he was such a stickler for accuracy that he insisted they shoot on location.

New comment by Thegn in "New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy"

Thegn — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:14:56 +0000

‘Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage,’ he said.

- Terry Pratchett

The poor have ethics just like the rest of us. They just can’t afford to keep it.

New comment by Thegn in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

Thegn — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:34:11 +0000

I suspect that this might not ship given the recent dramatic change in memory prices.

New comment by Thegn in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

Thegn — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:36:13 +0000

With the added fun of nuclear weapons!

New comment by Thegn in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

Thegn — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:43:05 +0000

For the duration of gaben’s life, to be fair. Beyond that there be dragons.

New comment by Thegn in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

Thegn — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:04:30 +0000

They didn't buy DDR5 - they bought raw wafer capacity and a ton of it at that.

New comment by Thegn in "There may not be a safe off-ramp for some taking GLP-1 drugs, study suggests"

Thegn — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:57:40 +0000

I know they (Ars Technica) do A/B title tests sometimes from discussion with one of the people who works there.

New comment by Thegn in "Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?"

Thegn — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:58:21 +0000

I have mild tinnitus, and I don’t really notice it at all when my hearing aids are in. (Phillips, got them at Costco) Sadly, it’s a lot more noticeable once I take them out. I am still waiting for that electrostimulation therapy I read about a few years ago to pan out.

New comment by Thegn in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

Thegn — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 22:55:15 +0000

I can speak to this - the main variations are in the kind of butter you use. Using salted, unsalted, or margarine result in similar yet different cookies. I personally use unsalted and feel like it creates the most “cookie” like experience. Flour brand and texture also makes a difference. You will get a very different result based on using the store brand vs (for example) King Arthur flour.

New comment by Thegn in "A Minecraft server written in COBOL"

Thegn — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 20:54:53 +0000

I know one of those two is Bevy, what is the other one?

New comment by Thegn in "Fusion power is getting closer"

Thegn — Sat, 23 Nov 2024 18:19:25 +0000

Well, we could always just set up solar panels and use it to capture output from the massive fusion reaction 8.5 light minutes away from us. Does that count as a successful utilization of fusion?