Hacker News: TimedToasts

New comment by TimedToasts in "Why doesn't HN have a mobile app?"

TimedToasts — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:20:14 +0000

If a mobile app results in higher Reddit-esque behavior then I'm permanently opposed to a mobile app.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Ask HN: Do you think AI fulfills Revelations in anyway?"

TimedToasts — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:13:45 +0000

I think it's fulfilling the Bahai global unity prophecy, but in a monkeys paw sort of way.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Guilty Displeasures"

TimedToasts — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:21:06 +0000

Is the guilty pleasure here one that you feel the satisfaction/enjoyment/reward is one that your younger self would disdain?

It's okay to evolve your thinking on this. Some of my younger ideas were conclusively proven wrong, payed for by the consequences of my actions and all that. Younger me clearly got a few things wrong, I feel like I need to re-examine my preconceptions often.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Guilty Displeasures"

TimedToasts — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:48:45 +0000

Young Me, a voracious reader, was defeated several times by the LOTR books. To this day, I doubt I could force myself to read dozens of pages of Tom Bombadil singing about trees.

Also Neil Stephenson, come to think of it. I believe that I've absorbed enough of Snow Crash and Diamond Age via nerd culture to provide summaries of both but oof, I couldn't finish either of them.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Simple screw counter"

TimedToasts — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:55:39 +0000

Can you explain the counting a bit more?

I interpreted it as: For every three pills I put into the channel, I add +1 to my internal count.

"The last number is unique for every 30" means... if you have a mental count of 13, you have 39 pills channeled? I didn't quite follow...

New comment by TimedToasts in "I made an interactive fiction x personality quiz dating SIM for valentine's day"

TimedToasts — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:39:02 +0000

Honestly really enjoyed it.

I was pleasantly surprised at the change of media. It was done very well.

I got a good outcome! Thanks!

New comment by TimedToasts in "Ask HN: "Too many people in HN work in Google or Apple–that itself is immoral.""

TimedToasts — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:37:46 +0000

Man, just wait until you hear about what people say regarding members of oppositional political parties.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Power Plant Underwater"

TimedToasts — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 16:19:33 +0000

Your power would be all wet, This would never work.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

TimedToasts — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:52:43 +0000

Or one could conclude that the bots were posting at a time of day intending you as the reading target. As long as they post things that you are inclined to agree with, you'll feel positive reinforcement about an issue regardless of the actual popularity or even viability.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Ask HN: Is there a design term for deliberately making a UI more frustrating?"

TimedToasts — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:13:00 +0000

A word I hear thrown around often is "friction"

New comment by TimedToasts in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

TimedToasts — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:08:39 +0000

No, but you should be prepared to have people suspect you are using AI to create your responses.

C'est la vie.

The good news is that it will rectify itself and soon the output will lack even these signals.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Ask HN: Should account creation/origin country be displayed on HN profiles?"

TimedToasts — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 13:53:55 +0000

4chan's system is pretty good. You can display your country or you can pick from a 'meme flag' (Pirate, Gadsen, etc)

Make it optional that you don't need to display it but you cannot misrepresent your country.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Nightmare Fuel: Skibidi Toilet and the Monstrous Digital"

TimedToasts — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 14:43:17 +0000

Concrete TV also fits the bill: https://www.brooklynvegan.com/cable-access-sh/

New comment by TimedToasts in "Czechs agog as they are to open envelop containing last words of first president"

TimedToasts — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:08:22 +0000

The Czechs were even agoggier, one might say.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Czechs agog as they are to open envelop containing last words of first president"

TimedToasts — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:07:21 +0000

In a terrible mixup, it was revealed that it was actually the first words of the first Czech president, after the envelope was opened to reveal the word "máma".

New comment by TimedToasts in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

TimedToasts — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:55:44 +0000

It's actually the basis of community building. The students take some ownership of the area they work/live in by fixing/building for others.

Wonderful idea.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Ask HN: Why did tech news sites report that Linux dropped Intel 486 support?"

TimedToasts — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:23:41 +0000

I hate to break it to you OP, but tech news sites are not reliable. This is prima-facie evidence that you yourself can see. Please understand that you need to lower your trust levels of these sources as a result.

They don't care that they're wrong and no one will hold them to account.

New comment by TimedToasts in "Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap""

TimedToasts — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:14:36 +0000

That's covered in "more wealth", fyi.

New comment by TimedToasts in "15,000+ AI-generated fake podcasts"

TimedToasts — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:55:58 +0000

Negative several years.

New comment by TimedToasts in "GLP-1s are breaking life insurance"

TimedToasts — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:31:17 +0000

We do not want tens of millions of people excreting GLP via waste products into our environment. Hormones and others are already effing things up.