Hacker News: WarcrimeActual

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "RIP, vector database"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:01:28 +0000

You're the reason the /s tag has to exist.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Hacker News, without AI"

WarcrimeActual — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:01:07 +0000

I guess I more meant what is it filtering. Anything talking about AI, or just things created by it? And it created by AI is the filter, how are they discovering that?

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Hacker News, without AI"

WarcrimeActual — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:08:56 +0000

Help me out here. Is AI something prevalent on HN now? I check the site a lot but just browse headlines and visit some sites.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years"

WarcrimeActual — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:04:02 +0000

>Instead we're... listen to this... we're going to take a software developer right. Just a normal developer right.

Maybe I'm old, and I am, but I just can't get past this point with such annoying writing. Like if you actually spoke like this people would hate you.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly"

WarcrimeActual — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:27:18 +0000

So by old ROM files, you mean still PC games or MSX, Sega, NES, SNES? And when you have them in place what do you specifically ask Claude? This is interesting and I'd love to see if it can get me porting old games with zero coding knowledge.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

WarcrimeActual — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:41:23 +0000

Is there a guide out there to do this for any area a person wants to? Possible with Google Maps Street View?

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)"

WarcrimeActual — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:05:06 +0000

The US is functionally a Third World country now. There are so many places worse than us that have so many better things. Anytime you see a little thing like this that is a good idea and helps people you can just assume that America would either fuck it up or just hate it because it helps people. Or because of the fact that they can’t ring every penny from the stone.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

WarcrimeActual — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:33:08 +0000

I think it's pretty obvious that it's being used differently here. And in a way that is annoying enough to me to guarantee that I don't make it past that word.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

WarcrimeActual — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:32:37 +0000

Yes. I'm not saying it's how it should work. But it is how it does.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

WarcrimeActual — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:54:52 +0000

I love that it's so easy to tell that this was built with Claude.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:41:38 +0000

Without the sickness of Reddit infecting it, there could have been real value.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:02:54 +0000

It is no exaggeration to say that seeing stuff like that makes me feel almost physically sick nowadays.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:41:37 +0000

This was almost a useful write up until he used the stupid redditism “lost my faith in humanity”. Immediate stop right there and user block across the whole site. It is unfortunate that even he is trained to say what he thinks Reddit wants to hear.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Ask HN: I'm hiring a SysAdmin in El Paso. Is there a place on HN to share?"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:30:09 +0000

Driving at the moment but I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!

Ask HN: I'm hiring a SysAdmin in El Paso. Is there a place on HN to share?

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:24:01 +0000

Req is on LinkedIn. I’m the HM so I see all applicants. Figured with the awful US job market I’d see if I could show it to more people.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565164

Points: 2

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New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

WarcrimeActual — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:20:21 +0000

It's not clever when people use HN at work. It's a complete erosion of user trust and could legitimately get someone fired. You think HR wants to hear oh no it was an object lesson in not using javascript. That's why I was searching for nudes on the work computer when I shared my screen at that meeting, not realizing some moron had programmatically changed the tab name when I clicked off. This domain needs banned. It's not operating in good faith, or in touch with the reality of the damage it could be doing.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

WarcrimeActual — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:18:03 +0000

It's super cool that this site changes the tab name to NSFW phrases when you switch off of it, and then pops up a rambling chastisement to turn of JS in your browser. Even cooler when I use HN to legitimately keep up with tech news at work and it does it on my work computer where I share my screen in meetings. Domain blocked. Don't erode user trust for your crusade. Moron.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:30:16 +0000

It never stopped. And it was always in the moral right. As such it is not just justifiable, but I would say necessary.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:29:05 +0000

I want Arnold to tell me about pizza again soooooooooo bad.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:28:12 +0000

Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.