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New comment by _doctor_love in "It's death"

_doctor_love — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:11:33 +0000

I appreciate the Australian salty outlook on life, feels very much present in this story.

To my mind there is a Buddhist story hiding in here. The whole idea about an endless black void and that the protagonist considered sitting felt…allegorical? metaphorical?

The end is what drove it home for me. People generally speaking would prefer not to do any internalizing about death whatsoever and will take an endless wandering over the hard work of being human.

New comment by _doctor_love in "Apple WWDC 2026"

_doctor_love — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:48:32 +0000

Wacom wants your money!

I’ve worked with some designers who did what you described with their huge tablets. Use the stylus to turn it into a giant touchpad. Works pretty good.

New comment by _doctor_love in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

_doctor_love — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:44:24 +0000

Same as it ever was…

New comment by _doctor_love in "Code Is Cheap(er)"

_doctor_love — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:58:12 +0000

Whether I agree with Carson or not, I always enjoy reading his perspectives.

Dark Software Factories Are Cool. What Comes After Them Is More Interesting

_doctor_love — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:59:59 +0000

Article URL: https://flummadiddle.bearblog.dev/dark-software-factories/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48380088

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by _doctor_love in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

_doctor_love — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:17:52 +0000

Somehow that reminds of the old B-movie Surviving the Game with Ice-T.

New comment by _doctor_love in "Fourth Grade Product Thinking"

_doctor_love — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:49:09 +0000

> The most original things can truly be learned from people whose thinking isn't yet "proper" to adults. I've always thought about that.

Well said, children are naturally so creative and insightful in my experience. 'Grown up thinking' from my observation is systematization, often involving putting ideas into a grid of sorts. Stay in grid thinking for too long and you start to believe that the model is more important than reality.

Terence Tao has a great example of kids natural intelligence and creativity: observe small children playing in a schoolyard, they'll often play a game of "who can say the largest number" -- kids will throw out all the numbers they know until one of them has the insight that no matter what number the other kids say, they can always win by going "plus one" to the last number said. That is natural insight about the nature of unbounded sets.

Starting a VM from a macOS sandbox for AI agents

_doctor_love — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:43:04 +0000

Article URL: https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/lima-vms-from-a-sandboxed-agent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360921

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by _doctor_love in "Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated"

_doctor_love — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:38:22 +0000

Exactly - hate the game, not the player!

New comment by _doctor_love in "Amazon Shuts Down Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Cheated"

_doctor_love — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:41:57 +0000

Hopefully they promoted the cheaters - those are the folks showing drive, initiative, and the will to win.

Fourth Grade Product Thinking

_doctor_love — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:41:19 +0000

Article URL: https://brentfitzgerald.com/posts/fourth-grade-product-thinking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360110

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by _doctor_love in "I'm So Tired of Ads"

_doctor_love — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:00:46 +0000

Please don't post comments like this. The only thing it can trigger is a flame war. It won't go anywhere productive.

Friends, ignore this thread. Move on. Don't engage.

New comment by _doctor_love in "Can we have the day off?"

_doctor_love — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:54:16 +0000

> Violent revolution has merit when peaceful means break down.

Robespierre first entered the chat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror

Then Napoleon followed.

Make of it what you will.

[EDIT: for the downvoters - the folks who got guillotined in France were definitely bad, but the Terror was very real and very awful. It tends to be a trend with the noble overthrowers that after the initial wins they then get excited to go lop the heads off anyone else that might have ever bothered them. Be careful what you wish for.]

Blitzy AI charges by LOC generated

_doctor_love — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:58:04 +0000

Article URL: https://blitzy.com/#pricing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283294

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by _doctor_love in "Magnifica Humanitas"

_doctor_love — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:17:20 +0000

> We are also witnessing a disconcerting loss of historical memory, as first-hand accounts of the Holocaust and the two World Wars are disappearing. This leads to a selective or distorted rewriting of the past, in a context where fake news and the manipulation of narratives obscure the lessons that have been learned. Without a living memory of the horrors of war, political decisions risk being made on the basis of power alone, without any consideration for the long-term consequences.

Very true. Observed in Hiroshima as well.

Education in the United States especially is highly sanitized when it comes to the dropping of the atomic bombs and the horrors of the Holocaust.

New comment by _doctor_love in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

_doctor_love — Mon, 25 May 2026 00:41:17 +0000

I have participated in democracy exactly once. It was the only time in my life I was eligible to vote. My vote made no difference and the course the United States took is now irreversible.

Prior to being able to vote, I watched one unsatisfactory candidate after another get elected to the US Presidency despite the obvious presence of a much preferable and more qualified candidate.

Still, even if I had voted and my preferred candidates had won, it's not clear to me that this would have changed anything. Our world is not run in public.