Hacker News: adxl

New comment by adxl in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

adxl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:02:03 +0000

There’s a lot in a name.

New comment by adxl in "I have officially retired from Emacs"

adxl — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:59:03 +0000

Yuck!

New comment by adxl in "NPM website was down"

adxl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:03:51 +0000

Clippy was too stupid to qualify as an AI.

New comment by adxl in "Is my blue your blue?"

adxl — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:58:23 +0000

I used to own a house in California which I swore was peach, my coworker told me face it the house is pink.

New comment by adxl in "Average new UK electric car price is now lower than petrol vehicles"

adxl — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:30:31 +0000

“ and from an influx of Chinese competitors that have been able to undercut traditional brands.”

All you need to know.

It has been obvious for at least 10 years that the Yuan is undervalued allowing China to undercut and undermine all your local companies.

New comment by adxl in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

adxl — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:08:06 +0000

Admit to having drank the koolaide, it is the first step. I wrote an entire system with tech I barely understand (duckdb), next.js etc, made 7 to 10 iterations per day, and multiple new functions and integrations in hours all while doing my main job. What does the code look like ???. It works, I do not care. Can the AI modify it in under 5 minutes, yes. New features that would take minimal a week, got done in 2 to 3 minutes. Did the AI ever complain, no it did not. Anyone who thinks they will be hand coding going forward is completely fooling themselves. The AI tests better than most engineers. When asked it builds flawless test harnesses and even suggests better solutions. Never going back.

New comment by adxl in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

adxl — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:55:04 +0000

Is ok, the AI was going to replace them in a few weeks anyway.

New comment by adxl in "AI should only run as fast as we can catch up"

adxl — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:14:15 +0000

I remember a junior dev who thought he was done when his code conpiled without syntax errors.

New comment by adxl in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

adxl — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:09:14 +0000

Whenn I lived in Atlanta the Krogers each had a nickname. There was disco Kroger because of its disco ball. There was murder Kroger that purportedly had been the site of a murder.

This I guess is Robo Kroger.

New comment by adxl in "Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon"

adxl — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 03:01:28 +0000

Hallucinate much?

New comment by adxl in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

adxl — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:40:25 +0000

There are four bullet points that answer the question why would you want this.

The one that really stands out to me is

“ 03 :: Predictable low fees

Transform your cost structure with near-zero transaction fees that are highly predictable and can be paid in any stablecoin.”

I question why some of large companies that are named here as partners would want this.

New comment by adxl in "A bug saved the company"

adxl — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:39:56 +0000

Serendipity.

New comment by adxl in "The Importance of Wasting Time"

adxl — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 01:31:10 +0000

I feel sorry for that guy who has zero wasted time and 0 hours of fun. What a crappy way to go through life.

New comment by adxl in "Mwm – The smallest usable X11 window manager"

adxl — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:21:33 +0000

You can read and understand the code in a minute. Very creative.

New comment by adxl in "Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body (2024)"

adxl — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 23:14:39 +0000

Before you know it will have a mushroom brain.

New comment by adxl in "Cancer DNA is detectable in blood years before diagnosis"

adxl — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:21:59 +0000

Fake it till you make it.

New comment by adxl in "Indeed and Glassdoor are cutting more than 1k jobs"

adxl — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:04:16 +0000

Oh the irony.

New comment by adxl in "Are we the baddies?"

adxl — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:52:45 +0000

You cheapskate!!!

I’m paraphrasing an old girlfriend of mine because you gave her a substandard tip.

New comment by adxl in "Are we the baddies?"

adxl — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 15:46:03 +0000

I’m not a big user of Uber but I need to say that the experiences there are mostly better than your grandad’s taxi (pay up for Uber X if you want a better experience). Mostly cabs were/are badly maintained and some seem downright dangerous with shocks dead, idiot lights on, smoking tailpipes and just general crappy interiors. I once got in a NYC cab where there blood all over the back of the drivers seat, got right back out. Cabbies are quarrelsome and grumpy. One guy picked me up at my house obviously drunk. I mentioned Uber to one guy who became very aggressive. Got out at the next light. Ah the good ole days.

Now for Uber. If you pay to upgrade to Uber X it’s a great experience. One time I got in the wrong Uber (not X). They said silver Nissan at station 4 at the airport in Atlanta. Got in the car and he was obviously going somewhere else than where I requested. When he realized I was the wrong passenger the driver became extremely agitated and aggressive. My bad for not checking his plate, his bad for not checking the passenger out. He was the driver so it’s really his responsibility since I may not know these things. Also I could not leave a bad review as I did not know who this driver was. Always always check you are in the right car.

New comment by adxl in "Injection Rejection (2006)"

adxl — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 09:23:39 +0000

All your injections are belong to us.