Hacker News: amake

New comment by amake in "A spectre is haunting Unicode"

amake — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:24:02 +0000

Should probably have "(2008)" in the title

New comment by amake in "The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt"

amake — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:48:05 +0000

Enjoy being a slave to a machine, I guess?

New comment by amake in "The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt"

amake — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:03:52 +0000

Computers are tools that exist to serve humans. Humans should never be asked to become subservient to computers. Your suggestion is ludicrous and risible.

New comment by amake in "Naphtha shortages in Japan"

amake — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:48:39 +0000

> I can't even think of any good faith motivation for doing this, other than to cover up the shortage and to keep the public pacified

Yes

New comment by amake in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

amake — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:20:14 +0000

I asked for evidence and you accuse me of "turning to emotions".

Honestly I don't know what to say. Good luck to you.

New comment by amake in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

amake — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:34:12 +0000

> It's pretty straightforward to give a modern agentic system will and desire

That is your will and desire. They are following your instructions. There is no "intelligence" there.

> I genuinely don't understand what people mean when they say cutting-edge AI is not generally intelligent

I don't really know where to go either. From my perspective you are too far down the rabbit hole and I don't think we can come to a meaningful shared understanding.

Good luck with that.

New comment by amake in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

amake — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:26:38 +0000

> We’re past the point where there’s any concrete intellectual capability that AIs can’t demonstrate

How about "will" and "desire"? These seem like things an actual intelligence would have.

> it’s clear to me that the remaining holdouts have religious objections at this point

From where I sit, it sure seems like claims of having achieved AGI are religious in nature.

- The very definition of AGI is not agreed upon, much less definitions of god

- Despite the burden of proof being on those claiming AGI, every request for proof is spurned with a "no u"

New comment by amake in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

amake — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:35:55 +0000

Interesting that you think there is no ideology involved in that kind of politics writ small.

New comment by amake in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

amake — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:35:12 +0000

"You only disagree with me because you are insecure"

This is not a convincing argument.

New comment by amake in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

amake — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:42:40 +0000

> I think there is a lot of overlap between politics and ideology

What is politics without ideology?

New comment by amake in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

amake — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:39:55 +0000

People can just choose to ignore questions they don't feel like answering for whatever reason.

New comment by amake in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

amake — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:37:27 +0000

> obviously

If it was obvious I don't think there would be disagreement.

New comment by amake in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

amake — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:29:22 +0000

Are you claiming they have AGI or are "close" to it?

New comment by amake in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

amake — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:59:21 +0000

I live in Japan and developed an allergy to cedar pollen after I came. I started sublingual immunotherapy (a pill of concentrated pollen you dissolve under your tongue) three years ago and now can make it through the pollen season symptom-free. Supposedly you even keep the immunity after stopping the medication, though I have not tested that yet.

New comment by amake in "Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads"

amake — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:38:52 +0000

Instagram makes it extremely frustrating without an account. Many times I have checked a small business's opening times on Google Maps only to arrive and find them closed... the only place they reliably post their times is on Instagram.

I gave up and got Instagram.

New comment by amake in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

amake — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:51:18 +0000

I use YouTube on Firefox (with uBlock Origin) almost exclusively and this has not been my experience.

New comment by amake in "This Month in Ladybird – April 2026"

amake — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:32:25 +0000

In what way is it crippled?

New comment by amake in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

amake — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:57:09 +0000

That's exactly the "dependency cooldowns" we have right now that the author argues against.

New comment by amake in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

amake — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:48:05 +0000

To visually compare characters you need to map them to glyphs; what is the glyphset and how much of Unicode does it actually cover?

New comment by amake in "Charcuterie – Visual similarity Unicode explorer"

amake — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:47:10 +0000

It only seems to work for some subset of CJK characters. I haven't been able to figure out why some work and some don't.

For instance 叱 and 明 both seem to fail in the same way: U+1F996 T-REX in the upper left corner and the URL fragment fails to update.