Hacker News: archagon

New comment by archagon in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

archagon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:06:38 +0000

This thread is primed for shitting on Bluesky, but the level of discourse among the people I follow has only grown over the past few years. In no way does it feel like a dying platform. (Same for Mastodon, actually.)

New comment by archagon in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

archagon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:04:06 +0000

Indeed. Recent choice words from Musk:

* "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor"

* "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to his recent interviewer)

* "Deal with traitors before invaders. They are committing high treason."

* "First the traitors, then the invaders" (screenshot from Citizen Vigilante pointing gun at camera)

Indistinguishable from Stormfront. And his account (along with other far-right accounts) are the most engaged-with accounts on the platform.

New comment by archagon in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

archagon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:01:47 +0000

Anecdotally, 90% of the interesting tech/art/gamedev people I’ve followed have moved to Bluesky or Mastodon at this point, and they’re never coming back.

New comment by archagon in "Grok Bot"

archagon — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:44:24 +0000

Here's some totally normal stuff that Grok’s owner has been posting recently:

* "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor"

* "She is a traitor to the West, plain and simple" (in reference to his recent interviewer)

* "Deal with traitors before invaders. They are committing high treason."

* "First the traitors, then the invaders" (screenshot from Citizen Vigilante pointing gun at camera)

Yes sirree: just a completely normal tech product without any asterisks.

New comment by archagon in "Hyperspace"

archagon — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:11:04 +0000

As I recall, there are nuances around certain types of files that require expert attention, such as links, files inside frameworks/packages, and unmaterialized iCloud Drive files.

New comment by archagon in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

archagon — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:57:06 +0000

Empathy hijacking.

Eventually, they’ll try “I’m hurt that you won’t consider my suggestion for .” And people will fall for it.

New comment by archagon in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

archagon — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:48:08 +0000

Because that’s what always happens? Because their raison d’etre is to squeeze you dry?

New comment by archagon in "Retraction: The App Store Rejection of the Week That Was a Correct Rejection"

archagon — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:46:43 +0000

It will be absolutely hilarious when open source projects adopt the jqwik approach and start prompt injecting their code, comments, and any/all other text content. The LLM users’ histrionics will be delicious.

New comment by archagon in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"

archagon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:41:27 +0000

Your base premise is flawed. I know plenty of white collar workers who do not use AI for their job.

New comment by archagon in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

archagon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:11:00 +0000

Not OP, but I’ve had horrible sleep over the past year. I had taken melatonin a while back before stopping, so on a whim, I decided to bite off a bit of one of my old 5mg pills before sleep. Didn’t give it any second thought — didn’t even think it would do anything. But I slept like a baby for the first time in months. And it’s completely reproducible.

New comment by archagon in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

archagon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:55:48 +0000

Thou shalt not kill is pretty straightforward.

New comment by archagon in "Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)"

archagon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:47:35 +0000

It’s not. It’s extracted.

New comment by archagon in "Ask HN: Are You Preparing for the Singularity"

archagon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:19:56 +0000

No, not everyone here is.

New comment by archagon in "Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich (2023)"

archagon — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:35:13 +0000

Wealth of this nature is not accumulated; it is extracted.

New comment by archagon in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

archagon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:59:54 +0000

It is my experience that renters in my cohort (SF yuppie) are very much pro urban development. It’s the homeowners who are the biggest NIMBYs. They want their home values to increase and rent to go up. Reduced housing stock is a benefit to them; it’s not a benefit to renters.

Also: no amount of “thinking long term” will convince a renter to vote for their own eviction in order to make housing (maybe) cheaper for someone else many years down the line. It makes no sense. That is absolutely the wrong way to frame the problem.

There is a path where we expand rent control and incentivize housing development. They are not inherently contradictory policies.

New comment by archagon in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

archagon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:38:17 +0000

OK, but as rental pressure increases, people will vote to protect themselves from arbitrary eviction. Period. No amount of hand-wringing over abstract economic theories will change this.

No renter should have to live with the constant threat of losing their housing due to perturbations of the local economy or the whims of their landlord. As is often the case, economists are asking the wrong question.

New comment by archagon in "Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built"

archagon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:55:00 +0000

I'm not here spreading unsourced rumors from "the left."

Information of this sort should come from journalists, not vibes on social media.

New comment by archagon in "Why Do Fewer Renters Expect to Move?"

archagon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:30:02 +0000

Rent control doesn’t “feel good” — it allows for housing stability in a volatile economic environment. Without rent control, I would be de facto evicted from my home with a 50–100% rent increase from the recent AI boom. (This is literally happening to other folks in my neighborhood.) Why on earth would I vote against it? Because some economist said so? (And no, it’s not 98%, you made that figure up.)

Fortunately, you can have rent control and incentivize housing construction. These things are not mutually exclusive.

New comment by archagon in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

archagon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:07:43 +0000

Great work! Have you, or do you intend to, write about the process of bringing this to fruition? Would love to learn more about how a polished bit of hardware like this is designed.

New comment by archagon in "Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are getting built"

archagon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:50:36 +0000

An unsourced rumor going around a notoriously right-wing social media site? Definitely credible.

This is basically a content-free comment that only serves to rile up the community.