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New comment by arcxi in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

arcxi — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:36:21 +0000

You need cars because you live in the country where cities are built around the assumption of car ownership. Go to any place with an adequate public transit and you'll see a lot less cars. Go to Tokyo and you'll be shocked, it's the largest city in the world and their highways are practically empty. It just doesn't make any sense to drive when your public transit is that good.

New comment by arcxi in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

arcxi — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:53:59 +0000

> But in real life, Anarchists will still argue that a Benevolent-Dictator-For-Life governance approach is wrong, even if it applies to digital artifacts that have zero marginal cost.

no they won't, FOSS project's governance model has no relevance to anarchist discussion. anarchists are against coercive authority, not leadership in general, and FOSS does operate under anarchist principles, which is why anarchist community is a strict subset of FOSS community.

New comment by arcxi in "The Burning Man MOOP Map"

arcxi — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:38:41 +0000

there's nothing wise about hoarding

New comment by arcxi in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

arcxi — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:29:02 +0000

it's heavy lifestyle restrictions that lead to anti-social behavior in the first place. by far the most common crime is property crime, people usually commit it out of desperation and lack of opportunity. the degree of personal freedom in a capitalist state is defined by wealth, which creates a natural incentive to steal. then when they do, those people are put in prison, where they connect with other labeled criminals, all of whom face significantly lower chances of being hired, making sure that doing anything else in their life except crime will be as difficult as possible. aren't those heavy lifestyle restrictions enforced on people by government?

New comment by arcxi in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

arcxi — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:50:04 +0000

can you share any examples of these "new and better ways to use them"? because the only way I've used LLM and seen other people use it is to literally just talk to it, which doesn't require any skills beyond basic conversational abilities.

New comment by arcxi in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

arcxi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:20:56 +0000

Satoshi may also be unable to cash out simply because they are dead.

New comment by arcxi in "The Claude Code Leak"

arcxi — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:14:41 +0000

it's an exaggeration for sure but I don't think it's a stretch to believe Anthropic spends considerably more effort on data scraping & curation than anything else

New comment by arcxi in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

arcxi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:27:43 +0000

To me the image of a world where everyone does menial work while entertaining themselves with AI-generated "art" doesn't seem fun, it seems extremely depressing and dystopian. I guess we just have different values.

New comment by arcxi in "Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide"

arcxi — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:58:51 +0000

Anecdotally I'm programming for non-English business domains in Go and Python and I've literally never seen anyone use native alphabet in identifiers - it's always either poor translations or transliterations.

New comment by arcxi in "Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide"

arcxi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:47:19 +0000

it is weird, especially for Go with its semantic naming and famously opinionated compiler. it will gladly build code with a variable named 𖤐界ᥱᥲΣ੭, but God forbid it's unused.

New comment by arcxi in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

arcxi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:45:14 +0000

> detractors slow the pace of progress

Considering our climate, political and economic situation, I'd say not only is slowing the pace of progress not harmful, it's actually imperative for our long-term survival.

New comment by arcxi in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

arcxi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:20:16 +0000

This very comment is measurably more harmful than any AI criticism that annoys you - someone will read this and assume it's appropriate to accept whatever bullshit Claude generates at face value, with terrible consequences.

In contrast, what harm do those detractors cause? They don't generate as much code per hour?

New comment by arcxi in "“Your frustration is the product”"

arcxi — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:16:26 +0000

> RIP full Ublock Origin

it's alive and well

New comment by arcxi in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

arcxi — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:12:43 +0000

amidst this whole AI craze it's illuminating to learn how many programmers secretly hated programming all along

New comment by arcxi in "What monotheism means is surprisingly hard to pin down"

arcxi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:24:42 +0000

My impression is that it's mostly Western secular interpretation while the largest branch of Buddhism and the most predominant in Asia currently is Mahayana where Buddha, or rather Buddhas (as it has many others besides Siddhartha Gautama), are seen as omnipotent spiritual beings with supernatural powers, who are accessible through prayer after apparent death of their human form, which seems close to our traditional concept of deities.

New comment by arcxi in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

arcxi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:28:01 +0000

I'm all for trying to be the best version of yourself, but I think it's discouraging to tie it with the person's worth as a friend. Replying with "find interesting hobby" to the poster who explicitly wrote he finds it hard to find a hobby in particular reads like condemnation, as if until you don't lock in and check those boxes don't even try to socialize. Imagine you meet an interesting person, learn they don't really have any hobbies, and break off a friendship because of it - I'd find that psychopathic. Why should we foster this attitude towards ourselves?

New comment by arcxi in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

arcxi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:46:51 +0000

That implies they think some people (apparently the ones who eat takeout or don't go to gym), are just not "good enough" to have friends. It's an esteem for others issue.

New comment by arcxi in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

arcxi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:26:12 +0000

I don't know if this list motivates anyone, it just makes me feel like I'm not worth being friends with and I will be forever alone, even though I do have friends.

Seriously, do you only befriend perfect people?

New comment by arcxi in "You don't have to"

arcxi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 08:57:32 +0000

> hey chatgpt give me a snarky response to this comment that would wittily refute the argument, make it funny and interesting, concise and to the point

Ah yes, the “tiny little seed” defense — because if I hum three notes and Quincy Jones writes the symphony, clearly we co-composed it.

Sure, prompting involves taste and direction. So does ordering at a restaurant. But if I tell the chef “spicy, but make it fusion” and then Instagram the plate as my culinary creation, I’m not suddenly Gordon Ramsay.

Nobody’s saying there’s zero input. We’re saying input isn’t authorship. A seed isn’t a forest — and picking your favorite output isn’t the same as growing it.

New comment by arcxi in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

arcxi — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:28:37 +0000

The solution to social anxiety suggested in the article boils down to "just stop being anxious".

I'm glad for people who don't struggle with this, I just wish they would be more empathetic.