Hacker News: arttaboi

New comment by arttaboi in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

arttaboi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:49:55 +0000

Here's an anecdotal thought: AML laws surprisingly work well to discourage offline transactions by tax-paying citizens, helping maximize tax reporting and improve tax collection. As a result, governments continue to strengthen and expand laws in that direction.

New comment by arttaboi in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

arttaboi — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:21:02 +0000

Amazing! Thank you for sharing.

New comment by arttaboi in "The Companies Cutting Headcount for AI Will Lose to the Ones Who Didn't"

arttaboi — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:14:44 +0000

I don't think any company is cutting headcount because of AI. I think that's just what they say. The reality is that they're facing a cash crunch due to a bad economy. And if you state a cash crunch as the reason, your stock will fall or VCs will run away. But surprisingly, if you state AI as the reason for layoffs, your stock will rise or VCs will get excited. Same thing, just different clothes, and it works.

New comment by arttaboi in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

arttaboi — Fri, 22 May 2026 04:11:47 +0000

Sorry, but that’s not the correct analogy. There’s such a thing as taste, and only 1 out of 10 people can get it right, while 9 out of 10 can get code right.

Show HN: EmailAjent – an AI executive assistant for your email threads

arttaboi — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:36:17 +0000

I just built this with a basic set of guardrails and a limited skillset, and it’s still pretty rough around the edges.

I’d really appreciate any feedback.

It’s free for the first few users — you can use the invite code DEMO34.

Note: This is experimental and not fully tested. It can and will make mistakes, so use it carefully, especially in important or sensitive email threads.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48024886

Points: 2

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New comment by arttaboi in "[dead]"

arttaboi — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 01:50:58 +0000

This reminds me of the book title "Fooling some of the people, all of the time".

Transistor Runs on Air and Used in a DIY Digital Clock [video]

arttaboi — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:07:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1BLGpE5zH0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47753118

Points: 3

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

arttaboi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:10:14 +0000

This is impressive! Thanks for sharing.

New comment by arttaboi in "Show HN: Minimal Brain Teaser Web Game (Handcrafted, No AI)"

arttaboi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:02:50 +0000

Sorry for the bad experience. The blocking of Firefox is not intentional. It's a decade old code and seems to be breaking on Firefox.

New comment by arttaboi in "Show HN: Minimal Brain Teaser Web Game (Handcrafted, No AI)"

arttaboi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:58:12 +0000

Sorry, the app is not available anywhere, it's old code. But you can play it on web-browsers.

New comment by arttaboi in "Show HN: Minimal Brain Teaser Web Game (Handcrafted, No AI)"

arttaboi — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:57:19 +0000

Sorry for the bad experience. This was build many years ago, and those nudges to ask user to download the apps are from that time. Though, there's no app, the code is not updated since then.

Show HN: Minimal Brain Teaser Web Game (Handcrafted, No AI)

arttaboi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:00:56 +0000

Built and open-sourced in the era before AI. I’m sure you know where to find the code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623053

Points: 26

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New comment by arttaboi in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

arttaboi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:24:39 +0000

"cd -" is a lifesaver. Thank you so much for this.

New comment by arttaboi in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

arttaboi — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:33:36 +0000

The most sensible continent on this planet...

New comment by arttaboi in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

arttaboi — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:21:18 +0000

I think every moderator on every platform is struggling with this issue, and no one has succeeded so far, so it doesn’t seem that easy.

I think a simple solution (and one that eventually every content platform will have to adopt) is to allow users to tag AI-generated spam. I think that a few years from now this feature should be the norm, like existing basic features on forums such as upvote, downvote, favorites, hide, etc. I know this will require much more development effort than simply blocking new accounts from posting at all. But on the other hand, you can’t block new accounts forever.

New comment by arttaboi in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

arttaboi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:33:44 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This is very interesting.

Watching this, I realised one thing: Germans, once upon a time phenomenally intelligent folks, got eroded by a bunch of stupid politicians’ ambitions.

New comment by arttaboi in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

arttaboi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:59:37 +0000

BTW, this deal went south when Anthropic argued that AI systems should never make kill decisions without meaningful human oversight.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/26/anthropic-pe...

New comment by arttaboi in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

arttaboi — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:42:43 +0000

To state the obvious, I think when corruption and power in government go unchecked, companies eventually end up facing situations like this. It’s almost like making a deal with the devil.

At the beginning, they’re usually doing it for the money — and maybe some level of patriotism. Eventually they find themselves involved in things so ugly that they can’t really stomach it anymore. At the same time, they can’t easily back out either.

Then a new CEO comes in and thinks the previous guy was too soft, "He couldn’t handle it, but I can."

And the cycle continues.

New comment by arttaboi in "Don't become an engineering manager"

arttaboi — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:37:36 +0000

He makes good arguments, but so did all my managers throughout. I think EMs telling ICs to stay in the IC role is an age-old talk. To me, it sounds a bit like “the grass is greener on the other side.”

Although, I’m not disregarding his points. I’m just saying that this article feels less about the challenges of becoming an EM and more about the challenges of stepping down from EM to IC.

New comment by arttaboi in "The whole thing was a scam"

arttaboi — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:02:02 +0000

Modern spin: In a closed society where everybody is guilty, the only crime is not being in power.