Hacker News: ashtakeaway

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant"

ashtakeaway — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:17:06 +0000

Especially as root...

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

ashtakeaway — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:55:32 +0000

It was just a couple of months ago where I found myself complaining that we shouldn't have to pay exorbitant amounts of money for friendship.

Last time I went to a bar a pretty woman and her friends decided to sit next to me only after I closed my tab and was getting an Uber to go back home. She seemed super nervous just sitting next to me and I assumed that if I butted into their conversation I'd get ignored like last time.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year"

ashtakeaway — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:27:31 +0000

Reddit is that way ->

New comment by ashtakeaway in "The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025"

ashtakeaway — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:24:43 +0000

While J.B. Crawford's computer.rip is a newsletter and not a blog, I'd say he's popular enough to be on the list.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat"

ashtakeaway — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 05:27:15 +0000

With a name like Snitch, it should be aimed at adversarial detection.

Just my two snitches.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Americans overestimate how many social media users post harmful content"

ashtakeaway — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:40:29 +0000

It's a good idea for it to work both ways in case doxxing happens. I'm against KYC by any business from a security perspective: my PII shouldn't be available to criminals.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?"

ashtakeaway — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:37:07 +0000

Remember we have about 20 years of poorly written articles along with a few well written ones for the LLM to be trained on. I'm confident that attempting to tell LLM from human writing is a waste of time now that the year is almost over.

Other than that I'd rather choose a comprehensive article than a summary.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

ashtakeaway — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:23:53 +0000

That's the same algorithm Youtube has and is more blatant. Phone mics and your coworker's proximity does a great job at picking up things you've said even after disabling mic access plus airplane mode just by process of elimination.

I'll only use an LLM for projects and building tools, like a junior dev in their 20s.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "LAPD helicopter tracker with real-time operating costs"

ashtakeaway — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 19:55:56 +0000

Thank you for speaking to reality of situations that the majority of internet commenters never talk about. I think dang needs to put the HN member lock back on.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops' CPUs"

ashtakeaway — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:04:23 +0000

There has been a change in behavior in the past few years, in fact it used to be that you could only become a HN member that can comment thus vote by posting a select number of threads before being able to comment. This actually kept the community on the more intelligent, factual, and serious side. Now it's not so serious.

This used to be the only place that I could visit to get away from Reddit behavior. It seems like the more obscure a social gathering is, the less Eternal September it suffers.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Are you stuck in movie logic?"

ashtakeaway — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:24:38 +0000

If we succumbed to everyone's complaints we'd have a much more dumbed down version of everything. Consider if you had a concussion on the right temporal lobe and had hypergraphia as a symptom of the resultant temporal lobe epilepsy. I'd write everything I'd want to write regardless of who complains. Philip K. Dick was one such person.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Human Fovea Detector"

ashtakeaway — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 17:22:33 +0000

You should be arsed to dig it up because your parent comment is insinuating disbelief or sarcasm with quotation marks.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing"

ashtakeaway — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:02:30 +0000

Weird response here. Everyone expects at least some level of marketing for their software product to perform financially.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Angel Investors, a Field Guide"

ashtakeaway — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 04:30:57 +0000

If you don't want to lose your money, don't become an angel investor.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

ashtakeaway — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:16:48 +0000

There are jealous people who actively go out of their way to make 'smart' people miserable.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Free software scares normal people"

ashtakeaway — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:42:59 +0000

Kind of like how the author likely knows about the report and wanted to make a blog post about it without saying anything about or citing the report itself. IT seems like it but 80/20 can be found in lots of places, just like 60/40 can.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Chipotle stock craters: young people without jobs cannot afford their food"

ashtakeaway — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:17:42 +0000

Make sure to eat at one with their food license displayed or readily visible. Botulism is not cool, and food trucks are already hard to regulate. I love food trucks though.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly"

ashtakeaway — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:50:05 +0000

Where would those friends ever be in the first place? Everyone I know and see is on their phone doing the same exact thing. Nobody socializes except at work where they're forced to be.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "How America got hooked on ultraprocessed foods"

ashtakeaway — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:10:11 +0000

Being judgy is a uniquely American trait that's become popular over the past 20 years.

New comment by ashtakeaway in "QUIC and the end of TCP sockets"

ashtakeaway — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:59:14 +0000

Really glad NextDNS blocked my click.