Hacker News: banku_brougham

New comment by banku_brougham in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

banku_brougham — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:19:43 +0000

>democracies aside from the US.

I mean, I guess from '65 to around 96? We had a good run.

New comment by banku_brougham in "AI Will Never Be Conscious"

banku_brougham — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:22:12 +0000

The Butlerian Jihad will come to pass, I reckon.

New comment by banku_brougham in "What it means that Ubuntu is using Rust"

banku_brougham — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:17:07 +0000

This resonates. The after effects of age verification and the general exclusion of freedom loving coders is going to leave me standing here in the tumbleweeds with my 90s toyota and laptop with solar panels and unregulated radio frequencies my only communication with the outside world.

Its like those movies coming true. I've already had casual user accounts frozen just for accessing via VPN, or some other inscrutable reason.

New comment by banku_brougham in "Fresh File Explorer – VS Code extension for navigating recent work"

banku_brougham — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 18:31:17 +0000

looks pretty cool! Ive definitely been wanting some improvement in file discovery and exploration

New comment by banku_brougham in "Show HN: A physically-based GPU ray tracer written in Julia"

banku_brougham — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:26:30 +0000

>It really isn't.

They way people reveal themselves is a pattern worthy of taking note.

New comment by banku_brougham in "Ask HN: What happens after the AI bubble bursts?"

banku_brougham — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 04:29:31 +0000

"Prices will reach a permanently high plateau"

New comment by banku_brougham in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

banku_brougham — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:07:01 +0000

Ninety-nine dreams I have had

In every one, a red balloon

It's all over and I'm standin' pretty

In this dust that was a city

If I could find a souvenir

Just to prove the world was here

And here is a red balloon

I think of you, and let it go

New comment by banku_brougham in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

banku_brougham — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:27:39 +0000

This is suddenly an amazing proof of concept for Vouch

New comment by banku_brougham in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

banku_brougham — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:22:30 +0000

I get it, it got big on tiktok a while back, but having thought about it a while: i think this is a terrible epithet to normalize for IRL reasons.

New comment by banku_brougham in "Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)"

banku_brougham — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:55:50 +0000

He makes a lot of great points, but I vaguely feel he missed the point of the book. I guess he "just couldn't like get into it man."

>In fact, in one of the more laughable parts of the book, he goes on and on concerning the necessity of permanent war as a means of consuming the world's production of resources and thus keeping the social stratification of upper, middle, and lower classes in being.

New comment by banku_brougham in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

banku_brougham — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:59:51 +0000

Microsoft 365 Xbox X Copilot S

New comment by banku_brougham in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

banku_brougham — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:38:43 +0000

Any suggestions for photo-editing, sharing, album management process for linux?

Its really the only thing on macOS + iOS that I use. Otherwise I am so over the mac lifestyle.

New comment by banku_brougham in "Television is 100 years old today"

banku_brougham — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:11:46 +0000

Well, A-Team was objectively terrible but I have a nostalgic connection to kids shows like that, Knight Rider etc. In retrospect Bay Watch was an effective CPR training tool at unprecedented scale.

I would be hesitant to pass judgement.

New comment by banku_brougham in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

banku_brougham — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:29:31 +0000

Adding my voice of concurrence, I would say 'Comrade' but people take it the wrong way.

New comment by banku_brougham in "Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3"

banku_brougham — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:28:23 +0000

This is an urgently dark pattern to avoid for parents, but I feel helpless as my own development was heckuv random

New comment by banku_brougham in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

banku_brougham — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:24:09 +0000

>the cost of shipping code now approaches zero.

Is this a commonly held assumption?

New comment by banku_brougham in "Television is 100 years old today"

banku_brougham — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:16:19 +0000

for every episode of the A-Team, for Saturday morning cartoons, for I Love Lucy, and for Miami Vice, I give thanks.

Edit: And Star Trek, and Cosmos

New comment by banku_brougham in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

banku_brougham — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:32:37 +0000

whenever someone mentions the FBI I think of of a picture of the current highly incompetent and malevolent director.

New comment by banku_brougham in "TikTok is now collecting more data about its users"

banku_brougham — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:02:25 +0000

i been saying this

New comment by banku_brougham in "Level S4 solar radiation event"

banku_brougham — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:23:08 +0000

kp 9 - not great, not terrible