Hacker News: bartonfink

New comment by bartonfink in "Ask HN: Nobody clicked on a "Show HN" project I put my heart into. Now what?"

bartonfink — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:35:36 +0000

Change the url and upload again. Embrace the hacker mindset. The rules here are mostly just suggestions and there are no penalties for breaking them.

New comment by bartonfink in "Mississippi Proved Them Wrong. Learn from It"

bartonfink — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:04:43 +0000

This is just a 404, possibly intended to be racist. Flagged.

New comment by bartonfink in "Men's heart attack risk climbs by mid-30s, years before women"

bartonfink — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:54:56 +0000

It's really not that hard to avoid a heart attack if you take responsibility for your health and body. This is a non issue and irrelevant to discussion. Flagged.

New comment by bartonfink in "GNU Recutils: a database management system using human-readable text files"

bartonfink — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:58:41 +0000

Irrelevant? This is a solved problem. Use RDS. Flagged.

New comment by bartonfink in "Autopsy reveals Daniel Naroditsky's probable cause of death"

bartonfink — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:29:51 +0000

I don't really see why the death of a drug addicted professional athlete is relevant here. Flagged.

New comment by bartonfink in "Ask HN: Unpopular ideas that you believe in and why?"

bartonfink — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 17:18:03 +0000

It is both possible and simple to outrun your fork. Anyone who says it is impossible has never made a serious attempt.

New comment by bartonfink in "Apple's homework is due Monday no matter what, says judge"

bartonfink — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 10:44:30 +0000

They provided exactly the same level of "statistics" you did. Try harder, champ.

New comment by bartonfink in "[dead]"

bartonfink — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:49:08 +0000

You can change your attitude here and play the game of trying to lose whatever karma you have. They won't let you remove posts, so they can have toxic ones as well. I find a sort of balance in being a vitriolic jerk on here.

New comment by bartonfink in "Moving Bricks: Money-laundering practices in the online scam industry"

bartonfink — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 02:08:39 +0000

A gun is substantially more dangerous than a jar of bees. Dangerous things warrant suspicion. If you don't see that, I question your abilities in the realm of risk analysis.

New comment by bartonfink in "Show HN: Software Engineering Handbook – A Guide to Engineering, Life, and More"

bartonfink — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:59:10 +0000

Why is your perspective valuable?

New comment by bartonfink in "Ask HN: Ever hit a professional goal but felt surprised by your reaction?"

bartonfink — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:55:08 +0000

To what end

New comment by bartonfink in "My job is to watch dreams die (2011)"

bartonfink — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 23:40:25 +0000

> no such obligation to jump to a higher tax bracket

...the gospel of graham to the contrary

New comment by bartonfink in "Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla"

bartonfink — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 21:14:19 +0000

Police incompetence and overreach.

New comment by bartonfink in "Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway"

bartonfink — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 10:57:44 +0000

Tone policing is a weak retort. If you'd rather we just sing Kumbayah and talk about science fiction then yeah! We could even staff these centrifuges with autonomous bipedal androids a la Lt. Commander Data. Those are becoming attainable in much the same way as your mechanically simple, cost effective, never been built zero g metal gas centrifuges. Learn something with that big brain of yours.

New comment by bartonfink in "Against all odds, an asteroid mining company appears to be making headway"

bartonfink — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 19:57:33 +0000

Because right now it's not even research, let alone economical. This isn't Stellaris, this is real life.

New comment by bartonfink in "Carmack on Oculus, Minecraft, Meta and Microsoft"

bartonfink — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 19:00:04 +0000

Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340180

New comment by bartonfink in "Carmack on Oculus, Minecraft, Meta and Microsoft"

bartonfink — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 18:26:24 +0000

I don't know if you know this but kids throw up for many reasons besides VR nausea. Are you sure she didn't throw up for some other reason?

New comment by bartonfink in "Ares Industries – Building low-cost cruise missiles"

bartonfink — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:16:01 +0000

lmao at equating "extremely brittle and vulnerable" with "susceptible to multiple nuclear missiles shot to geostationary orbit". thanks for the chuckle.

New comment by bartonfink in "On finishing projects"

bartonfink — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 14:44:44 +0000

I don't want to be too abrasive, but people without families or hobbies tend to fuck up work life balance for the rest of us. It's very tiring dealing with people like you who do nothing but work and bitch about how they don't have anything else going on.

New comment by bartonfink in "Rocket explodes during testing at UK's new spaceport in Shetland"

bartonfink — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 20:04:16 +0000

because Spain's on the wrong side of the continent