Hacker News: bastardoperator

New comment by bastardoperator in "Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization"

bastardoperator — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:03:40 +0000

I avoid both like the plague. These apps make me feel less productive and the docs they produce always look ugly to me. I would rather md, html or latex.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario 'Lake America'"

bastardoperator — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:30:44 +0000

Why? Just looks like they're caving to a despot.

New comment by bastardoperator in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

bastardoperator — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:37:37 +0000

Crazy, I do all of that and more without Facebook and I don't find it difficult or manual at all. It seemed like you were implying people who use Facebook to plan tiny events are somehow more social. Maybe I read that wrong.

New comment by bastardoperator in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

bastardoperator — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:36:20 +0000

What's your favorite type of event to plan on Facebook?

New comment by bastardoperator in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

bastardoperator — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:48:59 +0000

This is far more likely to happen in a corporate setting with competent engineers who want to build/solve now versus relying on others. I've seen it 100% of the time with varying results.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery"

bastardoperator — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:59:44 +0000

Court monitor that ensures compliance. It's not that hard.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Zed DeltaDB"

bastardoperator — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:55:13 +0000

It also feels like his former company could implement his new company in a couple of weeks if they choose to.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

bastardoperator — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:39:54 +0000

How do the municipalities "own" this data if anyone from any agency outside of a jurisdiction is allowed to access the data?

New comment by bastardoperator in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

bastardoperator — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 16:51:06 +0000

These robots are unusable in their current form. Slow and expensive, humans perform this work better and cheaper. Looks like every other robot before it, a bunch of servos and no brain.

New comment by bastardoperator in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

bastardoperator — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:48:51 +0000

Executive war making, overgrown militaries, debt, party politics, concentrated power, corporate power, and foreign entanglement.

The framers did not invision America in its current state, to state otherwise would be nonsense because we can just read the words they wrote.

New comment by bastardoperator in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

bastardoperator — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:31:15 +0000

I don't think it's just hacker news. I'm looking around and it seems to be widespread.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

bastardoperator — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:33:25 +0000

Mandatory spending, they have obligations to Americans. I'm sorry veterans, seniors, poor people, and the disabled are such an inconvenience for you, or that you don't know what the word entitlement means.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

bastardoperator — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 23:38:44 +0000

Maybe Apple lawyers can figure this out in discovery.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Stop Telling Me to Ask an LLM"

bastardoperator — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:33:33 +0000

Agreed, you can also preface the question. I've checked A, B, and C with AI, curious to get your opinion/thoughts?

I don't think anyone in any industry regardless of seniority would redirect you back to AI assuming you're having a genuine conversation.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

bastardoperator — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:20:59 +0000

Agreed, we are giving an absolute load of welfare to billionaires. From tax breaks to bailouts, and to your point, it's sucking the life out of the American economy.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

bastardoperator — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:09:01 +0000

I have a bunch of computers and gadgets, why settle on one?

New comment by bastardoperator in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

bastardoperator — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:45:03 +0000

I remember when Republicans told us they want less regulation and smaller federal government. Now they want their dementia riddled god king to control everything from pool liners to the information you're allowed to see, which is all in books and readily available online.

New comment by bastardoperator in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

bastardoperator — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:10:50 +0000

Nintendo, Capcom, Activision, Konami, Sega, Bandai Namco, EA, Sunsoft, Atari, Taito, Bethesda, Tecmo and Naughty dog

All found in the 80's or earlier and still pretty well known today. It could be argued these are different companies today, but they exist.

New comment by bastardoperator in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

bastardoperator — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:07:44 +0000

Wait, you think Elon solved these problems?

New comment by bastardoperator in "GitHub and the crime against software"

bastardoperator — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:21:15 +0000

Agreed, this is kind of the perfect use case for AI. I can see the prompt now "using css, make this website readable and use a proper color scheme"