Hacker News: bbg2401

New comment by bbg2401 in "Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain"

bbg2401 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:09:07 +0000

It should never have been a mere formality anyway.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Sally Rooney can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support"

bbg2401 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:23:46 +0000

Damage to property including military bases, damage to property considered to be Jewish-owned, and a documented list of targets including charities, government buildings and financial institutions.

Let’s not trivialise such activities.

We’re firmly beyond the pale when you use a decommissioned prison van as a battering ram, attack security personnel with a sledgehammer and mark people with spray paint.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Sally Rooney can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support"

bbg2401 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:10:38 +0000

There is so much misinformation in your comment that it’s difficult to find a good place to start. Even if one were to bother, you’ve started from such a point of disingenuousness that it would be futile.

New comment by bbg2401 in "AWS Lambda Web Functions"

bbg2401 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:57:07 +0000

They said what they wanted to say, and it was quite clear. The person who commented suggests we don't use client-edge compute unless we have a specific need for it, i.e., don't treat it as a default due to its apparent simplicity up front.

You've taken it in a rather odd direction with the request for a framing more palatable to you.

New comment by bbg2401 in "'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey"

bbg2401 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:30:47 +0000

I can’t think of someone more worthy of the collective attention of HN than Rich Hickey.

New comment by bbg2401 in "OpenBSD Developers Reject Uutils Coreutils"

bbg2401 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:25:04 +0000

Drew is hardly one we should listen to on matters spanning weirdness. He’s a total creep.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Writing code by hand is over, forever"

bbg2401 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:08:17 +0000

Oh well, obviously. That's precisely how opinions work. To share several opinions with DHH on matters technical in nature is to agree with all DHH opinions on matters universal.

HN commentary becomes closer to reddit by the day.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Effect 4.0"

bbg2401 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:39:23 +0000

Petty aside: Several JS people I know who were previously quite down on using a dependency injection framework are now seeing the benefits after adopting Effect. The most egregious example being a colleague who considered the adaption of DI tooling to be a language-level defect. It’s now one of his primary selling points for Effect.

Preventing quantum downgrade attacks against IPsec

bbg2401 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:26:06 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ipsec-downgrade-protection/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49902778

Points: 1

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New comment by bbg2401 in "Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?"

bbg2401 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:53 +0000

Brilliantly put. Hedonic adaptation is exactly what it appears to be.

It’s frustrating to observe communities made up of smart, professional individuals as they behave like spoiled children on the day after Christmas when new toy novelty has begun to wane.

I understand it’s relatively harmless but for goodness sake, take a step back and appreciate what you have instead of immediately wanting the thrill of a newer model. Slow down and do deliberate work to get the most out of these amazing tools. Don’t just live off the temporary thrill of finding something marginally better than what you have.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Tells of a Slop UI"

bbg2401 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:17:28 +0000

Isn't the popular understanding of AI slop perfectly aligned with what you're saying? I.e., AI slop is the result of lazy and/or careless prompting.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Tells of a Slop UI"

bbg2401 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:09:32 +0000

I'm not particularly keen on the font selection observation. Boring is ideal for the vast majority of interfaces. Far worse is the vulgar font selections guided by design skill documents which disallow common font selections.

Something missing from the list of tells is overuse (or even any use at all) of the middle dot (·).

Could an iced coffee freeze you out of the job market?

bbg2401 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:52:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv62k9p1rz4do

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860870

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by bbg2401 in "The Post-AGI Era"

bbg2401 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:06:10 +0000

> But our underlying belief is one of profound optimism: that greater intelligence can ultimately produce a world of greater abundance, greater knowledge, and greater possibility, while allowing us to build in a way that benefits both intelligent life and the natural world around us.

When will any of those things be realised?

I'm seeing the precise opposite be reported by humans not engaged in growth marketing or techbro evangelism. Fewer job opportunities and career paths the world over, fewer incentives for private investors to invest in anything other than AI infrastructure, reduced access to consumer technology products, etc.

Sir Ranulph Fiennes kept in care home illegally

bbg2401 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:10:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/24/fiennes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837404

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by bbg2401 in "My Humble Opinion on 'Omarchy' OS"

bbg2401 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:17:43 +0000

I find it curious how quickly the term oligarch has been diminished. The usage in the linked article is so loose as to be meaningless. I can't blame the author too strongly given the default mode for discourse on the internet over the past decade has been tabloid fervour.

New comment by bbg2401 in "SAML: A fractal of bad design"

bbg2401 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:46:00 +0000

I've not got a huge amount to appreciation for PHP but I'm not sure it makes sense in 2026 to refer back to an article which suggests Perl with Catalyst as an alternative to PHP with Symfony or Laravel.

I suppose you are more a fan of the histrionic tone of the criticism than anything? In which case, I'm with you there. It's equal to the most unhinged but technically correct rants of Zed Shaw for me.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Don't Be Nice"

bbg2401 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:56:13 +0000

Look, either you loosen your understanding of native to be the region you are born, or you tighten it to mean precisely indigenous.

None of the populations of North America, Australia or the British Isles are indigenous by any neutral definition of the term. Populations have migrated and settled these regions over thousands of years.

You are a native of a nation if you are born within its borders. It is that simple.

New comment by bbg2401 in "Don't Be Nice"

bbg2401 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:40:34 +0000

Can you clarify why? I believe native anything is a flawed concept since a human, let alone an entire ethnicity, does not grow from the soil. Populations have moved, migrated and settled throughout our entire history.

New comment by bbg2401 in "I built the fastest PHP webserver in the world"

bbg2401 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:40:44 +0000

Your replies are directly from an LLM too.

Amongst other tells, “it’s free and MIT” stated as a noteworthy feature gives strong “how do you do, fellow kids” vibes.

You’ve mentioned the mass of sloppy content you know we’re drowning in. Throwing more slop our way isn’t likely to help things.

Take the ideas from your generated work so far and put your own intellect to work on it. Find someone to bounce ideas off. You might find it fun, and it might provide some human interest worthy of a new HN post in future.