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New comment by bfmalky in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

bfmalky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:53:49 +0000

> Unavailable Due to the UK Online Safety Act

NSFW blog content on HN? Really?

New comment by bfmalky in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

bfmalky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:41:06 +0000

Hype would not cause a price increase in this case. The value of bitcoin is partly due to scarcity. 1.1m previously inaccessible bitcoins suddenly becoming liquid would cause a drop in price, even if they were sold slowly. It could also cause panic selling as it might indicate the wallets have been brute force cracked.

New comment by bfmalky in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

bfmalky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:33:56 +0000

Sure. So just a case of 'trust me bro' on both sides. What could possibly go wrong?

New comment by bfmalky in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

bfmalky — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:37:35 +0000

You are very lucky to have a strong circadian rhythm that doesn't require light in the morning then. Not all of us work that way. If there is no light in the morning I find it very hard to get up and function. Where I live, if we adopted permanent summer time the sun wouldn't rise until 9:45 in the dead of winter. I couldn't handle that many hours of complete darkness at the start of the day.

New comment by bfmalky in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

bfmalky — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:17:02 +0000

Or, how about we alter the clocks by +/- an hour twice a year to maximise the amount of useful daylight? Get the best of both worlds.

Software engineers could go extinct this year, says Claude Code creator

bfmalky — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 07:49:21 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/will-claude-destroy-software-engineer-coding-jobs-creator-says-printing-press/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47148630

Points: 4

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New comment by bfmalky in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

bfmalky — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:43:49 +0000

They don't have thoughts or feelings. An agent blogging about their thoughts and feelings is just noise.

New comment by bfmalky in "Is HN Down in the UK?"

bfmalky — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:23:28 +0000

Yep

New comment by bfmalky in "Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one"

bfmalky — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:46:18 +0000

I would love to replace Lightroom, but unfortunately the alternatives just aren't as good.

There are good alternatives to Ableton, but once you get to know a DAW it is hard to switch. And running a DAW with an ecosystem of 3rd party VST plugins and low level access to audio hardware on Wine sounds like a recipe for a bad time, but I confess I haven't tried it.

So, yes, these things are possible, but it is still easier to just use Windows.

New comment by bfmalky in "Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one"

bfmalky — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:28:56 +0000

Yes, the bottom tier MacBook Air is about £1k, but only comes with a 256gb SSD. You can get a decent windows laptop for about that price with 1tb of storage and 32gb of memory. A similar spec Mac is close to £3k. CPU wise they are all fine for real-time audio, but the extra storage really matters.

New comment by bfmalky in "Microsoft's big lie: Your computer is fine, and you don't need to buy a new one"

bfmalky — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:21:09 +0000

I can't run Ableton or Lightroom on Linux, and Macs are almost 3x the cost of a similar spec'ed windows laptop.

The apps are quite specific to me, but I imagine there are similar killer apps for other windows users.

New comment by bfmalky in "Tesla deliveries down 43% in Europe while EVs are up 31%"

bfmalky — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 13:41:45 +0000

I don't think it is his DOGE antics that are affecting the european sales though, I think it was the Nazi salute. That went down very badly this side of the Atlantic.

New comment by bfmalky in "Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation"

bfmalky — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 13:01:33 +0000

Buy diluting juice. Water it down to your preferred concentration.

New comment by bfmalky in "Mixxx: GPL DJ Software"

bfmalky — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 00:13:58 +0000

In Rekordbox's case Pioneer have restricted the jogwheel mapping to Pioneer hardware only. So, you pretty much need Pioneer hardware to use Rekordbox. And seeing as Pioneer decks are almost industry standard in clubs and you need Rekordbox to organise your playlists, they have the DJ hardware market sewn up. Which is very frustrating because Rekordbox has to be the most resource intensive (& therefore inefficient) DJ software available.

New comment by bfmalky in "Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?"

bfmalky — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:59:28 +0000

That's the annual figure. But just for electricity. Most UK homes are heated with gas, and many have gas stoves, so the average kWh annual gas figure is much higher (~12,000kWh).

New comment by bfmalky in "Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?"

bfmalky — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:54:37 +0000

This is such a weird take. I have no idea where you are getting your ideas from, but I don't know if you've heard of this thing we have in the UK called 'the class system'. Poor people are definitely not worshipped in the UK. And the wealthy do generally like to demonstrate their wealth in the usual ways (cars, homes, holidays, schooling, etc), so I'm wondering where you've got this idea that people in the UK somehow romanticise poverty.

New comment by bfmalky in "Why are UK electricity bills so expensive?"

bfmalky — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 17:44:34 +0000

What a bizarre thing to say.

I guess there are some examples of self sabotage, such as Brexit, but no, on the whole people in the UK do not choose to be poor. Like any nation we are at the mercy of the outcomes of the decisions of our politicians and larger global effects that are out of our control.

Also, there are plenty of wealthy people in the UK. You do know that right? The UK is still around 6th in the nominal GDP rankings, so not quite an economic basket case (yet).

New comment by bfmalky in "They don't make them like that any more: the Yamaha DX7 keyboard"

bfmalky — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 14:11:28 +0000

I'd also like to quibble with this assertion the author makes at the end of the article:

> but almost all digital music production these days is based on sampling

This is very much not true. Subtractive and FM synthesis are still very widely used.

New comment by bfmalky in "Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]"

bfmalky — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 12:18:00 +0000

Ok, so under what logic does ML become physics?

New comment by bfmalky in "POV-Ray – The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (2021)"

bfmalky — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 13:16:43 +0000

Also are you me? Except I had a 486sx and I tried in vain to persuade my parents to buy a maths co-processor for it. It would have probably saved them money in the long run from electricity bills.

Some of my first programming was writing QBasic programs to generate povray scene files.