Hacker News: binary132

New comment by binary132 in "Even more batteries included with Emacs"

binary132 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:29:03 +0000

I’ve come to believe that this is less an emacs problem and more an “emacs plugins that try to do way too much stuff / take too much control” problem. I’m on vanilla emacs (I don’t even use use-package) and my config never breaks any more, even when upgrading major emacs versions. I think it’s about doing things in harmony with the emacs way instead of trying to take over the UI/UX. Emacs Live was always broken when I was using that.

New comment by binary132 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

binary132 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:28:59 +0000

I find it somewhat encouraging to hear that the devoted AI shills have not managed to generate the artificial consensus / synthetic consent that they seem to have been intending to.

New comment by binary132 in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

binary132 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:30:25 +0000

I’m a little disappointed that someone beat me to this.

New comment by binary132 in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

binary132 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:29 +0000

They just finished the final tower after 144 years, although there is still another decade of (finishing?) work remaining.

New comment by binary132 in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

binary132 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:21:55 +0000

People treat giant lego sets the same way they treat other complex model sets, it’s not really for disassembling as much as it is for the fun of building and then having / being proud of, I guess, mostly. I mean you can never really speak for everyone but generally speaking.

New comment by binary132 in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

binary132 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:20:47 +0000

$800 Lego sets with 12,000 pieces are for adults, mostly.

New comment by binary132 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

binary132 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:57:18 +0000

Excuse me? Describing people’s motives and reasoning has no bearing on my own. I’ve repaired multiple components on my own vehicle. Your mentality on the other hand is entirely typical of the reason I avoided this cesspool of a website for many years.

New comment by binary132 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

binary132 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:27:52 +0000

well, people want to have enough money to do what they need to do, of course, so they will choose things that they can in order to minimize cost and time spent, and increase convenience. That doesn’t mean they don’t want to own things that can be repaired. Owning repairable things is also valuable. I don’t think anyone actually wants to “own nothing and be happy”. But they might be able to be coerced into it, sure.

New comment by binary132 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

binary132 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:35:28 +0000

A lot of it does come down to a cost / benefit analysis where time preference is extremely overweighted due to an abundance of seemingly free credit and, shall we say, a tragic dustbowl famine of available cognitive resources.

New comment by binary132 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

binary132 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:40:50 +0000

People don’t want cars they can tinker with, they want cars they can get repaired instead of replaced when something breaks….

New comment by binary132 in "CT scans of BYD car parts"

binary132 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:38:56 +0000

I’m very confused as to why this is downvoted but I tossed you an upvote since I do my best to work against the constant brigading I always see on this forum.

New comment by binary132 in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

binary132 — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:36 +0000

I could even agree with “is problematic” although I don’t see it as black and white, but “is problematic and therefore doesn’t get to comment / needs to own this / did this” is definitely not a legitimate critique of the critical discourse.

New comment by binary132 in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

binary132 — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:58:09 +0000

People are never ever ever allowed to realize maybe sometimes bad things are bad once the chickens come home to roost. An antisocial belief they held fifteen years ago needs to define them forever, because people are just machines for receiving guilt and wrath, they can’t learn anything from suffering personally, or if they can here’s why it’s bad anyway.

Also engineers building stuff to spec are exactly the same thing as venture capitalists

New comment by binary132 in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

binary132 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:46:08 +0000

Stop trying to demoralize us.

New comment by binary132 in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

binary132 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:48:53 +0000

Chasing a perceived gap between language features and user expectations has been and continues to be the greatest error in the leadership of Go.

New comment by binary132 in "Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduction Up to 99%"

binary132 — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:09:44 +0000

what makes you so confident it’s temporary

New comment by binary132 in "FreeBSD Foundation executive director tries daily driving FreeBSD on laptop"

binary132 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:39:18 +0000

The writing is so on the nose it makes me wonder if Michael is mocking her.

New comment by binary132 in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

binary132 — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:56:28 +0000

FWIW, I started experiencing the “night panics” (for lack of a better term) probably 10 years before I was diagnosed with sleep apnea, and once I began treatment they went away completely. So I am inclined to believe it’s definitely related.

New comment by binary132 in "[dead]"

binary132 — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:02:14 +0000

Really sick of AI bros trying to scare everyone.

New comment by binary132 in "Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI"

binary132 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:02:53 +0000

Also tech executives: “we have a talent shortage”