Hacker News: bluedel

New comment by bluedel in "Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it"

bluedel — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:24:06 +0000

I really can't get behind this. The idea that our jobs being interesting and fulfilling was just a happy little accident, a weird artifact of capitalism, and that if that goes away, oh well, too bad. Back to the thankless back-breaking grind. It's just the way of the world.

That's just so defeatist and pessimistic.

New comment by bluedel in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bluedel — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 09:47:38 +0000

What higher wealth?

New comment by bluedel in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

bluedel — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:24:55 +0000

I think the crosswords framing is a little silly, but I have to wonder what comes when we use our technology to optimize the fun and interesting parts out of every job. There's only so many years of my life I can dedicate to back-and-forths with a chatbot. What if we advance our glorious civilization but our jobs just get more and more thoughtless and miserable?

New comment by bluedel in "CSS-Tricks in Limbo"

bluedel — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:40:30 +0000

Imagine you're making a pizza, but you're out of pepperoni. Your mother-in-law is allergic to bacon. Now imagine I'm leaving your house and riding my bike into the sunset.

New comment by bluedel in "Blizzard Workers Win Historic Union Contract"

bluedel — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:29:57 +0000

There's a (in my opinion) very weird tendency to think that workers are a hindrance to the product, that anything that gets made is made in spite of the people making it, rather than thanks to them. I think it's very destructive.

New comment by bluedel in "HTML Can Do That"

bluedel — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:15:44 +0000

That's weird, it works on my phone. Are you sure you didn't refresh the page with the anchor tag still in your URL parameters?

New comment by bluedel in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

bluedel — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:23:17 +0000

Am I right to be a little concerned by the phrase "it'll go straight to the pirate bay"?

Not to be a narc or anything, but is OpenClaw liable to just perform illegal acts on your behalf just because it seemed like that's what you meant for it to do?

New comment by bluedel in "EFF is leaving X"

bluedel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:26:30 +0000

If an organisation had any serious chance of moving the needle by staying on X, musk would simply find a reason to ban them. X leadership isn't interested in fair and balanced discussion.

New comment by bluedel in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

bluedel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:58:53 +0000

It's not a command line argument, it's part of the title of a hackernews post.

New comment by bluedel in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

bluedel — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:50:18 +0000

I think the point they're making is that the failure mode of a waymo and automated air traffic control could look the same from an angle, but would have very different consequences.

New comment by bluedel in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

bluedel — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:56:04 +0000

>I want my comments judged by the contributions they make and do not make to the discussion

There used to be a sort of gentleman's agreement that I could spare the time to read and judge your comment because you went through the effort of writing it.

New comment by bluedel in "Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest reveal the severity of U.S. surveillance state"

bluedel — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:39:52 +0000

I feel like that would only change your opinion of the quote if you originally equated it to "Government bad!", which is a thoughtless thought.

New comment by bluedel in "We mourn our craft"

bluedel — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:49:10 +0000

I refuse to believe you sincerely think this is a salient point. Determinism was one of the fundamental axioms of software engineering.

New comment by bluedel in "Ian's Shoelace Site"

bluedel — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:36:42 +0000

I've made a couple with the Kumihimo technique, using cheap embroidery thread. The texture is similar to paracord, but you get your own pick of colors and patterns. I'm surprised at how durable they are.

New comment by bluedel in "Show HN: LemonSlice – Upgrade your voice agents to real-time video"

bluedel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:51:20 +0000

Hopefully not. I'm impressed with the engineering, it is a technological achievement, but my only hope right now is that this tech plateaus pretty much immediately. I can't think of a single use-case that wouldn't be at best value-neutral, and at worst extremely harmful to the people interacting with it.

New comment by bluedel in "Clawdbot Renames to Moltbot"

bluedel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:13:53 +0000

I don't think it's obnoxious to protect your trademark against a literal homophone operating in the same space as you. I'm confident a lot of people heard about "clawdbot" and assumed it was an anthropic product.

New comment by bluedel in "To those who fired or didn't hire tech writers because of AI"

bluedel — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 09:10:53 +0000

Newspapers and professional journalism are indeed doing well right now, nothing to worry about.

New comment by bluedel in "I'm just having fun"

bluedel — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:55:35 +0000

you're right, blog articles should be entirely devoid of stylistic choices and signifiers.

New comment by bluedel in "I'm just having fun"

bluedel — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:38:10 +0000

the lack of capitalization (and occasional omission of punctuation) was already a big thing on tumblr / twitter 10 years ago, especially in some anime and LGBT-adjacent spaces. I don't think jyn got it from Sam Altman, and I don't think he had that big a role in popularizing it.

New comment by bluedel in "Is it a bubble?"

bluedel — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:23:31 +0000

It's a fairly common descriptor