Hacker News: breakingcups

New comment by breakingcups in "Claude Code Routines"

breakingcups — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:13:03 +0000

You seem to be vouched for now, no longer dead for me.

New comment by breakingcups in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

breakingcups — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:12:00 +0000

Holy Hannah, this is such bullshit from Backblaze. Both the .git directory (why would I not SPECIFICALLY want this backed up for my projects?) and the cloud directories.

I get that changing economics make it more difficult to honor the original "Backup Everything" promise but this feels very underhanded. I'll be cancelling.

New comment by breakingcups in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

breakingcups — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:09:41 +0000

Interesting, what makes them better to you?

New comment by breakingcups in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

breakingcups — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:58:21 +0000

I thought that was the least likeable part of the article. They speculated wildly, somehow making the leap that a trained astronaut would not resort to a computer reset if the problems persisted to weave the narrative that this bug was super-duper-serious indeed. They didn't need that and it weakened the presentation.

New comment by breakingcups in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

breakingcups — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:32:28 +0000

It doesn't matter what your intention was, the point was that that was what it did. You didn't think hard enough about how people would use it given the (lack of) constraints and moderation you designed it with and you didn't take responsibility / accountability for what you had facilitated.

Your response to this seems to be: "People need to be more thick-skinned, I would take it down if they asked & it's unfair that they escalated to the dean." as if that somehow invalidates the criticism you're receiving. It doesn't. The fact that you don't really own up to that shows a lack of emotional maturity which makes it hard for people to feel sympathy for you. Until you actually understand why people had problems with what you made, you won't get a lot of sympathy for how you were treated either.

It's like those videos where some clueless racist spouting off garbage on the subway eventually gets punched by someone else. Yes, the assault is definitely "more" wrong. But you won't find a lot of people feeling sorry for the racist.

New comment by breakingcups in "Playing Card Deck Design Tips"

breakingcups — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:30:53 +0000

The only one I was vaguely interested in!

New comment by breakingcups in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

breakingcups — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:10:27 +0000

Oh, Blades, like the Xbox 360 Dashboard thing?

Or no, you must be referring to the Azure Portal sections.

New comment by breakingcups in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

breakingcups — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:43:27 +0000

> In several EU western countries the most common gynelogical surgery act is re-building the hymen (so that the woman can pretend she's a virgin once she marries, often forcibly by her family).

Can you source that claim?

New comment by breakingcups in "How I'm Productive with Claude Code"

breakingcups — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:22:08 +0000

You'd be getting practically the same result. If someone is too lazy to write their own commit messages they're definitely too lazy to write this blog post manually.

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

breakingcups — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:59:44 +0000

Everybody knows better on the internet.

New comment by breakingcups in "Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop"

breakingcups — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:27:40 +0000

> No Python. No frameworks. Just C, Objective-C, and hand-tuned Metal shaders.

Welp, I know where those tokens came from.

New comment by breakingcups in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

breakingcups — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:40:04 +0000

But only on Chrome? I'm on Firefox and I see those prompts all the time.

New comment by breakingcups in "Font Smuggler – Copy hidden brand fonts into Google Docs"

breakingcups — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:04:51 +0000

Is that true, though? Wouldn't it be possible to just copy a font wholesale, since they are uncopyrightable? How would licensing fees be enforced?

New comment by breakingcups in "Stop Sloppypasta"

breakingcups — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:12:34 +0000

Slopyright, transloptions, one-stop-slop...

New comment by breakingcups in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

breakingcups — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:59:59 +0000

Could you elaborate on that or share a source? It sounds like it'd be not just interesting but important to learn.

New comment by breakingcups in "Graphing how the 10k* most common English words define each other"

breakingcups — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:18:55 +0000

It seems broken. The word "knows" only connects to the word "operator"

New comment by breakingcups in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"

breakingcups — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:52:44 +0000

It's skewed by the PS2 being one of the cheapest DVD players available at the time, which is no longer needed now.

New comment by breakingcups in "Museum of Plugs and Sockets"

breakingcups — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:44:52 +0000

I hope it doesn't disappear:

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Important message

Due to health issues, no updates to the Plugs and Sockets website are expected in the coming months. Email contact may also be affected. For the time being, please do not send any material that might be interesting to add to the website. Next year, I shall make a decision about the future of the collection and website. Wait and see. August 2025

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New comment by breakingcups in "Anthropic gives Opus 3 exit interview, "retirement" blog"

breakingcups — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:24:23 +0000

A leading company like Anthropic feeding the delusions of people who ramble about model consciousness is just bad all around. It's both performative and irresponsible.

New comment by breakingcups in "He saw an abandoned trailer, then uncovered a surveillance network"

breakingcups — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:21:48 +0000

It'd be interesting to see what endpoints they submit the data to...