Hacker News: burnished

New comment by burnished in "A case against Boolean logic"

burnished — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:14:11 +0000

No. Neurons are 'aggregate and fire', and they either fire or they do not.

New comment by burnished in "I’ve banned query strings"

burnished — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:43:33 +0000

I think the author is comfortable creating headaches for people tacking query strings onto URLs

New comment by burnished in "Email could have been X.400 times better"

burnished — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:48:53 +0000

Yeah, big differences between an absolute guarantee and "we'll take as much as we can get"

New comment by burnished in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

burnished — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:18:21 +0000

Nice. Really grateful for your participation in this comment tree

New comment by burnished in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

burnished — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:03:34 +0000

There isn't really a way around it.

New comment by burnished in "Slop Cop"

burnished — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:56:13 +0000

I love how you can tell something was generated because it comes out clear and using many of the important writing fundamentals we were all taught.

New comment by burnished in "Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log"

burnished — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:23:25 +0000

All I know is that when a class starts with 'elementary' or 'fundamentals of' you had best buckle up.

New comment by burnished in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

burnished — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:33:30 +0000

Think i'd be ok with a year and a half halt for things in general every now and again.

New comment by burnished in "Aggro Is the Foundation (2022)"

burnished — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:31:45 +0000

I think this is a good perspective for problem solving generally - just establishing a simple (ideally effective, it not then call it naieve) standard of comparison to base further decisions off of.

New comment by burnished in "The AI Industry Is Lying to You"

burnished — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:55:55 +0000

Simply because it was an information poor exchange.

New comment by burnished in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

burnished — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:21:22 +0000

They gave enough detail that its clear from context what 'had to' meant.

New comment by burnished in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

burnished — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:44:44 +0000

Motherfucker you try to take my fork while I'm eating and you're going to get a stabbed hand. Are forks addicting?

New comment by burnished in "The AI Industry Is Lying to You"

burnished — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:27:55 +0000

You may be a bit emotionally invested in this topic if you feel you're getting a lot of information from that exchange.

New comment by burnished in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

burnished — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:09:50 +0000

It is absolutely one of the better benefits of this forum

New comment by burnished in "Node.js blocks PR from dev because he used Claude Code to create it"

burnished — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:10:27 +0000

Title is misleading, there is an open discussion on the topic with someone raising valid points and a clear escalation method that involves a vote from another group.

New comment by burnished in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

burnished — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:21:28 +0000

Yeah you can, though to be fair its referred to as jevons paradox because it is counterintuitive.

New comment by burnished in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

burnished — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:18:47 +0000

What about it is whitewashing? This seems like it would be a great resource if you wanted to contextualize the argument you're gesturing at.

New comment by burnished in "Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher tha human drivers"

burnished — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:21:15 +0000

They might have forgotten how to share an anecdote and their sister might just be a regular awful driver

New comment by burnished in "I'm addicted to being useful"

burnished — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:07:35 +0000

I think you missed the bit where they suggested being curious and offering perspective - it really does work out differently

New comment by burnished in "When someone says they hate your product"

burnished — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:25:01 +0000

I've seen pathological users like the sibling is commenting about. I don't want to out any community in particular but some of subreddits surrounding open source games can get pretty yikes.

Not saying you're wrong to find silver linings, just wanted to corrobate that sometimes that is insufficient (as far as I can tell, given impassioned haterness germinating for years).