Hacker News: capr

New comment by capr in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

capr — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:27:40 +0000

He made an economic argument that went straight over your head.

New comment by capr in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

capr — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:06:56 +0000

I personally love how AI shows through sheer indifference how the whole concept of intellectual property is completely incoherent.

New comment by capr in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

capr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:50:07 +0000

> Do you disagree that this person followed the law, and that politicians enacted those laws, and that we voted for these politicians?

This is the definition of brainwashing. You had a false choice between person A and person B who are mostly the same some 4 years ago, and now _you_ are responsible for every stupid policy they enact.

New comment by capr in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

capr — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:39:56 +0000

I don't believe any of this.

New comment by capr in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

capr — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:01:17 +0000

"due to voters making bad choices" ahahahahahaha

New comment by capr in "Programming peaked"

capr — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:27:38 +0000

way to prove his point

New comment by capr in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

capr — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:24:17 +0000

Maybe if they would've let their engineers use Borland C++ they would've learned a thing or two for their own product.

New comment by capr in "Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens"

capr — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:54:45 +0000

And that's about the only type of visa where that happens.

New comment by capr in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

capr — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:12:54 +0000

try it, like these people https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7iJDMU43iUk

New comment by capr in "Forgejo: A self-hosted lightweight software forge"

capr — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:42:18 +0000

But profit _is_ the driving force of human action. Doing anything voluntarily is by definition profitable, otherwise you wouldn't do it.

New comment by capr in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

capr — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 21:27:15 +0000

there's absolutely something wrong with the fruits of their labor though, which I am forced to use every day

New comment by capr in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

capr — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:57:01 +0000

not true at all, only socialists think that (I'm also from Europe where everybody and their dog's a socialist)

New comment by capr in "Things we learned about LLMs in 2024"

capr — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:07:25 +0000

compared to what? most doctors never heard of Bayes rule

New comment by capr in "X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders"

capr — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:20:08 +0000

There are no core tenants of democracy other than majority rule. The actions you listed (with the exception of canceling elections) do not actually destroy the ability for the majority to rule. In fact, one common tactic of democratic states is to employ referendums for laws that infringe on the rights of a minority, thus shifting the moral blame onto the population when convenient.

New comment by capr in "Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones?"

capr — Sun, 12 May 2024 18:12:30 +0000

How about this music chord formation program with a virtual six-string guitar fret that I wrote back in 1999? https://github.com/capr/chordclopedia

New comment by capr in "I'm giving up on open source"

capr — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:59:16 +0000

wrong: source-available means you can look but you can't incorporate/change/copy-paste/get-inspired-by. "look at this wheel, learn but don't make your own". It's a travesty.

New comment by capr in "Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU"

capr — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:42:34 +0000

maybe because forcing people or companies (property of people) is wrong?

New comment by capr in "Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU"

capr — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:35:00 +0000

"forced" to block... seems like the only ones who can use force is them

New comment by capr in "Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU"

capr — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:30:30 +0000

Ya, can't square the two? Check this out: violence actually works, so should we beat our kids?

New comment by capr in "Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management"

capr — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:22:52 +0000

As a Romanian, I find this comment funny. To think that Romania improved because of the EU, not because we got rid of communism in 1989 followed by a period of wild west capitalism years before even entering EU. Most EU money in here are wasted on corruption with infrastructure projects.