Hacker News: cbarnes99

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

cbarnes99 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:43:42 +0000

This is kinda really old news at this point. 0.56 just came out.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "EU commissioners shut down air conditioning for employees, leave theirs on"

cbarnes99 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:38:30 +0000

Why the fuck does extreme heat require turning off the AC?

New comment by cbarnes99 in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

cbarnes99 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:25:14 +0000

It's worth noting that the average sentence for murder in the US is 15 years. And it is not actually a "designated terrorist organization". The government is claiming they are a "domestic terrorist organization" which isnt a thing under US law, additionally, there is no organization to speak of.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "The End of Code Review: Coding Agents Supersede Human Inspection"

cbarnes99 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:25:25 +0000

This feels like some combination of monumentally stupid and incredibly naive.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

cbarnes99 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:02:27 +0000

They pay the most taxes, but they also pay the lowest percentage of taxes compared to the money and assets that they have.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

cbarnes99 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:00:37 +0000

It certainly shouldn't be. But society has a responsibility to take care of everyone to a basic minimum standard. Everyone deserves somewhere safe to sleep at night, to be able to bathe and clean themselves, to be healthy, and to have enough to eat and drink. If you can guarantee these things for anyone who can't afford it themselves, then you don't need to do literally anything else.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "We Need VAT and UBI"

cbarnes99 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:54:06 +0000

VAT is intrinsically regressive because poor people spend all of their money, and wealthy people spend almost none of theirs. Sales tax is no different. UBI is also an incredible waste. Don't give money to people who don't need it. The person with the 10 million dollar home doesn't need to receive UBI, and they're spending practically none of their money to contribute back into the system with VAT.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Bricks and Minifigs Parts Ways with Franchise Owners"

cbarnes99 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:53:06 +0000

They keep saying unauthorized consignment agreement. Except that they've yet to make public so much as a single document showing that the franchisees were not allowed to do consignment. And the previous owners shared their franchisee agreement which explicitly authorized them to do consignment.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Rsync 3.4.3 has hundreds of Claude commits"

cbarnes99 — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:47:08 +0000

If you're willing to build from source it's not particularly difficult with git bisect

New comment by cbarnes99 in "The AI water issue is fake"

cbarnes99 — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:43:07 +0000

This assumes that they do actually build in colder wetter climates. Most of the time they dont.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "What's Wrong with AI?"

cbarnes99 — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:10:31 +0000

A large portion of data centers use open loop cooling. That is to say evaporative cooling. So they take fresh drinking water, make it hot, and dump it in the air. It's a lot cheaper than closed loop cooling.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

cbarnes99 — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:07:13 +0000

It really pisses me off that responsible disclosure timelines are being ignored.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

cbarnes99 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:16:37 +0000

You clearly have no idea how often windows has unpatched privesc exploits.

New comment by cbarnes99 in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

cbarnes99 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:06:58 +0000

You clearly missed that the statement in quotes. And didn't actually read the linked post.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Your Terminal Is Burning Battery Like It's Mining Bitcoin"

cbarnes99 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:22:43 +0000

Some people frequently or exclusively work on remote systems over ssh. Multiple windows is not an alternative to a multiplexer. They have some overlap in use cases. But it's not 1-1.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

cbarnes99 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:41:32 +0000

The urethra is routed through the prostate specifically because it needs to occlude it during sex. The prostate swells during an erection to obstruct the urethra and significantly reduce the likelihood of a bacterial infection in the bladder. It's a very important function.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

cbarnes99 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:03:33 +0000

No investor with any brains who reads this post would ever give you money. And no job that reads it would ever hire you.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs"

cbarnes99 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:40:28 +0000

You're thinking about foviated rendering. They're just doing foviated streaming. So it renders at full resolution, and only streams the parts that you're looking at with full resolution on the stream.

New comment by cbarnes99 in "AI misses nearly one-third of breast cancers, study finds"

cbarnes99 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:23:57 +0000

They did all have cancer