Hacker News: cenobyte

New comment by cenobyte in "The Anti-Palantir Manifesto"

cenobyte — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:41:15 +0000

Europe and Asia have it much much worse than we do on the surveillance state.

Ask anyone in jail for social media posts in the UK.

Ask any Chinese citizen about their social score and how it's adjusted.

So this sounds like an Anti-American and Anti-Palantir rant.

New comment by cenobyte in "Claude Sonnet 5"

cenobyte — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:51:41 +0000

Claude Sonnet 5 is built to be the most agentic Sonnet model yet.

The Dodge Charger is built to be the most Charger like car yet.

New comment by cenobyte in "Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Backs KDE with €1.3M"

cenobyte — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:18:29 +0000

So they have money to throw away? because there is no path to profit....

New comment by cenobyte in "Why Do the Police Exist? (2020)"

cenobyte — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:31:28 +0000

The author of this article is so stupid it hurts just to read it.

New comment by cenobyte in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

cenobyte — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:59:06 +0000

I would gladly own a Cybertruck if prices come down.

Approximately 100k for a truck of any type is ridiculous.

New comment by cenobyte in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

cenobyte — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:55:22 +0000

no.

New comment by cenobyte in "The provenance memory model for C"

cenobyte — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:59:21 +0000

Please fix the code in your post.

New comment by cenobyte in "The provenance memory model for C"

cenobyte — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:56:00 +0000

So much better. Thank you!

New comment by cenobyte in "Show HN: Tattoy – a text-based terminal compositor"

cenobyte — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:07:50 +0000

Because why shouldn't my terminal be the largest consumer of memory on my PC?

New comment by cenobyte in "Getting forked by Microsoft"

cenobyte — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:35:38 +0000

Not to be mean, but if you don't like the consequences of using an MIT license then don't use it.

Using it then complaining about its effects because you don't like the company is silly.

Use a different license if this is important to you.

New comment by cenobyte in "Generative AI Hype Peaking"

cenobyte — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:34:30 +0000

Anyone who thinks the Hype has peaked is obviously too young to remember the dotcom bubble.

It will get so much worse before it starts to fade.

Infecting every commercial, movie plot, and article that you read.

I can still here the Yahoo yodel in my head from radio and TV commercials.

New comment by cenobyte in "More thoughts on the 1670 modem's weird noises"

cenobyte — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:25:41 +0000

Sounds like your Vic 20 and/or power supply isn't shielded very well and its making your speakers do weird things.

New comment by cenobyte in "Can we deter tech monopolies through reformed open source software development?"

cenobyte — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 17:26:04 +0000

No.

New comment by cenobyte in "LA County's guaranteed income program to give some foster youth $1k per month"

cenobyte — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:59:36 +0000

As a programmer from a bad family, group home, foster family background myself.

$1k per month without working or struggle would have destroyed me.

Imagine all the weed and whiskey I could have bought for that? (Which is what I would have done)

Instead of working I would have been lazy.

Homelessness and hunger was my major motivator and made me work in fast food while dreaming of computers.

The lack of struggle would have crippled my drive.