Hacker News: chomp

New comment by chomp in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

chomp — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:24:21 +0000

Has nothing to do with monopolies, having the market slowly condense into one mega company does not create competition and results in higher prices for the consumer.

New comment by chomp in "New York Times adds more AI features to its Cooking app. Users aren't thrilled"

chomp — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 02:07:15 +0000

2 things. 1, hallucination is a sensory perception of something. LLMs don't have senses. The term doesn't make sense when confabulation is literally lying right there. 2, ai bros really like their ai, and run interference when people find flaws in it. This includes derailing conversations with nit picking terminology. Yes i'm aware of the irony in my post.

New comment by chomp in "Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary"

chomp — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:08:15 +0000

It’s generally a fascist viewpoint to say that dissenters should consider leaving the country.

New comment by chomp in "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"

chomp — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:38:08 +0000

I rented it at blockbuster, loved it, bought it, and then played many hundreds of hours on it. I don’t know if I agree with your statement as written.

That said, I don’t know if I would even touch a RTS on a console these days. So maybe I agree in spirit.

New comment by chomp in "Claude is a Contrarian"

chomp — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:28:12 +0000

part of Claude’s capability is reliant on its verbosity to push its responses into new vector spaces. If you instruct it to be terse, its capability is potentially reduced

New comment by chomp in "'Old Person Smell'"

chomp — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:06:45 +0000

> “It’s just a natural byproduct of skin ageing – not dirt, not poor hygiene,” Javid says.

Did Javid really say this

New comment by chomp in "Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons"

chomp — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:56:33 +0000

I raised my eyebrows at this statement, but I had forgotten that blog post where he griped about the UK becoming less white.

New comment by chomp in "I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits"

chomp — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:13:07 +0000

Okay that was always allowed

New comment by chomp in "Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?"

chomp — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:49:51 +0000

These had a lot of blood sweat and tears poured into them.

Most Hollywood game adaptations are the same as the Disney live actions. They have their hands on an IP, they want to flip it into easy money. Those turn out excruciatingly bad, because for an easy flip, you need to target for mass appeal, which waters down the material.

New comment by chomp in "Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md"

chomp — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 22:44:12 +0000

My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger

New comment by chomp in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

chomp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:14:15 +0000

You are not understanding how the market works. Rarity and value do not always correlate with demand. Otherwise I have some beanie babies to sell.

New comment by chomp in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

chomp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:07:44 +0000

I mean really, all of my examples involve on-demand flame at a BTU higher than a torch, so I suppose the list doesn’t go on if you exclude things like charring eggplant for baba ganoush.

Induction is super awesome for maintaining temp. But one isn’t superior over the other in all cases. My point was purely, people need high BTU fire sometimes based off how they cook. I mean, you won’t see me cooking tagine, but surely someone in the world cooks tagine?

New comment by chomp in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

chomp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:00:15 +0000

You absolutely cannot do the same thing with a cast iron, I promise.

New comment by chomp in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

chomp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:17:04 +0000

Can’t (properly) cook a tortilla on an electric burner, though you can get subpar results in a pan

Can’t char a pepper on an electric burner

Can’t heat a nabe on an electric burner

Also during hurricane season, my gas burner still works when the power goes out.

The list goes on of things that electric simply cannot do. To claim one is superior over the other ignores a lot of the ways people cook. They are just simply different cooking tools.

New comment by chomp in "Is Kentucky about to give billions in tax breaks to data centers?"

chomp — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:36:45 +0000

Drop the disdain, it makes your argument look uninformed.

Try talking IRL with what people dislike about datacenters. You might be surprised.

New comment by chomp in "Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old"

chomp — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:01:53 +0000

Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.

New comment by chomp in "YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview"

chomp — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:52:05 +0000

Tattooing company logos has already been done https://www.huffpost.com/entry/billy-gibby-aka-hostgator_n_2...

So really, they are just boring and derivative. Probably an analog to be drawn here for modern SV.

New comment by chomp in "The End of an Era"

chomp — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:07:10 +0000

> Printing presses also write words better than humans.

False equivalence, printing presses do not write.

New comment by chomp in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

chomp — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:19:23 +0000

You don't seem to understand how this works. El Niño is one half of a 2 part cycle. You don’t get permanent hurricane reduction.

New comment by chomp in "Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter"

chomp — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 21:20:28 +0000

I don’t want to be mean, but try to run a large project and you’ll realize there’s more to it than “can I find some bodies to crank out code”