Hacker News: chomp

New comment by chomp in "Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube"

chomp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:24:58 +0000

Yes? Can’t take 10 minutes to speak (or at least redraft) with your own voice?

I’ve written PR copy solo, and in committee. It’s not rocket surgery. It’s a group of people standing around with a thesaurus. But if you leave AI-isms in, just feels like you whipped it out while coffee was brewing.

New comment by chomp in "Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube"

chomp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:11:04 +0000

> You're right to raise this

Is this LLM generated?

New comment by chomp in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"

chomp — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:32:54 +0000

What? Texas Tribune is excellent; it’s a nonprofit here that does investigative journalism. Are you upset they’re quoting the current administration? I can’t help you there, that’s the times we live in.

New comment by chomp in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

chomp — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:59:09 +0000

Only if that 3 in 4 number is increasing (documenting a trend) But that doesn’t appear to be the case.

New comment by chomp in "US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds"

chomp — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:23:17 +0000

This is an obtuse comment because it doesn't mean anything. Yes we all know that every country has for-profit elements. We also all know that every country has social elements in their system. And non-profit elements.

New comment by chomp in "Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI"

chomp — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:27:20 +0000

Not quite. You think he's just a well dressed CCE teacher?

New comment by chomp in "TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election"

chomp — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:25:51 +0000

I mean, it’s ran by Larry Ellison and the Saudis, so I don’t think this is surprising. But good research nonetheless.

New comment by chomp in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

chomp — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:59:03 +0000

Easy, I made the switch in my 30s, now I manage software engineers :)

New comment by chomp in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

chomp — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:21:03 +0000

Well, and some people are able to buy nicer seats on the ride with plush seats and air conditioning, and some people have to sit on hard backed plastic that hurts, and some people around you don’t get a seat at all and fall off and die routinely, and the ride keeps moving.

New comment by chomp in "Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say"

chomp — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:47:14 +0000

The US is keeping aircraft in allied bases in Cyprus, and a permanent one in Turkey. Haven’t seen anything about Afghanistan. Iran’s attacks make sense to some degree.

New comment by chomp in "Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts"

chomp — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:56:17 +0000

I think you’re confused on the difference between these, and what an administrative warrant is in particular.

New comment by chomp in "Justice Dept. launches criminal investigation of Minnesota governor"

chomp — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 04:12:58 +0000

They flashbanged a family of American citizens and put a baby in the hospital

New comment by chomp in "John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'"

chomp — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:42:57 +0000

These are wars in the colloquial sense, not wars between countries, come on

New comment by chomp in "What Is (AI) Glaze?"

chomp — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:53:35 +0000

It doesn’t, reread the limitations section.

New comment by chomp in "A new AI winter is coming?"

chomp — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:09:44 +0000

For toy and low effort coding it works fantastic. I can smash out changes and PRs fantastically quick, and they’re mostly correct. However, certain problem domains and tough problems cause it to spin its wheels worse than a junior programmer. Especially if some of the back and forth troubleshooting goes longer than one context compaction. Then it can forget the context of what it’s tried in the past, and goes back to square one (it may know that it tried something, but it won’t know the exact details).

New comment by chomp in "The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving"

chomp — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:35:15 +0000

They’re not bad, it just depends on how much you process them. Oven baked fries for instance, are not far removed from normal oven roasted potatoes. Par boiling and then deep frying them in fats will release more nutrients than you would get from a normal baker. Slicing paper thin and perfectly frying is an industrial process that most people can’t replicate at home.

I honestly think home cooked potatoes are going to be perfectly fine in most ways.

New comment by chomp in "USDA head says 'everyone' on SNAP will now have to reapply"

chomp — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:53:17 +0000

Maybe go try to meet some truly poor people and understand their story. It might provide you enough context for this discussion.

New comment by chomp in "Ask HN: Why is software quality collapsing?"

chomp — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:59:23 +0000

You are claiming sophistication is quality, it is not.

New comment by chomp in "OrangePi 5 Ultra Review: An ARM64 SBC Powerhouse"

chomp — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:50:32 +0000

Works great for me on Frigate. I am doing object detection on 3x 4k streams and it’s only 20% utilized.

New comment by chomp in "Ask HN: Is anyone else sick of AI splattered code"

chomp — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:00:09 +0000

> What would change for me is how tactful I am in wording my response to it

So code is not code? You’re admitting that provenance matters in how you handle it.