Hacker News: clipsy

New comment by clipsy in "Are Fewer Children the Future?"

clipsy — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 02:28:23 +0000

Extremely tangential, but I would contend the headline should be "Is Fewer Children the Future?" (as painful as that sounds) because "Fewer Children" here is effectively a singular noun describing a demographic with fewer children, rather than a group of actual children.

(Edit: Or better yet, just rewrite the headline entirely! But I'd maintain that "Are" is the wrong choice as-is.)

New comment by clipsy in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

clipsy — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:43:08 +0000

I'm sure it varies from person to person, but I find it very frustrating to use Chrome's equivalent of the "Awesome Bar" when I'm forced to (eg work computer); Firefox just seems to do a much better job of surfacing open tabs (yes, I'm a tab hoarder), bookmarks, history, etc while Chrome seems like it'll surface some dubiously relevant options and try to railroad you into search. Even when I know I have a tab open and I know the domain name or a substantial chunk of the title it is legitimately rare for Chrome to offer to switch me to that tab, and often times it will surface one or two tabs that seem utterly unrelated. Bafflingly bad performance from what used to be a search company.

New comment by clipsy in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

clipsy — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:33:54 +0000

No, they do not: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2024/03/13/manifest-v3-manif...

New comment by clipsy in "Hy4 preview"

clipsy — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:44:44 +0000

Since live action results are acceptable, this is already possible with current day LLMs. Just instruct one to hire a writer, director, cast, and crew to make the movie.

Plus, the token costs involved should be pretty low! (Other costs may not be.)

New comment by clipsy in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

clipsy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:00:59 +0000

I don't expect you to read everything, but your choice of what to call out is still telling. If you truly think this is the sort of comment that needs direct intervention, I'd politely suggest you should set aside 2-3 hours per week to read comments on /new posts.

To be clear: I do not have the time or energy to back this up statistically, but my experience is that you are substantially more likely to choose to get involved in threads/comments that challenge startup culture than you are in threads/comments that embrace bigotry, conspiracy theories, and other genuinely appalling content.

Edit: To elaborate a bit and put a final touch on this before I call it a night, the problem isn't that I see you condemning comments like this; it's that I rarely-to-never see you condemning substantially worse comments. It seems to communicate a clear choice to allow repugnant behavior as long as it doesn't criticize startup culture/founder worship.

New comment by clipsy in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

clipsy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:55:00 +0000

The "Gross." remark (Edit: now removed) at the end was unnecessary, but the bulk of the comment seems like a pretty legitimate question to me.

It's telling that I see far worse HN comments on a daily basis that don't warrant a finger-wagging condemnation from you.

New comment by clipsy in "Meta $1.4T threat could mean 'turning in the keys and walking away'"

clipsy — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:40:40 +0000

Yeah but it could also have a bad outcome

New comment by clipsy in "Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools"

clipsy — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:32:46 +0000

Here's ray-ban.com selling a variety of Ray-Ban branded Meta glasses: https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses

New comment by clipsy in "'Betrayal': Ranchers lash out at Donald Trump's plan to cut tax on beef imports"

clipsy — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:29:32 +0000

They're so furious they might even say some mean things on Twitter before they line up to vote straight ticket Republican again!

New comment by clipsy in "Colorado River plummets as lakes Powell and Mead drop to record lows"

clipsy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:28:51 +0000

We're going to build a wall and we're going to make them pay for it.

New comment by clipsy in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

clipsy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:58:00 +0000

I can't help but notice that you're still providing absolutely no evidence for an extraordinary claim.

New comment by clipsy in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

clipsy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:35:02 +0000

If you're seriously claiming black women didn't have the right to vote in 1976, you should probably provide some evidence rather than snide remarks.

New comment by clipsy in "The case for overhauling American science"

clipsy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 02:39:58 +0000

Why aren't you? If you believe that the people "running the show" are the most corrupt of all time (I think that's a stretch, though they're certainly the most corrupt in my lifetime), then it seems like you should be quite critical of a person describing it as "business as usual."

New comment by clipsy in "DOJ finds three federal STEM education programs unconstitutional"

clipsy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:20:44 +0000

Isn't that the supreme court's job?

New comment by clipsy in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

clipsy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:13:58 +0000

There is no “browser business,” because people are - with rare exceptions - unwilling to pay for a web browser. Even Firefox is ad-supported indirectly via its default search contract with google.

New comment by clipsy in "Why Is Europe Burning?"

clipsy — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:47:55 +0000

That's not fair, there are also a lot of world leaders that pay lip service to concern about global warming while defending corporate interests at all costs!

New comment by clipsy in "Fast access to Trump's 'Truth Social' posts goes on sale for $100k per month"

clipsy — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:27:11 +0000

That's a great way to get access to them in 3-12 months.

New comment by clipsy in "Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up"

clipsy — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:54:06 +0000

It isn't making mistakes that's a strength, it's the commitment to acknowledging and addressing mistakes.

New comment by clipsy in "Anthropic AI Models Hacked Three Companies During Tests"

clipsy — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:14:45 +0000

Well, surely Anthropic's executives should be charged under the CFAA[0] then, right?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

New comment by clipsy in "AI Bubble vs. Dot Com Crash. History Is Repeating"

clipsy — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:16:41 +0000

> The main trend is that models are moving out of cloud to local setup to avoid paying for tokens. This becomes possible due to free open-source models like Kimi K3 that already reached level of the best commercial models.

Who on earth is running a 1.8T parameter model locally? The hardware to do that with a usable token/s rate for a single person is (at least) well into 5 figure territory.