Hacker News: cnity

New comment by cnity in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

cnity — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:39:35 +0000

Absolutely fantastic comment (sorry, I know it's not the done thing here to say so).

New comment by cnity in "Apple Music 404 Not Found"

cnity — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:49:39 +0000

Reminds me of one of my favorite all time HN posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32163667

New comment by cnity in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

cnity — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:30:52 +0000

You're forgetting one (I think people do this deliberately because they dislike AI, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt): those who are passionate about games and skillful, and can ship higher _quality_ at the same pace as before.

New comment by cnity in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

cnity — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:13:13 +0000

That's a fair point. I'm the kind of person who buys (very) used. My favourite car is my 2007 Prius. If you're used to budgeting for new but cheap cars I can see it. And I suppose used A-segment cars are even cheaper?

New comment by cnity in "I love software rendering"

cnity — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:58:40 +0000

This is a good example of human-agent teaming tbh. Nice one.

I love the graphics in your video, really interesting and fit the vibe of the original game too.

New comment by cnity in "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age"

cnity — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:57:26 +0000

Eh, you're just being pushed out into hatchbacks instead. I can hardly think of a scenario where I'd want an A-segment car instead of a small hatchback (e.g. VW Polo or Ford Fiesta) anyway. Obviously, that's just my opinion.

New comment by cnity in "Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]"

cnity — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:58:08 +0000

Apologies for my short-sighted comment.

New comment by cnity in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

cnity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:46:47 +0000

> It seems quite odd to me to 'admire the construction' of something, only for your opinion to sour once that something figures it out first.

Not to be too cute here, but this is like every artistic rivalry ever.

New comment by cnity in "Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]"

cnity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:29:55 +0000

Right, but there is a big difference between "not uncommon" as disparagement vs as invitation to take part. This is how Hofstadter can connect with such a large audience despite tackling really challenging and fascinating questions.

Edit: it actually is very possible GP wasn't being disparaging, in which case truly sorry! I'm not trying to be too snarky.

New comment by cnity in "Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]"

cnity — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:01:39 +0000

Please read Hofstadter and you will know more about truly interesting questions.

New comment by cnity in "Getting your hands dirty is good for you"

cnity — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:12:15 +0000

90C is a normal sauna temperature. It's on the hot side, but normal.

New comment by cnity in "Isitdoneyet.gg is a website I made to figure out if games are complete"

cnity — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:57:11 +0000

There's a qualitative difference to me. Categorising Stardew Valley the same way as Cyberpunk because they both receive content updates feels unfair to Stardew Valley (because the continual content updates for the latter come from a place of respect to the community, while the former comes from overpromising and under-delivering).

But if this is your rubric, and you find an audience that finds value from this rubric, I don't mean to denigrate your work here!

New comment by cnity in "Solving the 1+N Query Problem"

cnity — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:13:07 +0000

This is my experience too. The solution is to train people to stop wanting to solve data query problems in the application layer.

New comment by cnity in "Solving the 1+N Query Problem"

cnity — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:01:35 +0000

ORMs are great. They make the easy queries remain easy and the harder queries impossible.

New comment by cnity in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

cnity — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:58:15 +0000

The public pays for them via taxes.

New comment by cnity in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

cnity — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:33:28 +0000

I'm going to argue to my boss that our KPI for the next quarter should be the number of load bearing seams discovered. I'll await the promotion.

New comment by cnity in "When the shortage is the strategy"

cnity — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:28:31 +0000

The article contains 31 references. Of course, no report on the _general_ market trends are going to cover every anecdote in the US. It could be that the staples you mentioned aren't affected to the same degree. How about your non-staples? How about cars? Houses? Vacation expenses?

In fact, your comment could be read as the exception that proves the rule: you haven't been affected by rising costs because you stick to staples and avoid "frivolous" purchases (that is, you live frugally, as suggested by the article).

New comment by cnity in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

cnity — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:34:58 +0000

I've noticed that most people seem to consider the core problem of Claude's output as "too verbose" but I don't think this actually cuts to the heart of the matter at all. It's almost, in some weird way, the opposite: like the text is far too _dense_. It tries too hard to invent odd terminology to try to condense stuff, but it doesn't tell you up front that it is going to call your company wide error-handling mechanism a "flare" (or some other such strange term).

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

cnity — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:51:09 +0000

I recommend folks here read "The Dreamt Land" by Mark Arax. I just started it so it might be a premature recommendation, but it has been doing a great job for me as a new California resident of explaining the interaction between business/agriculture and the desert landscape.

New comment by cnity in "Show HN: Ember – Redshift safe color palettes"

cnity — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:43:21 +0000

I love this, and the example images are really beautiful. It feels sci-fi, but is actually practical too. Nice job and thank you for sharing.