Hacker News: cratermoon

New comment by cratermoon in "Reforming English Spelling"

cratermoon — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 02:03:25 +0000

I’ve also heard it as drouth. It is, in fact, an archaic alternate spelling

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/drought-or-drouth

New comment by cratermoon in "Debunking "Faster Than Rust": Malicious Benchmarks in Tov"

cratermoon — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:14:39 +0000

I bet the Tov developers used a clanker to write the rust for them.

New comment by cratermoon in "UUIDv7 doesn't have the properties you think it does"

cratermoon — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:05:48 +0000

The maintainers of the python library are wrong. Handling backwards time jumps is basic correctness for software where time is used to derive a semantically meaningful value.

New comment by cratermoon in "Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1"

cratermoon — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:36:40 +0000

Spend the money on something we already know works that will help people today, right now.

New comment by cratermoon in "Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1"

cratermoon — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:35:15 +0000

It's not even a test of an orbital data center. All it will do it determine if and how a Google TPU performs in space.

New comment by cratermoon in "Waymo safety impact after 270M miles: 841 fewer injury-causing crashes"

cratermoon — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:31:23 +0000

Only 841 fewer in 270M miles is not the flex waymo might think it is.

New comment by cratermoon in "Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?"

cratermoon — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:28:34 +0000

Did you know birds do not have receptors for capsaicin? They can eat any pepper and it doesn't affect them. So if you see a bird snacking on a pepper that's red or greenish-yellow, wrinkly, and has a pointy end, well ... watch out

New comment by cratermoon in "Existing laws already cover every type of AI security incident"

cratermoon — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:36:11 +0000

Yes of course they do. It's only the AI bros who are trying to use the tech for accountability washing claiming otherwise.

New comment by cratermoon in "The Unhired Index: Big Tech revenue-headcount trend suggests 185K missing hires"

cratermoon — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:56:58 +0000

It's 2026. Talking about pandemic over-hiring for the current job market is like blaming the Biden administration for gas prices.

New comment by cratermoon in "McDonald's bets on chicken to win back diners as beef prices soar"

cratermoon — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:56:37 +0000

Quarter pound of chicken? Nobody goes to mickey D's for chicken. People think : Chick-fil-A when they want a chicken sandwich. Tip for McD's execs: bring back the McRib indefinitely and keep it front and center until/unless beef prices drop.

New comment by cratermoon in "SAML: A Fractal of Bad Design"

cratermoon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:16:49 +0000

The requirement for connected network topology is a non-starter for many SaaS products. I don't want my systems to be open to some backchannel communication from the SaaS providers service.

New comment by cratermoon in "Shopify CEO: employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else"

cratermoon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:58:06 +0000

Note the CEO here blames the employees, using the "you're holding it wrong" excuse.

Shopify CEO: employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else

cratermoon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:43:43 +0000

Article URL: https://fortune.com/2026/09/17/shopify-tobias-lutke-ai-slop-grenades/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49805242

Points: 4

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New comment by cratermoon in "No one wants to buy LA's most famous midcentury house"

cratermoon — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:18:33 +0000

It was listed at $25 million, later cut to $20 million. Ok, I understand paying a bit of a premium for an iconic property, but... "Even with the price cut, the eight-figure home is about $18 million higher than the median for its surrounding neighborhood".

That's not a premium price, that's 10x over market. Plus, it's on the National Register of Historic Places, meaning whoever buys it is committing to maintaining it according to the listing.

How about the Stahl family donate it to the National Park Service, along with an endowment to fund upkeep? Let a historic property be historic, not a shiny bauble for a billionaire status symbol.

New comment by cratermoon in "VC isn't VC anymore"

cratermoon — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:50:29 +0000

I got the details about classes of shares and preferential stuff technically wrong, it’s true. I still got the gist of the arrangement correct: VCs and founders get the pizza, everyone else gets the crusts

New comment by cratermoon in "Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?"

cratermoon — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:01:34 +0000

No, we're arguing over whether or not openai stole the other researcher's work. The evidence is pretty damning.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-car...

New comment by cratermoon in "A mysterious kidney disease has arrived in Texas"

cratermoon — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:11:35 +0000

Bold of you to think undocumented workers making subsistence wages under a brutal system have access to annual physicals, much less the sort of continuously documented medical history needed to spot and address abnormalities before they become life-threatening emergencies.

New comment by cratermoon in "Sony makes bold claim about game ownership"

cratermoon — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:03:06 +0000

If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't theft.

New comment by cratermoon in "VC isn't VC anymore"

cratermoon — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:52:20 +0000

Startups define different classes of stock. The class A shareholders are the founders and investors. Everyone else gets class B shares. The A class shares don't get diluted, and they are inherently worth more anyway.

New comment by cratermoon in "Illumos Doors: Unix Built-In RPC Mechanism"

cratermoon — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:59:13 +0000

Hey it's sunrpc