Hacker News: cutemonster

New comment by cutemonster in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

cutemonster — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:11:00 +0000

Replying to a genocide terror attack by starting to genocide kill civilians in the area the terrorists came from, is wrong.

But that's what you're apparently supporting, looking at how you're writing.

Plus you are misrepresenting what I said.

New comment by cutemonster in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

cutemonster — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:35:12 +0000

Sounds as if you're defending genocide style killing civilians.

New comment by cutemonster in "Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them"

cutemonster — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:26:54 +0000

Thanks for mentioning, the escalator was interesting to read about

New comment by cutemonster in "Voyager 1 is about to reach one light-day from Earth"

cutemonster — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 21:13:30 +0000

How much do/can they use their own thrusters to change/correct their directions? I'm guessing it's just fractions of a degree? And needs to be extremely precise, done weeks? before reaching the next planet to slingshot around?

New comment by cutemonster in "Meta buried 'causal' evidence of social media harm, US court filings allege"

cutemonster — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 01:46:54 +0000

> 0.15% of Meta revenue

That must be a gigantic amount of money, you (or someone else) don't happen to know who any of those people (or organizations?) are?

New comment by cutemonster in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

cutemonster — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 09:15:57 +0000

Wow! Amazing. Can I ask, did the employer find out? (Did the employer like it?)

New comment by cutemonster in "Private Equity's New Venture: Youth Sports"

cutemonster — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:02:34 +0000

You can't, the PE companies buy the hockey rinks

New comment by cutemonster in "Gemini 3"

cutemonster — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 06:10:10 +0000

Are there really boxing capable mainframes nowadays?

Otherwise I think the mainframe would lose because of being too passive

New comment by cutemonster in "Work after work: Notes from an unemployed new grad watching the job market break"

cutemonster — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:52:23 +0000

> farm out referrals

Why did they do that?

New comment by cutemonster in "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (1987) [pdf]"

cutemonster — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 06:04:45 +0000

Is that article AI generated, if you happen to know? It was pretty interesting in any case

New comment by cutemonster in "The profitable startup"

cutemonster — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:20:48 +0000

Google Cloud and Gemini are two examples

New comment by cutemonster in "The profitable startup"

cutemonster — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:15:20 +0000

That definition, I never heard before. I think you're confusing yourself and others if you make up your own meaning of words.

A startup can be profitable.

New comment by cutemonster in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

cutemonster — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 14:16:14 +0000

I suppose it depends on what you're protecting, who's out there to get you, and how boring and time consuming it is to clean up after a breach (can't that take weeks or months), etc.

Aren't you're a bit asking "When X transportation method isn't used by everyone, can it really be any good?" :-)

New comment by cutemonster in "NPM flooded with malicious packages downloaded more than 86k times"

cutemonster — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:31:31 +0000

It is a realistic solution.

New comment by cutemonster in "How ancient people saw themselves"

cutemonster — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:41:38 +0000

Not having half of your kids die, could be one thing:

"For most of human history, around 1 in 2 newborns died before reaching the age of 15. By 1950, that figure had declined to around one-quarter globally. By 2020, it had fallen to 4%."

https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality

New comment by cutemonster in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

cutemonster — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:06:33 +0000

Reading your other comments, I was just thinking that you seemed to group everyone who look the same, together, and think about them as if they were 1 type of person you could generalize about. For example, white men, or black men, or women. - So, yes I suppose you did.

For example, if your country gets attacked, primarily the men go and defend their country and people. Is that "thoroughly awesome"? Anyway have a nice day

New comment by cutemonster in "The Programmer Identity Crisis"

cutemonster — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:01:47 +0000

Lots of READMEs? Might make total sense, if lines of code added, is a metrics the managers look at.

Can't be any compilation errors in a README, no need to worry about bugs. And if they're long and boring enough, no one will ever read them.

AI generated READMEs = free metrics bonus points, for the performance reviews :-)

New comment by cutemonster in "Replacement.ai"

cutemonster — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:20:09 +0000

The Nordic countries are pretty ok functioning democracies, with many smaller political parties. And pretty high taxes

(What do you refer to with "this"?)

New comment by cutemonster in "Why are Big Tech companies a threat to human rights?"

cutemonster — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:55:12 +0000

I find it lacking that the report doesn't mention TikTok or X / Twitter. TikTok has been used for manipulating voters in Europe.

New comment by cutemonster in "China's New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten US Defense Supply Chains"

cutemonster — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 02:22:08 +0000

At the same time, wouldn't a bright adversary hide their intent and capabilities?