Hacker News: dudeinjapan

New comment by dudeinjapan in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

dudeinjapan — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:53:25 +0000

I'd talk to your Amazon rep and see if you can get them to agree to $800 million as a compromise. They are usually pretty good at that stuff.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"

dudeinjapan — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:12:35 +0000

> Inventing completely new mathematics

There will be fewer good mathematicians, but more great mathematicians!

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them"

dudeinjapan — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:34:04 +0000

Also, should we capitalize the "C" in "Capitalism"? One might think we should, because C is a capital letter. But capital itself is lowercase, and therein lies the paradox.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Ancient Tablets Show Markets Worked 4k Years Before Economists Explained Them"

dudeinjapan — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:31:53 +0000

I'm looking for the tablet that says "We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune..."

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights"

dudeinjapan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:24:26 +0000

You're forgetting about property taxes (adverse possession / squatter's rights.)

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights"

dudeinjapan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:23:24 +0000

In rare cases, yes. https://nypost.com/2009/04/16/small-tree-found-growing-insid...

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights"

dudeinjapan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:20:00 +0000

No, they are tax cheats. It has been notoriously hard to arrest them and send them to jail however.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis"

dudeinjapan — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:04:05 +0000

meh just put the head on the end of the tail, a lot less effort and no one will be any the wiser.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

dudeinjapan — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:00:12 +0000

> Splash colours can help you avoid decision paralysis when picking colours. It's an emotional tool that stops you fussing around— trying to pick the "perfect" colour.

OK I missed this. The intro paragraph explains "what" not "why". As this "why" is not immediately obvious (nor is something I've ever considered a "problem"), would suggest to put something short in the intro.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Splash Is a Colour Format"

dudeinjapan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:17:53 +0000

The site doesn't explain--what's the actual point of this? If we are seriously concerned about characters (which is generally silly in a gzipped CSS) why not just use 3-char hex like #a5c?

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

dudeinjapan — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:18:30 +0000

Was recently discussing N64 games with friends in Japan. Nobody here knew Goldeneye.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

dudeinjapan — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:00:29 +0000

This is a game released in 1999. It's silly that source code isn't released for games this old.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

dudeinjapan — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:36:54 +0000

The elephant in the room is AI. The frontier LLMs seem to prefer Tailwind by default. And they do a good job with it--likely because coupling style definitions to your HTML document structure is the least overhead way for an LLM to write code. The alternative--reasoning about a platonic ideal CSS structure, mapping the document structure to that an inferring how the layout will look, then juggling all that while making iterative edits--is a lot more "cognitive" work!

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Japan’s robot wolf sells out as record bear attacks drive demand"

dudeinjapan — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:59:29 +0000

> The robot scarecrows are used to ward off bears in rural areas

Two thoughts on this captioned image: (1) holy $&!# that is horrifying (2) if its designed to ward off bears, isn't it a scarebear?

New comment by dudeinjapan in "We don't know why Malawi is poor"

dudeinjapan — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:08:31 +0000

So corrupt even the reporting of corruption is corrupt?

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

dudeinjapan — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:34:32 +0000

I think he means an owl that gets progressively angrier/sadder/more emotionally manipulative if you stop counting cards.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

dudeinjapan — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:03:22 +0000

I tried to replicate this but Claude was already down https://status.claude.com/

New comment by dudeinjapan in "SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin"

dudeinjapan — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:01:36 +0000

The honest thing to do is to return the key you found to its owner Satoshi Nakamoto.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants"

dudeinjapan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Sure there are misbehaving companies. But the solution should not be to block PRs from employees at well-behaved companies like mine. Instead the govt should clamp down directly on the bad behavior. Japan has mastered the art of ignoring real problems, and attacking substitute/scapegoat problems instead.

New comment by dudeinjapan in "Japan implements language proficiency requirements for certain visa applicants"

dudeinjapan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:27:54 +0000

You mean immigration lawyer covering his ass? Possibly. It wouldn't be the staff member.