Hacker News: egypturnash

New comment by egypturnash in "Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios"

egypturnash — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:14:47 +0000

we just call it "unpaid interns"

New comment by egypturnash in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

egypturnash — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:47:09 +0000

How do you suggest Qontour be held accountable for this blatant theft of Koenig's work and name if the DMCA is a mistake?

And don't pass the blame off onto "AI" from the people who said "let's make a web site that totally steals this book we like". AI is a tool of thieves, founded upon thievery. Qontour is an agency made up of thieves who are using AI to perform their thievery.

In fact let's go down their about page (https://www.qontour.com/about) and point some fingers:

Gala Aranaga, Founder & CEO of Qontour, is a thief.

Jason Chandler, Founder & Creative Director of Qontour, is a thief.

Atif Fazil, Technical Director of Qontour, is a thief.

Pemi Ogunkeye, Webflow Developer at Qontour, is a thief.

Daniela Aranaga, Head of Content & Marketing at Qontour, is a thief.

Ahmed Qayyum, Solutions Architect at Qontour, is a thief.

Bukunmi Ogunmodede, Webflow Developer at Qontour, is a thief.

Hassaan Rasul, Senior UX Designer at Qontour, is a thief.

They used ChatGPT, a copyrightwashing tool developed in a massive act of thievery by the employees of OpenAI, all of whom are thieves. OpenAI was founded by Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Trevor Blackwell, all of whom are thieves.

New comment by egypturnash in "The Wholesale Plagiarism of Obscure Sorrows"

egypturnash — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:35:48 +0000

This reminds me of when a bunch of cryptobros paid a ludicrous sum for one of the pitch bibles for Jodorowsky's unmade film adaptation of Dune and assumed that owning this rare object gave them license to pitch movie adaptations of it. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a38815538/dune-c...

New comment by egypturnash in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

egypturnash — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:42:43 +0000

vibe-coded index into the list of comments is backwards I guess

New comment by egypturnash in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

egypturnash — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:46:33 +0000

No, it should be rendered with the proper Unicode: U+203D ‽

New comment by egypturnash in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

egypturnash — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:39:00 +0000

“You mastered 98 new words! THE VERDICT

You are a person of few words, or perhaps just a mysterious one. Quite intriguing.”

—- This sounds more like a cute assessment of only getting two words right. And what do you mean “new words”? It wasn’t until eighty-odd words in that I actually got a word I didn’t know and had to guess by ruling out multiple-choice options.

New comment by egypturnash in "McMansions 101: What Makes a McMansion Bad Architecture? (2016)"

egypturnash — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:00:58 +0000

Perhaps this lack of consistency is deliberate: “this house is trying to look like a miniature version of an estate that grew over many generations”.

Curse not the McMansion. Rejoice in The People’s Gormenghast.

New comment by egypturnash in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

egypturnash — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:39:04 +0000

Grok is more likely to be looking to murder me for being a trans lady, what with it being owned by Elon Musk.

But really I would prefer whichever one is most likely to trip and fall over.

New comment by egypturnash in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

egypturnash — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:30:10 +0000

> Why make a 24-minute Youtube video instead of an article with proper navigation?

Which one is more likely to result in more ad revenue for you?

New comment by egypturnash in "Show HN: Verso – A $14.99 Mac word processor with no subscription"

egypturnash — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:34:28 +0000

"Word wants a subscription. Pages is a lot of app. TextEdit tops out at bold and italic."

No it doesn't? format>font has bold, italic, underline, outline, super/subscript, and more?

It used to have strikethru too, annoyingly now you have to open the fonts window and access it through a dropdown in there instead of a single hotkey. Notes still has a strikethru menu item but the ⌘k hotkey got stolen for "make hyperlink".

New comment by egypturnash in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

egypturnash — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:50:31 +0000

If "putting a random seed into a set of swappable character parts" counts as "generative art" then it sure made a ton of money when people cared about hying NFTs.

New comment by egypturnash in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

egypturnash — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:58:06 +0000

"boomer shooter": 1105 matches

"boomer shooter" + "female protagonist": 106 matches.

So a bit less than 1/10 of the games tagged with "boomer shooter". With your caveats above about being able to choose a gender, or a single brief segment where you're a lady in a game where you're mostly a dude. Is that a lot? I dunno, doesn't feel like a lot to me. Probably feels like a lot to the people who inevitably show up in the Steam discussions of any successful game that makes you be a lady for most of its length and complain about it being "woke", even one game with a female protagonist seems to be too many for them.

New comment by egypturnash in "Making Graphics Like it's 1993"

egypturnash — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:49:12 +0000

Control's not first-person. You are looking at Jesse's back for pretty much every moment of gameplay.

New comment by egypturnash in "The 15-minute city is a dead end"

egypturnash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:55:44 +0000

> Transport is beginning to change: The rise of autonomous vehicles and technologies like hyperloop may make a major difference to the way we travel around cities

instant close

New comment by egypturnash in "The Butlerian Jihad Has Begun"

egypturnash — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:25:51 +0000

They’re saying that the popular conception of a “Butlerian Jihad” is a pale shadow of what Frank Herbert outlined over the course of four novels, all of which are… look, have you read any of them? Whatever virtues you care to ascribe to Dune, “succinct” is not one of them.

New comment by egypturnash in "The company I work for is losing all of its humanity, I don't know where to go"

egypturnash — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:12:05 +0000

Unionize.

New comment by egypturnash in "Algorithmic Theming Engines"

egypturnash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:23:27 +0000

How does someone write an article like this without ever once thinking "I should include some images that demonstrate what kind of colors this will automatically generate. Maybe even stick in an editable bit of html/css to let readers play with it themselves."

New comment by egypturnash in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

egypturnash — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:17:32 +0000

Sat it out, or were forced out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...

New comment by egypturnash in "Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler"

egypturnash — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:10:08 +0000

I personally am sharing stuff because I want people to read my comics, and maybe join my crowdfunding campaigns.

If I could put everyone pushing all this AI crap into a meat grinder, I would.

New comment by egypturnash in "macOS needs its grid back"

egypturnash — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:23:05 +0000

I just checked out DockDoor and I could not find anything related to multiple desktops in it at all.