Hacker News: elcapitan

New comment by elcapitan in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

elcapitan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:41:06 +0000

That's hilarious given that this entire site here is using the term unironically to refer to people in general, good stuff

New comment by elcapitan in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

elcapitan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:58:38 +0000

Yeah, that was what I was refering to, no the specific part of the article. I've seen it much more here recently. Kind of disgusting and sad, but on the other hand it's good if people show their real face that way.

New comment by elcapitan in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: New Jobs"

elcapitan — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:02:49 +0000

Is there a way back to calling human beings human beings and not "meat"? Or is the sociopathic Jeffrey Dahmer undertone now the new normal?

New comment by elcapitan in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

elcapitan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:42:59 +0000

The internet was a mistake anyway, they should just ban it completely and be done with it.

New comment by elcapitan in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

elcapitan — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:34:20 +0000

I really appreciate this series of posts, as it serves as a good summary of key points of the discourse around AIs, and links to the relevant articles etc. I find following all those discussions myself exhausting, so if I can find this all in one place and read it nicely grouped, that is very helpful.

New comment by elcapitan in "A Tour of Oodi"

elcapitan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:58:04 +0000

Personally as a lover of public libraries, which to me have always been places to discover old and new books in a quiet atmosphere, this change of the "library" to some sort of community center is rather annoying. You usually end up with a minimum viable amount of books, all the interesting stuff hidden away in a magazine, so that you can't browse and discover yourself, and a high level of noise and distraction everywhere. I'm not against creating such community spaces at all, but please keep the library alive and open and separate from those very different activities.

New comment by elcapitan in "Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them"

elcapitan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:03:28 +0000

Not sure how that changes the fact that you can filter by date range in searches where you don't actually need anything recent?

New comment by elcapitan in "Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them"

elcapitan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:54:01 +0000

LLM or not, this is just terrible kitsch.

New comment by elcapitan in "Why meaningful days look like nothing while you are living them"

elcapitan — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 06:38:51 +0000

Which is also a good filter for web searches to exclude a lot of garbage results (if the specific search makes sense for non-recent results)

New comment by elcapitan in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

elcapitan — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:40:01 +0000

This whole mission was amazing, and the most positive and hopeful thing I have seen as a global event in the last 5 years at least. Bravo and cheers to everyone involved :)

New comment by elcapitan in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

elcapitan — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:12:31 +0000

So which side is fighting for our values?

New comment by elcapitan in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

elcapitan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:53:39 +0000

A slightly more controversial, but equally effective solution would be to glue an angry toddler to your handlebar.

New comment by elcapitan in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

elcapitan — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:18:57 +0000

This. For those more into reading instead of straight to therapy, Barbara Sher's "Refuse to Choose!" book about living with a multitude of interests can be a good starting point.

Also, making (or maybe tuning) a chess engine to teaching sounds like an interesting challenge, actually.

New comment by elcapitan in "Good Taste the Only Real Moat Left"

elcapitan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:29:52 +0000

The rest of that is also still gold https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0

YouTube's AI Plagiarism Problem [video]

elcapitan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:53:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2Ak8wX0AaQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47657424

Points: 1

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New comment by elcapitan in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

elcapitan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:10:46 +0000

For some searches I've started to limit the date range to pre 2023. That drastically improves search results (DDG, but I imagine Google as well). As long as you're looking for more long term information/posts ofc.

New comment by elcapitan in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

elcapitan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:33:06 +0000

This post reminded me of Bjarne Stroustrup's famous quote "There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people complain about and those nobody uses".

New comment by elcapitan in "The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering"

elcapitan — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:49:10 +0000

Getting rushed by a 3rd party into doing sth one would do more carefully normally is probably a good tell that it's a social engineering attempt.

New comment by elcapitan in "What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?"

elcapitan — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:00:03 +0000

> I interpret it as the former requiring the creative fireworks of youthful neural elasticity and the latter the depth we associate with lived experience and wisdom.

That being said, I think an interesting factor would also be which of those who wrote major works in their later age already did a decent amount of writing in their earlier years. Even if you have life experience, I would imagine that you will have to build up the "muscle memory" of writing skills in your more elastic years (e.g. by becoming a successful writer after a lifetime of journalistic work or just minor literary works).

New comment by elcapitan in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

elcapitan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:59:35 +0000

I have a Framework that I love and bought for that exact reason, but recently Lenovo seems to have upped their repairability game again as well:

https://de.ifixit.com/News/115827/new-thinkpads-score-perfec...