Hacker News: elestor

New comment by elestor in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

elestor — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:37:26 +0000

I don’t like AI slop as much as the next guy, but that part doesn’t seem so bad? Sounds like something anyone could write.

New comment by elestor in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

elestor — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:05:58 +0000

Well that was a difficult read. Sure, it is a problem. But the author seemed so snobby about his music taste. Not very likeable.

New comment by elestor in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

elestor — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:35:01 +0000

What do you mean by churn in this context?

New comment by elestor in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

elestor — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:03:44 +0000

Noita is also procedural, but not static, although I'm not sure if that's what you're talking about.

New comment by elestor in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

elestor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:49:47 +0000

I don't have the option for this. In the UK. Anyone else?

New comment by elestor in "3D guy to bypass age verification"

elestor — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:12:44 +0000

Not mine, just thought it was funny

3D guy to bypass age verification

elestor — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:12:44 +0000

Article URL: https://nofacescan.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124309

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by elestor in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

elestor — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:22:11 +0000

Yeah their naming is bad. I've always knew it because of how long the types of poems are but most people don't know poems.

The rise of Chinese memory [video]

elestor — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:17:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzfhhAfxK-A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745414

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by elestor in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

elestor — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:23:12 +0000

I know right? I'm into both things tech and hip hop, didn't expect them to collide

New comment by elestor in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

elestor — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:00:49 +0000

I am getting a wordpress error so used this: https://web.archive.org/web/20260114073704/https://blog.meta...

New comment by elestor in "enclose.horse"

elestor — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:39:54 +0000

Say that again

New comment by elestor in "A website to destroy all websites"

elestor — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:30:51 +0000

I viewed it on desktop, I still think it looks pretty good. Not efficient in the way it displays content, but still beautiful.

New comment by elestor in "A website to destroy all websites"

elestor — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 10:02:39 +0000

I did the opposite, I opened the website before looking at the comments and thought it was like a beautiful art gallery too. Then I read the top comment, and thought 'What are they talking about??'. Had a complete opposite feeling.

New comment by elestor in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

elestor — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:23:59 +0000

Where do you find the RSS feed? I can't see a link to it anywhere

New comment by elestor in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

elestor — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:19:24 +0000

How do you even know ANY of that??

New comment by elestor in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

elestor — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:24:21 +0000

An AI-generated thank you letter is not a real thank you letter. I myself am quite bullish on AI in that I think in the long term, much longer term than tech bros seem to think, it will be very revolutionary, but if more people like him have the balls to show awful things are, then the bubble will pop sooner and have less of a negative impact because if we just let these companies grow bigger and bigger without doing actually profitable things, the whole economy will go to shit even more.

I've never been able to get the whole idea that the code is being 'stolen' by these models, though, since from my perspective at least, it is just like getting someone to read loads of code and learn to code in that way.

The harm AI is doing to the planet is done by many other things too. Things that don't have to harm the planet. The fact our energy isn't all renewable is a failing of our society and a result of greed from oil companies. We could easily have the infrastructure to sustainably support this increase in energy demand, but that's less profitable for the oil companies. This doesn't detract from the fact that AI's energy consumption is harming the planet, but at least it can be accounted for by building nuclear reactors for example, which (I may just be falling for marketing here) lots of AI companies are doing.

New comment by elestor in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

elestor — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:03:07 +0000

I can second the Apollo thing. I think it might just be a natural name to give something, because when I was a kid I was working on a voice assistant thing instead of touching grass (never finished it) and called it Apollo. This was probably my first project.

New comment by elestor in "Thin desires are eating life"

elestor — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 22:19:12 +0000

It's not ChatGPT, try paste it into any AI detector.

New comment by elestor in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

elestor — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:15:57 +0000

Of course pictures of gay people doesn't encourage being gay, but being gay is fine. Being a pedophile is not fine. If there is even a small chance that something will cause someone to be a pedophile, it's best to minimize it. We aren't talking about pictures of pedophiles, we are talking about what is, in essence, child pornography. Maybe 'encourages pedophilia' is not a thorough enough way to phrase it, but a 'dormant' pedophile is much more likely to become an 'active' one if they are consuming excessive amounts of media related to their interests.