Hacker News: empressplay

New comment by empressplay in "Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia"

empressplay — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:15:33 +0000

https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html

---The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech

   Model Railroad Club of M. I. T. and all rights to use and define

   these words are strictly reserved.---

ZORCH: to attack with an inverse heat sink.

Another of David Sawyer's sound effects, which I reinterpreted as a colorful variant of "scorch."

BBC cancels Doctor Who Christmas special and Russell T Davies announces exit

empressplay — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:04:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621ln7vx7qo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48476487

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by empressplay in "The Causes of Long Covid"

empressplay — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:58:22 +0000

no you only consume water

New comment by empressplay in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

empressplay — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:39:19 +0000

I think this should be titled 'YOLO one-shotting is not engineering' which is a far more accurate description of the article.

New comment by empressplay in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

empressplay — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:52:46 +0000

Me too, but I wasn't on AOL or anything long-distance, instead I called local chat systems / BBSes. And because they were local we met up physically as a group at least weekly (almost daily in the summertime).

The summer I was 16 I spent more time away from the computer, hanging out with other teenagers I met on the computer, than I would have otherwise.

New comment by empressplay in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

empressplay — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:01:17 +0000

Logic Pro allows you to revert to previous saves / auto-saves.

New comment by empressplay in "Childhood Computing"

empressplay — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:32:03 +0000

I was lucky enough to be an autistic kid in the 1980s with access to a steady stream of new and novel computers: Apple II, Sinclair, Commodore, Atari, TI, Macintosh... kept me engaged and off the 'short bus'. If I had been born ten years earlier I'm certain my life would have been dramatically different (in a very bad way).

New comment by empressplay in "An Apple (II) for Teacher"

empressplay — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:47:01 +0000

Related: Steve Wozniak Talks Disk ][ https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/

B.C. residents baffled as shape floats through night sky

empressplay — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:02:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/strange-light-british-columbia-9.7189267

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48037072

Points: 20

# Comments: 8

New comment by empressplay in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

empressplay — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:00:58 +0000

Disinformation isn't about convincing you that something is true; it's about convincing you that nothing is true. If information is considered to be unreliable, you are less likely to act on it decisively.

B.C. researcher taps magic of Dungeons and Dragons to help kids

empressplay — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:50:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dungeons-and-dragons-kids-therapy-neurodivergence-9.7178879

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986892

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

System Card: Claude Opus 4.7 [pdf]

empressplay — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:39:07 +0000

Article URL: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/037f06850df7fbe871e206dad004c3db5fd50340.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47793660

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by empressplay in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

empressplay — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:42:26 +0000

All my sites got pwned through this. Attempts to restore from backup just got pwned again in minutes. Ended up using Claude to create static sites from the database and the assets.

I'm never using Wordpress again and I strongly suggest nobody else does either.

IBM to pay $17M in anti-DEI settlement

empressplay — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:20:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/business/ibm-settlement-dei-lawsuit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47727001

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by empressplay in "Generative art over the years"

empressplay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:08:09 +0000

The #creativecoding and #genart tags on most social media networks will get you a front row seat to the international generative art community -- it's a very creative crowd!

New comment by empressplay in "EFF is leaving X"

empressplay — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:26:25 +0000

> EFF is more like classical liberal.

I mean, they were, but that no longer appears to be the case.

New comment by empressplay in "Claude mixes up who said what"

empressplay — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:57:30 +0000

I wonder if this is a result of auto-compacting the context? Maybe when it processes it it inadvertently strips out its own [Header:] and then decides to answer its own questions.

New comment by empressplay in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

empressplay — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:15:38 +0000

Did you get the API credit? Maybe it's a wash?

New comment by empressplay in "Tomorrow 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions no longer cover third-party tools"

empressplay — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:39:42 +0000

"Starting tomorrow at 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions will no longer cover usage on third-party tools like OpenClaw.

You can still use these tools with your Claude login via extra usage bundles (now available at a discount), or with a Claude API key.

We’ve been working hard to meet the increase in demand for Claude, and our subscriptions weren't built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools. Capacity is a resource we manage thoughtfully and we are prioritizing our customers using our products and API.

Subscribers get a one-time credit equal to your monthly plan cost. If you need more, you can now buy discounted usage bundles. To request a full refund, look for a link in your email tomorrow.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13189465-logging-in-t...

We want to be intentional in managing our growth to continue to serve our customers sustainably long-term. This change is a step toward that."

Tomorrow 12pm PT, Claude subscriptions no longer cover third-party tools

empressplay — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:35:57 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/bcherny/status/2040206440556826908

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633759

Points: 4

# Comments: 1