Hacker News: emptyfile

New comment by emptyfile in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"

emptyfile — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:48:53 +0000

Well here's an economic application without nuclear tipped warheads.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_(missile)

New comment by emptyfile in "My Experience as a Rice Farmer"

emptyfile — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:24:21 +0000

Maybe in hacker news reality, not in the real world.

New comment by emptyfile in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

emptyfile — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:11:55 +0000

Meanwhile every MacOS thread is filled with people complaining how everything is broken and only getting worse.

Not that I'd know, I've probably seen <10 apple laptop devices in my life and never used one.

New comment by emptyfile in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

emptyfile — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:45:13 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, I don't think that's the case in most of the non English speaking world.

Mostly we're just called programmers.

New comment by emptyfile in "How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)"

emptyfile — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:49:13 +0000

Sounds like you never properly understood what "back-breaking work" really means.

Try doing bending down and picking heavy stuff up, for 8 hours a day, every working day.

New comment by emptyfile in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

emptyfile — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 14:35:54 +0000

Art without human intent behind it, is simply not art.

New comment by emptyfile in "The myth of outrunning your diet"

emptyfile — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 11:06:48 +0000

35 miles per week is low milage.

10 miles per day would be more appropriate for someone aiming for a marathon.

If you eat real food and not "frapachino" (whatever that is) it can be pretty hard to eat enough food to keep your weight, without stomach issues.

No, I don't run that much. But many people do even more.

New comment by emptyfile in "Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd sued and raided by the Italian government"

emptyfile — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:08:20 +0000

What are the moral downsides of pirating a game you can't buy anywhere?

New comment by emptyfile in "Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students"

emptyfile — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:25:21 +0000

Care to mention one?

New comment by emptyfile in "'It cannot provide nuance': UK experts warn AI therapy chatbots are not safe"

emptyfile — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:02:30 +0000

The idea of people talking to LLMs in this way genuinely disturbs me.

New comment by emptyfile in "American Disruption"

emptyfile — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:25:46 +0000

Tha fact that he just shuffled around the letters of his own name for the fake economist is simply amazing.

Brave new world.

New comment by emptyfile in "Why does Britain feel so poor?"

emptyfile — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 13:55:54 +0000

Getting so tired of HN, every thread has these kinds of vague, ignorant, semi-political comments. Just a throwaway opinion with some unrelated quote to appear smart, not related to the posted link, nothing added to the discussion.

The Suez Crisis happened 70(!) years ago, the article is talking about where modern day UK spends its money. It's literally right there in the opening sentence, if you only bothered to open it:

>Britain is a rich country with the world’s 6th largest economy and the highest tax income for decades, which raises a simple question - why do we seem so broke?

Aside from strictly technical topics, this community is now worse than Reddit.

New comment by emptyfile in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

emptyfile — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:07:46 +0000

>Are we factoring in digital/service trades?

???

Of course not. The entire time Trump is railing against the deficit, he's talking only about goods. He wants to bring back manufacturing to America, didn't you hear?

No one asked him this shit on the campaign trail?

New comment by emptyfile in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

emptyfile — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:28:45 +0000

You should understand what putting a word in quotes means, regardless of internet memes.

New comment by emptyfile in "Please don't mention AI again"

emptyfile — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:26:15 +0000

Yeah but it makes you sound like an asshole, same as constantly talking about punching people.

New comment by emptyfile in "I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag"

emptyfile — Sat, 18 May 2024 18:16:57 +0000

>hey’d see kids after dark at the school and just assume we were up to no good.

That sounds totally crazy to me, did these people get into any trouble or fined for just calling the police like that? I assume you're american, in my eastern european country they would NOT be happy about getting called 5 times for this...

New comment by emptyfile in "The Battle to Define Mental Illness (2010)"

emptyfile — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:16:56 +0000

>Autism simply got tied up with entitlements and the diagnosis has been grossly abused as a lever to get access to said entitlements

I just love when narrowminded Americans (I would wager 1000$ that the poster is from that country) assume the thing that happens in their city/state/country is a worldwide phenomenon with the rest of us 8 billion people.

And even better writing in this snarky obfuscating style so the rest of us don't have a clue what they're talking about. Entitlements???

In my (EU) country talking about your mental issues is simply not done, let alone your actual diagnosis.

New comment by emptyfile in "My experiment in phonelessness was a failure, and it also changed my life"

emptyfile — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 14:27:22 +0000

100% utterly wrong, people with ADHD are A LOT more likely to get addicted and stay addicted.

This is clinical data NOT open for discussion.

Blows my mind that people think medical data is a topic for discussion where your opinion matters.

New comment by emptyfile in "Your last name contains invalid characters (2010)"

emptyfile — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:17:18 +0000

At least ss is an acceptable and widley understood replacement for ß.

My last name end on "ić" so every time, even on many EU shops and websites, I get to choose if I want to write my name wrong with "ic" and definitley get the package(cause the post understands) or write my name properly and get my package in 90% of cases.

Its just plain weird that a Spanish/French/UK online shop will support their weird characters but not full Unicode.

New comment by emptyfile in "The World Has Already Ended"

emptyfile — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:17:52 +0000

I find it really difficult to imagine how are people OK with bringing new children into this world, I don't even live in a particulary poor or horrible country.