Hacker News: episteme

New comment by episteme in "Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord"

episteme — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:54:15 +0000

I suppose smart people can’t optimize for pure discussion? One of the most popular and easy to use messaging platforms seems like a reasonable choice.

New comment by episteme in "Product and design are the new bottlenecks"

episteme — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:57:23 +0000

If only they were as good at their job as you are.

New comment by episteme in "Grok turns off image generator for most after outcry over sexualised AI imagery"

episteme — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:04:44 +0000

I think I hold a similar view to you and have the same question so maybe what I’ve been thinking about might be useful to you. Everyone is upset about CSAM but when you talk about it, it’s only about deepfakes.

I don’t think we can avoid a world where people can generate CSAM easily, so we have to separate the discussion between being able to do that privately and grok being able to do it.

It makes sense to me that we don’t want widely used websites to contain images of CSAM that you can’t easily avoid, it’s simply repulsive to almost everyone and that’s almost certainly a human instinct, I don’t think it needs to be much more complicated than that.

In terms of generating CSAM privately or even sharing it with other people, I think this is a much more interesting discussion. I think at this point it is an open question on whether it is harmful. Could this replace the abuse that is happening to create some of the real content? Does the escalation argument hold water - will people be more likely to sexually assault children due to access to this material? I don’t think we know enough about pedophilia to answer these questions but given that I don’t think there is a way to stop generating this content in 2026 we really need to answer these questions before we decide to simply incarcerate everyone doing it.

New comment by episteme in "How Twitch tamed a million lines of TypeScript"

episteme — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 01:17:57 +0000

It wasn’t X, it was .

We didn’t need X, we needed .

This wasn’t about X, it was about .

This resulted in X rather than .

Over and over and over again.

New comment by episteme in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

episteme — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:41:23 +0000

Is that a useful thought experiment? Claude benefits you as an individual more than a coworker, but I find I hard to believe your use of Claude is more of a value add to the business than an additional coworker. Especially since that coworker will also have access to Claude.

In the past we also just raised the floor on productivity, do you think this will be different?

New comment by episteme in "Show HN: Website that plays the lottery every second"

episteme — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:48:40 +0000

So what happens if this wins after a very low number of plays? What if it won twice in a row? Would the plays be reset because it isn't representative anymore? Or should it be left up to give a different message?

New comment by episteme in "Doctors' estimates of the feasibility of preserving the dying for future revival"

episteme — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:14:47 +0000

With no memories going with me, it feels just as scary.

New comment by episteme in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

episteme — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:41:11 +0000

The author of the post is ‘ChatGPT’

New comment by episteme in "Louvre to hike ticket prices for most non-EU tourists by 45%"

episteme — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:31:05 +0000

I don't think that's true for European tourists, $37 per person is a lot and there are so many other cultural sites to see that paying twice that could definitely drop this off the list during a visit to Paris.

Makes total sense from a US point of view though, you are already committing to spend so much to get there.

New comment by episteme in "JavaScript Just Leveled Up: ES2025 – You'll Fall in Love With"

episteme — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 13:29:19 +0000

Open article.

"X isn't Y — it's Z"

Close article.

> As front-end developers, staying ahead of JavaScript’s evolution isn’t optional — it’s survival.

New comment by episteme in "Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP"

episteme — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:57:04 +0000

Can a style be trademarked? I thought that was what copyright was meant to cover.

New comment by episteme in "Amazon says it didn't cut people because of money. But because of 'culture'"

episteme — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:24:20 +0000

You can do the right thing and still need to reverse the decision. If all the signals in the world suggest you will be able to support more initiatives in future then you should hire. If in the near future the economy changes dramatically and you can't support those hires, you need to let them go.

New comment by episteme in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

episteme — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:36:49 +0000

Playing de_dust2 for 1000 hours is as reductive as saying playing on a soccer pitch for 1000 hours.

And soccer only has 1 map.

New comment by episteme in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

episteme — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:34:06 +0000

With the second best way being gambling. Doesn't really change anything.

New comment by episteme in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"

episteme — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:07:15 +0000

What will you use instead? I’m finding Claude the best experience since ChatGPT 5 is so slow and not any better answers than 4.

New comment by episteme in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

episteme — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:49:06 +0000

Can’t you just drag and drop across preview windows?

New comment by episteme in "Ask HN: What cool skill or project interests you, but feels out of reach?"

episteme — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 22:18:53 +0000

If it's an index fund, what's the difference between this and a fund run in the EU that tracks a US market? Is it taxed differently?

New comment by episteme in "Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules"

episteme — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:07:36 +0000

I think they might have meant that video games are also a time sink, not that video games cause harm?

New comment by episteme in "Crypto investor charged with kidnapping and torturing"

episteme — Sun, 25 May 2025 07:29:29 +0000

If torturing and kidnap are on the table, how does this help? They can torture you to give them the keys just like a password.

New comment by episteme in "Examining problematic speech and behavior in World of Warcraft (2022)"

episteme — Thu, 08 May 2025 08:03:12 +0000

Unless it's so dramatic that the raid cannot continue without you, it might not make sense.

You put aside your evening to raid with friends, to progress your character or to experience something new that you have maybe worked weeks or months for. Leaving means you get none of that and the other person gets to continue the raid as they like, feeling like they have 'won'.

Even then, you might not know for sure which one of you the group will side with. It's easy to say that there are plenty more fish in the sea but it's not easy to find fish that you actually want to spend time with regularly, even if one or two of them are bad apples.