Hacker News: erickf1

New comment by erickf1 in "PHP 8.5"

erickf1 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:50:38 +0000

Until two years later the same thing is said about PHP 9, 10, 11. Constant change is not good.

New comment by erickf1 in "Show HN: SQLite Online – 11 years of solo development, 11K daily users"

erickf1 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:30:20 +0000

This reminds me a lot of RavenDB. I'm impressed.

New comment by erickf1 in "Earth was born dry until a cosmic collision made it a blue planet"

erickf1 — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 19:11:34 +0000

From a purely mathematical, scientific, and logical standpoint, I must regard this article as entirely speculative. The scientific claims it presents are extraordinarily improbable, and sound reasoning compels their complete dismissal.

New comment by erickf1 in "Bell Labs Scientists Accidentally Proved the Big Bang Theory"

erickf1 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:26:20 +0000

The article only proves the big bang to be a theory.

New comment by erickf1 in "Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England"

erickf1 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 01:35:03 +0000

The UK is almost lost.

New comment by erickf1 in "We’re secretly winning the war on cancer"

erickf1 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:44:36 +0000

Humans are certainly not winning the war on cancer. Not even close. Now, even children perish from cancer in America. Things are getting worse, not better. When you get cancer, you'll better understand the hopelessness.

New comment by erickf1 in "Major Flaws in 2025 Meta-Analysis on Fluoride and Children IQ Scores"

erickf1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:47:37 +0000

Very good point!

New comment by erickf1 in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

erickf1 — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:38:49 +0000

If it's not Google, it will be someone else that dominates the browser market.

New comment by erickf1 in "Priced out of home ownership"

erickf1 — Mon, 27 May 2024 20:16:21 +0000

Landlords have 100% risk. Look what happened to California, when the state said tenants did not have to pay rent. Same for Washington, NY, IL, etc... The vast majority of people with rental properties are just regular people trying to make a living.

New comment by erickf1 in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

erickf1 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:55:53 +0000

Since when has war ever been tit-for-tat. Since the beginning of time, if a nation where to attack and make war with another nation, they had to measure carefully the consequences if they were to lose... because losing meant losing everything. This is no different. Russia attacking Ukraine is no different. No one is tracing and counting every bullet Russia fires and certainly no world court is saying anything at all to Russia… or to Turkey, or Iran, or Syria, or anyone else… except for Israel. Gaza attacked Israel and like any nation that goes to war, they will either win or lose. Consider carefully before declaring war against your enemy…. Everything is at stake.

New comment by erickf1 in "Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally"

erickf1 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:55:56 +0000

I like the idea. Unfortunately, could not get it to work on Linux. Making a note caused a crash. Searching notes crashed. LLM chat would cause crash. Hope to see it work some time.

New comment by erickf1 in "ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire"

erickf1 — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 23:27:57 +0000

The UN has no power to exercise binding laws over sovereign states.

New comment by erickf1 in "Universal cancer vaccine trial shows significant improvement in overall survival"

erickf1 — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 03:39:03 +0000

Sounds like another money maker for the pharmaceutical industry that does nothing for the patient.

New comment by erickf1 in "Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began"

erickf1 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:17:20 +0000

Point taken, and I do not dismiss the potential. It would be prudent to consider all the new things and not dismiss either without careful review. Most kids suffered very few ills as a result of having covid compared to adults. Diabetes among children is a very rare thing, not even a blip on the radar for children (until now). Also, if we want to say that covid caused an increase of type 2 diabetes among children (no doctor is saying this by the way... neither is the WHO)... what is that evidence? I mean, is there a historical precedence that demonstrates that having one illness to trigger an entirely different illness? For example, do survivors of cancer tend to get diabetes... or did the survivors of the black plaque experience a sudden increase of diabetes... etc... I do not believe that to be the case. I'm not discounting it... I do not believe their to be such a treasure trove of past cases that can be pointed to as models to consider. But, worth a look. My concern is more of the unwillingness I see in so many people to consider the potential of all the options on the table. No one seems to really want to talk about, the other option. All medicines cause issues over time. Take a tylenol every day for 2 weeks and see what happens to you (please, don't do it). How much more something entirely new and experimental.

New comment by erickf1 in "Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began"

erickf1 — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 05:44:38 +0000

It sounds like you made up your mind that the vaccine could not possibly be at fault. Nothing to see here, right? You will not even consider the possibility? Not even a 1% probability? Note I said nothing about religion, so not sure why you bring that up here when speaking of the probabilities of potential cause, but I believe your stand requires significant faith.

I do not consider covid to be harmless. Many died, including my own family members. We are talking about diabetes among children. Children were hardly impacted by covid. But many did take the vaccine. Food for thought.

New comment by erickf1 in "The worst programmer I know"

erickf1 — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 18:59:36 +0000

All I had to do was read the title of this article and the first sentence to understand that this is an example of what's wrong with the software development industry. I would rather work with people that act like good people and are human, than to work for the idiots measuring your every breath looking for a reason to fire you.

New comment by erickf1 in "FedNow Is Live"

erickf1 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 20:02:55 +0000

It won't take long before all banks are using it. Once the banks are using it, employers will begin making payments using it. Once employees are receiving digital currency payments from employers, cash will end soon after.

New comment by erickf1 in "Everything that uses configuration files should report where they're located"

erickf1 — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 16:30:09 +0000

Agreed.

New comment by erickf1 in "New study suggests that lab-grown meat produces up to 25 times more CO2"

erickf1 — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:11:28 +0000

I would never eat processed manufactured meat. This is just another food category being converted to processed foods. Processed foods make you sick, weak and takes your life. Want a short unhealthy life? Eat processed foods. Pharma will be there for you to speed up your own efforts.

New comment by erickf1 in "A woman is in custody after refusing tuberculosis treatment for more than a year"

erickf1 — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 17:42:03 +0000

It is a terrible thing for individuals to face imprisonment due to their unwillingness to accept pharmaceuticals being administered to them without their consent. This situation represents a significant abuse of power by both the government and the medical community. This abuse of power will certainly spill into many areas of peoples lives, one of which, consequently, people will develop a profound fear of seeking medical assistance, akin to the fear experienced during World War 1/2.