Hacker News: exe34

New comment by exe34 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

exe34 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:53:15 +0000

You could have given Linus the weekend off.

New comment by exe34 in "Will I ever own a zettaflop?"

exe34 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:10:47 +0000

Electron apps will expand to fill the available space!

New comment by exe34 in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

exe34 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:54:36 +0000

build the power source next door and charge them extra.

New comment by exe34 in "Claude mixes up who said what"

exe34 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:00:09 +0000

If you could do that, why would you need an LLM? You'd already know the answer...

New comment by exe34 in "Claude mixes up who said what"

exe34 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:18:22 +0000

What does deterministic mean to you?

New comment by exe34 in "Claude mixes up who said what"

exe34 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:17:48 +0000

Let's eat grandma.

New comment by exe34 in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

exe34 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:28:29 +0000

The device still works. It's being crippled on purpose.

New comment by exe34 in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

exe34 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:27:42 +0000

Same here - I'll only buy books I can read on any device of my choosing. Kindle+dedrm was an option. https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/p/drm-free is another option I have used a lot. But if it's not available, I will go to the modern day library of alexandria. I will not pay for crap that will just stop working in a few years - a book can sit on my shelf for 15 years before I get around to reading it.

New comment by exe34 in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

exe34 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:30:35 +0000

Like foxes coming up with floppy ears.

New comment by exe34 in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

exe34 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:55:17 +0000

How much solar/wind can you really install in the area covered by a nuclear station?

New comment by exe34 in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

exe34 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:12:21 +0000

The problem isn't the diversity in the training set - the problem is that the method by design picks the average.

New comment by exe34 in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

exe34 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:24:30 +0000

$ uptime

22:22:45 up 3748 days 21:20, 2 users, load average: 1.42, 1.36, 1.02

It's very funny, I think it's because my laptop battery died and when I replaced it, it had to update the time from 10 years ago? I'm not sure why, as the laptop is from mid-2012.

New comment by exe34 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

exe34 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:49:39 +0000

The French will lead the way.

New comment by exe34 in "Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)"

exe34 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:27:00 +0000

My favourite example from my own experience is cycling through hail. I used to hate it. It made me miserable. My face hurts. My body is cold. I just want to die.

Once I started playing around with the ideas of Stoicism, I decided to try an experiment. The next time I got caught out by hail while cycling, I raised my fist up in the air and said "fuck you Universe, this is exactly what I wanted, you fell for my plan!".

I felt a lot better. I like to think of it like the Sith in Star Wars. Whenever they get their butt kicked, they go "It is as I had forseen!" I no longer get surprised by events.

New comment by exe34 in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

exe34 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:14:56 +0000

It's not one. It's just the most talked about one.

The two week war is dragging on. The Orange Turd said it's not fair that Iran started shooting back. Inflation is going to cause widespread misery in the US and elsewhere. Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz and collects tolls, when before they didn't have control. Iran will also build nukes now. This war of aggression has highlighted why it's needed for their regime's survival.

So no, it's not going very well at all.

New comment by exe34 in "US deploying nearly all stealthy long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles to Iran war"

exe34 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:49:24 +0000

It's impressive how the US intelligence agencies must have been gutted under Trump. I'm guessing if there were anybody competent left, this is the kind of thing they would have known.

I can't imagine the level of secrecy it would take to hide something like this from a competent NRO - the amount of construction work, the little girls coming and going - what did they think, it was a military Epstein island?

New comment by exe34 in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

exe34 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:18:16 +0000

There are only about 120 versions to target if you pick each individual age - or a handful if you bracket it. You can simply create a lookup table for eachage group and let the user's device decide which one to show.

New comment by exe34 in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

exe34 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:46:11 +0000

It was a rhetorical question, of course they were being disingenuous. Marginal tax rate doesn't have the same ring as 70% tax.

New comment by exe34 in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

exe34 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:46:46 +0000

Pretty soon you won't be able to afford eggs.

New comment by exe34 in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

exe34 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:46:24 +0000

> If you don't see the value of laws being written down - especially the most important ones! - I can't really convince you of it here on HN.

It's a shame you can't really explain it. It's ineffable, isn't it.