Hacker News: exolymph

New comment by exolymph in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

exolymph — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:04:04 +0000

This is a dumb thing that HN does, certain words get stripped from titles. You can edit them back in but submitters either don't know that or just don't bother.

New comment by exolymph in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

exolymph — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:52:47 +0000

It's not like 1984 has a feel-good ending that's like "yes, fight the power, you will be successful and not ruin your own life quixotically."

I do think there is value in fighting the power... but 1984 is not a book that depicts such a choice working out well.

New comment by exolymph in "OpenAI cannot make AI safe on its own [pdf]"

exolymph — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:42:56 +0000

Here is Jasmine Wang's X thread as well: https://x.com/j_asminewang/status/2108263312291180680

New comment by exolymph in "Show HN: Pointless but mostly-exact clone of Hacker News"

exolymph — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:23:57 +0000

I think you actually achieved art project quite well with the amount of the concept that you completed, mainly because this writeup is hilarious.

New comment by exolymph in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

exolymph — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:50:29 +0000

The right policy response would be telling the firms running these programs to get fucked if they can't successfully operate while paying staff the prevailing wage that local Americans would accept.

Six Masks

exolymph — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:37:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arcove.substack.com/p/six-masks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49985141

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by exolymph in "What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI"

exolymph — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:34:59 +0000

While it is certainly now quicker and cheaper to do this, it is not clear that maintaining a copycat app as an ongoing concern has much more business value than it ever has. Take Photoshop. Pixelmator existed (acquired by Apple eventually). Photopea is still independent. What else... Sketch? Figma and Canva for the "unicorn startup" category. Procreate serving a different chunk of users. Is there room for many more new entrants in this category to gain significant marketshare? Is the ability to dupe Photoshop the actual blocker?

New comment by exolymph in "Goodbye Google"

exolymph — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:51:08 +0000

The Book of Job addresses this. Basically, it is God's prerogative to do whatever He wants with us. You don't have to like it, but He is still in charge.

New comment by exolymph in "Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time"

exolymph — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:34:24 +0000

"just as easily" — hmm, no, I think not

New comment by exolymph in "Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care"

exolymph — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:35:58 +0000

> It is a very deeply embedded assumption that women are primary parents.

Because this is typically true, even in cases where both parents work.

New comment by exolymph in "DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits"

exolymph — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:38:24 +0000

It's projection on your part. The general public (excluding the "very online" subset thereof) is barely even aware of mass surveillance.

Using AI on a Homestead

exolymph — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:35:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.patreon.com/morlockp/posts/using-ai-on-168298219

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612694

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by exolymph in "Mark Cuban: Why US hospitals "don't know their costs""

exolymph — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:15:58 +0000

> treat anyone who comes through the door for anything

nitpick, but it's anything imminently life-threatening (mas o menos), not anything

like if you show up in the ER with burgeoning cancer they won't provision chemo

New comment by exolymph in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

exolymph — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:19:55 +0000

I echo this. It is not clear to me what the actual difference is.

New comment by exolymph in "How I Design with AI"

exolymph — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:48:37 +0000

Yes, as the article says:

> This should be very familiar because agents do exactly the same thing in code and plans. They love belt-and-suspenders, wrapping an extra try-catch or re-implementing the same utility over and over.

New comment by exolymph in "Y Combinator's Ankit Gupta faces backlash over H-1B comments"

exolymph — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:30:10 +0000

Yeah that one got my hackles up. The idea that America should not be run for the benefit of its citizens is uhhhh saying the quiet part out loud, I guess.

New comment by exolymph in "FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels"

exolymph — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:33:30 +0000

Thank you for sharing his memory with us.

New comment by exolymph in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

exolymph — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:17:38 +0000

Huh. I wish this was the norm in my area, so I didn't have to wait around for the check once I finish eating.

New comment by exolymph in "Ask HN: Why do corporate failures always seem to punish the wrong people?"

exolymph — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:14:08 +0000

The question is actually how do people get away with avoiding accountability for their actions?

New comment by exolymph in "The Amazon tax"

exolymph — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:55:22 +0000

Red Queen's race. It comes up a lot in marketing.