Hacker News: falsemyrmidon

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "_for-sale DNS records"

falsemyrmidon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:48:58 +0000

Is this an ad?

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

falsemyrmidon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:49:58 +0000

Because markets are neither rational nor perfectly elastic.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"

falsemyrmidon — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:07:19 +0000

It's the dosage that makes the poison. If you dumped it all in the ocean in a single spot then yes, it would probably kill the local ecosystem.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench"

falsemyrmidon — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:12:24 +0000

It's just as easy to go too far in the direction of shoving too much logic on a single line in the name of reducing lines of code.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment"

falsemyrmidon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:13:41 +0000

I just tried that with claude

> The 2020 U.S. presidential election was won by Joe Biden, who defeated the incumbent, Donald Trump. Biden secured 306 electoral votes to Trump's 232, and won the national popular vote by about 7 million votes. His running mate, Kamala Harris, became the first woman and first person of color elected Vice President.

> Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President on January 20, 2021.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB"

falsemyrmidon — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:15:32 +0000

So glad we're becoming as locked down as iOS

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

falsemyrmidon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:51:47 +0000

Who do you think should be voting if not their active users?

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

falsemyrmidon — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:01:10 +0000

This reads like some of that covert Russian election influence they're so fond of.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

falsemyrmidon — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:53:55 +0000

My wife already doesn't do that

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?"

falsemyrmidon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:57:24 +0000

I stopped doing it when I was in high school (I just stood there) and no one cared. This would have been about 22 years ago

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week"

falsemyrmidon — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:43:53 +0000

With the steam deck 5% is around 300% to 500% growth over the last 5 years

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe"

falsemyrmidon — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 14:51:06 +0000

I got a pixel 10 for 350 a few weeks ago.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?"

falsemyrmidon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:08:11 +0000

That seems like a lot of effort to go through

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

falsemyrmidon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:47:26 +0000

Plumbers build all the pipes, but one of the aforementioned professional engineers created a drawing of where they would go and how the water and sewage would move through the building.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

falsemyrmidon — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:07:28 +0000

You may as well just randomly pick 65 to discard, if your only goal is to reduce the number for review.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

falsemyrmidon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:37:43 +0000

Gold is shiny and can make nice jewelry and other things shiny.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

falsemyrmidon — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:27:25 +0000

Crypto has been the bad place for almost 10 years. It lost it's shot at being mainstream when Steam stopped accepting Bitcoin payments due to price instability.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

falsemyrmidon — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:10:03 +0000

At some point I just work here man, and my job is to do whatever dumb shit management wants me to do this quarter, no matter how dumb it is.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)"

falsemyrmidon — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:45:08 +0000

You could just as easily edit it, print it, then scan it again. This tech doesn't enable you to do anything you couldn't already do.

The real problem is that written signatures are a poor form of authentication.

New comment by falsemyrmidon in "Hey, n00b, we didn't hire you to complete tasks"

falsemyrmidon — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:18:13 +0000

Seeing what you made get to the point that that's an issue is a "a good problem". Yes, it's worth it to optimize at that point, but that's still an argument for what I consider premature optimization.