Hacker News: floodle

New comment by floodle in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

floodle — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:29:00 +0000

You don't have to get excited by anything. You are welcome to boycott the village fête because you think they didn't put enough effort into their poster. Your choice, my friend.

New comment by floodle in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

floodle — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:31:52 +0000

Calling it a "technicality" assumes the very thing under debate: that AI is an extinction-level risk. That isn't established fact. It's a highly uncertain prediction about the future.

Personally, I'm far more concerned about climate change, where the harms are already happening and the evidence is much stronger.

New comment by floodle in "Carbon-aware electricity pricing, measured daily on 38 grids"

floodle — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:31:52 +0000

How are you modelling how demand changes in response to price changes?

New comment by floodle in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

floodle — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:31:56 +0000

It's about the value to you versus the effort you put in. For me the granularity you are talking about is too much effort. All my supermarket shops go in one big category "groceries and household".

Start easy and see what you want to get out of the data. If you can store the original source (e.g receipts) so that you can later go back and increase the granularity if you find yourself wanting it, that would be ideal.

New comment by floodle in "“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran"

floodle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 21:38:34 +0000

It's easier to view the tweet, to be fair

New comment by floodle in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

floodle — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:43:21 +0000

I don't get all of the complaints about the tone of AI chatbots. Honestly I don't care all that much if it's bubbly, professional, jokey, cutesey, sycophantic, maniacal, full of emojis. It's just a tool, the output primarily just has to be functionally useful.

I'm not saying nice user interface design isn't important, but at this point with the technology it just seems less important than discussions about the actual task-solving capabilities of these new releases.

New comment by floodle in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

floodle — Fri, 30 May 2025 08:56:29 +0000

You can't extrapolate from your own experience in that way. There are billions of people having a different experience to you in a multitude of different ways.

New comment by floodle in "I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic"

floodle — Fri, 30 May 2025 08:53:15 +0000

Then just don't go? I personally prefer mixed gender spaces but I can understand why some people might prefer single gender spaces. It doesn't mean they necessarily have "an issue".

New comment by floodle in "Static as a Server"

floodle — Thu, 08 May 2025 21:23:43 +0000

Because it's an easy and widely used framework to write JavaScript components that react to changes in state

New comment by floodle in "Show HN: Cocommit – A copilot for git commit"

floodle — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:29:36 +0000

The diff will tell you what's changed, but it doesn't tell you the "why" of the change. A project should store that information somewhere; whether it's in pull request descriptions, issues/tickets, or the commit message, which is a perfectly reasonable choice.

New comment by floodle in "Making any integer with four 2s"

floodle — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 08:51:16 +0000

I love this:

> Note that these are large files; both are over 1.6 Megabytes, so don’t load these if you have a slow Internet connection

Just shows how far internet speeds have come...

New comment by floodle in "Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)"

floodle — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 17:11:39 +0000

I did often in my degree, not for multiplication but the cross product

New comment by floodle in "AWS data center latencies, visualized"

floodle — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:32:57 +0000

Agreed! It looks cool, but it's not the best visualisation to actually read the data.

New comment by floodle in "Startup Success: How Founder Personalities Shape Venture Outcomes"

floodle — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 13:12:51 +0000

This comment is ridiculous. What are the units of intelligence? Since when is charming people a trade-off against solving problems? Why do you equate extroversion to charming people?

New comment by floodle in "They don't make 'em like that any more: the 3.5mm headphone jack socket"

floodle — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 15:04:20 +0000

USB C ports break just when I look at them slightly wrongly. In comparison to that, 3.5mm is a dream.

New comment by floodle in "Show HN: Bin-graph: Visualize binary files"

floodle — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 10:04:22 +0000

The amount of times I see this with projects on HN is crazy. The one thing I want to know is how the output looks.

New comment by floodle in "Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book"

floodle — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 21:12:19 +0000

Does it really matter if it's fake? It's a plausible scenario, and worth discussing. Fiction books can raise interesting questions about science and technology. And the implications of AI is very much HN's wheelhouse.

New comment by floodle in "Show HN: I made an open-source personal dashboard builder"

floodle — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:17:31 +0000

I wouldn't assume people know what a link-in-bio is. I've never heard of it.

New comment by floodle in "The Unix Pipe Card Game"

floodle — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 05:47:57 +0000

It's a wild idea to take a completely digital asset, print it in Europe on to paper, and then put it on a ship and slowly transport it to Canada.

New comment by floodle in "Try Clojure"

floodle — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:25:08 +0000

A programming language should be first and foremost precise and readable, not concise. I can barely understand the clojure version but when I read the "traditional" one I don't even need to think.

If you work with clojure a lot, does it become natural?