Hacker News: fnord77

New comment by fnord77 in "Casio F-B100W-1A"

fnord77 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:46:47 +0000

80s casio watches are the rage with kids in the US, too

New comment by fnord77 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

fnord77 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:13:56 +0000

I always as for CONCISE documentation.

still get walls of text sometimes

New comment by fnord77 in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

fnord77 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:04:10 +0000

Yes, from scratch. There's volumes of evidence for this.

New comment by fnord77 in "Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents"

fnord77 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:02:57 +0000

gemini to get more profane

New comment by fnord77 in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

fnord77 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:48:11 +0000

Non-threat. Life has evolved and re-evolved thousands if not millions of times. One of those iterations would have been mirror biology if it were viable.

New comment by fnord77 in "How AI text watermarking works"

fnord77 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 01:51:42 +0000

I find these explanations that drag in things like "dice" incomprehensible. What dice?

What the article is trying to say:

"For AI-generated text, watermarking usually works by secretly biasing which words/tokens the model prefers while it writes."

Simple. Understandable. No "dice" or "leaning" or other convoluted explanations

New comment by fnord77 in "How AI text watermarking works"

fnord77 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:42:24 +0000

"Whoever gets to lean on how the dice land"

I'm a native English speaker and I have no idea what this means.

New comment by fnord77 in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

fnord77 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:48:18 +0000

"land" (verb), "narrow", "fair hit"

New comment by fnord77 in "The AI Apocalypse Is Here"

fnord77 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 02:41:00 +0000

> It’s not really about “Meta is bad”. It’s recognising the fact that social media, spearheaded by Facebook has changed society and politics.

Has Meta harmed society? Yes. Meta is bad.

New comment by fnord77 in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"

fnord77 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:38:15 +0000

SWE salaries aren't 500k everywhere. Even in expensive places in Europe you're lucky if you break 100k

New comment by fnord77 in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

fnord77 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 18:57:59 +0000

> I have no idea why you'd want to be taking a test a second longer than you already have to.

After I got treated, I understand why.

Too look for mistakes. Now I don't understand why people don't take the maximum alloted time

New comment by fnord77 in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"

fnord77 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:10:09 +0000

It's funny, the DSA in SF has been very anti-tech worker, complaining we get paid too much.

Imagine that - socialists complaining that workers get paid livable wages.

New comment by fnord77 in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"

fnord77 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:06:09 +0000

until the VC money runs out (e.g. high interest rates) and we have to grind away at some awful, large company

New comment by fnord77 in "Show HN: Mu – Tools for Agents"

fnord77 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:10:22 +0000

I have in my CLAUDE/AGENTS.md to be concise with both chat output and documentation.

Yet still I get walls of text often. It's so fatiguing.

New comment by fnord77 in "The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view"

fnord77 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:07:38 +0000

you misinterpreted me

New comment by fnord77 in "The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view"

fnord77 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:07:10 +0000

Wow, people are completely misinterpreting my comment.

I'm lamenting the loss of farms in manhattan.

New comment by fnord77 in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

fnord77 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:06:19 +0000

Tokenpocalypse canceled

New comment by fnord77 in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

fnord77 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 23:17:17 +0000

Not if you have a contract brewery make your "creations"

New comment by fnord77 in "The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view"

fnord77 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 13:49:52 +0000

a farm. in manhattan

sigh

New comment by fnord77 in "Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner [video]"

fnord77 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 05:54:21 +0000

and then paint certain ties white and other black, now you have the world's biggest barcode