Hacker News: forgetfreeman

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

forgetfreeman — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:17:40 +0000

Get rid of the thing that's causing problems is both thoughtful and intelligent when the alternative is either ignore the problem or some as of yet undefined activity that is entirely outside the current scope of business. Steam isn't obligated to accommodate AI-generated games or participate in whatever currently undefined process would be required to make them palatable. That's the studios' responsibility.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Steam Users Beg for "No AI" Filter as Vibecoders Flood Next Fest"

forgetfreeman — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:12:20 +0000

Every major gaming outlet and studio has at one time or another decided to try to play chicken with their customers. This never goes well. Historically Steam has been pretty skilled at not finding a hill to die on so one would assume they'll avoid the obvious blunder of ignoring users preferences here.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

forgetfreeman — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:43:00 +0000

"A smart person with the right access can see that", so like a store employee glancing at your choice of an analog temperature display or a telltale light? A perfectly workable solution that persists for the vast majority of the restaurant industry and every independent grocery store in the country, and has done for roughly the last century. Adding the kind of aggressively stupid failure modes that software drags into the discussion (eg. russian bot networks are attacking the ice cream) to avoid having to occasionally inspect equipment doesn't seem particularly bright.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

forgetfreeman — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:06:12 +0000

So medically urgent the slowest delivery option available is selected? I mean, I kinda get the idea of trying to win an argument online but have some dignity yeah?

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low"

forgetfreeman — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:17:31 +0000

If true then y'all have something in common.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

forgetfreeman — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:25:37 +0000

I'm pretty confident there is no failure mode industrial cooling equipment can experience that can be solved remotely. Remote monitoring and control systems on the other hand...

New comment by forgetfreeman in "I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change on video"

forgetfreeman — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:05:30 +0000

You noticed that too, eh?

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

forgetfreeman — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:09:45 +0000

Routine service and maintenance doesn't require net connectivity to schedule.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

forgetfreeman — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:07:30 +0000

Marketing. The restaurant industry doesn't have less skin in the game than grocery retailers re avoiding spoilage and net connected walk-in coolers and freezers are not a thing.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

forgetfreeman — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:45:39 +0000

There's a marketing issue here that would need to be addressed first, namely the phrase "dumb appliance". That's a marketing slur that was intentionally propagated by manufacturers and it's bullshit. Few things seem more obviously stupid than the added complexity, expense, and security concerns associated with "smart appliances" especially given none of the features touted are critical to the appliance performing it's stated function.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

forgetfreeman — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:30:43 +0000

Given the perfectly workable alternative of not having remote monitoring and simply having the store manager contact a repair tech on the exceedingly rare occasion that there is an issue, yeah I think actually you do need to justify the added complexity and expense of making this kind of mundane equipment internet accessible.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

forgetfreeman — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:09:49 +0000

That one of us doesn't understand FSD's capabilities isn't in question. Tesla has proven record of hyping their tech's capabilities well in excess of what would in decades past resulted in career-ending lawsuits for some combination of false advertising and outright fraud. Wake me when hostile 3rd parties have confirmed L5 parity.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

forgetfreeman — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:27:35 +0000

Heh I-95 has a few thoughts on what is and isn't "viable" that it's absolutely going to share with the "highway autonomous" touts and I'm betting they won't enjoy the lesson.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

forgetfreeman — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 04:25:28 +0000

By the industry's own admission absolutely. Nobody's claiming to even be close to meeting L5 criteria which is parity with the average human driver.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy"

forgetfreeman — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:37:13 +0000

Yes BUT nobody took anything on any of those platforms seriously. It was commonly agreed on at the time that the internet was for bullshit and bullshitting, and people reacted accordingly. The problems online didn't start in earnest until a bunch of people were convinced to pretend, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that online spaces were a real thing where Important Stuff happened.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

forgetfreeman — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:13:13 +0000

Absolutely. That shouldn't even be legally possible outside of very narrowly scoped defense contracts.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Things that apparently cause cancer"

forgetfreeman — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:30:17 +0000

There was a time when encountering truly naked propaganda was something of a rarity. Clearly those days are behind us.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

forgetfreeman — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:18:22 +0000

It isn't exactly not a zero sum game either though. If you want to sell something you have to have willing buyers with either funds on hand or sufficient credit to make the purchase. So yeah that 6T gotta come from somewhere.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Pirating the Pirates"

forgetfreeman — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:38:59 +0000

Nah. phpbb was a thing. Every niche crafting hobby imaginable had at least on "authoritative" forum-based online community before smartphones were a thing.

New comment by forgetfreeman in "Show HN: Hacker Atlas - A map of what Hacker News talks about"

forgetfreeman — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:25:02 +0000

Go spend an hour scrolling n-gate.com if you really want to know what's needed.