Hacker News: freak42

New comment by freak42 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

freak42 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:19:29 +0000

Farm land isn't wild.

New comment by freak42 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

freak42 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:19:13 +0000

There is less and less wild left over.

New comment by freak42 in "Opus 4.7 to 4.6 Inflation is ~45%"

freak42 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:52:12 +0000

absolutely!

New comment by freak42 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

freak42 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:00:51 +0000

What is the charitable way to look at it then?

New comment by freak42 in "Samsung Magician disk utility takes 18 steps and two reboots to uninstall"

freak42 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:16:02 +0000

For personal reasons I am avoiding all Samsung products and over the years it seems like I unintentionally dodged one annoying issue after another.

New comment by freak42 in "US Diesel prices surpass $5.38"

freak42 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:58:47 +0000

Then build railway systems

New comment by freak42 in "Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)"

freak42 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:18:59 +0000

... for North America.

New comment by freak42 in "Show HN: Wikipedia as a doomscrollable social media feed"

freak42 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:12:13 +0000

I'm sorry but starting a 40MB download unprompted on a website is a bit rude, people roaming abroad might have half their data used up in 5 minutes or pay loads for this.

New comment by freak42 in "Song banned from Swedish charts for being AI creation"

freak42 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:17:33 +0000

How can I block ppl on hn?

New comment by freak42 in "Political Beliefs: A Philosophical Introduction (2024)"

freak42 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:24:50 +0000

I wish there was one sentence here somewhere that tells me what this is about.

New comment by freak42 in "The Checkerboard"

freak42 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:29:49 +0000

But this is verbatim what the article saud, you should have read it: "This checkerboard pattern allowed the government to keep all the undeveloped sections in between and wait for them to go up in value before turning around and selling them to developers."

New comment by freak42 in "Blowing ChatGPT's mind. Is this just sycophancy? Or a realistic assessment?"

freak42 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:41:04 +0000

What are your custom instructions. When I drop your first message into 'my' ChatGPT 5.1, the first paragraph returned is:

"Short answer: yes, the idea and overall feature are solid and “cool” for a platform – environment-aware static bundling + filtering + preloading is a real capability, not fluff. The implementation is workable but has a few concrete problems and some messy spots. (...)"

New comment by freak42 in "GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras"

freak42 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:45:12 +0000

You didn't get my point at all.

New comment by freak42 in "GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras"

freak42 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:02:08 +0000

Yes they can ask, but do it at the beginning not the end of the process, this is a dark pattern and fucking annoying.

New comment by freak42 in "GPT-OSS 120B Runs at 3000 tokens/sec on Cerebras"

freak42 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:30:16 +0000

I absolutely hate it, when a website says "try this" and after you went through the trouble of weiting something comes up with a sign up link first. Makes me leave instantly to never come back.

New comment by freak42 in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

freak42 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 06:46:53 +0000

They saved $500k on what total sum? $500'001 or 55'000'000? Without this info the post is moot.

New comment by freak42 in "The Broken Promise of USB-C: We'll Never Get a Universal Cable"

freak42 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 17:03:15 +0000

The Apple mouse's charging port is on the underside, so you can't use the mouse at all while charging.