Hacker News: gatlin

New comment by gatlin in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

gatlin — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:53 +0000

I offered an opinion in the previous version of this comment that was unhelpful to the discussion, even if the subject of the opinion was anonymous. Can't see how to delete a comment so I'm editing this instead.

New comment by gatlin in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

gatlin — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:53:21 +0000

I have a co-worker who does this now. He's very smart, very capable, very experienced and it's clear that he's just a frontend for Claude now. It's tragic.

New comment by gatlin in "IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media"

gatlin — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:26:09 +0000

Why was this flagged? Social media, part of the tech industry, is part of state propaganda and should be discussed here.

New comment by gatlin in "Meta deletes popular 1M follower account after Kuwaiti request"

gatlin — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:42:26 +0000

Do Americans often try to use dollars in Europe?

New comment by gatlin in "LLMs are breaking 20 year old system design"

gatlin — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:46:32 +0000

*I guess there would have to be some mechanism for the database to push notifications to the client. This is not a fundamentally unsolvable or particularly interesting problem.*

New comment by gatlin in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

gatlin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:56:57 +0000

You seem to be passionate about your pedantry and I'm not so sure whatever.

New comment by gatlin in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

gatlin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:52:08 +0000

You seem to be under the impression that you have authority over me. Fascinating.

New comment by gatlin in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

gatlin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:40:54 +0000

I don't need to do anything. You however should stop condescending and issuing commands to other people.

New comment by gatlin in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

gatlin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:39:34 +0000

That sounds like a question for a psychologist or clergy member.

New comment by gatlin in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

gatlin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:39:11 +0000

Nope, just the normal one. It asks for your age and gates further interactions based on the answer, no? That's verification.

New comment by gatlin in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

gatlin — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:37:18 +0000

If it must be ignored, then it exists. The bill proposes age verification. You may think the measures employed are weak or trivial, and I would agree, but the bill proposes age verification.

New comment by gatlin in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

gatlin — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:50:08 +0000

> All this does is require the user to select a non-verified age bracket on first boot.

This is the age verification requirement which you rudely and incorrectly said doesn't exist. Nothing is done with the data (for now) but age is in fact verified on the assumption that the user doesn't lie.

Instead of lengthy condescending missives about the behavior of other users, you should instead write "I'm sorry for being negative and bringing down the quality of discussion."

New comment by gatlin in "Early Christian Writings"

gatlin — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:14:16 +0000

You seem to have an almost religious devotion to your worldview. Which makes sense: it works for you and you feel compelled to convince others. You also limit yourself to thoughts and practices that align with these views. Imagine for a moment that this is also true of other people for other beliefs.

New comment by gatlin in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

gatlin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:59:26 +0000

Qwen3-Coder on 20gb of vram was able to do 90% of this: https://gist.github.com/gatlin/4bee9645b96e8b9e733960453b972...

Problem statement: given a start date and a bible book / chapter, produce a reading schedule for the remainder of the bible assuming one will read 3 chapters every day and 2 extra on Sunday.

So assuming an input of "2025-07-06 Genesis 1," the list would read "Saturday, June 6, 2025: Genesis 1 (3 chapters) \n Sunday, June 7, 2025: Genesis 4 (5 chapters)..." etc.

It created the types, data structures, and utility functions required, and even isolated the schedule generation to a function that used all of them ... and that function was busted. It printed the same book and chapter and date every line.

With a little elbow grease I was able to bring it home. Saved me an hour.

New comment by gatlin in "How SQLite is tested"

gatlin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:11:01 +0000

That's really great and I'm happy for you but your experience is not universal.

New comment by gatlin in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

gatlin — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:08:49 +0000

How so?

New comment by gatlin in "Israeli-founded app preloaded on Samsung phones is attracting controversy"

gatlin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:02:01 +0000

You're right - Palestinians don't deserve to be murdered by people who don't like them.

New comment by gatlin in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

gatlin — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:54:20 +0000

Discussing this topic with you is impossible because you have committed to spreading Israeli state propaganda regardless of what the actual facts of the situation are. If you are unmoved by the children being savagely blown apart by Israeli rockets because you equate that with some Arab states bad-mouthing Israel then I fear nothing will ever convince you that Palestinians are human. Have a good day and if you have kids, give them a hug and be glad they don't live in Gaza.

New comment by gatlin in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

gatlin — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:49:55 +0000

Ooh now try and name all the Palestinian children that have been murdered by Israel!

New comment by gatlin in "How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized"

gatlin — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 11:48:45 +0000

> They got

First problem: not Israel's to give.

> The problem is that the PA, who rules the West Bank are extremely corrupt, and Hamas is committed to Israel's destruction.

The Ministry of Strategic Affairs couldn't have put it better...