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New comment by genericone in "Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage"

genericone — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:03:13 +0000

It's not only AI that uses em-dashes, but AI only seems to use em-dashes. And there's an ellipsis ascii char in there too (not 3 periods in sequence, a single ellipsis char), somewhat of another AI tell.

New comment by genericone in "Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash"

genericone — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 20:34:20 +0000

I thought HN was mostly people who hated doing 'the thing' and would procrastinate until they build a system that does 'the thing' and then they would work tirelessly to never do 'the thing' themselves ever again.

New comment by genericone in "Elevators"

genericone — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:59:48 +0000

Sid Meier's Elevator Manager was such a great game... so much nostalgia.

New comment by genericone in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

genericone — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:09:37 +0000

User: what is the shortest route from my home to the super market?

AI: the user wants to know, how do I make the super market my new home. Failing that, how do I make my home a super market.

New comment by genericone in "Show HN: Block/buzz: a workspace built for teams of humans and agents"

genericone — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:40:58 +0000

This looks pretty neat, it looks like the shape of something I want to use. I'm having trouble managing my entire project, and from reading Buzz' project description, I think I understand what my issue is: a lack feature channels. I'm purely using claude-code and I use a bespoke session-wrap command at the end of every major development or as I approach 50% context window. And then in a fresh session I use a recontextualize command to figure out the trajectory of the prior work.

I think Buzz' use of channels and rooms is better, since each feature/concept has its own development pace, velocity, and history. I'll give it a shot.

Do you have any examples comparing different agent workflows vs Buzz? Would love to understand more how you foresee people using this.

New comment by genericone in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

genericone — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:04:57 +0000

Typescript is also hugely represented. My projects are TS in a big way, where I have no experience with it at all.

New comment by genericone in "Sonoeazy – Validating a short-form audio platform. Experiment 1: "I love you""

genericone — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:39:59 +0000

I believe there's room for a short-form, raw, AI-free, audio-only platform organized around continuous streams of 5-10 second audio clips.

But before I build the real thing, I'm running a validation to test the core question: will strangers actually record? I'm trying to validate one single prompt "I love you", anonymous, 5-second cap. The clips get mixed and published to a listening page when the window closes. You can enter your email to be notified when the experiment is over. I try to make the recording process as low friction as possible, so give it a try.

Any and all feedback are welcome.

Sonoeazy – Validating a short-form audio platform. Experiment 1: "I love you"

genericone — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:39:59 +0000

Article URL: https://sonoeazy.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48154261

Points: 2

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New comment by genericone in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

genericone — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:42:37 +0000

And to all a good tax-writeoff.

New comment by genericone in "Oil is near a price that hurts the economy"

genericone — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:05:58 +0000

The accounting only works if you assume the counterfactual is "same industrial civilization, minus fossil fuels." But there's a strong path-dependency argument that cheap hydrocarbons were the bootstrap not just for energy, but for the plastics, fertilizers, and chemical feedstocks that made modern manufacturing and agriculture possible in the first place. Renewables are downstream of that industrial base. You can't net out the externalities against a baseline that wouldn't exist without them.

New comment by genericone in "Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests"

genericone — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:20:51 +0000

Excessive speeders in the absence of speed-limit enforcement just creates neighbors that don't mind their neighborhood being consumed by speed bumps/dips, I think there's an analogy here in residential areas. And if you have a lot of children in your neighborhood, there IS a 'xx-phobia' for speeders. But speed bumps and dips are an absolute nuisance and sometimes dangerous, so just having cameras identify and a system willing to punish speeders would absolutely be the preference.

New comment by genericone in "Long live American Science and Surplus"

genericone — Thu, 29 May 2025 01:46:31 +0000

May 30th, just a few more days!

New comment by genericone in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

genericone — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 20:59:14 +0000

"Why don't you just read my mind and do what I wanted you to do in the first place?"

Rule by law rather than rule of law?

New comment by genericone in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

genericone — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 21:06:02 +0000

Thinking of it in terms of vector similarity does seem appropriate, and then definition of similarity suddenly comes into debate: If you don't get Harrison Ford, but a different well-known actor along with everything else Indiana-Jones, what is that? Do you flatten the vector similarity matrix to a single infringement-scale?

New comment by genericone in "Tesla Hate Is Making Insurance More Expensive for Owners"

genericone — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:59:34 +0000

I struck a column in a multilevel garage while reversing out of a parking spot, my mistake completely, resulting in damage to the driver door, door hinge, mirror, and front quarter panel. Progressive considered the car totaled due to the cost/availability/labor to fix it. Unsure what the cost would be for a toyota or honda, but I was perplexed at the total loss of my still drivable car.

New comment by genericone in "WSDA, USDA announce eradication of northern giant hornet from the United States"

genericone — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 05:00:46 +0000

These topic-adjacent expert responses just reek of point harvesting by an LLM, I didn't do any such downvoting, but in the last year I've changed to this viewpoint.

New comment by genericone in "DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome"

genericone — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:48:59 +0000

Yeah, especially if this breaks Chrome Remote Desktop in any way, seems like that capability would be tied into the Google ecosystem... I wonder how long we will have to say goodbye to the simplest remote desktop that has ever existed.

New comment by genericone in "US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023"

genericone — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:57:37 +0000

Since the statistic applies to the whole US, it's biased towards urban population centers.

E.g. the lack of K-12 kids in SF almost caused the shutdown of 11 schools due to the lack of funding that comes primarily from the number of enrolled students, they halted the closures in lieu of other cost saving approaches due to the political pressures of shutting down schools, but the truth remains that there are fewer kids in population centers.

New comment by genericone in "'A fatal miscalculation': masculinity researcher on why Democrats lost young men"

genericone — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 23:14:32 +0000

Interpreting that to mean that the person said 'it's not for white guys' and parent thinks they meant 'not "just" for white guys'. But the damage had been done regardless of original intent behind the words.

New comment by genericone in "Univ. of North Texas' body parts business: Cutting up and leasing out the poor"

genericone — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:36:38 +0000

For the absolute worst case, see: Bodies: The Exhibition

"Concerns have been raised by human rights advocates that the bodies are those of executed Chinese prisoners, and that the families of the victims have not consented."

In one case, it's suspected the government killed the pregnant mistress of a cheating government official and her and the fetus are now a display item.