Hacker News: gentleman11

New comment by gentleman11 in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

gentleman11 — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:08:04 +0000

Based on their switch 1 track record, a new mario will run at 5fps on native nintendo hardware on the final boss (eg, bowsers fury)

New comment by gentleman11 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

gentleman11 — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:06:05 +0000

the turing test of q3 2026

New comment by gentleman11 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

gentleman11 — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:05:25 +0000

The difference between an ai artist, and a human who uses ai to do all their work for them, is barely a difference at all. I think this is just a stepping stone for them while they wait for the public to accept/give-in-to the new state of affairs

New comment by gentleman11 in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

gentleman11 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:45:41 +0000

Weirdly, peter thiel is going on tour right now promoting the idea that the antichrist is coming and may be an organization or social movement rather than a person. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I only skimmed the articles about it

New comment by gentleman11 in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

gentleman11 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 20:43:55 +0000

I suspect that if we don't want to live in this future, we need some major open source tech leadership around making something like an anonymous version of this

I know, not exactly an easy problem to solve, but big tech or government is going to do it if we can't find better solutions first

New comment by gentleman11 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

gentleman11 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 21:19:03 +0000

I had a typewriter growing up and I remember thinking it was the coolest thing. I was amazed by it and tried writing several stories. Eventually my dad bought me a crappy old computer that was only really good for writing, and that was cool too. I loved that thing. It was small too, with an integrated monitor and keyboard, so it didn't take over the whole desk where I still used pencil and paper often

Imagine being able to do some writing without notifications going off every few seconds, and where you're not always one click away from a search engine and some website scientifically designed to drag your attention down a rabbit hole and keep it there

New comment by gentleman11 in "Claude mixes up who said what"

gentleman11 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:57:54 +0000

I honestly think llms perform worse and worse with context. Whenever possible, I disable it because things just get wacky when it has more than a little bit of context available

New comment by gentleman11 in "Phone-free bars and restaurants on the rise across the U.S."

gentleman11 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:51:08 +0000

How do you prevent people from having phones while inside?

Do you just get in trouble for whipping it out? Or do you have to drop it off with a phone valet at the entrance? If so, how do you prevent theft or mixups? Are all the staff comfortable confronting people who have taken their devices out, risking their tips and personal comfort levels? What if somebody gets cranky after being asked because they didn't know and it's halfway through dinner?

It's a tricky policy to enforce smoothly

New comment by gentleman11 in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

gentleman11 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:35:53 +0000

I feel like this was written by somebody who thinks we've been in the room the whole time while things happened. It's so dense with allusions that nobody is going to be able to understand.

What is this even about?

- A licensing controversy with some cloud companies who used libre office's software?

- Some new tos thing?

- something else?

New comment by gentleman11 in "Show HN: We open-sourced our content writing workflow as a Claude Code skill"

gentleman11 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:57:35 +0000

This is the future of the internet. Bots talking to bots, optimizing websites to draw more and more of what I guess will increasingly be bot traffic (ai scrapers), sharing bot generated photos, bots then discussing these websites on "social" media... and it getting harder and harder to detect.

New comment by gentleman11 in "4D Doom"

gentleman11 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:12:33 +0000

I don't want to be the guy who has to use this level editor (although, in a similar way, doom was 2.5d, and so the level editor could essentially be 2d, so maybe it's not so bad?)

If this is 4d doom, i wonder what 4d quake could be

New comment by gentleman11 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

gentleman11 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:36:32 +0000

To the people criticizing the comment above, think of all the other illegal things trump is already doing. It's not a matter of "can't", it's a matter of if he will and who will stop him (nobody, so far)

New comment by gentleman11 in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

gentleman11 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:57:26 +0000

only big companies have access to the legal system. nobody else can afford it

New comment by gentleman11 in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

gentleman11 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:56:27 +0000

What did everyone expect? I can't understand this community's trust of microsoft or startups. It's the typical land grab: start off decent, win people over, build a moat, then start shaking everybody down in the most egregious way possible.

It's just unusual how quickly they're going for the shakedown this time

New comment by gentleman11 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

gentleman11 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:53:23 +0000

I think this "emergency break" is just going to get eye rolls from most people

New comment by gentleman11 in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

gentleman11 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:50:52 +0000

That wasn't an up cycle, was it? Wasn't Microsoft was doing that at the same time as adding ads and stuff to the os. Silicon Valley people were just wowed by the open source initiatives and money. Everyone worshipped the ceo for it while windows for users swirled down the toilet, while new analytics couldn't be disabled, etc etc etc

New comment by gentleman11 in "FSF statement on copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic"

gentleman11 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:29:21 +0000

Maybe not with the current administration pressuring the courts on the matter in some deranged manner or another

New comment by gentleman11 in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

gentleman11 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:25:24 +0000

I doubt it was him who architected it. A team of lawful evil lawyers more likely

New comment by gentleman11 in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

gentleman11 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:13:20 +0000

I've used linux desktop environments using Wayland and others using x11. No real problems with either.

Let's instead get excited by all the new linux users coming in thanks to SteamOS and Valve. If the trend continues, we might start seeing larger software companies releasing native linux versions of their software -- and then, the year of the linux desktop will start becoming an actual possibility!

(I heard affinity suite is linux friendly now btw, and davinci resolve too -- not sure if proton is necessary or not, but either way, really cool)

New comment by gentleman11 in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

gentleman11 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:09:09 +0000

IP laundering is a big part of AI, it's why big companies are so excited and workers / artists are less excited