Hacker News: gilrain

New comment by gilrain in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

gilrain — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:33:13 +0000

> wouldn't it be easy to point me to even one example

Read and think about my wine analogy, if you care.

New comment by gilrain in "Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter"

gilrain — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:29:30 +0000

Point out any wine that doesn't taste the same as any other, to me who has said he cannot taste wine.

Only then, I'll believe you that wine can taste good or bad.

Is my mind open? Is this not a waste of your time?

New comment by gilrain in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

gilrain — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:22:30 +0000

The downvotes are because you're resisting easily-observed reality with the seemingly-rational response "Where is this 'air'? If I'm breathing it, it should be easy to point to, no?"

No. If you can't see it, and don't understand it's there, you cannot be explained to. You're someone with no palate asking how anyone else can know if a wine tastes good.

New comment by gilrain in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

gilrain — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:24:52 +0000

Humility is a valuable tool, but it must advertise itself: nobody will believe it of a haughty tone, nor should they.

New comment by gilrain in "I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it"

gilrain — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:58:40 +0000

Maybe skilled work within other fields is more difficult than we imagine based on our ignorance?

New comment by gilrain in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"

gilrain — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:43:15 +0000

Actually and very obviously, what's happening now is new and worse.

New comment by gilrain in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

gilrain — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:00:08 +0000

Actually, most women don't like being assaulted, regardless of the attractiveness of the assaulter. Additionally, this is true of humans generally, not just women.

It's really gross that you think of women as so alien and inhuman.

New comment by gilrain in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

gilrain — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:55:24 +0000

This comment is extremely ignorant across several of its statements. Ignore.

New comment by gilrain in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

gilrain — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:51:10 +0000

> If you think about it, it is weird that they even make articles out of statements that only "may" be true.

I thought about it. And it's very stupid to imagine uncertainty should be off limits. I hope that isn't what you meant.

New comment by gilrain in "Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn't use their work"

gilrain — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:44:16 +0000

Why are people so greedy? Why can't they wait to be given something, or remain content without, rather than take from others by force? I'm genuinely curious too.

New comment by gilrain in "Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds"

gilrain — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:33:04 +0000

That's no moon.

New comment by gilrain in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

gilrain — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 03:09:22 +0000

Or search engine ads, natch. My eyes rolled out of my head.

New comment by gilrain in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

gilrain — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 02:56:11 +0000

Thanks! I had no idea they added a paid option.

This is a brilliant browser for iOS/Linux usage, and now its UI is minimal, and its settings are filled only with stuff for my benefit. It feels like the early 2000s again! This should be much more ballyhooed.

New comment by gilrain in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

gilrain — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:52:43 +0000

> I have first hand experience.

You can't have first-hand experience of "usually" where that applies to multiple people.

New comment by gilrain in "Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal"

gilrain — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:12:46 +0000

> Chronic depression doesn't usually have a "cause"

Is that true or your guess?

New comment by gilrain in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

gilrain — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 22:22:26 +0000

Correct. This is specifically what covered my uses of the service:

> to review your work, to ask questions of, to perform security analysis

New comment by gilrain in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

gilrain — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:35:52 +0000

It's not a nitpuck to me: reading the comment I replied to, I assumed I needed to cancel my Sourcehut subscription. In fact, I don't. That's a lot of information to've left out of so many pull quotes.

New comment by gilrain in "Changes to Sourcehut's terms of service regarding LLMs"

gilrain — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:06:27 +0000

It would be less misleading to also include:

> Moreover, the use of AI for purposes other than co-authoring code, tickets, emails, and so on, is discouraged but not prohibited. If you use LLMs privately to review your work, to ask questions of, to perform security analysis, and so on, and then write original code to push to SourceHut, your use-case is aligned with our policy.

New comment by gilrain in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

gilrain — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:08:18 +0000

Not really: as far as we know, you use it for nothing; the person you replied to gave examples.

New comment by gilrain in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

gilrain — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:03:33 +0000

> decided to make stalking DHH into a personality/lifestyle

> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them.

An intellectually honest guy like you is probably so furious that DHH makes a personality out of stalking entire peoples. Pathetic++, right? :^: