Hacker News: gooob

New comment by gooob in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

gooob — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:27:07 +0000

why pay for something like that when you can just write an extremely simple addon that removes the shorts section from the homepage and anywhere on the site?

New comment by gooob in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

gooob — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:52:07 +0000

lol wtf

New comment by gooob in "OpenAI preps for IPO in 2026, says ChatGPT must be 'productivity tool'"

gooob — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:41:16 +0000

> “Our opportunity now is to take those 900 million users and turn them into high-compute users,” Simo said, according to a partial transcript of the meeting reviewed by CNBC. “We’ll do that by transforming ChatGPT into a productivity tool.”

Moloch strikes again!

(for those who don't yet get the reference https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/)

but seriously, we (or they) need to define what "productivity" actually is these days and in these contexts. is it to generate revenue for a company? is it to become a self-sufficient human? is it to educate the younger generations about what's true? is it to do science? is it to increase the efficiency of whatever task you're already doing (note that increasing efficiency would result in using less compute for the same operation lol)? if we keep moving forward without sitting down and reorienting ourselves about a shared vision, given all the new things we now know since establishing our frameworks of social/economic organization, i fear that there will be a very bad outcome.

New comment by gooob in "Parallel coding agents with tmux and Markdown specs"

gooob — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:04:07 +0000

can you tell us about this "ansible filesystem swiss army knife"?

New comment by gooob in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

gooob — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:18:56 +0000

wait why not robots.txt?

Ask HN: When is there too much structure?

gooob — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:11:17 +0000

interpret how you will

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46794872

Points: 1

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New comment by gooob in "Dead Internet Theory"

gooob — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:58:30 +0000

it's malware in the mind. it was happening before deep fakes was possible. news outlets and journalists have always had incentive to present extreme takes to get people angry, cause that sells. now we have tools that pretty much just accelerate and automate that process. it's interesting. it would be helpful to figure out how to prevent people (especially upcoming generations) from getting swept away by all this.

New comment by gooob in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

gooob — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:11:53 +0000

not to mention the high resource-usage of a local LLM that most PCs wouldn't be able to handle, or would just drain a laptop's battery.

New comment by gooob in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

gooob — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:08:52 +0000

what i hate most about this (and the discussion happening in the comments), is that nobody is even defining "AI". "artificial intelligence" is not a technical term. what is mozzila doing exactly? what does it mean to put AI in the browser?

Ask HN: Are there any viable Android phones for a power user to buy nowadays?

gooob — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:49:38 +0000

i have a pixel 4, and it looks like i might be stuck with this phone forever if things keep going in the same direction (hopefully they don't). the pixel 4 isn't bad, but even on this i don't have the level of customization that i had back in the day with cyanogenmod etc. on my note 3 or epic 4g touch.

here are some requirements that i can think of:

    - not huge. small enough to use with 1 hand

    - able to root and install custom OS without too much difficulty/annoyance (the manufacturer doesn't actively try to stop you from modifying your own device)
    
    - able to use mint mobile

    - has a trackball (like the htc hero, that thing was fuckin awesome)

    - possibly some hardware buttons

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194540

Points: 12

# Comments: 9

New comment by gooob in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

gooob — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 15:20:32 +0000

wait what do you mean? what's wrong with kafka?

New comment by gooob in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

gooob — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:48:55 +0000

wait what's wrong with kafka?

New comment by gooob in "Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on?"

gooob — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 05:21:34 +0000

quite interesting, thanks!

New comment by gooob in "Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected"

gooob — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:55:04 +0000

same thing i was thinking lol

New comment by gooob in "Ask HN: Git Mirrors. Who's running one? What repos are you mirroring?"

gooob — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 14:07:40 +0000

good point. but yes i would say mirror the dependencies too.

of course there are.

Ask HN: Git Mirrors. Who's running one? What repos are you mirroring?

gooob — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 04:25:37 +0000

I started an effort a few months ago to mirror some essential git repos from github in case github ever goes down or microsoft decides to do some shenanigans.

What repos would you like to mirrored?

And do you know of any existing good mirrors out there that host good repos?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45988949

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

What is the most beautiful / highest quality code you've seen (or written)?

gooob — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:55:23 +0000

literal shower-thought i had tonight as i was thinking about how at work we all don't like dealing with our helm charts because the syntax and structure ends up looking so ugly and it just feels wrong (not to mention the multiple different approaches of handling kubernetes resources in multiple different pipelines.

i try to see beyond any initial repulsion to weird looking code because i know that it may be super functional. but it got me thinking: what makes code beautiful? what makes code "high quality"? (other than that it results in a working, performant, and robust software program obviously).

so i'm curious -- can you show me the best code you've encountered? it can be a small snippet or it can be a "slice of a library" or an architecture etc. have you written anything yourself that you are super proud of?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934669

Points: 33

# Comments: 18

New comment by gooob in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

gooob — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:23:22 +0000

uh, yeah no shit

New comment by gooob in "America is now one big bet on AI"

gooob — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:13:06 +0000

fully automated with robots. the AI designs thousands of experiments and deploys them at scale. idk, i'm not an agriculture expert. it was just one example. what other possibilities are there?

electronics recycling, disassembling old computers to get the raw materials into a form that can be used again. we'll need programs to automate the production and testing and analysis of the robots that will recycle the components.

New comment by gooob in "America is now one big bet on AI"

gooob — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:10:30 +0000

i can't come up with all the examples. i'm not a farming or ecology expert. so thanks for the information. do some thinking