Hacker News: gowld

New comment by gowld in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

gowld — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:18:06 +0000

They can't profit from your garage.

New comment by gowld in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

gowld — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:17:32 +0000

How does that work if you don't live near the colo?

New comment by gowld in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

gowld — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:02:20 +0000

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/01/meta-more-speech-fewer-mis...

"We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations."

New comment by gowld in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

gowld — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:00:45 +0000

And that would be a blatant admission of guilt.

New comment by gowld in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

gowld — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:24:36 +0000

What you wrote has nothing to do with the article.

The draft is for

(a) massively unpopular wars that the public won't consent to (b) existential wars that require huge manpower.

It's for cannon fodder; not at all for "smart", "qualified" people.

New comment by gowld in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

gowld — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:08:39 +0000

Missing the point. I don't choose which tokens to buy. I send a request and the server decides how much it costs after its done.

New comment by gowld in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

gowld — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:31:44 +0000

Stardew Valley isn't open source, but it has been decompiled (.Net) and has a an open-source modding API inclding Harmony integration for patching the base game code and and a huge open-source modding community.

ttps://github.com/pardeike/Harmony

New comment by gowld in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

gowld — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:28:39 +0000

$2000/month is cheaper than university tuition. Why attend the university?

New comment by gowld in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

gowld — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:27:46 +0000

For software development, degree is irrelevant. Employer-managed competency exams and public experience dominate.

New comment by gowld in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

gowld — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:13:59 +0000

I suspect it's because AI generates music as a waveform incrementally not globally so it favors smoothly varying sounds, not sharp contrast. If it generated MIDI data and then used a MIDI synth to create the audio, you wouldn't get that.

New comment by gowld in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

gowld — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:54:05 +0000

That's not a fair assessment. "False memory syndrome" and "repressed/recovered memory" are both outside scientific mainstream consensus.

New comment by gowld in "Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse"

gowld — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:00:17 +0000

> it would take another article to fully describe what happened.

I know a guy who has an AI that writes articles. I can put you two in touch.

New comment by gowld in "Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse"

gowld — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:59:37 +0000

You're AI is blogging about being blocked. Where's the blog post about your collaboration with WP admins?

New comment by gowld in "Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse"

gowld — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:58:27 +0000

The OP article has no content about what the "row" is about.

New comment by gowld in "A macOS bug that causes TCP networking to stop working after 49.7 days"

gowld — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:52:46 +0000

AI does a good job of condensing the blog post to 2 paragraphs -- Mac refuses to let the tcp_now clock rollover when it exceeds the max value in its data type.

New comment by gowld in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

gowld — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:46:14 +0000

Weird HN bug: I somehow managed to get to an orphan /reply page not attached to any submission thread.

New comment by gowld in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

gowld — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:18:18 +0000

Articles have animated ads, though.

New comment by gowld in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

gowld — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:55:15 +0000

What "similar thing" are you asking for? The Laughing Cow image exists. The Print Gallery is an object itself existing at 2 zoom levels in the same place, but the cheese exists in different places. You can't have two copies of the same image in the same place - that's not a copy; it's just itself.

New comment by gowld in "How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]"

gowld — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:44:39 +0000

As annoying as those titles are, the work that you (and few others, like Veritasium) do makes it well worth the tradeoff. Just keep reminding everyone that the annoying title gets the video into the brain of thousands of other people who aren't subscribed yet. It's a tiny price to pay for astounding value.

Everyone who watches your videos loves them and wants everyone else to watch them.

New comment by gowld in "The 'paperwork flood': How I drowned a bureaucrat before dinner"

gowld — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:10:51 +0000

This reads like LLM slop. gptzero says 98%.

It also appears to be a confession of intentional vandalism of government property, despite the author admitting that they already knew how to send a fax via website, which is as convenient as email.

And, believe it or not, yes, some people do in fact receive treatment that cures a disability.