Hacker News: gtoast

New comment by gtoast in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

gtoast — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 01:05:04 +0000

I don't understand this white washing (no pun intended) of "Its okay to be white" a well known white supremacist troll slogan (see wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_okay_to_be_white). How does one write an article this obnoxiously long and negelect key context of that whole ordeal?

New comment by gtoast in "Jensen Huang on the Joe Rogan Experience [video]"

gtoast — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:59:01 +0000

Jensen does a uninterrupted PR presentation while Joe nods and agrees with him.

New comment by gtoast in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

gtoast — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 15:59:12 +0000

I'm hearing this sentiment EVERYWHERE. This latest version of the OS on desktop and mobile, is aesthetically a disaster. Users requested none of this glass stupidity, they hate it, and there is no way to turn it off. Between that and the CEO gifting a participation trophy to our authoritarian felon "adjudicated s-assaulter" president, most people I know with a conscience are pretty much done with the platform and looking forward to the next opportunity to bail.

New comment by gtoast in "Show HN: Powerful Visual Programming Language (Book)"

gtoast — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:28:33 +0000

This 100% feels like a scam. Can't view a snippet of code on the website. Not even a "Hello World" not even a screenshot. There's no documentation available to look at. The website is entirely focused on getting you to download the Amazon "book". Which, if the "blog" is any indications, is filled with AI generated slop. There's incomplete sentencesin there, nonsense phrasing... I dare any human to read this horrendous post: https://medium.com/techtrends-digest/new-language-pipe-makes... I makes zero sense.

I think the only way to prove that the responses here aren't AI would be for the developers add the sum of the first 30 even integers, then the next 30 odd integers, and the next 30 even integers after that...17 times.

New comment by gtoast in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

gtoast — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:22:38 +0000

Man, if only there were some extremely wealthy companies, like the wealthiest companies in the world, that had a vested interest in "freeing" Javascript that could donate a measley $200k...

New comment by gtoast in "US AI Action Plan"

gtoast — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:01:22 +0000

LOL Its awesome its the Trump administration guiding us through this delicate and important issue. Should turn out great.

New comment by gtoast in "Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web"

gtoast — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:51:10 +0000

I'm in actually in Chrome. I get the following error when running 90s.dev on that getting started page:

process.ts:159 SecurityError: Failed to execute 'showDirectoryPicker' on 'Window': Cross origin sub frames aren't allowed to show a file picker. at askdir (process.ts:154:37) at port.onmessage (rpc.ts:103:10) askdir @ process.ts:159 await in askdir port.onmessage @ rpc.ts:103 filer.app.js:129 Failed to get folder: error, cancelled, or using Firefox.

New comment by gtoast in "Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web"

gtoast — Tue, 20 May 2025 19:11:35 +0000

I'm stuck on the first step of the "Getting Started" guide.

1. I've downloaded helloworld.zip to my local computer, I think. 2. I open the filer.app.js by clicking the link on the webpage. This open a 90s.dev instance right on the page. 3. Then i'm supposed to mount helloworld/app as app and click it, so i click the mount button, it asks for the drive name, hi put in helloworld/app and click mount but nothing happens.

I must be missing how you're supposed to get helloworld.zip into the 90s.dev instance... how do you upload it into the instance?

New comment by gtoast in "A bestiary of exotic hadrons"

gtoast — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:22:13 +0000

I really read this title wrong

New comment by gtoast in "StoryDiffusion: Long-range image and video generation"

gtoast — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:43:55 +0000

Its really challenging to think of the positive, constructive uses for this technology without thiking of the myriad, life and societal effecting uses for this. Just interpersonally the use of this technology is heavily weighted towards destruction and deception. I don't know where this ends or where researchers who release this technology think this will go, but I can't imagine its going anywhere good for all of us.

New comment by gtoast in "Clojure Turns 15 panel discussion video"

gtoast — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:04:30 +0000

Boot died, sadly. There was some talk of a Boot 3.0 but it never materialized. I think deps.edn took all the steam out of it. Duplicated a lot of functionality and none of the esoteric-ness.

New comment by gtoast in "Tell HN: Discord is permanently locking out users with multiple accounts"

gtoast — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 08:05:21 +0000

Been trying to verify my phone number on my personal account for literally years. Every few months I give it a shot and it’s always the same. The fact that I used my phone number on my work account prevents me from verifying my personal account.

If Discord thinks I’m going to purchase a second phone line to verify my Discord account they’re insane.

New comment by gtoast in "Clojure isn’t for me (2020)"

gtoast — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 20:48:48 +0000

Janet vs Babashka vs Fennel - anyone have thoughts?

New comment by gtoast in "Have San Francisco policies done more harm to children than Covid?"

gtoast — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 20:25:34 +0000

Do these children's family members, their teachers and school administrators get any consideration? They can still die from the covid infections they catch while interacting with students, correct? Is this news to people?

Searching for Laura Fagan brings up all kinds of other silliness. Her links are misleading when you go to the source if they're not straight up opinion pieces from other kooks. This lady seems like a pro-covid Karen in all the worst ways.

New comment by gtoast in "FreeYourMusic lets users move their playlists between music apps"

gtoast — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:56:49 +0000

If you're transfering to/from spotify then yes. You have to have a Spotify account but yes, I have a free one.

New comment by gtoast in "FreeYourMusic lets users move their playlists between music apps"

gtoast — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 18:27:09 +0000

Been using https://www.tunemymusic.com/ for this exact purpose for the last couple of years. Somone releases a playlist on Spotify, I copy the url and transfer it over to YouTube Music or Apple Music.

Does anyone know if FreeYourMusic has any advantage over TuneMyMusic?

New comment by gtoast in "The Bulky Bears of Fat Bear Week 2021"

gtoast — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 23:00:31 +0000

Went to my local Fat Bear Week in Guerneville, CA... was not what I expected but made a ton of new friends!

New comment by gtoast in "Apple sued by teen wrongly accused of shoplifting by unreliable facial-rec tech"

gtoast — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 05:16:37 +0000

"The lawsuit contends that Apple and SIS exhibited reckless disregard for the truth by misidentifying Bah as the perpetrator of multiple shoplifting crimes at iStores..."

What the heck are "iStores"?

New comment by gtoast in "AI-Powered Drone Learns Extreme Acrobatics"

gtoast — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 23:04:01 +0000

Slaughterbots - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA

New comment by gtoast in "New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro"

gtoast — Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:49:16 +0000

USBC 3.1. Slim design. Integrated gpu. I'm all in. Can't wait.