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New comment by hahahahhaah in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:36:15 +0000

Right, so they can't use the blocked print as cause to get other evidence. Or if they do it is excluded.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:29:48 +0000

Not really. You can just register prior. If hunk of metal doesn't become a gun do nothing.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:26:32 +0000

Gotta do something ism. Making things shit. Just do gun control, America.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "I miss thinking hard"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:19:22 +0000

I think AI didn't do this. Open source, libraries, cloud, frameworks and agile conspired to do this.

Why solve a problem when you can import library / scale up / use managed kuberneted / etc.

The menu is great and the number of problems needing deep thought seems rare.

There might be deep thought problems on the requirements side of things but less often on the technical side.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:00:13 +0000

We had one. It was that sulphur used in shipping fuel.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:55:55 +0000

Best bet is to put the servers in a rocket, go around the moon then land back on earth. Then install them in USE1.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 01:54:18 +0000

I just purchased a sandwich I made from myself in a deal that values me a $1tn. I plan to make toasties in space.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:11:20 +0000

I throw 200w led onto my garden. Enough to see where you are but a long way from daylight.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Lessons learned shipping 500 units of my first hardware product"

hahahahhaah — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:10:01 +0000

Love the intersection of geopolitics and hardware design lead times. Trade wars can be waited out why getting the design right.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

hahahahhaah — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:48:53 +0000

AI romance partners is the obvious new frontier here. Just imagine: an automated romance scam and you get to sell their data.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

hahahahhaah — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 21:39:37 +0000

Anecdiatelly I have heard one about some veggies are worse than others for being hard to get pesticide off if not organic. Also too many bananas. Too many eggs etc.

And those were before Facebook lol

New comment by hahahahhaah in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

hahahahhaah — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:01:09 +0000

No need. Profiting fron gambling will do it.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

hahahahhaah — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:57:48 +0000

The idea behind that phrase is not that is necessarily easy... but to decomplicate the other extreme where you are choosing this superfood and avoiding that other veg because it is "bad for you". It gives a simple heuristic for healthy living. It helps make it less daunting.

For example what do I have for breakfast? Oh let's boil and egg amd grab a carrot and corn on the cob. Or whatever.

What do I do in the supermarket? Meats, veg, bit of fruit maybe bit of dairy. Am I obessing over avacado vs. pear. Nope. Chicken vs. beef? No. Chocolate bar vs carrot? easy choice.

Now probably once you get thay square you can do harder stuff like food reaction / allergy testing and so on.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

hahahahhaah — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:24:10 +0000

It is like the government loooed at Ryanair and thought "what if we were like that!"

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore"

hahahahhaah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:21:05 +0000

AI bubble burst will be a great time to pick up work of this kind. LLM prices skyrocket, needs a real dev.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Being "Just a Developer" Isn't Enough Anymore"

hahahahhaah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:17:33 +0000

My experience is this has always been the case. Although I imagine if there were any just a dev jobs they are at risk!

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"

hahahahhaah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:18:21 +0000

Now read your profile link.

Something like this can be somewhat useful (not saying I would pay though!)

I would like to have 1000 or so vetted docs (can manually or AI vet). E.g. public API doc > internal API doc > Internal RFC > Some guys internal note they made public.

Take RFC and higher links and surface the ones I need for thw project. Chuck them in the Jira ticket.

That would be handy. But it isn't my biggest problem. So not sure how that squares up. With AI I can build this internally in a bespoke way (this is the general disruption AI has on any SaaS idea lol!) so not sure what sauce you would need.

The other AI problem is you are fighting the bitter lesson. By October CC might do this as a one sentence one shot.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?"

hahahahhaah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:12:11 +0000

I will answer then check the bio :). Mom test and all that.

So with compliance even connecting a tool I download to an approved LLM is difficult. I need to get approval. If the tool is just a tool and doesn't use AI (and thus send out private data) it is easier. I think that is a problem they should solve i.e. give a safe LLM endpoint and let me choose my tools but alas.

I think what saves me time is difficult to say. Well organized docs OR an AI that can do that to AGI levels of intellegence. Fuzzy isn't helpful (I already have lots of fuzzy options). I need bulletproof correct info.

The pain isn't in the clicks to find info it is in understanding what I am reading and if it is relevant.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "Coffee as a staining agent substitute in electron microscopy"

hahahahhaah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:01:29 +0000

I love a rollercoaster comment. Goes up, then down.

New comment by hahahahhaah in "We (As a Society) Peaked in the 90s"

hahahahhaah — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:12:18 +0000

That is subtly wrong for things like social media and AI. 50 year olds can embrace and use these things. However the dangers of these things are well accepted by all adults IMO not just older people. Many of the AI saftey crowd are young.