Hacker News: halestock

New comment by halestock in "Claude Opus 4.8"

halestock — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:07:36 +0000

I was being very roundabout, but my point is that AIs are still built, not grown.

New comment by halestock in "Claude Opus 4.8"

halestock — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:00:10 +0000

I can't predict the outcome of an RNG but that doesn't mean it grows the numbers.

New comment by halestock in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

halestock — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:46:44 +0000

Huh, I wonder what happens when people stop making real music for AIs to train on, then.

New comment by halestock in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

halestock — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:34:57 +0000

What does that have to do with "power begets power"

New comment by halestock in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

halestock — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:41:12 +0000

Why don't unions seem to have that problem in pretty much all of Europe then?

New comment by halestock in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

halestock — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:11:04 +0000

Always?

New comment by halestock in "Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials"

halestock — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:37:42 +0000

Nothing I said has anything to do with homogeneity.

New comment by halestock in "Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials"

halestock — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:47:37 +0000

Because society functions a lot better when it has people in it who like each other.

New comment by halestock in "[dead]"

halestock — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:05:44 +0000

> In a letter sent to Wendy Smith, who revoked her donation to UCSD after the Annenberg Media story broke, the school stated: “We will not be responding to factually inaccurate reporting by student reporters who have an agenda.”

Pretty embarrassing response by the school, IMHO.

New comment by halestock in "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different"

halestock — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:43:31 +0000

But that's not idempotent? If I'm a client and I don't know if the original request went through, getting a 409 on any subsequent requests tells me nothing about whether the original request was successful or not.

New comment by halestock in "Ads on Apple Maps"

halestock — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:35:34 +0000

Why?

New comment by halestock in "Inventions for battery reuse and recycling increase seven-fold in last decade"

halestock — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:37:37 +0000

Sorry what?

New comment by halestock in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

halestock — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:58:42 +0000

I'd say it's more like you're not a real driver if you use Waymo to get around everywhere.

New comment by halestock in "Paraloid B-72"

halestock — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 02:58:44 +0000

I found a couple:

https://resources.culturalheritage.org/osg-postprints/wp-con...

https://www.zoicpaleotech.com/pages/paraloid-b72-in-fossil-p...

acetone will dissolve it, dunno about turpentine.

New comment by halestock in "Why "200 OK" does not mean your system worked"

halestock — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:07:21 +0000

> A 200 OK response tells you the request was accepted. It tells you nothing about what actually happened after.

???

From [0]:

> The HTTP 200 OK successful response status code indicates that a request has succeeded.

From [1]:

> The HTTP 202 Accepted successful response status code indicates that a request has been accepted for processing, but processing has not been completed or may not have started.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

New comment by halestock in "EFF is leaving X"

halestock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:51:59 +0000

There what is?

New comment by halestock in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

halestock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:50:42 +0000

Do you mean the flamethrower guitar? That was real.

New comment by halestock in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

halestock — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:52:24 +0000

It doesn’t.

New comment by halestock in "this css proves me human"

halestock — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:38:21 +0000

The pen is the material.

New comment by halestock in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

halestock — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:43:51 +0000

Some alternative reporting:

https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social...

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mark-zucke...