Hacker News: hananova

New comment by hananova in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

hananova — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:56:01 +0000

So, pick two? One for each background?

New comment by hananova in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

hananova — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:10:20 +0000

Notice in this case means replacing “buy” with “rent.”

New comment by hananova in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

hananova — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:54:12 +0000

This is absolute fearmongering. Indie devs aren’t the ones releasing this always-online quadruple A garbage in the first place. They will be affected the least, since their games already would work just fine if the company ever goes belly up.

New comment by hananova in "XLIDE: VBA without excel"

hananova — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:14:49 +0000

Knowledge of it being absolutely useless slop is very useful for those of us that want to avoid all this garbage. There’s nothing shallow about it, it taught me that this project is slop.

New comment by hananova in "A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria"

hananova — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:52:11 +0000

The thing about the whole “frogs in boiling water” thing is that it doesn’t work. They’ll jump when it gets too hot.

To counter it with another idiom, consider the concept of having nothing to lose. Remember I’m not claiming it’ll be fun, easy, or anything like that. What I’m saying is that when push comes to shove and enough people genuinely have nothing to lose, it will not be pretty, and I’m not willing to bet on the rich and powerful coming out on top, regardless of how slowly and gradually they try to make it happen.

I think it’ll suck a lot for everyone, and specifically I’d be willing to put money on the rich and powerful wishing they’d had a little more empathy and foresight.

New comment by hananova in "A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria"

hananova — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:01:01 +0000

The limit to job loss is completely unrelated to AI capabilities. Rather it is social.

There is a breaking point where if enough people end up jobless it will lead to genuine bloody uprisings. I won't pretend to know where exactly that point is, but I am more than happy to state that it is before "nobody has a job anymore" is reached.

New comment by hananova in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

hananova — Thu, 21 May 2026 22:44:37 +0000

Scalpers will just do two transactions, one high one for the privilege of being able to buy the ticket, and then the sale at the listed limit.

No, the real solution is to make tickets strictly id-bound and non-transferable in any way.

New comment by hananova in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

hananova — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:39:28 +0000

Well if AI keeps cannibalizing jobs, governments will HAVE to find a way to make UBI works. If they do not there will be deadly riots as people lose their livelihoods.

There will simply have to be a solution, whether or not it’s deemed “impossible.”

New comment by hananova in "I’ve banned query strings"

hananova — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:42:18 +0000

If you insist on knowing, include a different url in both that goes to the same place and use your damn server logs. You don’t need google analytics and whatever.

New comment by hananova in "Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated"

hananova — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:37:10 +0000

Hi Cliff! Your book the Cuckoo's Egg got me both (more) into IT, as well as helped my English proficiency go from basic to proficient. Back when I was 12, I was checked out in school, and my English teacher noticed here in Belgium.

He knew I was a bit of a nerd and into computers, and he recommended me your book, and in fact personally went to an English book store to buy it for me. And the rest is history.

New comment by hananova in "Russia's doping program is run by the same FSB team that poisoned Navalny"

hananova — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:03:26 +0000

No, the olympics are a doping competition, and a meta-competition of “who is better at not getting detected.”

In general, the statement “if they got a medal, they cheated” is true so much of the time that it becomes a sensible default assumption. And it sucks for the few that didn’t cheat.

New comment by hananova in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

hananova — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:13:30 +0000

The nature of that setup makes it incredibly difficult to research. You'd have to answer a negative.

Of course, that won't stop people that are anti-trigger warnings from using the irrelevant research (they don't work if you don't heed them... duh) to push their agenda.

New comment by hananova in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

hananova — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:08:47 +0000

All those papers look at the difference between "consuming content without being given a trigger warning" and "consuming content after being given a trigger warning."

There has been no proper research on the effectiveness of "being given a trigger warning, and then not consuming the content because of it." Which seems to be the most important factor to consider when it's about avoid sudden panic responses.

New comment by hananova in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

hananova — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:22:41 +0000

The average person can make one of those things happen, and not the others. Yes, the alternative is obviously better, but once violence becomes the only course of action with reasonable chance at good results, violence is what you will get. Just watch, this is going to escalate. A lot.

New comment by hananova in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

hananova — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:18:52 +0000

What you think does not matter. You need to actually convince the downtrodden, otherwise these attacks will keep happening, and they will get worse.

New comment by hananova in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

hananova — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:53:26 +0000

Rule of thumb:

- If it’s a company doing an NC license, probably best to be careful because they can make your life hell with lawyers.

- If it’s a random joe doing an NC license, feel free to ignore it because they don’t have the money to defend it anyway. Especially so if it’s CC-BY-NC-ND, people that pick that one are especially likely to be in the all-bark-no-bite category.

At least that’s how one of the companies I worked for treated CC licenses… I don’t work there anymore.

New comment by hananova in "Industrial design files for Keychron keyboards and mice"

hananova — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 20:44:40 +0000

A combination of key samplers and going with the first acceptable switch rather than trying all of them and going with the best.

New comment by hananova in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

hananova — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:38:15 +0000

Wait, does that mean that counterfeit money is legally money in the US?

New comment by hananova in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

hananova — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:37:04 +0000

It’d be money laundering because money went in on one end, and money came out at the other end. Bitcoin would’ve been the vehicle yes. Still not money though.

Something doesn’t have to be money to be involved in money laundering, obviously.

New comment by hananova in "EFF is leaving X"

hananova — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:34:48 +0000

How very astute of you. I was of course talking about folks sounding better combined with queer. This is subjective of course, but the writers agreed.

What does it matter to you anyway?