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New comment by hatefulmoron in "Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?"

hatefulmoron — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 02:46:34 +0000

I can't afford to go to restaurants. I pay too much in my tips to my landlord.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?"

hatefulmoron — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:41:24 +0000

I'm not trying to "stick it to the man" or imply the server is bad at their job. I'm paying the agreed upon price. If servers need to be paid more to do their job they can demand more in wages, and the prices can raise to account for that.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?"

hatefulmoron — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:36:48 +0000

Try to have some self esteem. If you don't feel like you can stand up for yourself feel free to give them a 100% tip or whatever, maybe they'll cheer for you as you leave. Perhaps other people watching will join in.

Again, your compensation is between you and your employer. If I don't tip, perhaps your employer should be paying you more. Raise the prices to account for this.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?"

hatefulmoron — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:22:55 +0000

In any sense optional? What about the literal sense? If you're not comfortable with _that_ arrangement, stop making it optional.

The only people stiffing service staff on their compensation is their employer shrugging their shoulders and not pricing the server's labour correctly. Your compensation agreement is between you and your employer, I'm here to pay for goods/services in exchange for the amount of money that we agreed on.

It's just not really my problem, and getting openly angry at me means you're the asshole, sorry.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "Ask HN: Why aren't Americans rising up against tipping?"

hatefulmoron — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 01:15:35 +0000

You aren't in the right for being "openly angry" at a customer who doesn't voluntarily pay an optional tip. Either raise the prices and pay your servers more, or shut the fuck up about it (the angry people, I mean).

New comment by hatefulmoron in "An Alien Mind"

hatefulmoron — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:03:33 +0000

For sure, and for that reason I mean to say that I wouldn't feel great as a manager/executive/etc either.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "An Alien Mind"

hatefulmoron — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:46:28 +0000

Maybe I just lack imagination, but I don't really know how jobs are supposed to solidify around the role of giving prompts to agents and then looking at the results. I mean, engineers will be in the breadline because their role was simply to prompt the agents.. only to be superseded by managers or executives who no longer manage engineers but themselves prompt the agents? And, for this previously considered obsolete function which they do presumably by copy/pasting requirements from their email inbox, they will be paid by someone who doesn't know that they could just be talking to their own agents?

Sorry if I misunderstand the point, just trying to understand.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime"

hatefulmoron — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 14:41:26 +0000

If it's samey regardless of language, isn't that in contradiction to your original theory? " .. the most important feature for agent performance is the popularity of the language .. "

New comment by hatefulmoron in "The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI"

hatefulmoron — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:03:22 +0000

POGOs are criminalized and often operated by illegal immigrant Chinese people, it's not really representative. At least that's my understanding having lived in Manila for a few years.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

hatefulmoron — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:07:12 +0000

That's across 64 concurrent streams; you could make more concurrent requests to DeepSeek API no?

New comment by hatefulmoron in "Superlogical"

hatefulmoron — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:54:32 +0000

After using a tiling WM, it feels like this is a window manager job. It even works for non-terminal applications.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "Making"

hatefulmoron — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:55:15 +0000

> Call me aged out but im not so sure that your vibe coded app or that tik tok upload is gonna hit the same in 5080.

This is true of almost anything: past, present, or future. Most of everything is shit.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "l: A new runtime for k and q"

hatefulmoron — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:13:01 +0000

Not sure how you're replying to me without looking at the link.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "l: A new runtime for k and q"

hatefulmoron — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:42:16 +0000

Isn't that "more standard C" because it's written by Claude?

New comment by hatefulmoron in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

hatefulmoron — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:33:47 +0000

I mean, we view social networks as having network effects that keep people there. The same force that stops people from switching from Facebook and TikTok prevents people from abandoning social media altogether. Waiting for all the adults to be responsible and forward thinking seems a little far fetched.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "UK Brings in Full Social Media Ban for Under-16s"

hatefulmoron — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:22:46 +0000

I'm not in favor of these social media bans, but I would think the benefit here is that without the ban your child will be in the "real world" while everybody else's is on social media. This would make the "real world" socialization benefits more difficult.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline"

hatefulmoron — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:38:14 +0000

Aren't they related in the sense that they're not tech/SaaS/software related? "I'm looking into being an elevator mechanic; I need the money because my wife is pregnant." and then "I'm writing poetry by hand." Like, their life is going in a non-tech direction?

New comment by hatefulmoron in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

hatefulmoron — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:07:15 +0000

Who do you imagine the winners and losers will be? To the extent AI is useful and disruptive, it's best utilized by people with capital. Which is to say, the winners are few and the losers are everybody else. In this case, the losers aren't just more vocal, they're louder and more visible because they're much more numerous.

New comment by hatefulmoron in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

hatefulmoron — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:11:11 +0000

How am I being virulently anti-AI? I've been a Claude Code max subscriber for many months and find it very helpful. It feels a little unfair to conclude that any criticism is just unfounded fear and insecurity..

New comment by hatefulmoron in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

hatefulmoron — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:09:33 +0000

I could also include the correct implementation for it to copy in the prompt, if you get what I'm trying to say. Some amount of laziness or vagueness in the prompt is an intended use case, it's surely the point of having the subagents do so much churning of tokens to research before writing the plan that I'm about to disregard. But sure, those are helpful tips.