Hacker News: hexasquid

New comment by hexasquid in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

hexasquid — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:42:33 +0000

"clanker"

Slang for an AI, used by a Blade Runner

New comment by hexasquid in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

hexasquid — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:28:46 +0000

"Don't think of an elephant"

New comment by hexasquid in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

hexasquid — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:43:11 +0000

I'm not sure if Tex has a way to express mobile/desktop aware layouts, or to enable the reader to adjust only the font size (my ignorance)

New comment by hexasquid in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

hexasquid — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:56:06 +0000

So many complaints about web technology, where is the replacement? I'd be interested to know if there was the one true layout system that everyone agrees on

New comment by hexasquid in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

hexasquid — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:45:22 +0000

Using language to represent reality is lossy

New comment by hexasquid in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

hexasquid — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:17:09 +0000

Indeed.

I often see comments on the ethics and water/energy consumption of AI, but very few for non-vegan* developers boiling water for their coffees in air conditioned offices that require a commute, which I assume is a common default.

*blue-water usage of a burger patty is worth looking up, I was astonished

New comment by hexasquid in "My automated doubt development process"

hexasquid — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:47:26 +0000

I'm coming around to liking them; they're like a sort of anti-shibboleth.

"Ah, an em-dash", I think: "now I know".

New comment by hexasquid in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

hexasquid — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:22:47 +0000

Introducing JSON scoped comments, far superior to JSON conventional comments. People who use those are our rivals.

New comment by hexasquid in "Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks"

hexasquid — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:53:45 +0000

Disney, here to save kids from screens.

Reminds me of when I saw a bunch of tshirts with the word "PUNK" written on them displayed in a window in a mall.

New comment by hexasquid in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

hexasquid — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:31:49 +0000

Sinister Dexter Adroit Gauche Left handed compliment Right hand man

New comment by hexasquid in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

hexasquid — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:06:21 +0000

Extrapolating the final position of the goalposts

New comment by hexasquid in "The Third Hard Problem"

hexasquid — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:45:09 +0000

"Ambiguity is the enemy", as a rule of thumb, has helped me

New comment by hexasquid in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

hexasquid — Sat, 02 May 2026 08:31:49 +0000

No machine could create the sublime human connection I get from Crazy Frog.

New comment by hexasquid in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

hexasquid — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:59:13 +0000

When a human makes a I IV V it's art

When a machine does it, soulless

New comment by hexasquid in "NPM website was down"

hexasquid — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:47:56 +0000

Hold the jokes until we're sure this isn't an `.unwrap()`

New comment by hexasquid in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

hexasquid — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:47:38 +0000

We?

New comment by hexasquid in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

hexasquid — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:23:46 +0000

This needs to be built into figma and taught to product managers. FE devs are telling each other this all the time (mentioned in every single FE conference), but most of the time

- they don't get to make this decision - they fail when pushing back - Hacker News eventually blames the FE dev

New comment by hexasquid in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

hexasquid — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:19:25 +0000

In 20 years of front-end web development I've never encountered a designer willing to use standard form controls. I assume they exist.

New comment by hexasquid in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

hexasquid — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:48:21 +0000

"I'm going to put this fire over with the rest of the fire" but in app form

New comment by hexasquid in "Claude Glass (Or Black Mirror)"

hexasquid — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:44:21 +0000

Not what I expected