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New comment by hhjinks in "Stop Killing Games"

hhjinks — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:12:55 +0000

Why not? Minecraft is the second most selling game of all time and comes with a freely distributable and hostable multiplayer component. How would this legislation have stopped that from happening?

New comment by hhjinks in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

hhjinks — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:21:38 +0000

>So now what, you need to show accounts to follow first

Youtube won't show you anything at all if you have a new account with watch history turned off. It says something like "turn on watch history and watch videos so we can recommend some for you".

New comment by hhjinks in "To my students"

hhjinks — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:39:01 +0000

The slop machine is stupidly easy to use. Recently switched jobs and got to use Claude Code for the first time. Literally just talk to it. There's nothing to learn.

New comment by hhjinks in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

hhjinks — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:02:28 +0000

How so? We already have digital ID in Norway. How does providing that information to American corporations further Norway's surveillance goals?

New comment by hhjinks in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

hhjinks — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:02:40 +0000

You review code not to verify the actual output of the code, but the code itself. For bugs, for maintainability. Commit hygiene is part of that.

New comment by hhjinks in "Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens"

hhjinks — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:32:00 +0000

Have you considered just doing hyposensibilization therapy? No reason to go the way of surgery before trying that. Worked wonders for me and my array of allergies, dust mites among them.

New comment by hhjinks in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

hhjinks — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:14:23 +0000

Prevent pasting comments. Implement a naive check for time spent typing the comment, and shadowban posts that don't pass the criteria. Add a 1 minute wait and captcha for posting.

That'd drastically reduce the amount of low effort posts, both human-written and generated.

New comment by hhjinks in "Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide"

hhjinks — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 10:56:18 +0000

Well, the map obviously does a lot of extrapolation. Look at Norway, for example. The bigger cities pollute the air in a 50km radius? In a country where heating is primarily electric? When Berlin and Paris don't seem to affect the air quality 20km away, despite having ten times the population?

New comment by hhjinks in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

hhjinks — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:25:18 +0000

Which branch your work was done on is noise, not signal. There is absolutely zero signal lost by rebasing, and it prunes a lot of noise. If your branch somehow carries information, that information should be in your commit message.

New comment by hhjinks in "The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets"

hhjinks — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:07:34 +0000

How would you measure time going backwards if you can only perceive it going forwards? How can you "experience" everything around you going "backwards" if that includes your memory? How can you determine that a specific moment in time was arrived at by time going forward, or by going backwards?

New comment by hhjinks in "The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets"

hhjinks — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:02:28 +0000

>does it make sense to ask how something created after its emission could affect its path

The problem here is likely the concept of "after". It's relativity; what's "after" in our frame of reference isn't after in all frames of reference.

New comment by hhjinks in "Robin Williams' daughter pleads for people to stop sending AI videos of her dad"

hhjinks — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:27:42 +0000

Another human being doesn't scare me, because they will think like a human, consider themselves human, and relate to humans.

A thinking machine is a total unknown. If human intelligence and machine intelligence are not aligned, then what?

New comment by hhjinks in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"

hhjinks — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 10:59:30 +0000

> Readability is a non-concept really

Yes.

New comment by hhjinks in "New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death"

hhjinks — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:14:59 +0000

Imperial or metric?

New comment by hhjinks in "We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism"

hhjinks — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:35:26 +0000

Defaulting to people having the same qualia is too much of a leap. You can't even begin to prove that your blue is my blue.

New comment by hhjinks in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

hhjinks — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 07:48:54 +0000

GTA VI's story mode won't be surpassed by a world model, but the fucking around and blowing things up part conceivably could, and that's how people are spending their time in GTA. I don't see a world model providing the framing needed to contextualize the mayhem, thereby making it fun, anytime soon myself, but down the line? Maybe.

New comment by hhjinks in "Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria"

hhjinks — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:58:50 +0000

Hey, that's Hyrum's Law!

New comment by hhjinks in "Left-Pad (2024)"

hhjinks — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 09:44:40 +0000

I don't see where the quadratic time complexity comes from. There's a single loop performing n operations in total, ie. O(n).

New comment by hhjinks in "EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal"

hhjinks — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:30:59 +0000

> international internet traffic

Which means all internet traffic that crosses the border at any point. So it practically includes all domestic traffic, too.

New comment by hhjinks in "LLM Benchmark for 'Longform Creative Writing'"

hhjinks — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:02:05 +0000

>tuned to produce results the artist likes

Kinda like RLHF?