Hacker News: hiatus

New comment by hiatus in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

hiatus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:29:37 +0000

> Well, you're responding to him, so questions or suggestions are probably better than speculation.

I suspect the author is unaware of their other blindspots. It's not 2001 anymore. Holding yourself out as a hosting provider comes with some baseline expectations.

New comment by hiatus in "The government ate my name"

hiatus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:25:17 +0000

I don't think you can name your kid $()*&@Q%&

New comment by hiatus in "The government ate my name"

hiatus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:22:46 +0000

I think you misread my comment? I said:

> You can't, in any country I'm aware of, choose absolutely any name you want.

Like in Germany can you name your kid "The Holocaust Didn't Happen"? No right?

New comment by hiatus in "The government ate my name"

hiatus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:19:20 +0000

> Declaring a people's opinions about names stupid and irrelevant (or even illegal) is one of the many ways majorities oppress or even commit slow genocide against minorities.

My point was governments do this all the time and it is a far cry from fascism. Elsewhere in the thread, it is mentioned that often times you have to compromise when registering a name in a different country (for instance, if the language does not contain a phoneme used in your name). In that case, you have to conform to the country's culture and language. Under that lens, banning names that violate cultural norms is not so crazy.

New comment by hiatus in "Google Safe Browsing incident"

hiatus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:15:08 +0000

One can only imagine the other beginner mistakes made by this operator.

New comment by hiatus in ""My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore.""

hiatus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:58:04 +0000

That does not sound far fetched to me at all. The nationwide average for teachers is $70k. Surviving on a $80k-$100k/year pension at retirement with full health insurance coverage for you and your spouse for the rest of your life sounds pretty reasonable.

New comment by hiatus in "Time Warp IDE – Complete environment for old-school coding"

hiatus — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:47:35 +0000

This is like the worst shilling I've ever seen.

New comment by hiatus in "The government ate my name"

hiatus — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 22:54:31 +0000

> people with strong opinions over how they want to be named exist.

is a total non-issue. You can't, in any country I'm aware of, choose absolutely any name you want.

New comment by hiatus in "I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI"

hiatus — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:55:39 +0000

Can you link to more info?

New comment by hiatus in "I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI"

hiatus — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 01:52:56 +0000

> Poker isn’t actually hard to play perfectly if you’re writing a bot.

How so? It's not like the entire game state is visible to all players, and a big part of poker is playing the other players.

New comment by hiatus in "SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades"

hiatus — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:37:28 +0000

> will be to not be overseen by the SEC in some important capacity.

How would a securities exchange avoid being regulated by the securities and exchange commission?

New comment by hiatus in "Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans"

hiatus — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:14:40 +0000

I have no expertise in the field whatsoever but can't help but wonder if it is at all related to our consumption of cooked foods. At the very least it reduces the incidence of parasites but I am sure there are myriad benefits beyond treating foods for longevity through methods like smoking.

New comment by hiatus in "Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works"

hiatus — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 22:36:17 +0000

Who would intentionally downplay their accuracy in marketing materials by conflating the statistic with another?

New comment by hiatus in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

hiatus — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:56:52 +0000

It can be a bit of both no? Drugs are addictive but drug use increases when conditions worsen.

New comment by hiatus in "OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss"

hiatus — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 03:55:07 +0000

> I think the beneficiary is wrong here. Those teens will grow up to work for organizaitons (sic) using Azure AD, Windows, Office and OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams.

Idk, younger companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are using google.

New comment by hiatus in "An opinionated critique of Duolingo"

hiatus — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:38:43 +0000

I expect a critique of accuracy would be non-opinionated.

New comment by hiatus in "Claude Code 2.0"

hiatus — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:28:57 +0000

> Junior Engineers aren't "dangerous" but we just don't give them too much access/authority too soon.

If it is not dangerous to give them this access, why not grant it?

New comment by hiatus in "Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code"

hiatus — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:55:39 +0000

My experience has been mixed with tools like deepwiki, but that's precisely the problem. I tried it with libraries I was familiar with and it was subtly wrong about some things.

Jim Moini's License Plates

hiatus — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 01:30:49 +0000

Article URL: https://moini.net/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45392628

Points: 3

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New comment by hiatus in "The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike"

hiatus — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:36:04 +0000

The question is, in time will anyone (or rather, enough) care? Insecurity will dissolve if you know everyone else is doing it too. Remember the coffee cup in game of thrones? It was noteworthy because of the novelty but I expect worse and for people to care less.