Hacker News: htx80nerd

New comment by htx80nerd in "Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died"

htx80nerd — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:07:59 +0000

F to a Legend and titan.

New comment by htx80nerd in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

htx80nerd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:50:23 +0000

actually been like that for ages but people notice it a lot now and have a way to talk about it openly. mid 2000s CNN was really bad about this kind of thing. headline sounds shocking but once you got to paragraph 4 or so the story starts to change. then when you get to the bottom paragraphs the truth starts to come out - in stark contrast to the headline. not sure how they are these days.

New comment by htx80nerd in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

htx80nerd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:22:59 +0000

ya i cant believe im seeing this again

New comment by htx80nerd in "Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)"

htx80nerd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:44:30 +0000

obama talked tough about the border repeatedly. including during a state of the union.

obama deported tons of people.

obama did the 'kids in cages' thing.

do you recall any protest? mass media outrage about fascism and racism?

hillary, bernie, etc, all talked tough about immigration back in the day. no one cared.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

htx80nerd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:42:52 +0000

I have ~3 lower/mid range Linux laptops and 1x mid/high range windows gaming laptop. It's amazing how slow the windows machine is despite being an absolute beast compared to the linux machines, which have way worse specs.

New comment by htx80nerd in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

htx80nerd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:53:41 +0000

>His actions at DOGE literally caused the deaths of thousands.

you mean that part where the US spends billions of dollars helping other countries and they hate us for our troubles?

New comment by htx80nerd in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

htx80nerd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:47:43 +0000

"price adjustment" isnt 2x+ price adjustment is like 5% or 10%

New comment by htx80nerd in "A calculator that doesn't round"

htx80nerd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:37:24 +0000

btw if you turn the iphone calc into landscape mode and switch you scientific calc it does Ramanujan's constant without rounding, but stops after the twelve 9s.

New comment by htx80nerd in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

htx80nerd — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:14:37 +0000

My favorite was ChatGPT, and I still use it often, but it becomes way too 'hair splitting' argumentative too often over very minor non controversial topics. Like it's always going out of its way to "well actually..."

Grok used to be really really bad ~8 months ago or so, but it's gotten better.

ChatGPT team needs to turn down the 'disagree just because' factor by a lot.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Ask HN: So what happened to Facebook "localhost" tracking?"

htx80nerd — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:26:38 +0000

im failing to see the connection

>standard pixel tracking, linked to meta (js , web)

>Meta exploited Android's localhost (os level)

New comment by htx80nerd in "Love systemd timers"

htx80nerd — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:17:26 +0000

>The conversation from the core devs ran through the pattern that one gets used to seeing when one runs into SystemD bugs that are caused by extremely complex unanticipated interactions between parts of the project

>SystemD contains an enormous -and ever-growing- amount of accidental complexity, and has a set of core maintainers who are generally disinterested in either documenting the places where one or more complex systems bind together to cause stop-the-world problems or fixing the systems involved so that they don't bind up.

excellent comment. thx for the long form. im sure it was fueled by excessive frustration.

imagine my surprise to learn that Systemd was causing my long standing frustration with changing my dns settings. and further surprise to learn that server admins have this same issue and many switch away from using systemd-resolved.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Love systemd timers"

htx80nerd — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:24:00 +0000

btw that xz hack only effect systemd distros

New comment by htx80nerd in "Disagreement among frontier LLMs on real-world fact-checks"

htx80nerd — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:27:45 +0000

>Grok is trained to have a bias

Oh and the others arent? You cant really be that niave right?

New comment by htx80nerd in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

htx80nerd — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:26:48 +0000

I like ChatGPT a lot but it is always trying to debate and disagree when you ask it simple non-controversial questions. Trying to turn everything into a debate session instead of just answering the question.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

htx80nerd — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:03:57 +0000

>"making economic resources available to EU-sanctioned entities."

this is very vague

New comment by htx80nerd in "Blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD"

htx80nerd — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:54:54 +0000

>!!!I see no reason not to go with a rolling release distro!!! for personal servers. Run all the services in containers and !!!have the base OS auto-update itself as often as it needs.!!!

you do not belong in IT

New comment by htx80nerd in "Click (2016)"

htx80nerd — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:01:31 +0000

Everyone knows stores have security cameras. But if you called them up and said 'I saw you pick up the chips' they wouldnt have a good feeling.

Everyone understands websites use analytics and tracking, but people dont want to be reminded of it. Which is why people hate those FB ads which exactly match what you searched for 24 hours ago.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Bitcoin trader recovers wallet with help of Claude"

htx80nerd — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:25:39 +0000

claude ads hot off the presses.

New comment by htx80nerd in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

htx80nerd — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:39:58 +0000

Digital Ocean. I should add going into the whole situation I had a positive feelings about Hetzner and negative feelings about Digital Ocean. It's why I tried Hetzner first. I didnt like D.O. or want to use them. But in the end their interface was way easier to work with.

New comment by htx80nerd in "Analysis points to a unexpected cause of reading difficulties"

htx80nerd — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:57:48 +0000

it must be rad to be a scientist and get paid to do a bunch of BS that doesnt really matter and most people wont even double check your work and then if anyone questions your work hordes of Internet Hero's will defend your Expert Honor