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New comment by ileonichwiesz in "This I Believe (1952)"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:27:43 +0000

It’s one of those cases where the label has stayed the same, but the thing it commonly describes has changed so much that the word just has multiple completely different meanings.

There’s the “let’s create National Parks to conserve our natural treasures!” conservatism and there’s the “let’s sell our National Parks to the highest bidder so they can drill for oil!” conservatism. It can mean fiscal responsibility and small government, or it can mean crypto scams and surveillance state.

This happens a lot when describing political positions.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:24:52 +0000

My sexual awakening was centered around browsing the adult section of Newgrounds when I was way too young. 25 years later and I’m still a bit messed up in that regard, lol

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:16:57 +0000

I think the inertia of familiar input devices is way too high for something like that to gain any sort of traction. For better or for worse, the mainstream user is probably not leaving his QWERTY keyboard and his touchscreen, even in use cases where those are highly suboptimal.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "EuroBirdPortal – Live bird movements across Europe"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:10:01 +0000

That’s the more likely hypothesis, but I also wonder if different land management practices could be influencing a map like this. Agriculture in Poland is much more fragmented than in Germany - smaller fields of different crops, often separated by meadows and forests, creating lots of niches for biodiversity. In Western Europe you’re more likely to see giant, mechanised monoculture fields as far as the eye can see, leaving less space for agrarian-landscape wildlife.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Conway's Game of Life in real life"

ileonichwiesz — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:20:00 +0000

If it was a touchscreen, then the whole project could just be replaced by googling Conway’s game of life on an iPad. The physicality is the point.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "I Just Want to Search"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:57:10 +0000

The scale of this would need to be unfathomable. Doesn’t YouTube get something like 100 years of video uploads every day? You’d need hundreds of thousands of people working full time to review that much footage manually.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "I Just Want to Search"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:19:35 +0000

They don’t actually give a shit whether you find what you were looking for, they heavily optimize for their time-on-site metric. If the search results were terrible, and you had to refine your terms and try again, that’s more time on site! More time is more better!

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Everything you do is being recorded"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:59:08 +0000

I like to avoid the risks of processed foods by simply not being hungry.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:29:10 +0000

Aren’t birth rates already at a historical low in most parts of the world?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:18:58 +0000

Isn’t that the plot of an episode of Always Sunny?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Taste Is All That's Left"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:15:59 +0000

That’s a solved problem, you just add another agent to check if the tests are any good, and one more to oversee the test-checker, and one more…

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

ileonichwiesz — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:53:29 +0000

If I did have kids, I probably wouldn’t want them to run around a big heavy robot with very little spatial awareness.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:56:47 +0000

Very interesting topic, but a strange choice of source. I'd recommend these instead:

Coller foundation press release: https://www.jeremycollerfoundation.org/news-and-insights/pre...

The actual publication in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads8482

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf]"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:32:31 +0000

A point mutation is very unlikely to produce “the next Einstein”, it’ll just produce someone with one slightly different protein in their gut.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"

ileonichwiesz — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:41:04 +0000

> For example, in the old days, the internet was scarce, so people had the sense that their online self and their real-life self were the same.

I’d argue the opposite. On the old internet we all used nicknames, and everyone knew not to share their personal info. These days nearly everyone posts stuff on social media using their real name and a photo of their face.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "macOS needs its grid back"

ileonichwiesz — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:37:06 +0000

I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

ileonichwiesz — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:11:25 +0000

I’m at a large Fortune 500 company. On a recent call, a mandate came from the CEO himself - “we have to use more agentic AI”.

And I found it really funny, because for what? Use it for what? It’s a tool. Imagine a guy coming down to a construction site where everything is progressing fine and saying “We need to use more screwdrivers”.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Accelerando (2005)"

ileonichwiesz — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:02:06 +0000

Lawyers run the US, I don’t think anything that reduces the country’s dependence on them has any chance of widespread adoption.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

ileonichwiesz — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:56:18 +0000

What I’m seeing in that link is that the organization pays 16 people a total of $3.6 million.

New comment by ileonichwiesz in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

ileonichwiesz — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:58:23 +0000

> There’s almost always a better alternative for those who value having something better.

That alternative comes with a $60/year subscription these days, though.