Hacker News: itsdesmond

New comment by itsdesmond in "Northflank Breached"

itsdesmond — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:49:07 +0000

Security question 2: You reach down and flip the tortoise onto its back…

New comment by itsdesmond in "Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?"

itsdesmond — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:28:08 +0000

I went 4.2 -> 6 once and it was horrible. Everything since then has been easy. Upgrade struggl’n are simply no longer an issue.

New comment by itsdesmond in "US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion"

itsdesmond — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:56:20 +0000

https://amarkfoundation.org/reports/u-s-presidents-and-the-f..., though you could just google the topic and click exactly any link, clearly shows that Republican admins grow the deficit, Democratic admins shrink it.

These are just straight up numbers increasing or decreasing. It’s not complicated shit. Quit equivocating.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Replacing Pull Requests with Delta"

itsdesmond — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:53:37 +0000

Like…?

New comment by itsdesmond in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

itsdesmond — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:32:53 +0000

Or something similar enough to what you wanted that you don’t notice it’s a different thing. That’s awful.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

itsdesmond — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:31:11 +0000

Why even ask the question?

New comment by itsdesmond in "Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now"

itsdesmond — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:31:22 +0000

You’re being weird.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Houthis used Claude Code to develop missile guidance software: Anthropic"

itsdesmond — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:07:28 +0000

It’s the software. Definitely. We been making bombs for a while now. They used to toss them out the side of biplanes. Oddly, your second paragraph immediately undermines the first.

> Presumably, the world used dumb munitions without any software for a long time.

What do you think “presumably” is accomplishing here? Are you unsure, but willing to assume for purpose of the discussion, that bombs preceded computers?

New comment by itsdesmond in "iPhone Duo"

itsdesmond — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:31:17 +0000

New flagship product with lots of features is more expensive than old entry level product purchased used?!

New comment by itsdesmond in "Show HN: Keen Bean – Mac meeting notes that draft the spec while you talk"

itsdesmond — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:23:29 +0000

The very first thing on the page is this egregious slop sentence:

> Leave the meeting with a first draft, not a blank page.

I have to imagine the whole thing is this lazy.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

itsdesmond — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:13:31 +0000

You’re responding really inappropriately to someone participating productively in a discussion.

New comment by itsdesmond in "SteamdDB Joins Nexus Mods"

itsdesmond — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:51:41 +0000

Y’all cowards always implying. Say the thing you think. Just say it. I’ll start: I think getting upset by a pronouns dropdown is literal homophobia, in that y’all are so scared, worried, and bothered by thinking about gay shit that you’re installing software about it.

It’s weak. Y’all are weak.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Show HN: FnScribe – Open-source, offline dictation for macOS"

itsdesmond — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:33:27 +0000

I see that it changes the menu bar icon to indicate status. How is this communicated when windows are full screen and the menu bar isn’t visible?

New comment by itsdesmond in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

itsdesmond — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:06:03 +0000

> Today, we are excited to announce that we are joining forces with Stripe, to power the next wave of GDP growth globally.

This is some high level meaningless corpo speak.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

itsdesmond — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:31:30 +0000

> And he could be opposing it on principle as well.

I fucking bet.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Grok 4.6"

itsdesmond — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:04:14 +0000

No one is saying it is currently happening, you goof. Remigration is an idea proposed by identitarian assholes like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sellner, author of a book called Remigration, who Musk has promoted in tweets.

It is not currently happening, but the richest man in the world is among those actively working to make it happen.

Again, you types confidently misunderstand a discussion.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Grok 4.6"

itsdesmond — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:01:55 +0000

> Remigration is a far-right concept referring to the ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

It’s right there at the top. One google search is all it takes. You didn’t even, for a second, think to familiarize yourself with the remigration concept. You jumped immediately to me being wrong, even though I was discussing something you were ignorant of. That’s embarrassing.

New comment by itsdesmond in "Grok 4.6"

itsdesmond — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:11:32 +0000

It’s opinions are actively steered by a man who promotes the great replacement theory, white genocide, and remigration which is the mass forced deportation of non-whites.

New comment by itsdesmond in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

itsdesmond — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 16:02:58 +0000

It’s wild to, in a thread about an unusual number of suicides among a branch of government doing secret stuff, say that folks talking about that secret stuff would be a good idea.

I am absolutely not saying that is what’s happening here, suicide of folks put in stressful situations is to be taken seriously. But like… c’mon guy, surely this exact premise has been a direct-to-Amazon-Video release.

New comment by itsdesmond in "U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio reaches 123%"

itsdesmond — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:05:01 +0000

They uh… they were open. They were open before we started bombing. We bomb because we bombed. As a consequence of us murdering we are murdering.

> "American" is a label for a group of consumers living within a defined border, who want to get their oil and foreign goods shipped to that location.

Holy shit.