Hacker News: javascriptfan69

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

javascriptfan69 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:37:14 +0000

Is this supposed to be funny

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Londoners are sick of viral videos telling lies about their city"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:47:00 +0000

We need a social media Nuremberg

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Three main saturated fats raise your cholesterol"

javascriptfan69 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:51:26 +0000

Your body is 50% water and you can still die from drinking too much.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Health NZ staff told to stop using ChatGPT to write clinical notes"

javascriptfan69 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:57:26 +0000

The one my doctor was using got my obs numbers completely wrong.

We had to correct them at the end of the consultation.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Does that use a lot of energy?"

javascriptfan69 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:10:17 +0000

Much like when people discuss whether these companies are profitable: training costs don't count.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "You don't have to"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:58:01 +0000

Beautifully written.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

javascriptfan69 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:41:06 +0000

>Are you moving the goalpost?

I mean you did originally claim that this was something that was "for the masses" and then posted a solution that only someone technical could actually use.

Not that I doubt it couldn't one shot something this simple with a .exe wrapper.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

javascriptfan69 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:40:32 +0000

That's pretty neat! Thanks for elaborating.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

javascriptfan69 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:54:12 +0000

What was the feature and what was the note?

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 01:14:39 +0000

So what are they supposed to do?

Race to burn as much cash as possible in hopes that the other goes bankrupt first?

These models aren't profitable at the fixed subscription tiers.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

javascriptfan69 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:27:16 +0000

I'm not anti-AI but I'm starting to feel like I live on a different planet to the pro-AI people.

Everything in this article seems fucking insane to me.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Facebook is cooked"

javascriptfan69 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:07:41 +0000

I genuinely think we will look back at the algorithmic content feed as being on par with leaded gasoline or cigarettes in terms of societal harm.

Maybe worse since it is engineered to be as addictive as possible down to an individual level.

Then again maybe I'm being too optimistic that it will be fixed before it destroys us.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus"

javascriptfan69 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:58:41 +0000

You don't have to bet money on it.

You can just stop taking antibiotics and vaccines.

Those are way more interesting odds.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

javascriptfan69 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:28:30 +0000

>Cooling the planet is neither a technical nor financial problem

Yes it is. All solutions have trade offs.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 22:33:15 +0000

Beautiful

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:56:09 +0000

If you don't understand the difference between a credible, immediate threat to someone's life and someone posting a meme online you're too uninformed to be having this conversation and I won't be responding further.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:35:24 +0000

College students posting memes online is not the same as a crowd of people (some armed) forcing their way into a government building chanting "Hang Mike Pence" knowing that Mike Pence was inside.

Be serious.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:20:15 +0000

What is your argument? That not every person there was trying to kill Mike Pence?

There sure were a lot of people in that crowd chanting "Hang Mike Pence" but I guess if your point is just that not all of them were doing it then I suppose you're right.

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

javascriptfan69 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:17:09 +0000

"According to an F.B.I. affidavit the panel highlighted ... a government informant said that members of the far-right militant group the Proud Boys told him they would have killed Pence 'if given the chance.' The rioters on January 6th almost had that chance, coming within forty feet of the Vice-President as he fled to safety."

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington...

New comment by javascriptfan69 in "Immigrants Reduced US Deficits by $14.5T Since 1994"

javascriptfan69 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:39:19 +0000

Why would you include costs incurred by children?

That would be constant between natural born citizens and immigrants.

This critique makes no sense.