Hacker News: joquarky

New comment by joquarky in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

joquarky — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:42:06 +0000

Sounds like the answer here is to host alt streams on Azure.

New comment by joquarky in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

joquarky — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:34:09 +0000

I once remember reading an article about shareholders selling off a stock because the rate of increase in profit had slowed.

New comment by joquarky in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

joquarky — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:26:10 +0000

Do they not know how to make backups?

New comment by joquarky in "ChatGPT Pro now starts at $100/month"

joquarky — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:45:20 +0000

You would have to practically live in a hippie commune to avoid buying products and services from companies led by sociopaths.

New comment by joquarky in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

joquarky — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:26:54 +0000

Facts are ultimately just vibes that pass a cultural filter.

New comment by joquarky in "Creating the Futurescape for the Fifth Element (2019)"

joquarky — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:17:18 +0000

Let's just cancel everything.

New comment by joquarky in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

joquarky — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:31:35 +0000

We can't even prevent radio advertisers from playing sirens.

New comment by joquarky in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

joquarky — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:50:29 +0000

Equifax is still around.

New comment by joquarky in "A fire sale has U.S. office buildings going for 90% off"

joquarky — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:59:01 +0000

> the increased amount of sewage

How is there more than an office full of people?

New comment by joquarky in "AI singer now occupies eleven spots on iTunes singles chart"

joquarky — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:21:55 +0000

This is a seed of OCD. Don't let it grow or it can ruin everything.

New comment by joquarky in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:16:45 +0000

If it's so important to modernity then it shouldn't be handled by private companies.

New comment by joquarky in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:13:13 +0000

Try meditating until you discover the source of internal dialogue.

New comment by joquarky in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:23:01 +0000

And C++ makes everything extra confusing with the capability of operator overloading.

That has to be one of the worst features ever added to a language.

New comment by joquarky in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:08:16 +0000

Unfortunately, problems like socialized healthcare are just far too complicated for contemporary America to solve. We used to be able to tackle big problems, but unless you're looking for ways to dodge taxes or rip people off, we're just not equipped for complex problem solving anymore.

Guess we should have invested more in education.

New comment by joquarky in "Iran threatens 'complete and utter annihilation' of OpenAI's $30B Stargate"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:13:54 +0000

"Lame duck" doesn't apply as cleanly when Congress is complicit.

New comment by joquarky in "Ask HN: How do systems (or people) detect when a text is written by an LLM"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:04:05 +0000

Nobody owes you evidence for your witch hunts.

New comment by joquarky in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:32:52 +0000

Fast, quality, cheap.

Pick two.

New comment by joquarky in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

joquarky — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:21:31 +0000

Yeah, and have you seen what lawyers want for a retainer these days?

You have to be rich to defend your rights now.

New comment by joquarky in "Demand for autism care is soaring"

joquarky — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:17:34 +0000

Yes. It's essentially conversation therapy.

New comment by joquarky in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

joquarky — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:43:34 +0000

Not reliably.