Hacker News: joquarky

New comment by joquarky in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

joquarky — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:13:42 +0000

You'll have to define "good" before you can expect quality responses.

New comment by joquarky in "The Amazon tax"

joquarky — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:59:11 +0000

Is this argument applicable to nuisance laws?

New comment by joquarky in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

joquarky — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:44:30 +0000

Conformity. Demands for it are everywhere if you choose to see it.

New comment by joquarky in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

joquarky — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:21:39 +0000

The terrorists and the large corporations are looking very similar these days.

New comment by joquarky in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"

joquarky — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:10:41 +0000

> don’t intrinsically want anything

BTW, this is also proof that they can't suffer.

New comment by joquarky in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"

joquarky — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:06:35 +0000

You're in a privledged position to argue this.

Nobody can ethically refute you by providing dangerous examples.

New comment by joquarky in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

joquarky — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:49:35 +0000

Not buying any of this when the world is now full of dark patterns¹ and the ultimate result is that people in charge keep getting richer, faster.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting

New comment by joquarky in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

joquarky — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:36:55 +0000

Good point, but if we can advance research on this via the AI bubble, it could improve privacy in other areas.

New comment by joquarky in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

joquarky — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:31:08 +0000

Cold fusion and room temperature superconductors (remember LK-99?) were also all show.

New comment by joquarky in "ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux"

joquarky — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:14:53 +0000

This started before AI. I'd pin it on the crypto gold rush attracting knuckle-dragging brogrammers into the industry.

HR is charmed by them despite their lack of discipline.

New comment by joquarky in "Codex in ChatGPT desktop app for Linux is now in preview"

joquarky — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:04:00 +0000

Why would anyone lack enough dignity to sign up for working in that kind of environment?

I would rather live in a shopping cart tent under a bridge.

New comment by joquarky in "Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake – 5 km S of San José del Palmar, Colombia"

joquarky — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 03:18:44 +0000

This seems similar to the euphemism treadmill.

New comment by joquarky in "Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse"

joquarky — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:43:25 +0000

> Have you FOIA'd your local department to see what they are?

That's an effective way to get put on a list for harassment, or worse.

New comment by joquarky in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

joquarky — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:05:45 +0000

In the US, I'm convinced that it was the food pyramid.

As a kid in the 80s, I wondered how it made sense that my diabetic father was told to follow the same model as non-diabetics, which emphasized carbohydrates.

New comment by joquarky in "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows"

joquarky — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:29:32 +0000

> the brain is quantum

Doesn't that apply to everything that exists in the material world?

New comment by joquarky in "The Gargantuan Lie That Is Collapsing the Climate"

joquarky — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:26:40 +0000

The Y2k bug.

New comment by joquarky in "App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours"

joquarky — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:51:08 +0000

Sounds like the self checkout at Kroger when it sees the wrong weight on the bagging carousel.

Just jiggle the carousel a bit and it lets you proceed.

New comment by joquarky in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

joquarky — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:14:13 +0000

I don't need the most powerful, I just need good enough.

New comment by joquarky in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

joquarky — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:56:40 +0000

The founder invented JavaScript, which is a subject that triggers knee-jerk reactions in people who approach problem solving emotionally.

New comment by joquarky in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

joquarky — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:51:23 +0000

This industry doesn't really hire nerds anymore.

HR prefers brogrammers who can fast talk.