Hacker News: kbelder

New comment by kbelder in "Fox to buy Roku"

kbelder — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:24:25 +0000

And yet, advancement of civilization depends on that.

New comment by kbelder in "Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself"

kbelder — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:41:41 +0000

I've read Europa has more water than Earth. Is the idea that it accumulated its water through an entirely different means? Or that it formed with its water, and didn't lose it during the initial coalescence, like the Earth did?

This is one of those areas where I don't know enough to oppose the scientists that are experts in this domain, and so I know I should accept the general consensus... but there's still a niggling doubt in my mind because it just doesn't feel right.

New comment by kbelder in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

kbelder — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:29:54 +0000

"make unexpected choices that feel genuinely designed for the context."

What is it supposed to do when fed instructions like this?

New comment by kbelder in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

kbelder — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:01:47 +0000

Recommendations aren't requirements; you're allowed to violate them.

New comment by kbelder in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

kbelder — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:21:16 +0000

Minecraft uses several. Different cameras, the console, etc.

New comment by kbelder in "The iPhone's Last Stand?"

kbelder — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:42:47 +0000

I'm not sure Apple will provide it or not, but I don't see a future that doesn't have nearly ubiquitous smart glasses. The potential usefulness is too great.

Obviously it'll be a big cultural conflict for a while. But again... the usefulness is too great for it not to happen. Cultural objections will give way, I think. Maybe it'll have to wait for a generation to die off.

New comment by kbelder in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

kbelder — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:47:53 +0000

And after looking at the site more, I have to say I'm pretty interested. It is a nice-feeling site. There's a few UI oddities that need to have the rough edges sanded off, but I very much like the main approach.

New comment by kbelder in "Show HN: Gitdot – a better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

kbelder — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:18:28 +0000

I hate that too, of course, but as long as it doesn't creep into the actual product or website itself, it doesn't really matter.

At least they aren't using five digit years...

New comment by kbelder in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

kbelder — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:30:29 +0000

This may be a stupid question... do cities need to pay state property tax on properties they own?

New comment by kbelder in "Show HN: I Derived a Pancake"

kbelder — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:38:55 +0000

It always gets me how the exact proper amount of an ingredient seems to coincidentally round off to an even number of units. You don't often see something that requires 2.07 cups, or 71 grams.

If measurements are rounded off for convenience, a few percentage difference won't be noticeable. People would be better off acquiring a feel for how liquid a batter should be, or how seasonings smell when they're toasted the right amount, etc.

New comment by kbelder in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

kbelder — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:30:22 +0000

I think Teams should be renamed Scout Messaging, and Outlook to Scout Messaging: Legacy.

New comment by kbelder in "The Ü Programming Language"

kbelder — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:42:05 +0000

You should save face by editing in a '/sarcasm' as soon as possible.

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

kbelder — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:14:03 +0000

Should she be allowed or forbidden from doing so?

New comment by kbelder in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

kbelder — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:43:19 +0000

No one is a mob. They are just part of one.

New comment by kbelder in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

kbelder — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:43:09 +0000

I voted you up, not because I think ADHD is a myth or doesn't exist, but because I think it's massively overdiagnosed, and what many people in popular culture call ADHD is often normal, even healthy, behavior.

New comment by kbelder in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

kbelder — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:15:02 +0000

Politeness is me speaking directly and freely. Rudeness is a facade and a burden, that I employ only when circumstances require it.

I suspect that most people are like that.

New comment by kbelder in "New York passes pied-a-terre tax"

kbelder — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:41:32 +0000

Simple fix, they need to put mistresses in all their second homes.

New comment by kbelder in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

kbelder — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:29:59 +0000

HERO system Star Wars. What a magnificent grognard.

New comment by kbelder in "The worst job interview I ever had"

kbelder — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:15:18 +0000

"Crack team" long predates video games and even crack cocaine. I think it is related to the phrase "get cracking", i.e., "get working", but I wasn't able to find a clear etymological line. One possibility is it refers to gunfire, but I wonder if it refers to harvesting, cracking corn, etc.

New comment by kbelder in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

kbelder — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:44:35 +0000

He may not be a shill, he may just be terribly and enthusiastically wrong. Lots of HN posters are.