Hacker News: kilna

New comment by kilna in "No Terms. No Conditions"

kilna — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:04:34 +0000

#5 "Access is not conditioned on approval" would seem to be permission to DDOS.

New comment by kilna in "Unsealed court documents show teen addiction was big tech's "top priority""

kilna — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:03:07 +0000

All capitalism is crony capitalism.

New comment by kilna in "Show HN: I've been using AI to analyze every supplement on the market"

kilna — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:08:11 +0000

Monetize it with Amazon or other affiliate links, and provide dollar per effective dose for a given set of desired supplements.

New comment by kilna in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

kilna — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:56:52 +0000

https://kilna.net - I knocked up a linktree type site for myself and all of my projects a while back, but the offerings out there were so obnoxiously branded even when paid... and none of them felt polished in the way I like. I did the HTML + CSS myself, and was pleased I could make it work so well on both mobile and desktop.

New comment by kilna in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

kilna — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:35:20 +0000

Framing it as unwarranted to not think "Tesla is uniquely unable to achieve it"...? Seriously?

The real question is if Tesla is uniquely ABLE to achieve it, above others in the market... including new startups or tech/auto-maker partnerships which may yet form.

Tesla has some supply chain innovation, but none of what they do can't be replicated... and Musk's slavish commitment to video as opposed to LIDAR is hobbling them.

New comment by kilna in "Go Gray, Not Cray: Why You Should Grayscale Your Phone"

kilna — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:09:31 +0000

Black and white is 1-bit, where one value (say, 1) means white and the other (say, 0) means black.

New comment by kilna in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

kilna — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:45:22 +0000

Sure, but very modestly due to scale, not core institutional morals. Go to your average small business with 10 or so people and ask the staff how they are treated and paid, and you'll get an answer not much different than the level of employee satisfaction for Fortune 500 companies. Look a their customer reviews... are small restaurants for instance an order of magnitude different that megacorp chains? In an economy with regulatory capture and highly unequal distribution of wealth, the wealthy set the tone across the board.

New comment by kilna in "A Fast 64-Bit Date Algorithm (30–40% faster by counting dates backwards)"

kilna — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:25:00 +0000

Leap seconds are not deterministic.

New comment by kilna in "Things I've learned in my 7 years implementing AI"

kilna — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 02:41:22 +0000

It takes good self control to not go down rabbit holes writing the wrong prompts, or prompts that produce interesting or pleasing results without necessarily solving the problem you intended to solve. Sycophantic LLMs are an addiction engine, in addition to being a guess-based autocomplete for thoughts.

New comment by kilna in "Disk Prices"

kilna — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:23:25 +0000

This makes me miss pricewatch.com

New comment by kilna in "The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016)"

kilna — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:21:16 +0000

If the production code has to be maximally performant, you'd want the transform. It doesn't copy data around with a bunch of needless assignments. Pipelining the extract/sort/reconstitute in this manner is absolutely the right thing to do in production if production requirements are to keep it fast and with a small footprint. There's no excuse for not commenting it, but strictly-code-speaking there's no reason not to use this for production if the requisite needs are there.

New comment by kilna in "The history of the Schwartzian Transform (2016)"

kilna — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:08:17 +0000

Perl was ahead of its time, and likely because of it's Borg-like capacity to absorb a little bit of everything... it was unfortunately nigh on impossible to refactor. This is why Perl6 (nee Raku) took nearly 2 decades to be "done". It's a crying shame that it lost momentum, because many of the techniques that the features of Raku enable are as clever/succinct/revolutionary as the Schwartzian Transform was back in its day... but because the developer community is so very small now, Raku will have a very hard time catching up to the performance of competing languages.

New comment by kilna in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"

kilna — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 16:39:07 +0000

AI is kerosene. A useful resource when applied with reason and compassion. Late stage capitalism is a dumpster full of garbage. AI in combination with late stage capitalism is a dumpster fire. Many, perhaps most people conflate the dumpster fire with "kerosine evil!"

New comment by kilna in "Authors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts in Their Novels"

kilna — Wed, 28 May 2025 23:37:26 +0000

I'm interested in a source for the 10% statistic. There are only 42m sex workers worldwide... and that number is not entirely women, and not entirely people involved in content creation.

New comment by kilna in "FBI arrests judge accused of helping man evade immigration authorities"

kilna — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 20:00:57 +0000

In fact, If you have 20 assault rifles in your safe you are a target for 20 or so revolutionaries. Oligarchs aside, most people of the hoarding political persuasion mistrust others and couldn't social engineer their way out of a paper bag.

New comment by kilna in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

kilna — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:49:21 +0000

Um, as best I can tell from similar articles, they're all script kiddies.

New comment by kilna in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

kilna — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:12:54 +0000

I made this. It makes it easy to use all of the most common gnu tools via brew, without having to do gsed for sed, etc... all with working man pages. It also lets you switch back easily in a shell session if you need the mac native ones for some godforsaken reason:

https://github.com/kilna/gnu-on

New comment by kilna in "Why does target="_blank" have an underscore in front? (2024)"

kilna — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:01:45 +0000

Underscore prefix in a label has conferred a meaning of private or reserved in the C programming language since at least Unix Version 6 in 1975, which had underscores to denote system level functions and variables. MUMPS in 1966 reserved a % prefix to indicate system variables and routines, so a convention of using a non-alphanumeric character to distinguish scope has been around about as long as ASCII has been the dominant standard for text.

New comment by kilna in "DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM"

kilna — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:20:05 +0000

Since 1980 the top 1%’s share of national income nearly doubled, while the bottom 50%’s share fell from 20% to 13%. Real wages for most workers stagnated despite productivity rising 62% (1979-2019), ALL of that went to investors.

People who claim funding co-ops is a "wealth transfer" ignore existing policies which already funnel taxpayer money upward. Redirecting a fraction of subsidies like bailouts and fossil fuel breaks and the endless war machine... instead to worker owned models that reinvest profits locally and tie wealth to labor... that isn’t a new transfer but a correction. Co-ops reduce reliance on exploitative private equity (e.g., hedge funds buying 40% of U.S. rental homes) and ensure economic gains stay with the people generating value.

I have the controversial opinion that people who work should get money, not the people who don't work.

New comment by kilna in "DoppelBot: Replace Your CEO with an LLM"

kilna — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 23:58:30 +0000

"slaves had no choice"... Um, do you think most people can choose not to work?

Gig work is "popular" because wealth-driven systemic pressure is replacing FTE with gig jobs in order to fatten the bottom line.