Hacker News: lawls

New comment by lawls in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

lawls — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:00:57 +0000

I read that line by Mark Antony from Julia Caesar to my 3yo yesterday morning. He usually shushes me by putting his hand over my mouth while I am speaking, but this time he did not. It felt good.

New comment by lawls in "Anthropic CPO Admits They Rarely Hire Fresh Grads as AI Takes over Entry-Level"

lawls — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:01:34 +0000

Probably just user error, but I've got eight years of software development experience and can't even get an interview after being let go nine months ago.

New comment by lawls in "Coronary artery calcium testing can reveal plaque in arteries, but is underused"

lawls — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:33:41 +0000

I had a calcium score of zero, is that good? Hereditary high-cholesterol.

New comment by lawls in "I've returned to Linux but I miss PowerShell"

lawls — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:32:24 +0000

But can't you just use fish?

New comment by lawls in "why art will survive AI"

lawls — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:25:01 +0000

For some reason I've got Velvet Buzzsaw on my mind now for art talk, which could an AI do and accurately mean? Anything that cannot disregard its own orders, is a calculated machine, in my book; just a calculator from Texas Instruments.

New comment by lawls in "why art will survive AI"

lawls — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 22:32:12 +0000

The AI of today is just a probability engine, as far as I am concerned. It can create nothing original because it cannot say, "No, I'm starting over from scratch. I alone will figure this out." Once you set an AI in motion, it will complete the task until it needs further input. And the very fact that it is reliant on an external actor continues to enforce just how pre-determined the outcomes already are. Art, I feel, from my human perspective, should be a reflection of its creator. The product is of their mind. No machine is capable of such action, currently.

New comment by lawls in "Show HN: All Books, All Languages – Read short stories and books in any language"

lawls — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 21:43:00 +0000

This is the Latin dream application I had been wanting to create for a decade. From the bottom of my heart, I congratulate you on the new Alexandrian Library.

New comment by lawls in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

lawls — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 19:23:23 +0000

still javascript though

New comment by lawls in "Musk blames Ukrainians for cyberattack on X. Experts aren't convinced"

lawls — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:55:49 +0000

Elon Musk is a Nazi. Nazis are scum.

New comment by lawls in "US Intel shows Russia and China trying to recruit disgruntled federal employees"

lawls — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:48:54 +0000

Yeah, probably pays much better.

New comment by lawls in "Weak Managers"

lawls — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 17:39:55 +0000

Yeah, this really sucks when you have a strong manager who retires and then your supervisor takes over and is a weak manager and you are dying inside wanting to promote the department but they prefer not to rock the boat.

New comment by lawls in "X announces a partnership with Visa to power X Money's wallet"

lawls — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:11:14 +0000

Visa doing business with a company run by a Nazi.

New comment by lawls in "Show HN: Ternary Computer System"

lawls — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:33:34 +0000

This is something I'm convinced we need for integer weights in LLMs.

New comment by lawls in "Congo gov. says it's 'on alert' over mystery flu-like disease that killed dozens"

lawls — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:20:07 +0000

Just in time for the holidays.

New comment by lawls in "U.S. Economy Is Doing What Few Others Are: Getting More Productive"

lawls — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:16:58 +0000

I think what is going to happen in the next two-to-three years is that the productivity applications for the general masses will finally be ready for mainstream use. Currently, I am trying to design better onboarding tools using GenAI to organize and create help guides on the fly for any questions someone may have. It's going to take a lot of hard work and effort and time, but it will happen, that I guarantee. America is just one of those places where I feel stuff like this is what we were brought up to envision and actualize.

New comment by lawls in "U.S. Economy Is Doing What Few Others Are: Getting More Productive"

lawls — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:11:12 +0000

to get around paywall

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-economy-is-doing-...

New comment by lawls in "Anthropic's Dario Amodei: Democracies must maintain the lead in AI"

lawls — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 20:00:56 +0000

"I think it’s very important that democracies maintain the lead in this technology and that they’re properly equipped with resources to make sure that they can’t be dominated or pushed around by autocracies." - Dario Amodei

He just signed a deal with an incoming fascist government; his statement does not align with reality. It's about money, first and foremost.

New comment by lawls in "Are drug expiration dates meaningless?"

lawls — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 19:39:12 +0000

Did not read the article, but my lay perspective is that the chemicals will degrade over time into different molecules due to particle radiation from neutrinos and the like. Just given enough time, the original product no longer has any potent chemical effect.

New comment by lawls in "Ask HN: How common is it to work on out-of-support software?"

lawls — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:46:09 +0000

Did the sun rise? Then, yes, today I will be working on maintaining or improving out-of-date software because it currently works. I've got better things to work on and eventually one of them will be a replace program for this outdated legacy code I cannot wait to stop supporting. I like it though, keeps me on my toes and familiar with the old stuff as we build the new.

New comment by lawls in "Creativity Is the Only Thing"

lawls — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:57:17 +0000

It's what separates us from the machines and why we'll always win.