Hacker News: littlekey

New comment by littlekey in "Regex Blaster"

littlekey — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:19:37 +0000

Anecdotal data point, writing and maintaining regex is still a core part of my job. Not useless at all for me :)

New comment by littlekey in "The Unmaking of the American University"

littlekey — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:29:02 +0000

New comment by littlekey in "My lobster lost $450k this weekend"

littlekey — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:54:08 +0000

You ever feel like you live in a different world than people like this? I don't even mean that derogatorily, it's fascinating.

New comment by littlekey in "Facebook is cooked"

littlekey — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:17:35 +0000

I agree with the people saying that the product is a lot better once you're actively engaging with pages that align with your interests, so that the algorithm can feed you better content.

That being said, it's still sad that this is the default new/returning user experience. Imagine a world where a new user was met with real posts about a variety of interests, rather than a psychic barrage of insane AI posts.

New comment by littlekey in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

littlekey — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:39:43 +0000

>an LLM that can generate textures to be fed into a human-coded 3d engine

I'm not certain but I think the LLM is also generating the physics itself. It's generating rules based on its training data, e.g. watch a cat walk enough and you can simulate how the cat moves in the generated "world".

New comment by littlekey in "Show HN: Lendy – Keep track of books you have lended"

littlekey — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:05:01 +0000

I wish I had enough reader friends to have this problem lol.

New comment by littlekey in "Ravaan.art"

littlekey — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 01:37:01 +0000

Strange that you need the website (author) to tell you how to interpret it. It's like art itself, you're allowed to come up with your own interpretations.

New comment by littlekey in "Size of Life"

littlekey — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:50:47 +0000

>for some reason

This is a pretty common fear, just look up thalassophobia (or don't! sorry!)

New comment by littlekey in "Cassette tapes are making a comeback?"

littlekey — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 23:45:42 +0000

Anyone have recommendations for a cassette player?

New comment by littlekey in "Las Vegas is in trouble. Everyone has a theory about why."

littlekey — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 21:49:15 +0000

The author does a good job trying to find nuanced reasons behind the slump, but it's certainly just the money. The prices at every step of the process are exorbitant. The food is not worth the price you pay, end of story. And the table minimums are so high that you don't have time to really settle in and get into that feedback loop described in the article, where you sit there for hours and soak up "free" drinks and make friends. In my case, the one time I went to Vegas I dropped a hundred on craps and played as carefully as possible, and I was out after 15 minutes. There's only so much you can do when a single bet is $25. The casino got my money efficiently, but they didn't help me generate the positive memories that would convince me to become a repeat customer. Apparently their profits are up, but it feels like a squeeze born from short-term thinking that's going to blow up in their faces eventually.

New comment by littlekey in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

littlekey — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:55:44 +0000

The weird thing is that half of the uses of the name on that landing page spell it as "Wanderfull". All of the mock-up screencaps use it, and at the bottom with "Be one of the first people shaping Wanderfull" etc.

So even the creator can't decide what to call it!

New comment by littlekey in "Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB"

littlekey — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:32:49 +0000

Because they want to play the game and don't know or care what a "kernel-level anticheat which acts as a rootkit" is. Which probably makes up 99.9% of their userbase.

New comment by littlekey in "Show HN: Three Emojis, a daily word puzzle for language learners"

littlekey — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:33:54 +0000

This is cool! I see others have mentioned the acronyms, I'd also say some of the interjections are kinda lame, like having to guess both aw and aww, ew and eww, and just weird ones like awoo. I think cutting down the list serves a double purpose of making the game shorter as well. I enjoyed it, but 67 words is a lot to get through for something that should be a quick daily play.

New comment by littlekey in "Show HN: A living wall of life goals and deathbed regrets"

littlekey — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:30:00 +0000

I love the juxtaposition between the serious posts and the funny ones. Great to see "I want to make peace with my father" right next to "Unify the Mongol tribes under one banner".

New comment by littlekey in "Delivery is killing restaurant culture"

littlekey — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:31:25 +0000

I think you're making strong points that what generates revenue for these places isn't always quality but social media hype / overly broad appeal etc... but objective quality is still a huge factor. Some restaurants may have a 2/5 star score because they're too innovative, but many have that 2/5 because they're simply serving bad food. If a place is serving burned/undercooked/expired food, I'd like them to feel like they need to address those issues.

New comment by littlekey in "Delivery is killing restaurant culture"

littlekey — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:19:03 +0000

Funny you mention that, I did take a vacation to NYC recently. Had 5 or 6 slices while I was there and every single one was good! Maybe the result of market pressure, maybe not :).

New comment by littlekey in "Delivery is killing restaurant culture"

littlekey — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:03:50 +0000

devil's advocate: wouldn't you want the pizzeria to feel that market pressure so they either 1. improve their product, or 2. are replaced by a better pizzeria?

New comment by littlekey in "Life next to 199 data centres"

littlekey — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:36:32 +0000

The part about the person who saw they're building a new one in her neighborhood would make for a great Onion article.

"'I never thought they'd build a 200th data center,' says woman who lives in county with 199 data centers."

New comment by littlekey in "I Test Drove a Flying Car. Get Ready, They're Here"

littlekey — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:00:39 +0000

Presumably they would need roads in the sense of arbitrary "surfaces" on top of one another, so that you could shift lanes vertically as well as horizontally. And then you would need at least a visual indicator of which lane you're in, maybe even force feedback similar to bott's dots.

New comment by littlekey in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

littlekey — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:38:11 +0000

What I found helpful in parsing those z combinations is just replacing them with h instead. for example, if you went up to a random monolingual English speaker and showed them "shchotechka" they could probably pronounce it reasonably well. All those z's just throw people off.