Hacker News: lynx97

New comment by lynx97 in "Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain"

lynx97 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:19:37 +0000

I'm pretty much fine, thank you. And I am pretty sure that is true for most HN users. Most of us are not hungry. The rest is a bunch of first-world problems.

New comment by lynx97 in "Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain"

lynx97 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:44:48 +0000

What is the problem?

New comment by lynx97 in "A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W"

lynx97 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:34:49 +0000

Fun fact. You can see that W is kind of the oddball when looking at the Braille alphabet. XYZ used to align with MNO, until W was added as the 23th letter, which breaks the symmetry.

⠁⠃⠉⠙⠑⠋⠛⠓⠊⠚ (abcdefghij)

⠅⠇⠍⠝⠕⠏⠟⠗⠎⠞ (klmnopqrst)

⠥⠧⠺⠭⠽⠵ (uvwxyz)

New comment by lynx97 in "CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3"

lynx97 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:08:35 +0000

No, I haven't "seen the photos", literally, since I am blind. Which is also why "asking for forgiveness" wouldn't work with me, because, you know, I wouldn't even notice if you didn't ask for permission. Which nicely demonstrates that you are faaaar more entitled then you might be willing to admit. Also, there are differences from country to country when it comes to laws. And what constitutes public spaces. And so on, and so forth. But IANAL, so I am not willing to enter a back-and-forth with you. Just know that your attitude isn't universally accepted as OK.

New comment by lynx97 in "CCC invites all model citizens to 40C3"

lynx97 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:43:05 +0000

The entitlement of "I can photograph whatever I want"-people is unmatched, which is nicely demonstrated by this thread. Disrespectful, entitled and self-scentered.... individuals.

New comment by lynx97 in "OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents"

lynx97 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:45:13 +0000

Whats creepy to me is people telling all sorts of sensitive information to a chatbot and NOT expecting weird consequences. The level of cope is massive.

New comment by lynx97 in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

lynx97 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 09:35:38 +0000

Well, yes, PGN files have structure... But still, playing Chess with an LLM is so weird that I impulsively question the sanity of people attempting to do so. Do some people really believe training on TWIC PGNs would make an LLM a good chess player?

New comment by lynx97 in "Let's make quality the norm again"

lynx97 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:48:19 +0000

I would PAY Apple $500 if they'd dedicate a year of development only to fixing known issues. The number of sort-of-well-known bug grows from year to year, and it feels like they only accumulate, never go away. VoiceOver of my (touch-id-only) iPad said "Face not recognized" yesterday, because it failed to read my finger rpint. This is getting comically bad.

New comment by lynx97 in "Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature"

lynx97 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:13:49 +0000

True. However, if your child ends up developing a dependance on alcohol, do you seriously place the responsibility for that on the dealers who sold them the booze? I'd call that a lazy excuse for very bad parenting.

New comment by lynx97 in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

lynx97 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:55:41 +0000

Last year, the "you need to upgrade to the recent iOS major version to use your brand new Apple Watch" caught me off-guard. This year, I am back to the usual routine of waiting AT LEAST 6 months until upgrading iOS.

https://applevis.com/blog/ios-27-ipados-27-summary-voiceover...

New comment by lynx97 in "Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature"

lynx97 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:21:50 +0000

Do you believe the war on drugs is actually working?

Very good example you brought up there. Question is: Can we make the world safe by just arresting every bad guy... Ooooor, maybe, just maybe... Individuals are responsible for their own decisions?

Besides, its only a "dealer" if the product they are selling is illegal. Have you talked to your political representative about making social media sites illegal. How do you argue that, exactly. "That sites needs to be outlawed because it breaks my back button!!!111!"?

New comment by lynx97 in "Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature"

lynx97 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:17:08 +0000

To stay in context and say at least something to the weird ad hominem: I deliberately didn't father any children. There is no respoinsibility you might be able to assign. Contrary to actual parents, who very well know that they have responsibilities.

New comment by lynx97 in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

lynx97 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 05:06:57 +0000

Wow! Memory safety and such... Reminds me when a friend of mine wrote in IRC long time ago: "Hmm, tail just segfaulted." When I asked "Are you on Hurd?" he just replied "Yes."

New comment by lynx97 in "Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature"

lynx97 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:33:58 +0000

This is soooo true. But unfortunately, whenever you confront a parent with their responsibilities, they immediately lash out with excuses. "How should I know." "There is already sooo much work to do." "In these times ..." All lazy ass excuses by people who obviously have no idea what responsibility they have.

New comment by lynx97 in "Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature"

lynx97 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:29:11 +0000

Instead of sueing the platforms, the parents should be subjected to CPS, on a daily basis.

New comment by lynx97 in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

lynx97 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:16:46 +0000

I have no problem with not being on top of a hierarchy. But having no agency at all was a horrible way of existance.

New comment by lynx97 in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

lynx97 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:12:49 +0000

This is plain wrong. For a browser, a11y doesn't just get handled by the OS automatically. In general, claiming a11y is easy or will be done by someone else is bordering on evil.

New comment by lynx97 in "Stockfish 19"

lynx97 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:55:56 +0000

They basically replaced the static position evaluation function with a NN approach and kept the rest of the tree search mostly intact.

I ran fishtest on an old cluster for a while. Was nice to watch the stockfish team methodically improving things. Basically, every commit has to show it can beat the main branch before it gets merged.

New comment by lynx97 in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

lynx97 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:56:51 +0000

> ... because they know it is wrong

No. They hide the things they do wrong because they learnt there are consequences and they dont want to get caught.

New comment by lynx97 in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

lynx97 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:37:42 +0000

I doubt that. Across the street of our small organic shop around the corner is a bike parking spot. Still, I recently fall over a bike parked directly in front of the door of said shop. Bike people are lazy more often then not.