Hacker News: m2f2

New comment by m2f2 in "Administration Will Collect SM Handles from Legal Immigrants and U.S. Citizens"

m2f2 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:18:49 +0000

Wow. Easy. One MAGA account, one real account. Citizenship!

New comment by m2f2 in "The Mega-Rich Are Turning Their Mansions into Impenetrable Fortresses"

m2f2 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:23:04 +0000

Site blocked by Police, offending material.

New comment by m2f2 in "Java Decompiler"

m2f2 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:42:23 +0000

How do you rate procyon vs these?

New comment by m2f2 in "Java Decompiler"

m2f2 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:38:40 +0000

... until you realize that the LLM-generated code doesn't even compile, or you need a PhD to write all the prompts needed to have a prototype instead of the real thing.

New comment by m2f2 in "Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC"

m2f2 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:02:04 +0000

Tibet? Never existed?

Meh.

New comment by m2f2 in "FCC Chairman backs demand that NBC fire Seth Meyers 'immediately'"

m2f2 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:15:33 +0000

Goodbye first amendment. What's next? Revoking citizenship?

New comment by m2f2 in "Modifying a Casio F-Series Digital Watch (2020)"

m2f2 — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 05:38:47 +0000

Too many requests. I suspect this article will bump up the monthly hosting bill.

New comment by m2f2 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

m2f2 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:51:18 +0000

I just wonder how widespread fraud is without any form of ID. A fake utility bill is just a few clicks away on my PC.

Govt surveillance? I'm much more worried by the ever increasing number of cameras in the streets rather than something similar to having a passport to prove who you really are.

New comment by m2f2 in "Not Buying American Anymore"

m2f2 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:21:33 +0000

I guess it could be extended to any country with similari behavior.

Take the attitude to selling your data at state, country level "just because".

If US citizens love being scr@@d over good for them....

New comment by m2f2 in "Are people's bosses making them use AI tools?"

m2f2 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 05:52:17 +0000

I have used my company LLM thingy. Able to summarize and document code leveraging remarks and general code behavior just because LLM just ingested the full python docs.

About generating things well... it just copypastes the same snippets you could find on stackoverflow, including bugs - if the task you throw at it has already been answered.

For complete and complex code... well it spews out the same useless advice you could get from a drunk non expert person while sitting at the bar.

Issue is... LLMs are too big to fail, everyone just poured billions in this huge statistics bean counter, and... someone has to justify those expenses at board meetings.

New comment by m2f2 in "Many lung cancers are now in nonsmokers"

m2f2 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 22:12:25 +0000

Non-paywall: https://archive.ph/nsMoH

Site is flagged as it hosts pedop. material.

New comment by m2f2 in "Fun with uv and PEP 723"

m2f2 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 03:34:04 +0000

Nice, if only you could count on having it installed on your fleet, and your fleet is 100pct Linux, no AIX, no HPUX, no SOLARIS, no SUSE on IBM Power....

Been there, tried to, got a huge slap in the face.

New comment by m2f2 in "MinC Is Not Cygwin"

m2f2 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 18:34:39 +0000

Especially to package writers that assume bash is available everywhere, hope that bin/sh is the same as bin/ksh...sed -i... not on unices, grep missing a ton of options....

Time to ask an AI ?

New comment by m2f2 in "MinC Is Not Cygwin"

m2f2 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:48:34 +0000

How long will cygwin lifetime be?

A proud cygwin user myself, with cygwin in the PATH since the 2000s, I recently sideloaded Ubuntu under wsl.

Right now, wsl is my primary terminal app, I've mounted C:\ as /c, added a symlink to bypass the ugly Onedrive default name, and... I'm happy.

Slowly, I removed 90% of the mixed BAT scripts, converted to bash the rest, and I now enjoy it.

As the old timer that I am, I limp around powershell, so no luck with that.

Cygwin on the other hand seems to be slowly dying, as more and more packages are now unsupported/unmaintained, with Redhat apparently willing to smother it at the first viable moment.

Any thought?

New comment by m2f2 in "Python's new t-strings"

m2f2 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 08:03:11 +0000

If this is just for sql queries ... it'd be overkill especially where you need to compare the usual PREPARE statements with the hassle of keeping everyone on 3.14 and above.

New comment by m2f2 in "$70M in 60 Seconds: How Insider Info Helped Someone 28x Their Money"

m2f2 — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 08:03:11 +0000

As a foreigner I cannot comment on this, else I will be rejected at the airport by the ICE.

That's called freedom my friends.

New comment by m2f2 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"

m2f2 — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:49:15 +0000

Same thing. I was happy (?) until a guy from Minnesota went out of his cage to micromanage me. I took cash and left.

Boss of guy from Minnesota was kicked out of the company. I'm told the guy from Minnesota is now sooooo much nicer now.

New comment by m2f2 in "Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer"

m2f2 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 09:18:21 +0000

In general, when will the US stop considering acceptable that... you cannot lie to the police, but the police can lie to you?

When will everyone believe that making someone take the blame in exchange for a shorter time in jail is beneficial to society at large... when the real perpetrator walks away unscathed, and a innocent is jailed for something he didn't even commit?

New comment by m2f2 in "Smallpond – A lightweight data processing framework built on DuckDB and 3FS"

m2f2 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 05:46:40 +0000

Sure, and it's not cheap.

New comment by m2f2 in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

m2f2 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:21:08 +0000

I'm one of them 2.54% and I cringe when some kiddie develops websites around some chrome bugs, just to let us and Apple folks down.