Hacker News: malfist

New comment by malfist in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

malfist — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:46:09 +0000

Can't forget about the elves and the hobbits and the ents. And maybe dwarves, though god didn't create them, just gave the sentience

New comment by malfist in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

malfist — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:44:46 +0000

Given the track record of most religions I don't think that would help. Unless you want to maximize crusades, jihads or traumatized alter boys

New comment by malfist in "Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content"

malfist — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:09:20 +0000

> There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!

New comment by malfist in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

malfist — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:18:01 +0000

According to Wikipedia its accurate. Learn something new everyday

New comment by malfist in "It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]"

malfist — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:33:36 +0000

And we all know that gamblers and betting odds always are correct.

New comment by malfist in "How to organize Claude Code for product work"

malfist — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:51:16 +0000

You mean "I didn't write this blog post, I arrived at it"

For those that didn't read the article, one of the first things it says, in bold nonetheless, is "I didn’t design this system. I arrived at it"

New comment by malfist in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

malfist — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:43:26 +0000

Do not mistake confidence and verbosity with breadth, depth and nuance

New comment by malfist in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:44:06 +0000

If you don't know why kaladin is emo, did you truly read the books lol. Every character has to deal with the stresses of war and most don't come equipped with good mental health to begin with, they're just normal people

New comment by malfist in "The Hacker's Renaissance"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:07:26 +0000

This is hardly a tangential annoyance to be annoyed by low effort slop.

New comment by malfist in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:31:55 +0000

> If they didn't provide a valid service in places like that, they'd be outta business downright quick-like, because them small-ish towns, word gets around pretty quick if you done somethin' bad like scammin' a hard-workin' neighbor with "woowoo crap".

Because rural areas are immune to scams or quackery? I think you'll find them just as immune as city folk.

New comment by malfist in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:27:48 +0000

And if you leave it unpowered for a few years? I have a journal from two decades ago. Still readable.

New comment by malfist in "Uber SubmitQueue: a high-performance speculative merge queue"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:26:18 +0000

Not op but I do cross repo work, but it's rightfully separate PRs as its separate services, separate contracts and separate deployments. Pretending a monorepo cross service PRs are contiguous is a recipe for deployment race conditions

New comment by malfist in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:17:15 +0000

Any device that powers off fully functional should be able to power on fully functional barring hardware failure. That these steps were nessecary is a stunning indictment of remarkable, even if your tech geek can ssh in and fix it.

After all, my notebooks are perfectly readable four years later

New comment by malfist in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:28:48 +0000

It's not? Shopify does it, woot does it, amazon does it, yes style does it, royal Caribbean does it.

Seems like a lot of places can do it for it not to be a solved problem.

New comment by malfist in "We replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and it scaled"

malfist — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 14:26:20 +0000

That and they helpfully share your email with a company if you add something to your cart. You don't even have to checkout or submit a form or anything. I can't tell you the number of spam emails I've gotten from companies because they auto add everything they get from shopify to their mailing list and then nag you about not checking out

New comment by malfist in "Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers"

malfist — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:52:52 +0000

None of your statements about the gas turbines are true in the context of the Memphis grok data center

New comment by malfist in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

malfist — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:56:38 +0000

There are already better systems of healthcare. The US one is only good if you're wealthy

New comment by malfist in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

malfist — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 22:43:34 +0000

I've not spec tested them, but astronomy gear is notoriously picky about USB cables and since I switched all of my cables to cable matters a lot of weird behaviors just stopped happening

New comment by malfist in "Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers"

malfist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:19:39 +0000

> BYO power

Like 26 gas turbines that make a ton of noise and pollution?

> BYO water

What? How does one BYO water?

> BYO pipes & sewage

Pipes and sewage to where? There's an implied common ground at the end of those.

New comment by malfist in "Polling shows a growing political reckoning is coming for data centers"

malfist — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:16:46 +0000

> Solar power in space is potentially very cheap

Only if you ignore the cost of getting in there