Hacker News: mattoxic

New comment by mattoxic in "Meta VR Glasses"

mattoxic — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:46:18 +0000

Meta VR Glasses... and where they will be banned next!

New comment by mattoxic in "Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU"

mattoxic — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:06:49 +0000

Australia is blessed with quite the spineless government at the moment. I doubt very much that they would be doing anything (at all actually) as concrete as forging deeper ties with Europe - at least at the expense of the US. After all, it wasn't so long ago that Australia handed the US $800 million of its citizen's hard-earned for submarines that might not ever get built within an alliance that looks increasingly one-sided.

New comment by mattoxic in "My Friend Aaron"

mattoxic — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:42:04 +0000

Very enjoyable. I was waiting for Aaron to have a heart attack, same outcome, less contrived maybe.

New comment by mattoxic in "Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65T on opaque AI funding"

mattoxic — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:38:30 +0000

As Australian failed rich guy /scumbag Alan Bond said... if you owe 30k you have problems, if you owe them 30 million they take you to lunch. Or words to that effect

New comment by mattoxic in "Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign"

mattoxic — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:22:39 +0000

I would immediately walk way from you. Then you could label me as an uncooperative element in your database of people you've met.

These things are peak ick

New comment by mattoxic in "The Anti-Mac User Interface (1996)"

mattoxic — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:25:17 +0000

Terry Gillam's take...

https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:720/format:webp/1*NFPp...

New comment by mattoxic in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

mattoxic — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:25:51 +0000

There absolutely needs to be stigma surrounding LLM generated work that is masquerading as creativity.

AI slop is AI slop.

New comment by mattoxic in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

mattoxic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 06:40:23 +0000

Yeah, and he threw a huge bunch of cash to acquire them. pretty easy to acquire. Harder to build. He got lucky with facebook because myspace sucked. Good timing.

Three Hundred Fifty-Four Fireworks per Second. Is it a good idea?

mattoxic — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:00:34 +0000

Article URL: https://chadtopaz.com/essays/fireworks-per-second.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48771349

Points: 1

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New comment by mattoxic in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

mattoxic — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 05:13:02 +0000

Having trouble following names? Read I Claudius.

New comment by mattoxic in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

mattoxic — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:33:11 +0000

Sure if you've signed this you've have added your name to a list, while someone in HR has added your name to another.

New comment by mattoxic in "Tesla allegedly in autopilot mode crashes into Texas house, woman killed"

mattoxic — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:04:57 +0000

The tell is the the name. Full Self Driving.

New comment by mattoxic in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

mattoxic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:15:16 +0000

And by "clean you out" you mean financially or both?

New comment by mattoxic in "World Capitals Voronoi"

mattoxic — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:15:12 +0000

Taipei claiming a big chunk of the PRC. Probably go down as well as Ottawa and Mexico City claiming big chunks of the USA

New comment by mattoxic in "Old'aVista – The most powerful guide to the old Internet"

mattoxic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:00:53 +0000

That's very cool. But I really need to know how many people have visited the site as well as how long a page will take to download on a 56k modem.

New comment by mattoxic in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

mattoxic — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:53:14 +0000

I would have thought you'd need to be a druid

New comment by mattoxic in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

mattoxic — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:40:40 +0000

"Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump"

"It's not just this, it's a totally also that" Clause and CrapGPT love this phraseology.

New comment by mattoxic in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

mattoxic — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:35:36 +0000

, isn't really your . Protest is warranted. And I'm sure that these serious people felt that their actions were justified. I'm glad they did it, and I'm glad I have read about it.

New comment by mattoxic in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

mattoxic — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:45:45 +0000

"Microsoft’s in-house Linux, the distribution that grew out of CBL-Mariner, just hit public preview as a general-purpose cloud OS you can run on any Azure VM. Here is why that is a real step in Microsoft’s Linux journey, not just a version bump."

Christ, they even lead with AI slop.

New comment by mattoxic in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

mattoxic — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:53:23 +0000

Boggles the mind that corporates stick to expensive, inefficient, insecure and in so many ways crap software. SQL Sever, Office, Oracle (any product), Windows servers and workstations - yet demand peak efficiency from staff.