Hacker News: mfcl

New comment by mfcl in "Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land"

mfcl — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:51:29 +0000

No, it should be illegal, otherwise everything would get destroyed whenever someone is slightly destroyed. Illegality serves as a kind of filter so that when enough people risk jail or death for a cause, that's because they really had enough.

I haven't given that a lot of thought, and it feels weird to say, but maybe the opinion that an act should be done and should be illegal can be true at the same time.

When a citizen commits a crime, they messed up. When ten commit a crime, they messed up. When half the village destroys the chief's home, the chief messed up.

New comment by mfcl in "Technofascism"

mfcl — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:26:10 +0000

You're being downvoted but you're right. I won't defend Thiel in general but that particular point is a bit taken out of context.

There's a talk somewhere ont the internet where he explains that you don't want to build a do-it-all product, at least not right away. Don't compete with everyone for everything. Find a more niche market where you can have a monopoly, get comfortable, then you branch out, diversity, and tackle broader markets.

New comment by mfcl in "Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers"

mfcl — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:04:58 +0000

The point of the article is to explain barriers and demonstrate them.

The logic used for crediting amounts of money is not important.

New comment by mfcl in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"

mfcl — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:21:43 +0000

It's plug and play.

New comment by mfcl in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

mfcl — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:43:45 +0000

They still run the whole orchestration.

If you don't want to pay, you'd have to not use GitHub Actions at all, maybe by using their API to test new commits and PRs and mark them as failed or passed.

New comment by mfcl in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

mfcl — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 03:19:52 +0000

There was controversy because of a Mcdonald's AI ad recently so I think they say that as a little wink.

New comment by mfcl in "Disassembling terabytes of random data with Zig and Capstone to prove a point"

mfcl — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:09:36 +0000

Why the AI disclosure? Is it just for the author to make sure the readers know they are AI-skeptic and use the opportunity to link to another article, or would there be something wrong with the proof had AI been used to help write the code?

(By help I mean just help, not write an entire sloppy article.)

New comment by mfcl in "A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet"

mfcl — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:41:55 +0000

Strange, I am also on Firefox for Android and the game works fine.

New comment by mfcl in "Leveraging the lightcone around the source of truth with Postgres"

mfcl — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 05:22:16 +0000

It says near the db, not necessarily in it.

The way I understand it, the closer the better for the reasons stated, but that's just a factor and there are others that might make you not want to stay too close for certain logic.

New comment by mfcl in "Why Yaak is not open source"

mfcl — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:47:45 +0000

Open source does not mean accepting everyone's work or even accepting contributions at all. From the article, it seemed like this was the major concern.

I found the part that said "yes open source provides transparency but we have a roadmap" a bit weird.

It's their product, so if they don't want to open source it then they shouldn't. No need to write a silly article with almost as many emojis as words.

The new Framework Laptop 13 with Intel Core Ultra Series 1 CPUs

mfcl — Wed, 29 May 2024 17:09:23 +0000

Article URL: https://frame.work/ca/en/blog/introducing-the-new-framework-laptop-13-with-intel-core-ultra-series-1-processors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40514312

Points: 81

# Comments: 50

New comment by mfcl in "Base 10 is not a good base"

mfcl — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:58:07 +0000

But in base 12 the number 12 would be written as 10. 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, a, b, 10, 11, etc.

New comment by mfcl in "It will never be a good time to buy a house"

mfcl — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:19:33 +0000

How so? It's probably worth more now. You can sell, no?

New comment by mfcl in "Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99"

mfcl — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 03:11:33 +0000

Artificial general intelligence, and it does not exist yet.

New comment by mfcl in "Learning needs to be effortful to be effective"

mfcl — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:34:51 +0000

I feel the same. I think it's mostly "impatience" or the fear of losing time. We get older and busier and the "price" we pay to spend hours on a book gets more and more expensive.

Learning is an investment, and as my salary increases and life gets more comfortable, my brain doesn't feel the urge to learn and prefers leisure.

I'm looking for ways to "hack" my brain and get back into the habit of learning in my free time and wanting to figure things out. When I have kids I hope they will be curious and I'll learn with them.

New comment by mfcl in "Learning needs to be effortful to be effective"

mfcl — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:26:57 +0000

> I learned more things from entertainment than any textbook or classroom ever taught me.

This statement is abstract enough that it can be both true and false depending on what one means when saying that. Can you be more specific? Have you watched movies and listening to music that gave you the skills to have the job or career you have? Did YouTube videos give you the knowledge to work in a scientific lab or start your own company?

Do you have any example?

There's a lot of educational content out there that's probably better to consume than dumb silly content, but skills and deep knowledge can only be acquired with practice, distraction-free studying, and similar activities.

New comment by mfcl in "Reddit appears to be restoring edited/deleted comments"

mfcl — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 15:24:06 +0000

So, you'd delete your old comments because you would rather no one in the world get any kind of value from them since you are not getting any anymore?

New comment by mfcl in "Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years"

mfcl — Sat, 03 Jun 2023 02:55:38 +0000

I think they meant sources about Brazil's agriculture getting decimated in 25 years.

New comment by mfcl in "No dates, no sex, no weddings, no kids"

mfcl — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 14:04:07 +0000

Yeah, I'm not convinced this is making a difference.

No number or any kind of clue about the size of the movement was given.

New comment by mfcl in "Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering truncated PNGs"

mfcl — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 02:38:42 +0000

Screenshot, crop... then screenshot again! :D