Hacker News: mrbukkake

New comment by mrbukkake in "Jimothy the raccoon has a rare spinal condition. Here's what that means"

mrbukkake — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:04:01 +0000

really soulless comment, nice job

New comment by mrbukkake in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

mrbukkake — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:22:37 +0000

I agree. As someone involved in (non-mathematical) research I think the author is grossly overreacting. Nothing that comes out of an LLM means anything until it's assigned a meaning by a human being, just like anything else in the world. All this millenarial panic just plays into the hands of the psychopaths running the AI companies

New comment by mrbukkake in "The U.K. Smoking Ban Is Illiberal"

mrbukkake — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:13:07 +0000

I'm a New Zealander and I live in Germany. What other pearls of Swedish wisdom do you have for us?

New comment by mrbukkake in "The U.K. Smoking Ban Is Illiberal"

mrbukkake — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:26:46 +0000

yes very swedish response, aggressively conformist and narrow minded

New comment by mrbukkake in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

mrbukkake — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:04:49 +0000

That puts you neatly above the maximum age to start ATC training unfortunately bud

New comment by mrbukkake in "LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash"

mrbukkake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:58:53 +0000

Maybe they could try using ICE agents as air traffic controllers too

New comment by mrbukkake in "Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)"

mrbukkake — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:06:35 +0000

this comment is very typical arrogance of the modern computer nerd raised on capeshit hahahha

New comment by mrbukkake in "China Moon Mission: Aiming for 2030 lunar landing"

mrbukkake — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:22:46 +0000

Moon landings stopped because the US stopped spending something like 2% of GDP on them. "surely technology advanced to put there at least one man in those 50 years" does technological advancement preclude the need to allocate resources? This is about the level of critical thinking I expect from a conspiracy retard

New comment by mrbukkake in "The state of modern AI text to speech systems for screen reader users"

mrbukkake — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:45:39 +0000

Did you even read the article bud

New comment by mrbukkake in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

mrbukkake — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:36:06 +0000

It's the linkedin writing style, the idea is to make a bland anecdote with some vapid "insights" sound interesting by making it all enthusiastic and breathless like a TED talk

New comment by mrbukkake in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

mrbukkake — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:28:37 +0000

manic pixie dreamnerd syndrome. sad! many such cases

New comment by mrbukkake in "The Dopamine Trap"

mrbukkake — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:19:03 +0000

Mate what were you hoping a kid would get out of Ingmar Bergman and Antiononi movies and Javascript? Imagine forcing a child to watch Red Desert lmao. And now you're writing off her curiosity because she's not interested in AI architecture or whatever. Let people develop their own interests jfc

New comment by mrbukkake in "The Dopamine Trap"

mrbukkake — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:12:12 +0000

I'm instantly suspicious of anything online that uses the "dopamine" buzzword. The name of the neurotransmitter seems to just be used to mean "good feeling" so the grifter writing the article can make their self help content or specious moralising sound scientific

New comment by mrbukkake in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

mrbukkake — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:57:25 +0000

god russians are pathetic lol

New comment by mrbukkake in "The only planet where 100% of Linux systems have working audio is Mars"

mrbukkake — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 08:38:41 +0000

lmao

New comment by mrbukkake in "Grambank shows the diversity of the world's languages"

mrbukkake — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:29:09 +0000

I see 8 out of 195 "unknowns"which seems to be pretty good coverage. The remaining unknowns are things like serial verb constructions and reduplication, which are very uncommon in European languages. I'm not sure why these are uncoded but based on my knowledge of the methodology for Grambank it's possibly that these typological features aren't mentioned in any source. I agree it seems like these should be straightforward to code however, I'll ask someone

New comment by mrbukkake in "The Palenque Code"

mrbukkake — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 13:39:35 +0000

What garbage

New comment by mrbukkake in "Linguistics and Programming Languages (2006)"

mrbukkake — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 16:45:32 +0000

"it" has two functions in English. the first is what you described. The technical term is an anaphor, basically a "syntactic variable" pronoun that stands in for a previous noun phrase in subject or object position. This inspired anaphoric macros in Common Lisp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphoric_macro

The other function is as a dummy subject, as in "it rained", "it's cold". English grammar requires a subject (unlike many other languages, where a pronoun in subject position can be ommitted without the sentence becoming ungrammatical). So here "it" doesn't refer to anything, it's (haha) just there to fulfill a syntactic requirement

t. linguist

New comment by mrbukkake in "Ask HN: How is the SVB situation affecting your startup?"

mrbukkake — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:00:10 +0000

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New comment by mrbukkake in "Does Google need a new CEO?"

mrbukkake — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 23:37:29 +0000

Move on lol being this jealous and bitter will just hold you back