Hacker News: multjoy

New comment by multjoy in "EFF is leaving X"

multjoy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:00:07 +0000

Aptly, given Elon's ancestry, did the whole anti-apartheid movement simply pass you by?

New comment by multjoy in "I imported the full Linux kernel git history into pgit"

multjoy — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:53:07 +0000

Or, you know, just write it yourself.

New comment by multjoy in "Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data"

multjoy — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:29:57 +0000

The references are almost irrelevant. The banks + fintechs have far more depth than that.

New comment by multjoy in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

multjoy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:05:48 +0000

We're talking about LLM's that are designed to be confidently incorrect. Accuracy is a side-effect.

New comment by multjoy in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

multjoy — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:35:30 +0000

How do you know that the explanations are free from error?

New comment by multjoy in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

multjoy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:42:30 +0000

The EU does not write traffic legislation, it leaves that up to the individual states.

Unlike the US, the EU is a collection of fully sovereign countries.

New comment by multjoy in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

multjoy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:41:09 +0000

No, because in a functioning legislature the offence would be something like 'failing to disclose details', in the same way that refusing to participate in a DUI breath/blood draw would be a discrete offence.

New comment by multjoy in "The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022)"

multjoy — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:04:02 +0000

The UK driving licence authority (DVLA) also has a period in which you can’t conduct a range of transactions overnight, but that’s because it interfaces with systems that still run batch jobs overnight and the cost of making it all 24/7 simply wasn’t worth it considering the demand.

New comment by multjoy in "AI makes you boring"

multjoy — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:47:49 +0000

I mean one thing we have learnt from Epstein is that the 'elite' don't spend much time crafting the perfect email!

New comment by multjoy in "South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection"

multjoy — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:43:08 +0000

The King has made it very clear that he was entirely unhappy with Andrew's involvement for years, but had Andrew done the right thing and entirely disappeared from public life he might have retained a degree of protection.

He didn't and so he had everything stripped away which sent a very clear message to Government and the police that he was there for the taking.

New comment by multjoy in "Common Lisp Screenshots: today's CL applications in action"

multjoy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:46:16 +0000

Well done you.

Catch all the security holes while you were reviewing it, or did you leave those to the machine as well?

New comment by multjoy in "Employers, please use postmarked letters for job applications (2025)"

multjoy — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:43:21 +0000

In many jurisdictions (the UK, in particular) charging people to apply for work is specifically illegal.

New comment by multjoy in "I set all 376 Vim options and I'm still a fool"

multjoy — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:04:59 +0000

>The thing is, it will soon become trivially easy to modify your own "text editing environment,"

elisp enters the chat

New comment by multjoy in "Wikipedia: WikiProject AI Cleanup"

multjoy — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:14:15 +0000

It says it finds errors.

New comment by multjoy in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

multjoy — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:27:19 +0000

Gear Acquisition Syndrome is a very different problem. Even if you haven't cured the issue the new synth was meant to fix, at least you have a new synth.

New comment by multjoy in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

multjoy — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 20:22:39 +0000

It is an almost universal fact that dealing with retail customers is something that is left to the lowest paid, lowest status workers and often outsourced and now increasingly left to LLM chatbots.

While you obviously can't have highly paid engineers tied up dealing with user support tickets, there is a lot to be said for at least some exposure to the coal face.

New comment by multjoy in "Show HN: Private blogging and journaling with a simulated audience"

multjoy — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:38:02 +0000

Given that LLMs have no understanding of the text, what is the point of it?

New comment by multjoy in "Learn Lisp/Fennel Programming Against Neovim"

multjoy — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:05:05 +0000

Isn’t there an OS with a text editor that is based on lisp?

New comment by multjoy in "Lessons from the PG&E outage"

multjoy — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:02:22 +0000

It would encourage Starlink to put yet more crap into Low Earth Orbit and see them fill the atmosphere with barely understood pollutants.

New comment by multjoy in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

multjoy — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:15:43 +0000

AI doesn’t necessarily mean an LLM, which are the systems making things up.