Hacker News: newobj

New comment by newobj in "America on Data Centers: listen to 10,000+ city council comments"

newobj — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 02:01:29 +0000

Ah ninja smoke bomb out w/o proposing any alternative. Handy.

Not to mention hilariously conflating public comment on data centers (massively unpopular) with local weirdo NIMBYism on things like "coffee shops" and "fire hydrants". We all know every city has people that just love to speak at the city council meetings. Can't take it in good faith that you seriously think it's the same thing that's going on with opposition to data centers.

New comment by newobj in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

newobj — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:09:22 +0000

Timescale is a relative measure.

New comment by newobj in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

newobj — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:54:52 +0000

Sure, public jobs program, or sell it. In case you can't tell my comment is hyperbolic, but I feel like we should start at a point of hyperbole and move backwards to reality instead of what's happening right now: fuck all, on a geological time scale.

New comment by newobj in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

newobj — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:51:24 +0000

An ordered list of officers of the company who go to jail depending on how many years must be served as determined by sentencing. Assume something like 10 years per person. If it's 300 years of sentencing, then 30 people. If the sentence exceeds the list of people, the company is nationalized. (And everybody goes to jail.)

New comment by newobj in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

newobj — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:53:40 +0000

Whatever it takes to sleep at night man

New comment by newobj in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

newobj — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:12:05 +0000

"Oops the computer did the war crime"

I'll ask again, who's going to jail?

New comment by newobj in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

newobj — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:07:30 +0000

Ok, that's a crime then, right? So who's getting charged?

New comment by newobj in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

newobj — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:45:59 +0000

What? They were still asking these Mt Fuji ass questions in 2016??

New comment by newobj in "Show HN: Formally verified 3D CSG: Trust 93 lines spec, not 1000 lines AI code"

newobj — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:30:20 +0000

Came here to ask about this too. I was doing CSG stuff in the early 2000's and got physically and mentally sick from the pure hell that floating point accuracy created for me. Literally led me to quit my job. Full crashout. iykyk

New comment by newobj in "Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept"

newobj — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:28:17 +0000

They're still a thing

New comment by newobj in "Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files"

newobj — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:32:00 +0000

if you get into a config system that's complicated enough, and has modularization or inheritance, you'll know that the semantics of "remove this" "add that", override this, default to this, this stuff is hard to express in most config languages, or worse, you start enforcing application level semantics. when you have turing complete language you just ... do those things. we reduced the configuration data of a tool suite once by 90%+ by moving from json to python. there was a tremendous amount of duplication and overlap, with tons of TINY exceptions and variations. it was so hard to see those differences, brittle to maintain, things would get stale, ... moving to python you basically had the "base" thing expressed in one file, and a bunch of tiny delta files encoding the exact deviations. All those deviations were of the forms I described above. Adding a thing to a list. Removing a thign from a list. Overriding a whole list. Do a thing if not already done. And so on. It's also then easy to build all kinds of diagnostics, validators, etc, right into the same framework, without having to munge the data into some other form first.

New comment by newobj in "Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ESP32s"

newobj — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:25:55 +0000

God bless you

New comment by newobj in "Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children"

newobj — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:16:53 +0000

Interesting variation on the "I cut you choose" game mechanic!

New comment by newobj in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

newobj — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 23:33:08 +0000

that may have been true in product orgs but the infra and dev infra orgs were pretty strong imho.

New comment by newobj in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

newobj — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:41:31 +0000

Google is historically terrible as a product company (and has succeeded in spite of that) As their technical innovations become less of a moat (we're already there) they won't be able to win on engineering alone (they are no longer winning on engineering alone)

New comment by newobj in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

newobj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:23:47 +0000

Having "accidentally" purchased one, I can tell you that doing anything 8GB or RAM on a mac laptop is impossible. I have no idea what people are doing with this laptop. Macs are absolute dogs at 8GB.

New comment by newobj in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

newobj — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:07:39 +0000

It's also a useful signal for AI value. Looks like it's a max value add of $18,000 per engineer per year.

New comment by newobj in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

newobj — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:14:25 +0000

Sorcery TCG

New comment by newobj in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

newobj — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:42:36 +0000

I literally can’t tell if this comment is a joke or not.

New comment by newobj in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

newobj — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:07:10 +0000

ok sure good luck. more like conbase anyway