Hacker News: noncoml

New comment by noncoml in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

noncoml — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 21:05:31 +0000

Do you emails land on the inbox when the recipient is on gmail? Or do they go to spam?

New comment by noncoml in "Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads"

noncoml — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:59:23 +0000

What do you use for email?

New comment by noncoml in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

noncoml — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:28:44 +0000

Extremely weak arguments. Especially 2 and 3

And even for 1, they could easily filter that out.

New comment by noncoml in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

noncoml — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:26:30 +0000

Actually it perfectly reflects the government’s principles: “when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything”

New comment by noncoml in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

noncoml — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:00:50 +0000

Let’s put our pitchforks down and think for a moment.

Do you really think that Netflix has a preference for non-Americans?

On one hand we say they chose Americans to pay less money on the other hand we see this absurd amount of money for a remote job

Why? Because this is not them looking to fill a position but rather trying to get a PERM for an employee that they are already happy with. We don’t even know if it’s H1B or L1

Not saying that the H1B program doesn’t have its problems, but this is not the case of let’s fill this job with non-Americans for less pay

New comment by noncoml in "Apple and a hacker's future"

noncoml — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 03:57:00 +0000

> Unix solved this decades ago: agents should be their own user

That’s a hand waving if I’ve ever seen one.

How is that going to help?

If the Agent gets launched with is own user is will not have access to ANY of the files that are only read by the user.

New comment by noncoml in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

noncoml — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:42:27 +0000

When you are no-one, it’s fraud. “When you're famous they let you do it”

New comment by noncoml in "The Fastest Growing Market in Tech Isn't AI – Tomasz Tunguz"

noncoml — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 02:10:08 +0000

Clickbait

New comment by noncoml in "Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes"

noncoml — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:29:19 +0000

And suits are not the only piece of clothing with many pockets or with buttons. So the whole argument is “I like custom fitted suits”

New comment by noncoml in "Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes"

noncoml — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:27:26 +0000

TLDR: I have unusual extremities to torso ratio hence I find custom fitted suits more comfortable. Some nonsense about button and pockets that are not exclusive to suits.

Why is this on HN to start with and how the hell did it get to the front page?

New comment by noncoml in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

noncoml — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:14:12 +0000

Yes. Iron wasn’t a contributing factor.

Iron was already known to civilization during Bronze Age, but they didn’t know how to make it hard. Hence Bronze was preferred.

After, and because, of the Bronze Age collapse they started funding out how to make iron useful.

Think about it, why did the humans in Americas never went through Iron Age? Because they never had a Bronze Age collapse.

New comment by noncoml in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

noncoml — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 23:10:25 +0000

Nope. It wasn’t pure iron. It was lightly carbonized iron.

Also you are talking about Iron Age. Which came after and as a consequence of the Bronze Age.

Pure iron is utterly useless as a weapon. Look it up.

New comment by noncoml in "Why the Bronze Age Collapsed"

noncoml — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:24:00 +0000

Because pure iron, with no carbonization, is useless as a material for tools or weapons.

Carbonization was invented/discovered after the Bronze Age collapse, slowly over hundreds of years, exactly because they didn’t have access to bronze anymore.

New comment by noncoml in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

noncoml — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:52:30 +0000

The difference is in the valuation of those vs TSLA

New comment by noncoml in "Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests"

noncoml — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:59:47 +0000

> left for better options

Please name one

Genuinely asking

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

noncoml — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:13:42 +0000

Not sure wtf “politically correct” in the context of rules of engagement even means.

What a fucking moron

New comment by noncoml in "Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup"

noncoml — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:54:06 +0000

https://github.com/localsend/localsend/issues/74

New comment by noncoml in "Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup"

noncoml — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:54:01 +0000

https://github.com/localsend/localsend/issues/74

New comment by noncoml in "Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek"

noncoml — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 05:10:05 +0000

> early Greeks, and especially the Mycenaeans (c. 1750–1050 BCE), are associated with major advances in technology (including writing)

I’ve been doing a bit of reading on the Bronze Age Collapse recently. It was such an apocalyptic event that Greeks forgot how to write and read.

Before the collapse, Greeks were using Linear A and Linear B. It took them a few hundred years after the Bronze Age Collapse to learn how to write again, this time borrowing the Phoenician alphabet.

Imagine what an event would look like today that would take us back 200-400 years technologically.

New comment by noncoml in "Show HN: Snapdrop: Instantly share files between devices. No setup, no signup"

noncoml — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 03:37:19 +0000

LocalSend doesn’t work for non /24 subnets