Hacker News: nucleogenesis

New comment by nucleogenesis in "DNI Gabbard Reveals Evidence of U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Global Biolab Program"

nucleogenesis — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:02:39 +0000

My guess is that OP is referring to the MAGA cult but I could be mistaken.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Perl's decline was cultural"

nucleogenesis — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:38:34 +0000

I definitely should have just opened it in reader mode in Safari but I just told myself I’d just not lose my spot again several times like a dope

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Perl's decline was cultural"

nucleogenesis — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 19:44:56 +0000

The number of blogs posted on here by people who can’t be arsed to make their writing legible on mobile blows my mind. Did everybody just skip the section of their CSS journey that covered media queries or what?

I enjoyed the article but it was a nightmare to read on my phone’s browser

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Fizz Buzz without conditionals or booleans"

nucleogenesis — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:23:36 +0000

I think it was more about doing it without a Boolean-based branch construct like a ternary or switch or whatever flavor of thing that abstracts away the explicit checks for true/false by other means. Idk though for sure

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes"

nucleogenesis — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:59:25 +0000

> they want to maximise the time people spend on their apps so that they can sell this attention to advertisers

This is where they manipulate in my mind. They maximize that time by exploiting human psychology, manipulating people into scrolling their feeds endlessly eh?

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes"

nucleogenesis — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:54:45 +0000

“what it does” describes the actions taken - cancer wards work to treat cancer (which is their purpose). Outcomes of what they do isn’t relevant to the point.

The purpose of most social media companies is to manipulate people for financial and political gain which is what they do.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "US axes website for reporting human rights abuses by US-armed foreign forces"

nucleogenesis — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:02:03 +0000

At that point “human” really only meant the white man who owns property though eh?

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Pawn is a simple, typeless, 32-bit extension language with a C-like syntax"

nucleogenesis — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:22:48 +0000

The story in the readme is hilarious

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]"

nucleogenesis — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:51:26 +0000

> *biased* or misleading

The bias is what would make somebody consider some propaganda good and others bad.

Like - anti-fascist propaganda is good because it’s biased against an anti-human and oppressive ideology.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser"

nucleogenesis — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:28:55 +0000

Strudel can use custom samples in addition to the built in synths and samples. The language is really expressive. I’ve not gone too far into playing with it but from what I’ve seen it’s pretty flexible.

That said I’ve only seen people making house/techno/drum-n-bass kinda stuff with it.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Strudel REPL – a music live coding environment living in the browser"

nucleogenesis — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 01:22:47 +0000

I was goofing around with TidalCycles and really wanted to use it for the Haskell syntax but Strudel’s interface is so slick I suffer the JS syntax.

Thanks for mentioning superdough I hadn’t seen it anywhere while I was playing with all of the above. Piqued my curiosity :)

New comment by nucleogenesis in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

nucleogenesis — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:24:16 +0000

The only people who matter are shareholders. Employees are a means to the end of making money for the owners of the company whether through stocks or other kinds of ownership.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors"

nucleogenesis — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 06:50:28 +0000

It’s an Israeli company - they probably consider their work a matter of national security and get along just fine with that

New comment by nucleogenesis in "The fight between doctors and insurance companies over 'downcoding'"

nucleogenesis — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:19:13 +0000

I’m not precisely sure but I think my health coverage paid by my employer is like 15-20% of my salary

New comment by nucleogenesis in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

nucleogenesis — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:03:35 +0000

Idk I think saying it’s “computing” is more precise because “thinking” applies to meatbags. It’s emulating thinking.

Really I just think that anthropomorphizing LLMs is a dangerous road in many ways and really it’s mostly marketing BS anyway.

I haven’t seen anything that shows evidence of LLMs being anything beyond a very sophisticated computer system.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "California enacts law enabling people to universally opt out of data sharing"

nucleogenesis — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 06:02:36 +0000

What’s wrong with this from your perspective? IMO it’s too little too late and should have been a federal law years ago.

Don’t get me wrong - Newsom is a slippery snake politician and is beholden to rich scumbag donors but I don’t see how this in particular is due to his and the dems big donors.

That said you seem to imply that only one side of this shitshow is beholden to big donors but corruption and general degeneracy is far more prevalent in the elephant party.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Doing Rails Wrong"

nucleogenesis — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 17:57:28 +0000

I’d guess that it’s because React came around and it was from Facebook so it got a lot of adoption? Maybe there’s some other reason, the comment you responded to seems to imply something anyway

New comment by nucleogenesis in "How functional programming shaped and twisted front end development"

nucleogenesis — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 14:42:38 +0000

I’m fond of chained array methods, especially if the callbacks I pass are named functions - it can make for code that I find way more legible than for loops. But even with anonymous callbacks I’d rather do that ~90% of the time than use a for loop anyway.

New comment by nucleogenesis in "I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode"

nucleogenesis — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:45:37 +0000

For me it’s just that I just don’t want to lie to make money.

Commercials are on their face a work of fiction unless stated otherwise — for customer testimonials in commercials that are fake (in the US anyway) there has to be text saying as much. Because otherwise they’d be lying…

New comment by nucleogenesis in "Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool"

nucleogenesis — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 01:44:50 +0000

Shit happens. Putting a case on my phone improves the likelihood that my $1200 phone doesn’t shatter. People have kids, animals, and make silly little mistakes that can have massively expensive consequences.

I’m not regularly smashing my phone or especially careless with it, but in a year I’ve seen it take a dozen or so drops and I’m glad it had a case on it when it did.