Hacker News: nullsanity

New comment by nullsanity in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

nullsanity — Tue, 26 May 2026 02:58:49 +0000

Its like that phase people go through where they argue with morons on reddit, and then one day grow up and realize that most of these people are unemployed/underemployed terminally online nobodies aren't ever going to learn anything, and even if they did it wouldn't impact the world since they were just some below average hobbyist anyway and aren't in charge of anything more important than a box of paperclips.

New comment by nullsanity in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

nullsanity — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:34:27 +0000

> Extremely depraved things are not the only thing to use freedom of speech for.

And yet, it's materially all anonymity is actually for in practice, within a margin of error. Tor - mostly crime & CSAM. Crypto - mostly crime. 4chan - mostly degeneracy, some crime. Faceless Corporations - used for crime, and things that should be crimes, but hide under other names.

New comment by nullsanity in "Learning Software Architecture"

nullsanity — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:04:50 +0000

Nope, that's just the design being wrong. Factorio has no issues with testing.

It doesn't matter if nobody is interesting it fixing it, video games have been and almost always are written like shitty single use code, (Even when it's not) so it shouldn't surprise anyone that proper test harnesses aren't available in engine.

New comment by nullsanity in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

nullsanity — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:53:51 +0000

Hey man, you can just say "I'm lazy, so I'm staying with the cloud. if I wanted to use my brain, I wouldn't be using AI, gosh" - it's much shorter.

New comment by nullsanity in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

nullsanity — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:22:02 +0000

I'm not sure you understand how those terminal programs are rendered - but the amount of control code data sent to Claude would be way, way more than using command line sed.

New comment by nullsanity in "Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love"

nullsanity — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:04:27 +0000

Yeah! The burning of litres of waters is theirs, the degredation of their intellect and ability is theirs, the financial support of the companies ruining the internet and the world is theirs, the support of the hype machine ruining the economy is theirs!

It's not like they woke up and went "I'm selfish, let's make everything a little bit worse for everyone" - but evil wins when good people vibe slop and we just let it go.

New comment by nullsanity in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

nullsanity — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:10:46 +0000

To the country or an ally of the country they are targeting, duh. it doesn't matter if you believe it, it's been the truth for over a decade. Heck, Sh1nyHunt3rs people were arrested in the UK recently.

New comment by nullsanity in "Programming Still Sucks"

nullsanity — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:27:46 +0000

We need to bring back consumer first design and destroy the incentives to prioritize shareholders over the much larger cohort of ordinary consumers whose lives were affecting.

New comment by nullsanity in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

nullsanity — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:22:40 +0000

Per reports as of a few days ago, yes there are very much murdering people with starlink. Last year was before the current crisis. People are being murdered in the streets daily by the regime, and ordinary people are desperate for it to end.

New comment by nullsanity in "SPEAKE(a)R: Turn Speakers to Microphones for Fun and Profit [pdf] (2017)"

nullsanity — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:30:50 +0000

What do you think? He was poor in America, so he stayed poor in America. 99.999% of stories about people in hopeless poverty end with them in hopeless poverty. To expect otherwise is ludicrous.

New comment by nullsanity in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

nullsanity — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:32:23 +0000

You're forgetting the a large percentage of the student body simply does not care to judge the material fairly. Any difficult exam where they receive a low grade is perceived as unfair and complained about online. Professors that test fairly are reviewed harshly online. Universities that prioritize education over graduation receive poor reviews. Top universities specifically coddle and push their students making it nearly impossible to fail.

New comment by nullsanity in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

nullsanity — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 04:24:54 +0000

Yes? Why would a government allow people who aren't citizens to come in and protest on its soil about its actions? I think that's the definition of forgein interference.

New comment by nullsanity in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

nullsanity — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:31:52 +0000

Which is fine, because those are owned by private citizens and companies and those citizens are giving their permission to the police to use them. That's the difference between centralized government survalience and CCTVs

New comment by nullsanity in "Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution"

nullsanity — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:36:48 +0000

For anyone else whom the above awnsers absolutely nothing without googling what defines the boundary - A more verbose version of the above comment is that they communicate only simple, situational signals (like warning cries or information for action) and not using a symbolic, rule-governed system capable of abstraction, past and future tense, and infinite combination.

Of course, with all generalizations, this is sort of a lie, but no - whales, chimps and cephapods don't meet the official bar.

New comment by nullsanity in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

nullsanity — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:24:05 +0000

The impossibly high bar they set "Perfect" at in order to make it the enemy of good, and fight against any progress being made to keep children out of adult spaces.

That being said, it's my personal opinion that I'd love to simply have my device store a token and send it to any site when requested. I'd then like those sites to give me toggles to remove all non-verified content - and therefore my internet experience could be sans-juvenile squeakers.

New comment by nullsanity in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

nullsanity — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:39:08 +0000

It takes a good programmer to write it, and most good programmers avoid JavaScript, unless forced to use it for their day job. in that case, there is no incentive to speed up the part of the job that isn't writing JavaScript.

New comment by nullsanity in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

nullsanity — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:29:21 +0000

This is also known as "Hosting" which, I found amusing.

New comment by nullsanity in "Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format"

nullsanity — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:39:03 +0000

Gwtar seems like a good solution to a problem nobody seemed to want to fix. However, this website is... something else. It's full of inflated self impprtantance, overly bountiful prose, and feels like someone never learned to put in the time to write a shorter essay. Even the about page contains a description of the about page.

I don't know if anyone else gets "unemployed megalomaniacal lunatic" vibes, but I sure do.

New comment by nullsanity in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"

nullsanity — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:11:53 +0000

I was with you until you said react. Just export to existing metrics software like Prometheus. Or do anything other than use an entire JavaScript framework for a simple UI. I swear, JS-Brain is as terminal as microservice and cloud brain.

New comment by nullsanity in "The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs"

nullsanity — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:23:57 +0000

If I keep getting married at the same pace I have, then in a few years I'll have like 50 husbands.