Hacker News: onionisafruit

New comment by onionisafruit in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

onionisafruit — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:19:10 +0000

My ask is that we not use creative as a noun

New comment by onionisafruit in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

onionisafruit — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:17:17 +0000

Google execs probably use kagi to google a question

New comment by onionisafruit in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

onionisafruit — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:14:27 +0000

The blog post says ‘These formats will also continue to be clearly labeled as “Sponsored.”’. We will probably be able to block them about as well as we can block sponsored search results.

New comment by onionisafruit in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

onionisafruit — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:53:22 +0000

Do you mean something like rerouting you to make sure you pass a mcdonald’s at lunch time? Or are you talking about mcdonald’s always showing up when you search for food along your route? Rerouting would surprise me, but really it wouldn’t surprise me that much at this point.

New comment by onionisafruit in "Echoes (Live at Pompeii) (1972)"

onionisafruit — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:54:46 +0000

It might be the opposite. Most of the people who have watched it were probably born after 1972. They weren’t playing for ancestors, they were playing for progeny.

New comment by onionisafruit in "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different"

onionisafruit — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:50:41 +0000

The 409 should come with an id or a url the client can use to find the original result.

New comment by onionisafruit in "The smelly baby problem"

onionisafruit — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:43:13 +0000

Sorry, I misread “liners” as “linens”, and it seemed just strange to have a disposable piece of linen paired with a cloth diaper. What you’re really describing seems like a great idea to make cloth diapers doable for weak-stomach people like me.

New comment by onionisafruit in "The smelly baby problem"

onionisafruit — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:14:33 +0000

You were definitely worth an environmental catastrophe, but your mom wasn’t so sure your brother was worth it. I hope you hold that over him.

New comment by onionisafruit in "The smelly baby problem"

onionisafruit — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:12:11 +0000

You throw away linen every time your kid wees?

New comment by onionisafruit in "The smelly baby problem"

onionisafruit — Sat, 02 May 2026 04:09:02 +0000

Everybody thinks they baby proofed until their kid goes mobile.

New comment by onionisafruit in "If I could make my own GitHub"

onionisafruit — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:10:40 +0000

Well cited. Even your citations have citations.

New comment by onionisafruit in "Where the goblins came from"

onionisafruit — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:22:32 +0000

I don’t see much of a distinction from anthropology

New comment by onionisafruit in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

onionisafruit — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:24:56 +0000

This is from 2009, and the title should say so.

New comment by onionisafruit in "Laws of Software Engineering"

onionisafruit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:51:26 +0000

I’ll give a simplified example of something I have at work right now. The program moves data from the old system to the new system. It started out moving a couple of simple data types that were basically the same thing by different names. It was a great candidate for reusing a method. Then a third type was introduced that required a little extra processing in the middle. We updated the method with a flag to do that extra processing. One at a time, we added 20 more data types that each had slightly different needs. Now the formerly simple method is a beast with several arguments that change the flow enough that there are a probably just a few lines that get run for all the types. If we didn’t happen to start with two similar types we probably wouldn’t have built this spaghetti monster.

New comment by onionisafruit in "Regulators monitor Anthropic's Mythos for banking risks"

onionisafruit — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:21:06 +0000

In practical terms, what does it mean that they are “monitoring” Mythos? Are they just reading the same articles as everybody else? Or are they doing something more active like … well I don’t know what exactly?

New comment by onionisafruit in "Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents"

onionisafruit — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:00:55 +0000

was it “secret asian man”?

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

onionisafruit — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:49:37 +0000

Presumably they do the same thing for every student. I hope they aren’t unplugging a cable for one student while taking a sledgehammer to the next student’s router.

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

onionisafruit — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:27:30 +0000

That does sound like fun, but it would probably be even more fun. to be the instructor giving this test.

New comment by onionisafruit in "AI cybersecurity is not proof of work"

onionisafruit — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:34:12 +0000

It’s only clear if you know it exists, and now I know it exists thanks to gp.

New comment by onionisafruit in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

onionisafruit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:39:59 +0000

The people who will benefit from a cooldown weren’t reviewing updates anyway. Without the cooldown they would just be one more malware victim. If you don’t review code before you update, it just makes sense to wait until others have. Despite what the article says, the only people who benefit from a rush to update are the malware spreaders.