Hacker News: pennomi

New comment by pennomi in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

pennomi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:32:22 +0000

By strict definition it obviously is social media. “Interactive forms of media that allow users to interact with and publish to each other, generally by means of the Internet.”

People don’t want to admit it’s social media because that delegitimizes their argument “all social media bad!” and instead of refining their argument they just double down. It’s a very human behavior.

New comment by pennomi in "What Is a Dickover?"

pennomi — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:31:21 +0000

I don’t know if there’s a personal solution to this but the societal solution is to penalize dickovers at the SEO level.

New comment by pennomi in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

pennomi — Fri, 29 May 2026 05:48:54 +0000

Surely reusability requires higher margins than ever needed before.

New comment by pennomi in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

pennomi — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:08:57 +0000

I strongly disagree. Copying is fundamentally different than taking because the original source still retains their data. Copying cannot be categorized as theft in any sane society.

New comment by pennomi in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

pennomi — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:35:18 +0000

Same here. Django is my last holdout for Python. Everything new is go.

New comment by pennomi in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

pennomi — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:30:22 +0000

That’s why IP law was a cool concept but ultimately harmful in practice. Anything that can be copied for free cannot truly be “owned”, can it?

New comment by pennomi in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

pennomi — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:29:04 +0000

If it’s not default, most people won’t do it.

New comment by pennomi in "Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users"

pennomi — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:02:07 +0000

I don’t know if rotating text is included in this, but the latest GIMP added non-destructive layer filters.

New comment by pennomi in "The Free Universal Construction Kit"

pennomi — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 01:14:13 +0000

Some of the Chinese brands have superior quality to LEGO these days.

New comment by pennomi in "Ubuntu 26.04"

pennomi — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:11:13 +0000

Snap is TERRIBLE for non-technical people. Imagine installing an image editor via Snap, and then the default sandboxing making it unable to access the images on your media drive. No errors, it just silently fails.

This has been a problem I’ve dealt with on nearly every single Snap I’ve installed. If you’re a file editor, you must let me edit my damn files!

New comment by pennomi in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

pennomi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:33:44 +0000

XCode is one of the worst pieces of software in history. Imagine writing a code editor that couldn’t keep its syntax highlighting from crashing for multiple years.

New comment by pennomi in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

pennomi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:58:59 +0000

I saved about $1200 a year by moving from AWS to Hetzner. Can’t recommend it enough. AWS has kind of become a scam.

New comment by pennomi in "Where did my taxes go?"

pennomi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:49:39 +0000

Except the US doesn’t have universal healthcare, and other nations do.

New comment by pennomi in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

pennomi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:08:36 +0000

This one is an ablative heat shield, but it’s supposed to flake off gracefully, not break off in large chunks.

New comment by pennomi in "No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations"

pennomi — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:33:14 +0000

An entirely different form of research could be done by sending large quantities of normal people into space. Astronauts are such a small sample size (and so thoroughly vetted) that you get a different statistical view.

New comment by pennomi in "Iran oil revenue soars as it's the only exporter out of Hormuz"

pennomi — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:23:33 +0000

Because the average voter cannot see past the price at the pump. People are remarkably uninformed about how the world works.

New comment by pennomi in "So where are all the AI apps?"

pennomi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:47:02 +0000

I mean, look at the Hacker News feed and you’ll get a pretty good sample of new apps and features written by LLMs.

Are they good apps and features? Ehhhh. But let’s not pretend that they’re missing.

New comment by pennomi in "Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday"

pennomi — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:37:31 +0000

How is creation of a Gestapo analogue NOT a step towards Nazi-style authoritarianism?

New comment by pennomi in "A Review of Dice that came with The White Castle (2025)"

pennomi — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:57:15 +0000

Need a d10 roll? Just look at the last digit of the current second on your clock. Is it random? No, but it approximates randomness if you only make a roll sporadically.

New comment by pennomi in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

pennomi — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:32:13 +0000

They can tell if you let it use whatever CSS it wants (Claude will nearly always make a purple or blue website with gross rainbow gradients). They can also tell if you let it write your marketing copy.

If you decide on your own brand colors and wording, there’s very little left about the code that can’t be done instantly by an LLM (at least on a marketing website).