Hacker News: pharrington

New comment by pharrington in "Making difficulty curves in games"

pharrington — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:56:05 +0000

Do you really hate Breathe of the Wild so much?

New comment by pharrington in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

pharrington — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:11:31 +0000

There's no way in hell that humans have tried all possible forms of governance and economic systems.

New comment by pharrington in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

pharrington — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:05:18 +0000

In the US, it can be measured by the overstocked food that gets discarded everyday, and by the houses that are vacant nine months a year.

New comment by pharrington in "Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre"

pharrington — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:12:56 +0000

Perhaps Larry Ellison is a bad man?

New comment by pharrington in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

pharrington — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:08:56 +0000

This blogger's gonna go nuts when they learn about the ouroboros.

New comment by pharrington in "Every Byte Matters"

pharrington — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:46:38 +0000

Your Project Leyden's "AOT cache" Youtube link is broken, did you mean to link to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiBNDT9r_4I?

New comment by pharrington in "Is my blue your blue? (2024)"

pharrington — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:42:18 +0000

This makes me realize that one of my formative childhood experiences was seeing the Crayola 64 crayon pack and thinking "huh, I guess there is NO limit."

New comment by pharrington in "The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs"

pharrington — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:00:56 +0000

You're conflating "passive income" with "real money". Competing with the big businesses is completely off topic.

New comment by pharrington in "Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared"

pharrington — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:01:18 +0000

He means its about a message loop, as opposed to an update loop.

New comment by pharrington in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

pharrington — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:56:45 +0000

Fat chance, Satya!

New comment by pharrington in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

pharrington — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:13:05 +0000

This is actually nuts. You can't even constantly implement "age verification" at the system level in a way that makes sense across world cultures.

The only sane way to do this is you were playing along with arbitrary legislative age-gaters would be to add a generic "additional user info" blob to the account fields, if it didn't already exist.

New comment by pharrington in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

pharrington — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:26:05 +0000

Desktop and laptop sellers need to end their abusive business relationship with Microsoft, and start selling systems with a Linux distribution. They'll save costs while selling a better product. People who know they need Windows will always have the option to install it themselves.

New comment by pharrington in "Honda is killing its EVs"

pharrington — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:37:19 +0000

Fat chance Elon!

New comment by pharrington in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

pharrington — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:56:05 +0000

Lt Cmdr Data goes hard AF on the decks.

New comment by pharrington in "My “grand vision” for Rust"

pharrington — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:23:08 +0000

https://ocaml.org/

New comment by pharrington in "I don't know how you get here from “predict the next word”"

pharrington — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:51:37 +0000

Why do the deliverables always take about 1 hour? Is this fully automated?

New comment by pharrington in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

pharrington — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:17:50 +0000

Where is the place you'd like to see someone say "Declare variables, not war"?

New comment by pharrington in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

pharrington — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:07:31 +0000

2fa, except its 0 factors instead of two?

New comment by pharrington in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

pharrington — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:03:08 +0000

When you work on a pre-existing codebase, you don't understand the code yet, but presumably somebody understood parts of it while building it. When you use AI to generate code, you guarantee that no one has ever understood the code being summoned. Don't ignore this difference.

New comment by pharrington in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

pharrington — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:09:59 +0000

Synths don't generate music, they generate tones. The analogy would be a program that generates really good programming languages.