Hacker News: pharrington

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.

New comment by pharrington in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

pharrington — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:51:44 +0000

I do not want it.

New comment by pharrington in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

pharrington — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:36:15 +0000

What stops me, a multibillionaire, from hiring someone to shoot the small government judge in the head?

New comment by pharrington in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

pharrington — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:20:29 +0000

Have you ever been frustrated with software before? Has a computer program ever wasted your time by being buggy, obviously too slow or otherwise too resource intensive, having a poorly thought out interface, etc?

New comment by pharrington in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

pharrington — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:32:10 +0000

So we should all work to become better programmers! What I'm seeing now is too many people giving up and saying "most code is bad, so I may was well pump out even worse code MUCH faster." People are chasing convenience and getting a far worse quality of life in exchange.

New comment by pharrington in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

pharrington — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:34:17 +0000

What other operating systems have you used?

New comment by pharrington in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

pharrington — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:51:12 +0000

Test your hypothesis by attaching your offline name to your internet profiles.

New comment by pharrington in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

pharrington — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:23:40 +0000

You are not fun.

New comment by pharrington in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

pharrington — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:33:29 +0000

If you're working in big tech and you truly believe you are spoiled, then why not quit that job and let the migrant improve their living situation, while you live in the luxury you already have?

New comment by pharrington in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

pharrington — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:01:42 +0000

Trump's trademark skill is conning and taking advantage of people, just like Dogbert.