Hacker News: qwertygnu

New comment by qwertygnu in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

qwertygnu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:20:13 +0000

I think we saw during covid that we most certainly can see the benefits in our lifetime if we took it more seriously.

New comment by qwertygnu in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

qwertygnu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:18:25 +0000

I wonder what would happen if you tell the LLM to have no/less bias. What would the 1913 one say

New comment by qwertygnu in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

qwertygnu — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:21:51 +0000

I feel like you're wrong about this and small phones. Perhaps you're the one in an "everyone on HN must be in a bubble" bubble.

New comment by qwertygnu in "Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock"

qwertygnu — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:47:31 +0000

Googled "radio controlled clock" and seeing results from $20-$200, lots of inconsistency in what the product is.

New comment by qwertygnu in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

qwertygnu — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:17:15 +0000

Look at the user lists that the band/album is included in. The title of the list should give you a good idea of what else you'll find on it.

You can also click on any one of the band/album's genres and look at the charts.

New comment by qwertygnu in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

qwertygnu — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:29:11 +0000

How does more pollution/waste equal higher consumer cost? Do you mean because we'll have to pay more taxes because we'll need more publicly funded resources to clean up the excess waste? Or because corporations would pass the price of the fines for violating environmental regulations onto consumers?

New comment by qwertygnu in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

qwertygnu — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:08:58 +0000

True, but there's probably many ways to do this and unless AI content starts falsifying tons of its metadata (which I'm sure would have other consequences), there's definitely a way.

Plus other sites that link to the content could also give away it's date of creation, which is out of the control of the AI content.

New comment by qwertygnu in "You should write an agent"

qwertygnu — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:42:54 +0000

Very early in TFA it explains how easy it is to do. That's the whole point of the post.

New comment by qwertygnu in "Will AI be the basis of many future industrial fortunes, or a net loser?"

qwertygnu — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:29:35 +0000

As you seem to understand, creating something that generally fits a description is the walking for AI. Following exact directions is the running. It may just feel reversed because of the path of other technology.

New comment by qwertygnu in "Pontevedra, Spain declares its entire urban area a "reduced traffic zone""

qwertygnu — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:14:13 +0000

I love my personal car bubble as much or more than most people (though maybe not as much as you), but at some point we have to get over ourselves. We're all so spoiled. Why the hell do we deserve to all have our own giant speed machines careening through cities where people (including us drivers!) are trying to live? It doesn't make any sense and it's a shame that we've let it go so far, especially in the US.

It should be discouraged (financially, logistically, socially) to drive in dense urban places. Obviously, in order to achieve that, these urban places need to have alternative means of transportation.

New comment by qwertygnu in "The day Return became Enter (2023)"

qwertygnu — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:40:30 +0000

A lot of people talk like this too. I'm sure I'm a little too literal, but IMO most people are too clickbait-y.

New comment by qwertygnu in "Face it: you're a crazy person"

qwertygnu — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:36:45 +0000

Very unrelated, but when I clicked that link the image immediately appeared on my screen. It actually confused me for a second. Going to any webpage, even tiny images, takes at least a split second to happen these days, or is delayed by a new tab opening animation/load time. What a world.

New comment by qwertygnu in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

qwertygnu — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 01:01:32 +0000

holy shit dog, you make over $533,000???

New comment by qwertygnu in "What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)"

qwertygnu — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 18:14:25 +0000

> The functions are self contained in that their dependencies/inputs are the arguments provided or other pure functions and the outputs are entirely in the return type.

Is this just a fancy way of saying static functions?

New comment by qwertygnu in "Mixxx: GPL DJ Software"

qwertygnu — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:12:24 +0000

You're looking for a DAW (digital audio workstation). Ardour is open source and works on Linux. It's not one of the "main" players but I'm sure it has all the important features. You can google "how to mix music" and apply pretty much any tutorial to any DAW.

New comment by qwertygnu in "Tldraw Computer"

qwertygnu — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:07:06 +0000

I found the demos just under My Projects under the Examples section

New comment by qwertygnu in "The shrimp welfare project"

qwertygnu — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:05:50 +0000

Responses to animal welfare articles are sad. There are mountains of evidence[0] that many animals experience emotions (including suffering) in much the same way that we do. It's tough seeing people say, without hesitation, they'd kill millions of animals over a single human.

> Shrimp are a test of our empathy. Shrimp don’t look normal, caring about them isn’t popular, but basic ethical principles entail that they matter.

I think we'll be looking back in the not-so-far future with disgust about how we treated animals.

[0] RTFA

New comment by qwertygnu in "Please stop the coding challenges"

qwertygnu — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:15:49 +0000

There's no need to be shooting for 7 figures. Get a life

New comment by qwertygnu in "555 Timer Circuits"

qwertygnu — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:53:46 +0000

Whoa that's a really cool application! Another example of limitations begetting creativity.

New comment by qwertygnu in "Ask HN: Determine sound quality of a file, objectively?"

qwertygnu — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 14:00:34 +0000

Looks like there's a pretty big jump at 56 in the first version as well.