Hacker News: rkachowski

New comment by rkachowski in "Have a fucking website"

rkachowski — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:36:47 +0000

Sometimes I get inspired to write something publicly, but then the fact that I'm providing another point of data to ChatGPTs training corpus which helps the american Department of War make shit memes about killing people - stifles that impulse pretty quickly.

New comment by rkachowski in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

rkachowski — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:54:35 +0000

It's great for now

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=unhinged+elon+musk+ra...

New comment by rkachowski in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

rkachowski — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:33:11 +0000

I've found recent claude code to be surprisingly good at dispelling false assumptions and incorrect framing. I say this as someone who experimented with it last summer and found it to be kinda stupid; since December last year it's turned the curve - it's not the sycophantic nonsense it used to be.

New comment by rkachowski in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

rkachowski — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 12:42:09 +0000

> A Stack Overflow question matching my problem cleared that up for me.

Perhaps if there was no question already available you'd have had a different experience. Getting clearly written and specific questions promptly closed as duplicates of related, yet distinct issues, was part of the fun.

I find that AI hallucinates in the same way that someone can be very confident and wrong at the same time, with the difference that the feedback is almost instant and there are no difficult personalities to deal with.

New comment by rkachowski in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

rkachowski — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:16:53 +0000

It's really jarring to see this wave of nostalgia for "the good old days" appear since ~2025. Suddenly these rose tinted glasses have dropped and everything before LLM usage became ubiquitous was a beautiful romantic era of human collaboration, understanding and craftsmanship.

I still acutely remember the gatekeeping and hostility of peak stack overflow, and the inanity of churning out jira tickets as fast as possible for misguided product initiatives. It's just wild yo

New comment by rkachowski in "Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office"

rkachowski — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 10:18:07 +0000

They're purposefully being vague, but this is Prince Andrew finally facing consequences in the face of the Epstein files (?)

New comment by rkachowski in "Microsoft's Azure Linux"

rkachowski — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:25:37 +0000

Are you speaking on behalf of Microsoft?

New comment by rkachowski in "Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)"

rkachowski — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:19:07 +0000

not with that attitude

New comment by rkachowski in "Recovering Anthony Bourdain's Li.st's"

rkachowski — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 04:04:41 +0000

The idea that suffering will somehow make you noble is quite awful. Depression isn't some kind of cleansing fire that opens you to empathy. It affects good people and assholes and people in every phase of life.

New comment by rkachowski in "Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image"

rkachowski — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:42:23 +0000

"Hello main office, I have seen a rumor on Instagram that a bridge has collapsed. Should I stop all traffic through this region due to this shitpost?"

"Hi please don't - we've had three different trains go through there already. There is no loss of signaling in the area, electrical and infrastructural connections are responding appropriately. We will be sure to contact other drivers and let them know about this"

New comment by rkachowski in "Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image"

rkachowski — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:53:59 +0000

> Network Rail said the railway line was fully reopened at around 02:00 GMT and it has urged people to "think about the serious impact it could have" before creating or sharing hoax images.

Perhaps Network Rail should have a system of asserting rail integrity that is independent of social media (?!!?)

for real, pick up the phone and ask someone (??)

New comment by rkachowski in "Fighting the age-gated internet"

rkachowski — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:38:07 +0000

It would be excellent to know who is pushing this and through what means. There is some unprecedented alignment across borders to restrict access and rights.

New comment by rkachowski in "Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions"

rkachowski — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:24:51 +0000

They are exactly the kind of mortgage broker mentioned in the parent comment.

New comment by rkachowski in "In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended"

rkachowski — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:41:16 +0000

I'm born and raised in Scotland, we're keeping it.

New comment by rkachowski in "It’s been a very hard year"

rkachowski — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:46:38 +0000

I don't think it matters. Whether it was a fault of incentives or some intrinsic nature of people given the environment, it was rarely a pleasant experience. And this is one of the reasons it's fallen to LLM usage.

New comment by rkachowski in "It’s been a very hard year"

rkachowski — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:36:06 +0000

the gatekeeping, gaming the system, capricious moderation (e.g. flagged as duplicate), and general attitude led it to be quite an insufferable part of the internet. There was a meme about how the best way to get a response is to answer your own question in an obviously incorrect fashion, because people want to tell you why you're wrong rather than actively help.

New comment by rkachowski in "Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub"

rkachowski — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:22:38 +0000

you have silicon valley right by the San Andreas fault line..

New comment by rkachowski in "Android/Linux Dual Boot"

rkachowski — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:49:29 +0000

Or "open install", correctly implying the alternative is closed.

New comment by rkachowski in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

rkachowski — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:07:33 +0000

Classic @devops_borat

"To make error is human. To propagate error to all server in automatic way is #devops"

New comment by rkachowski in "Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in"

rkachowski — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:09:51 +0000

how exactly does age verification prevent any of this?