Hacker News: satiric

New comment by satiric in "Hacker News front page as a site"

satiric — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:50:19 +0000

This is Hackernews - the unreadable font size is a feature, not a bug

New comment by satiric in "The real cost of owning a home"

satiric — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:45:04 +0000

If you kill the lawn, won't the invasive plants take over?

New comment by satiric in "Toshifumi Suzuki, founder of Seven-Eleven Japan, has died"

satiric — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:36:55 +0000

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New comment by satiric in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

satiric — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:26:18 +0000

The nirvana album doesn't have a space - for me, searching for "nevermind" gets me straight to the album

New comment by satiric in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

satiric — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:38:26 +0000

Interesting in learning more - what bill is this that was passed by Clinton?

New comment by satiric in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"

satiric — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:28:57 +0000

Looks like the original title is too long for Hackernews

New comment by satiric in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

satiric — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:26:03 +0000

So you just write whatever you want, then find a source for it later? I don't think you understand how this is supposed to work

New comment by satiric in "Magic: The Gathering took me from N2 to Japanese fluency"

satiric — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:05:09 +0000

Except "usually mistaken" doesn't apply here, since it's often true.

New comment by satiric in "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"

satiric — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:43:37 +0000

Yes, you can expect people here to read your comments and judge them by their content. Were you expecting otherwise?

New comment by satiric in "ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and everywhere"

satiric — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:40:50 +0000

Missed opportunity to call the article "ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk isn't just sinister or infuriating—it's everywhere."

This has been making its way around the internet for a while, but in case anyone hasn't seen it, Wikipedia's article "Signs of AI Writing" is a good read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:AISIGNS

New comment by satiric in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

satiric — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:57:24 +0000

Of course the proof in the pudding is in the eating, but just saying that they want to do this stuff is at least a slight improvement over before, where we mostly just saw apathy and enshittification. It's also a promise that people can hold them to if they fail.

New comment by satiric in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

satiric — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:06:33 +0000

Mountain time is ambiguous due to Arizona, and yet we still use that phrase. Hawaii-Aleutian time is also ambiguous: the Aleutian islands do daylight savings, but Hawaii doesn't.

Casual speech doesn't use the city names (like America/Los_Angeles for pacific time); presumably we'd have Pacific time (America/Los_Angeles) and BC time (an update of the existing America/Vancouver). If Washington's time change ever gets approved it would presumably become simply Washington time (America/Seattle maybe?).

New comment by satiric in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

satiric — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 10:12:22 +0000

Preventing pasting would drastically reduce how often people cite their sources; no one wants to hand copy a long url.

New comment by satiric in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

satiric — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:16:34 +0000

Roadster launch is supposed to be on April 1st... Hard to think of any response other than "once bitten, twice shy"

New comment by satiric in "10th Person"

satiric — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 23:12:18 +0000

I think I've been this person before, but I've also been the person that makes the meeting go on for 20 minutes longer than necessary by bringing up stuff that doesn't need to be talked about in a big meeting. I've also been the one who thought he knew enough to try and force his opinion, when actually I was just being confidently wrong and not listening to others. So there's a time and a place.

New comment by satiric in "A shortage of tenors"

satiric — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 04:19:41 +0000

In John Adams' Harmonium, I was surprised to learn the basses go into treble clef for a second. I hadn't sung untransposed treble clef in many years! I think it was only an F#4 or A4 or something but it felt real strange to be singing in the treble clef again.

New comment by satiric in "The RCE that AMD won't fix"

satiric — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 08:39:37 +0000

Here it is on archive.org, since the original was taken down (hey, the cat's out of the bag now): https://web.archive.org/web/20260205155934/https://mrbruh.co...

New comment by satiric in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

satiric — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:33:56 +0000

I use an addon for firefox called "Hide shorts for Youtube™". Works just fine.

New comment by satiric in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

satiric — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:56:54 +0000

The g-code is not being distributed, because it's specific to each printer, filament, etc. G-code is not the same thing as a STP or STL file.

New comment by satiric in "We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles (2002)"

satiric — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:55:10 +0000

It would have made for a great puzzler.