Hacker News: savanaly

New comment by savanaly in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

savanaly — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:22:16 +0000

Not just insider knowledge. Being more willing to put in hard work than anyone else, being better at synthesizing public knowledge, or maintaining a more clear and unemotional outlook all can also lead you to superior outcomes.

New comment by savanaly in "Good software knows when to stop"

savanaly — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:22:46 +0000

Exception that proves the rule, IMO.

New comment by savanaly in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

savanaly — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:40:45 +0000

"Bus stop reduction" makes it sound like it will make it harder to take the bus. But the point of the article is that's compensated by the buses being more useful because they get where they're going more quickly. So "balancing" seems apt to me.

New comment by savanaly in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

savanaly — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:34:13 +0000

Can't you also make money by making a good decision that benefits you and another party? I feel like I do this all the time, just on a relatively small scale.

New comment by savanaly in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

savanaly — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:06:30 +0000

Regular Joe version as far as I know.

New comment by savanaly in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

savanaly — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 04:46:27 +0000

I'm in the US, I never experience any of the issues people complain about. Just checked and I don't have the setting disabled that that one guy talked about up thread. But I do have all notifications off. Maybe that is why?

New comment by savanaly in "Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life (2016)"

savanaly — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:52:32 +0000

Only if you choose to take it that way. All the names were like that to me when I joined years ago, but I just looked them up, or not, as I went and now the discourse is almost always legible. As is usually the case if you want to be part of something interesting on the internet, lurk more is the first step.

New comment by savanaly in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

savanaly — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:00:09 +0000

They were needlessly inflammatory, but none of that changes the fact that something requiring you to watch a 2-min video to get started does not pass the [non-inflammatory term for non-technical person but you know what I mean]-test.

New comment by savanaly in "Buttered Crumpet, a custom typeface for Wallace and Gromit"

savanaly — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:24:14 +0000

Enjoyed your photos, thanks for explaining about how they were made.

New comment by savanaly in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

savanaly — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:21:10 +0000

The all you can eat buffet analogy makes way more sense to me, because it speaks to the aspect of it where the customer can take a lot of something without restriction. That's the critical thing with the Anthropic subscription, and the takeout analogy or delivery service don't contain any element of it.

New comment by savanaly in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

savanaly — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:48:49 +0000

The most effective kind of marketing is viral word of mouth from users who love your product. And Claude Code is benefiting from that dynamic.

New comment by savanaly in "All AI Videos Are Harmful (2025)"

savanaly — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 18:54:11 +0000

Cozy games where you basically can't lose are a booming industry in the last decade, so that outlook is certainly bullish for AI creative tools!

Grok is enabling mass sexual harassment on Twitter

savanaly — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:02:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/grok-deepfakes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46466099

Points: 77

# Comments: 48

New comment by savanaly in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

savanaly — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:12:42 +0000

I can not like something without wanting to make it illegal to do it. Simple as that. My preferences aren't necessarily someone else's preferences.

New comment by savanaly in "New Kindle feature uses AI to answer questions about books"

savanaly — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:34:06 +0000

If they're not using the book text to train models (keeping the focus on this particular new Kindle feature), where's the room for objection? My device, my content, it's none of the author's business how I read it, in my view.

Edit: Given I've been a reader of HN for some time, I am perfectly aware that on Kindle you don't own the content, just a license to the content. Don't need any more people pointing this out! Lol. In my house we still call owning a license to something that is not likely to be revoked "owning it".

New comment by savanaly in "It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month"

savanaly — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:09:16 +0000

I was picturing more like a sledgehammer size hole.

New comment by savanaly in "It's cheaper to buy a new printer every month"

savanaly — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:21:40 +0000

The seeming paradox reminds me of a simlar flavor one: the fact that if you accidentally knock a hole in your drywall, it's cheaper to cover it with a flat screen TV than to pay someone to fix the hole.

New comment by savanaly in "Precise geolocation via Wi-Fi Positioning System"

savanaly — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:45:25 +0000

If you require attendance to graduate, then your degree signals conformity and grit, and thus has some value to show to employers who care about those stats but can't really measure them any other way.

New comment by savanaly in "Factory Farming Is a Blight"

savanaly — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:51:12 +0000

Hey, as long as the deep fried mushrooms are replacing the deep fried chicken wings as an appetizer, that's the sort of progress I'm talking about. It's better the vibes change such that 50% of people start ordering plant based meals 10% more often than that 1% of us go fully vegan, and feels like a lot more likely and possible.

New comment by savanaly in "Factory Farming Is a Blight"

savanaly — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:46:59 +0000

If there's one social transformation I long to see in my life time which seems actually achievable and believable it would be for plant-based eating to become hip and cool, sort of like how smoking or being anti-gay became uncool, among Gen-Z and later. As the article highlights, current sentiment is totally against factory farming, it feels like people just need the right affordances to express that distaste in the marketplace. Right now if you confine yourself to vegan food you're going to get something very bland in the majority of eateries. I think that may be because the previous wave of vegan eaters were doing so for health reasons and so wanted to avoid excess fat and salt. Deep fried, richly seasoned mushrooms on the menu at your local bar and grill soon, god willing!