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New comment by selbyk in "Ask HN: Is it actually possible to run multiple coding sessions in parallel?"

selbyk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:58:10 +0000

It's just a set of skills and Claude commands. You can install via Claude plugins and read the prompts yourself

New comment by selbyk in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

selbyk — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:29:30 +0000

Who pays the insurance premiums?

New comment by selbyk in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

selbyk — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:40:18 +0000

I do also think its name _has_ held it back.

New comment by selbyk in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

selbyk — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:15:44 +0000

I've always understood "campground" to be a whole area open to camping with dozens or hundreds of campers. A campsite is where your group's claim is staked and the area you occupy including picnic tables, fires, etc--not just the tent.

New comment by selbyk in "FIFA Arrives on Netflix Games"

selbyk — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:17:35 +0000

If only EA wasn't on the name either.

New comment by selbyk in "Blender 5.0"

selbyk — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:53:16 +0000

Based on what fingerprint?

New comment by selbyk in "GPT-5.1 for Developers"

selbyk — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:36:42 +0000

It's all vibe coded

New comment by selbyk in "I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform"

selbyk — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 12:33:32 +0000

Unfortunately tho, it also suffers the same huge design flaw: hold it upside down, ice cream hits floor. =(

New comment by selbyk in "Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil"

selbyk — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:01:18 +0000

I feel like your chosen examples are very disingenuous. If you're comparing data harvesting/leakage and video games to the atrocities caused by Big Military and the direction it's headed, you must be very disconnected from the real human casualty and suffering.

But to answer your point, yes. People have the autonomy to not do business with individuals and corporations that don't align with their values. It's a personal choice. You may not understand it, but if more people had convictions like this the world would likely be an entirely different place.

New comment by selbyk in "RFK Jr's new vaccine panel votes against preservative in flu shots in shock move"

selbyk — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:10:03 +0000

Seed, to plant

Not cede, to surrender

New comment by selbyk in "Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees"

selbyk — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 02:31:01 +0000

I think it's great when people argue in bad faith and waste everyone's time.

New comment by selbyk in "Gorilla study reveals complex pros and cons of friendship"

selbyk — Fri, 09 May 2025 06:45:13 +0000

Nor are animals.

New comment by selbyk in "Cursor hits $9B valuation"

selbyk — Tue, 06 May 2025 14:17:43 +0000

Open source software?

New comment by selbyk in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

selbyk — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:23:55 +0000

They didn't say they think they are spending too much.

New comment by selbyk in "League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun"

selbyk — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 14:52:13 +0000

They could just also support the past methods

New comment by selbyk in "Workday erases 8.5% of workforce because of AI"

selbyk — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:37:04 +0000

I thought it meant AI messed up a query.

New comment by selbyk in "You Can't Recycle Bowling Balls – But People Keep Trying (2021)"

selbyk — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:40:27 +0000

You are arguing against no one. The person you initially replied to explaining RRR obviously isn't talking about RRRing bowling balls specifically. They are explaining the significance of and how to interpret the common way it's taught to reduce unnecessary production and consumption.

New comment by selbyk in "Why does AI slop feel so bad to read?"

selbyk — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:38:04 +0000

You aren't asking for homework, but I highly recommend The Elements of Style.

They make such boring topics as grammar and composition a pleasure to read and apply. I read it multiple times in high school, and I still find myself repeating some of the rules to myself when I revise my writing.

Including rule 17:

"17. Omit needless words.

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all sentences short, or avoid all detail and treat subjects only in outline, but that every word tell."

New comment by selbyk in "UK betting giant's unlawful marketing kept suicidal gambler hooked"

selbyk — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 16:21:49 +0000

What benefit does gambling have?

New comment by selbyk in "Ask HN: Why isn't an open source A/V receiver a thing?"

selbyk — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:45:08 +0000

And by then, what new technology will be out? People dropping money on this stuff often don't want to be constantly 3-5 years behind

Just playing devil's advocate. OSS receiver would be cool