Hacker News: shaftoe444

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Yes/No/Cancel causes Aspirin sales to soar"

shaftoe444 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:36:23 +0000

Good year

New comment by shaftoe444 in "People of ACM – Russ Cox"

shaftoe444 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:53:56 +0000

> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Zig by Example"

shaftoe444 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:19:32 +0000

  Examples target Zig 0.14.

Been some significant changes since then, not least to printing and formatting (see writergate).

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

shaftoe444 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:03:44 +0000

Yes

Thanksgiving and the Lessons of Political Economy

shaftoe444 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 19:36:56 +0000

Article URL: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/11/thanksgiving-and-the-lessons-of-political-economy.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46072550

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shaftoe444 in "A million ways to die from a data race in Go"

shaftoe444 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:23:06 +0000

I'm English and "learnings" is one piece of corporate speak that really annoys me. It just means "lessons", for people apparently unaware that noun already exists. British corpo drones seem to need their verb/noun pairs to be identical like

action/action learnings/learning trainings/training asks/ask strategising/strategy

Racket 8.18 Released

shaftoe444 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 08:53:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.racket-lang.org/2025/08/racket-v8-18.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44982285

Points: 27

# Comments: 0

New comment by shaftoe444 in "OpenAI is building a social network?"

shaftoe444 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:42:50 +0000

Logical conclusion of AI is to generate slop for slop feeds so why not own your own slop feed.

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying"

shaftoe444 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:35:05 +0000

The Register's take on UK abuse of "state security" reasons to override cybersecurity protections.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

shaftoe444 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 00:33:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/opinion_secret_state_security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43700066

Points: 37

# Comments: 2

New comment by shaftoe444 in "London Transport 25: ride 25 different forms of transport in one day"

shaftoe444 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:40:42 +0000

Cos it's cool

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Getter-Setter Pattern Considered Harmful"

shaftoe444 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:53:52 +0000

New comment by shaftoe444 in "The Butter Thesis (2019)"

shaftoe444 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:29:20 +0000

Awk is butter

Net neutrality, we hardly knew ye

shaftoe444 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 12:01:34 +0000

Article URL: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/01/net-neutrality-we-hardly-knew-ye.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42767792

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Things I wish I knew the day I started Berklee (2008)"

shaftoe444 — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 12:58:49 +0000

LinkedIn slop

New comment by shaftoe444 in "The Rectangular Cows of UK Art (2018)"

shaftoe444 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 13:51:14 +0000

Top kine.

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Excerpts from a conversation about personal information management"

shaftoe444 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:41:29 +0000

Just forget stuff like a cool person

New comment by shaftoe444 in "A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem"

shaftoe444 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 19:11:19 +0000

Have they read Shakespeare?

New comment by shaftoe444 in "I'm a Luddite (and So Can You)"

shaftoe444 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:29:49 +0000

Who is Ned Ludd?

New comment by shaftoe444 in "Becoming physically immune to brute-force attacks (2021)"

shaftoe444 — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:45:20 +0000

I thought this would be about deadlifting.