Hacker News: slipknotfan

New comment by slipknotfan in "Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?"

slipknotfan — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:06:45 +0000

We have problems; We use code to solve them; We have a good time.

If you do not feel the drive to code for the fun of the game, then don't do it. I once met a guy who had been doing programming for at least 7 years of his life, 5 as an intern and 2 as a job. He quit because he was in it for the money not for love of the game. He found more fulfillment teaching.

There is not enough time on this earth to waste years on things that we do not enjoy.

New comment by slipknotfan in "Why would someone want to learn code when AI does it better and faster?"

slipknotfan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:13:57 +0000

do what you enjoy and ride out the bubble, remember, ai is only regurgitating and could never make another hubble, you learn by working at the problems through struggle, after enough work, you will no longer be a computing muggle.

New comment by slipknotfan in "Ask HN: Releasing code under AGPLv3, but want to block LLM reconstruction?"

slipknotfan — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:10:01 +0000

https://sr.ht/robots.txt is a robots.txt

New comment by slipknotfan in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

slipknotfan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:58:54 +0000

The publishing-houses print history books. The rich own the publishing-houses. Q.E.D. The rich control the history books.

New comment by slipknotfan in "Ask HN: Hey, you, tech worker–how are you feeling?"

slipknotfan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:15:30 +0000

slipknot

New comment by slipknotfan in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

slipknotfan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:13:34 +0000

>This is an obvious recipe for disaster (a rugpull), and I'm forced to wonder if this is just by mistake or if some of the Ladybird sponsors are playing a mean game of Secret Hitler. I guess only time will tell.

When I first read this I checked the license and saw that a rugpull would be permitted. However, if someone wants to continue the project after the rugpull they could do something thing like the redis rename to redict.[0]

[0] https://andrewkelley.me/post/redis-renamed-to-redict.html

New comment by slipknotfan in "Reverse-Engineered Userspace Driver for Asus ZenVision Lid OLED on Linux""

slipknotfan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:15:01 +0000

A cool thing would be to put a progress bar for something on the lid screen so you can see how long is left and open up the laptop when it is finished.

New comment by slipknotfan in "Ask HN: How do you find deep technical content?"

slipknotfan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:15:09 +0000

lobste.rs has some stuff

New comment by slipknotfan in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

slipknotfan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:58:43 +0000

because you have enough ram for steam because you don't have copilot?

New comment by slipknotfan in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

slipknotfan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:56:58 +0000

I prefer arch btw

New comment by slipknotfan in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

slipknotfan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:56:01 +0000

you can solve the google problem: cd C: && find -type f | grep google | sudo xargs rm

and also the win11 problem:

format C:

New comment by slipknotfan in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

slipknotfan — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:54:21 +0000

pop the bubble already

New comment by slipknotfan in "The Siri for Families Apple Will Never Build"

slipknotfan — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:28:10 +0000

Very good. If the author helicopter-parents like that, the son will never learn the consequences of not studying. This doesn't even consider the possibility that the son may not need to study, already having known the material. It fails the account for the growing independence that children need. This would continue a tradition of using technology to enforce parents' will when the parents are not even present. This is harmful to the child.[0] It would be better for the parent to not do anything UNTIL the son does not due well on the test. This lets the son decide how much extra preparation he needs.

[0] https://blog.avas.space/surveillance-children/

Ask HN: Are LLMs Just Philosophical Zombies?

slipknotfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:45:19 +0000

The whole point of LLMs is to fake being human through following the likely paths text will follow. Is that not what a philosophical zombie[0] is: appearing to be human while having no actual intelligence?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875092

Points: 2

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New comment by slipknotfan in "Hey, it's Earth Day today"

slipknotfan — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:41:05 +0000

How about no LLMs?

New comment by slipknotfan in "Ask HN: How did you get your first users with zero audience?"

slipknotfan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:57:00 +0000

Use your AI to flood comments

New comment by slipknotfan in "Zero-copy protobuf and ConnectRPC for Rust"

slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:41:12 +0000

Commonly used crates should be blessed and go into an extended stdlib.

New comment by slipknotfan in "George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)"

slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:36:49 +0000

You have to defend your freedom from all angles of attack.

New comment by slipknotfan in "George Orwell Predicted the Rise of "AI Slop" in Nineteen Eighty-Four"

slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:35:42 +0000

"While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong — and we have no use for sloppy thinkers."

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

New comment by slipknotfan in "Artifacts: Versioned storage that speaks Git"

slipknotfan — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:30:09 +0000

Or use a better operating system

https://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/winstupid/1