Hacker News: slowhadoken

New comment by slowhadoken in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

slowhadoken — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:03:16 +0000

I never stopped but I focused more on concept and design.

New comment by slowhadoken in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

slowhadoken — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:34:09 +0000

My early paranoia about corporate AI is really maturing. No one’s really laughing at me anymore either.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

slowhadoken — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:04:33 +0000

The greatest blernsball player was a machine for playing blernsball.

New comment by slowhadoken in "We accepted surveillance as default"

slowhadoken — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:44:05 +0000

Surveillance has always been baked into consumerism similar to foreign aid. A large part of foreign relations is capital and rhetoric.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

slowhadoken — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:37:56 +0000

I clearly remember them in the 1990’s and that was a mess but this 2020’s AI hivemind MS is a whole new beast.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

slowhadoken — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:26:34 +0000

Microsoft is getting creepy. OneDrive has surpassed McAfee as most aggressive proprietary virus.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:45:29 +0000

I see a lot of people that smoke marijuana being off balance psychologically and I believe it’s because weed inhabits R.E.M. and they smoke it to go to sleep which creates a viscous cycle.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

slowhadoken — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:38:55 +0000

Obama set the record for deportation. I wonder if ICE used similar methods when he was president. There might be a roadmap for digital invasion of privacy going back that far.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border"

slowhadoken — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:36:37 +0000

That’s the point; make the horrific palatable by shifting blame and manufacture consent. Suicide is higher than homicide and everyone shrugs.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border"

slowhadoken — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:32:04 +0000

Governments subcontract the private sector for everything from food processing to defense. I’ve heard that Mexico can’t afford to effectively patrol their boarders. It’s only natural for them to turn to a company like this.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border"

slowhadoken — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:18:16 +0000

I feel like a lot of this in any country is turning criminal activity into institutionalized predatory business practices. It turns loan shark slaves into economic serfs. Homicide goes down and suicide goes up.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

slowhadoken — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:43:40 +0000

Coming up with bad ideas isn’t a skill either.

New comment by slowhadoken in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

slowhadoken — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:57:50 +0000

I’m still concerned about MS using the code I write on my laptop to train AI. Tinfoil hat wearing Linux users are starting to make a lot of sense to me.

New comment by slowhadoken in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

slowhadoken — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:02:32 +0000

It’s funny because a decade ago people said I was crazy for thinking that Oracle owning JS was going to become an issue in the future.

New comment by slowhadoken in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

slowhadoken — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:01:12 +0000

You get a gold star.

New comment by slowhadoken in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

slowhadoken — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:14:22 +0000

Am I mistaken or isn’t TypeScript just Golang under the hood these days?

New comment by slowhadoken in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

slowhadoken — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:36:52 +0000

I can’t stop hearing them after visiting Denver, CO.

New comment by slowhadoken in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

slowhadoken — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:39:18 +0000

I grew up around hippies and potheads but this new legal-weed brand of normie pothead is different. It’s depressing.

New comment by slowhadoken in "From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Fuels Preventable Disease"

slowhadoken — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:33:00 +0000

Someone the other day told me that THC cures cancer so it’s okay to smoke pot indoors. We’re cooked.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

slowhadoken — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:16:34 +0000

I wish people that jeer Musk would decide if he’s running his companies or not. They think he’s an ignorant figure head and a conniving strategist. I don’t care either way just stick to one.