Hacker News: snowe2010

New comment by snowe2010 in "We have LLMs now. Why are the docs still wrong?"

snowe2010 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:13:34 +0000

AI;DR

New comment by snowe2010 in "I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI"

snowe2010 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:33:45 +0000

The article is satire…

New comment by snowe2010 in "I'm the Guy Who Destroys Antique Books After We Scan Them into Our Company's AI"

snowe2010 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:30:58 +0000

You had to use an LLM to figure out an article was extremely obvious satire… society is doomed.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Rewriting in Rust"

snowe2010 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:36:41 +0000

There’s none of those details because it’s an AI written article. It doesn’t even talk about the stuff it says it’s going to in the very first paragraph.

New comment by snowe2010 in "How Claude's text watermarking works"

snowe2010 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:18:15 +0000

I thought the same thing. Maybe they can restrict it so that you can’t run the same text through multiple times with only one word differences. At least from an IP perspective that would start to get really expensive to rotate through IPs to get around a block like that.

New comment by snowe2010 in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

snowe2010 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:39:35 +0000

This logic makes no sense. If 90% of a software engineers job is not coding, then the valuable part of their job isn’t coding. It’s the other things. Else junior devs or interns would be doing all that work.

So no, they aren’t interchangeable with the office receptionist, else the office receptionist would already be doing that job.

New comment by snowe2010 in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

snowe2010 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:02:59 +0000

I feel like this story just supports the claim that coding isn’t the hard part. Collecting those requirements is harder.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

snowe2010 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:44:05 +0000

Please do provide your sources on the golf course stat you quoted.

New comment by snowe2010 in "We Tested Nonstick Cookware: Coatings Don't Need to Look Worn to Shed Particles"

snowe2010 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:20:21 +0000

Supposedly, yes, but other studies have shown that teflon pans continue to off gas after construction for a long time so it’s not just PTFE you have to worry about, but PFOA as well. And in addition, purchasing Teflon pans increases the amount of these chemicals making it into the soil and water streams so it doesn’t really matter how inert they are when they make it into your food, since you’re consuming them other ways and also destroying the environment at the same time!

New comment by snowe2010 in "Show HN: Port Zero – How I learned to stop worrying and love PORT=0"

snowe2010 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:37:32 +0000

Wild to vibe code something in a week then charge $50/month for it. I understand servers cost money but lol there’s no way the costs are that high. Also insane the amount of code generated here.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026"

snowe2010 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:29:35 +0000

They have internal tracker blocking. Also, using brave and caring about privacy is rich.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time (2025)"

snowe2010 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:17:39 +0000

Yeah, it’s insane. Along with that, any permanent gains in the morning will be lost as soon as it becomes normal. Businesses will just open that much earlier. And this study assumed bedtimes of 10pm, which is not the average anywhere on the planet from what I remember the last time I looked into this. The average is like past midnight.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Why are we so obsessed with lawns?"

snowe2010 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:10:51 +0000

How is this a counter point? Do you know that their kids don’t like playing in the grass?

New comment by snowe2010 in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

snowe2010 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:21:55 +0000

Safari isn’t closed source…

New comment by snowe2010 in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

snowe2010 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:59:10 +0000

Not really. There’s zero reason that a manufacturer wouldn’t just program it to wait several months before attempting to connect to open networks.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

snowe2010 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:08:16 +0000

Huh? This is almost assuredly being used for botnets… that’s not a good thing.

New comment by snowe2010 in "The Doom Justifies the Valuation"

snowe2010 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 02:15:36 +0000

> The question is not whether AI is useful. It is useful, full stop.

And nukes are useful by some metric too.

AI (llms) is not useful in any way that we as humanity should be pushing for. It’s more harmful than good in every way possible. It’s honestly astounding to me that everyone’s ethics are so weak as to believe that somehow these incredible destructive companies are somehow good for humanity.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

snowe2010 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:51:39 +0000

I know that, but in doing so you prevent yourself from ever using Sign in with Apple

New comment by snowe2010 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

snowe2010 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:14:13 +0000

But that will completely break Sign in with Apple, which no service is ever going to do. I really don’t get the problem here.

New comment by snowe2010 in "Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless"

snowe2010 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:11:31 +0000

But it’s not? Like if they block that subdomain, they will completely block Sign in with Apple.