Hacker News: socksy

New comment by socksy in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

socksy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:39:22 +0000

Ah, like this one? https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

New comment by socksy in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

socksy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:14:51 +0000

i mean, i definitely agree and am somehow allergic to seeing llm written text from other humans (you typed a prompt! why not just post it directly? i'd rather have bad spelling and grammar than llm slop). but... while i feel i can detect it pretty reliably in forums like HN, i can't help but think that this is the toupée fallacy[0] at work. of course, all the text that _i_ think is fake is clearly fake after all

[0] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Toupee_fallacy

New comment by socksy in "The UK Government's Low Value Purchase System Is a Waste of Time"

socksy — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:55:59 +0000

Isn't that just VAT?

New comment by socksy in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

socksy — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:43:55 +0000

Weird to make reading zshrc supposed unsafe when I happily publish it in my public dotfiles repo... Who the hell keeps API keys in it? OTOH it seems like lots of these AI tools keep appending PATH in it so I guess there's a fundamental misunderstanding of shell best practices in the entire AI space...

Additionally, killing the results of `lsof` is _not_ safe - if, say, you have the web page open in firefox, or a client subshell in the agent itself, then boom, there goes firefox and the agent.

New comment by socksy in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

socksy — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:19:12 +0000

Then as a California resident you should presumably be googling instead about the CCPA and the right to delete :)

New comment by socksy in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

socksy — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:10:39 +0000

I can't stand this and will actively discriminate against comments I notice in that voice. Even this one has "Not because [..], but because [..]"

New comment by socksy in "Layoffs at Block"

socksy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 12:19:25 +0000

Why? This is asserted throughout this HN thread as an obvious truism, but it seems precipiced on some dramatic right wing free market concept of how the world works that I can't tell is coming from the libertarians of hacker news, or is some kind of USA concept.

Why should society let the concept of a company exist if it is actively detrimental to society at large, for the gain of a very few?

New comment by socksy in "Layoffs at Block"

socksy — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:59:07 +0000

Are you arguing for or against capitalism here?

New comment by socksy in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

socksy — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:42:37 +0000

Allowing something isn't the same as enforcing it to be allowed. If there's regulation, like with ending roaming charges between countries, then it's required to be followed simultaneously across the EU. If there's a directive, like the Working Time Directive, goals of legislation are set out and each member state is required to introduce legislation that implements it. There's also decisions (for one country for one issue), recommendations and opinions (obviously non binding).

There's also the Court of Justice which is the highest court, but only in EU matters. National courts can refer cases to it, or the commission/member states can bring cases against other member states, if they believe they are not following EU law. This would mean either they are not following a regulation, or that the state has not fully/correctly implemented a directive into their own national laws.

As I understand it, there's no specific regulation or directive aimed at gambling itself. There's things tangentially related (data protection, anti money laundering etc). But since there's no regulation or directive saying "gambling must be allowed", there's nothing stopping a member state banning it completely if they so wish.

The only point in which the EU might step in would be if the law was somehow discriminatory or inconsistent (e.g. we ban all foreign gambling sites, but not our own, we ban lottery tickets but not state run casinos, etc).

New comment by socksy in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

socksy — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 18:35:58 +0000

Yeah but if you fuck it up it's a much bigger deal

New comment by socksy in "EU–INC – A new pan-European legal entity"

socksy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:36:19 +0000

Good thing then that there's a range of options between being let go immediately for no reason and companies being forced to employ bad employees for life.

New comment by socksy in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

socksy — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:06:29 +0000

> If you're not American, then you may not understand the way the American voting system works.

This is incredibly unlikely, given how pervasive American politics is, and how much the results of the American elections affects the rest of the world. Additionally, having a two party system is unfortunately pretty common.

New comment by socksy in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

socksy — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:03:42 +0000

Pretty sure that's the joke...

New comment by socksy in "Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers"

socksy — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:04:41 +0000

I feel I just need to run a slightly too large LLM with too much context on a MBP, and it's enough to slow it down irreparably until it suddenly hard resets. Maybe the memory pressure it does that at is much higher though compared to Linux?

New comment by socksy in "Kroger acknowledges that its bet on robotics went too far"

socksy — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:07:33 +0000

Also, anecdotally they are more popular amongst less price sensitive people with disposable incomes, where paying for the convenience is worth it.

But also, definitely not the Ocado model.

New comment by socksy in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

socksy — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:49:26 +0000

The database is Postgres, and the schema is quite sensible. You can (and I have) write normal SQL queries in psql to modify the data.

It might not be as easy as rsync to transfer data out, but I would trust it way more than some of the folder based systems I've had with local apps that somehow get corrupted/modified between their database and the local filesystem. And I don't think ext4 is somehow magically more futureproof than Postgres. And if no-one else writes an export tool, and you feel unable to, your local friendly LLM will happily read the schema and write the SQL for you.

New comment by socksy in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

socksy — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 12:49:18 +0000

To be fair, given the context I would also read it as a derogatory description of an LLM.

New comment by socksy in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

socksy — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:48:10 +0000

Part of the issue is that the landlord gets any say whatsoever about a public utility.

New comment by socksy in "Claude Code refused to add rainbows and unicorns to my app"

socksy — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:53:49 +0000

This is less to do with claude and rainbows and unicorns, and more to do with whatever your chat context before this request looked like. IMO you should be regular cleaning out your context, and use something like https://github.com/steveyegge/beads to keep track of your status.

In my work's repo:

    > In the frontend app, change the label from "login" to "rainbows". Make the toggle switch super rainbowy and unicorny so that it's really fun and that my 5-year-old daughter will like it.
    
     I'll help you make the login toggle super rainbowy and unicorny for your daughter! Let me start by exploring the frontend app to find the login
  toggle.

New comment by socksy in "Updated practice for review articles and position papers in ArXiv CS category"

socksy — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:06:34 +0000

I mean if you skip the traditional publishing gates, you could in theory endorse articles that specifically bring out sections from other articles that you agree or disagree with. Would be a different form of article