Hacker News: someguynamedq

New comment by someguynamedq in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

someguynamedq — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:42:51 +0000

Which goes to show that despite all of the rationalization both here and in the comments of that PR, the push to ban AI is religious not reasoned.

New comment by someguynamedq in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

someguynamedq — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:40:25 +0000

No different than a human written PR

New comment by someguynamedq in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

someguynamedq — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 17:36:39 +0000

What change have they achieved?

New comment by someguynamedq in "The new HTTP QUERY method explained"

someguynamedq — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:38:35 +0000

So just add an optional body to get

New comment by someguynamedq in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

someguynamedq — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:23:04 +0000

Can it change? Yes. That's not the same question as will it change. And that is also not the same question as "will the change result in a different posture towards antitrust."

When was the last time substantive antitrust action was taken that forcefully restructured a large company to a significant degree?

New comment by someguynamedq in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

someguynamedq — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:05:55 +0000

I think their point is less that it really means something and more that enough customers think it means something to provide economic opportunity

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

someguynamedq — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:06:28 +0000

"unforgivable" is a little melodramatic

New comment by someguynamedq in "AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software"

someguynamedq — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:20:43 +0000

"should" and yet didn't

New comment by someguynamedq in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

someguynamedq — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:45:06 +0000

> Occam's razor. This isn't a shadowy manufacturing cabal, threatened by 3D printing. Gun control lobbyists are trying to prevent the printing of handgun frames and Glock switches, because they're the easiest parts to print.

Probably more accurate to say politicians are trying to take actions which will be seen publicly as fighting against gun crime. It seems like a stretch to say anyone earnestly believes that 3D printed guns are a real problem in the landscape of existing gun crime in America

New comment by someguynamedq in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

someguynamedq — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:33:37 +0000

The question is not "will the product be better." The question is will you make the investors money.

New comment by someguynamedq in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

someguynamedq — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:18:03 +0000

Isn't it expected that in a system that favors individualism over collectivism that a few people will be able to amass disproportionately more wealth and power than everyone else with no incentive or societally enforced responsibility to share that wealth and power, thus creating a society were your life is dictated by a few imbeciles at the top, not who are not bought by large corps, but who own the large corps?

New comment by someguynamedq in "DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked"

someguynamedq — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:21:54 +0000

Aside from the technical aspect of this (which is interesting), isn't this pretty compromising? How can the US trust that the head of the FBI is not compromised when they know his private information is owned by a country they are at war with?

New comment by someguynamedq in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

someguynamedq — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:34:35 +0000

Tetris and civilization are also harmfully addictive, but the scope of the behavior they can hijack is lower. "One more turn" at 2am is harmful. Just not as harmful as something that knows about and interacts with every aspect of your social life and your view of the real world around you like social/media apps do today.

A really well built hammer doesn't make you want to spend all your time using a hammer, it's just good when you need a hammer. That's a well-made product that you choose to keep using.

New comment by someguynamedq in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

someguynamedq — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:06:55 +0000

People trust third parties too much to manage the security of their communication

New comment by someguynamedq in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

someguynamedq — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:21:46 +0000

Makes sense that the best boss would be shorter since they have to be better to compensate for the bias against them

New comment by someguynamedq in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

someguynamedq — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:19:40 +0000

The thing that interests me is how eager people are to find rationalizations explaining how this effect doesn't exist

New comment by someguynamedq in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

someguynamedq — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:43:29 +0000

Several years ago is ancient with the rate of advancement that LLMs have had recently

New comment by someguynamedq in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

someguynamedq — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:08:03 +0000

Prices have come down but that's not a real price unless there's something seriously wrong with your car. i'm seeing ~15 at the lowest

New comment by someguynamedq in "“This is not the computer for you”"

someguynamedq — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:14:19 +0000

I'd say this comment fails the "Be kind. Don't be snarky" test. Wouldn't you? If we're appealing to the rules to justify our actions it puts a bigger burden on ourselves to make sure we're perfectly in line with them too :)

New comment by someguynamedq in "“This is not the computer for you”"

someguynamedq — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:09:55 +0000

Has windows actually been screwed up or do people just not like changes in their operating system?