Hacker News: stackedinserter

New comment by stackedinserter in "No Stack Overflow, No Autocomplete: What Coding Felt Like in the 80s"

stackedinserter — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:46:22 +0000

Software was way simpler back then.

New comment by stackedinserter in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

stackedinserter — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:45:51 +0000

How do people still "buy" any movies after all these stories?

If "buy" means you can watch it on this specific device while logged in with this specific account, for some limited time, then downloading it to your disk is not "theft".

Seriously, my brain, deformed by years of file sharing, can't get it.

New comment by stackedinserter in "QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall"

stackedinserter — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:43:49 +0000

That is super cool, man.

Do you have a demo for that 240 elements assembly?

New comment by stackedinserter in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

stackedinserter — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:51:10 +0000

Mass adoption. Two IT guys can communicate completely secure with udp packets via SSH tunnel, but it doesn't scale to family and non-techy friends.

New comment by stackedinserter in "The Vespa at 80"

stackedinserter — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:30:19 +0000

It's the coolest thing on 2 wheels only in CBC's imaginary world.

New comment by stackedinserter in "Claude Sonnet 5"

stackedinserter — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:29:55 +0000

"Our new model is proudly dumber now!"

New comment by stackedinserter in "The war against 'woke' could end US science as we know it"

stackedinserter — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:20:40 +0000

Sure, NASA and NIST are not "woke", but somehow this cancer creeps there. Example: https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=93249...

Money was paid to Mary Theofanos and Justyna Zwolak, and their supervisors to produce this crap, instead of researchers and engineers that do real things.

New comment by stackedinserter in "The war against 'woke' could end US science as we know it"

stackedinserter — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:39:07 +0000

I will not miss "US science as we know it", at least that part of it that gave us terms like "menstruating people".

New comment by stackedinserter in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

stackedinserter — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:24:47 +0000

These people are around you.

Watch this "regulate 3d printers because of children" hearing: https://youtu.be/sue88CXzPcQ?t=2285

Normal people that call themselves good names like "moms for actions" drag us into this totalitarian hell.

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

stackedinserter — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 19:20:01 +0000

How many people are going to buy a $10-20K rigs to run these open models?

New comment by stackedinserter in "The unbearable cheapness of open weight models"

stackedinserter — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:53:39 +0000

Why illegal, just pass these 3000 pages FAA-level certification, export controls and KYC. We're free country, after all!

New comment by stackedinserter in "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology"

stackedinserter — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:42:08 +0000

Since a transistor can't be smaller than a single atom, maybe it's time to start optimizing our software again.

New comment by stackedinserter in "For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward"

stackedinserter — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:14:43 +0000

So if I somehow read a book for free, then somehow used that knowledge in my paid work, then I owe them % of my earnings?

New comment by stackedinserter in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

stackedinserter — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:13:09 +0000

The main damage is they forced it into us and call it "classic literature".

I hated it with passion, even got F's in my report cards, and could re-read it only in my late 20's. Still hate these "language and literature" teachers, all of them.

New comment by stackedinserter in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

stackedinserter — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:04:36 +0000

Try to read 10000 random numbers, one by one. Ary you able to understand them? Yes. Do you want to read them? I don't think you do. Now imagine it's pushed to you at age of 16 and called "math". You'll hate it for a good part of your future life.

New comment by stackedinserter in "For most of the world, open-source AI is the only way forward"

stackedinserter — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:17:57 +0000

It's closer to "that output belongs to everyone, everyone's free to train your own model"

Otherwise, everything you do belongs to all of us, because you learned on total intellectual and artistic output of human kind too.

New comment by stackedinserter in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

stackedinserter — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:53:01 +0000

The saddest thing is that bureaucracy will stay, grow and flourish until the point of breakdown, when the system is not able to pay bureaucrats their salaries.

Or maybe even until they can't physically get to work (read with accent: "that I need to do even if I don't get paid")

New comment by stackedinserter in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

stackedinserter — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:35:53 +0000

You don't know what you're talking about.

New comment by stackedinserter in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

stackedinserter — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:33:41 +0000

TLDR: realistically, you can't.

New comment by stackedinserter in "Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV"

stackedinserter — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:30:09 +0000

It's truly shocking that westerners still believe in fancy military megafauna.