Hacker News: stemlord

New comment by stemlord in "Asus Bike Booster"

stemlord — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:15:45 +0000

I think in nyc I'd prefer to lock my $100 dumper of a bike on the street and be able to take the expensive component with me, if this thing is as detachable as it seems

New comment by stemlord in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"

stemlord — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:06:19 +0000

We need marketing for working class laypeople, esp on the right, to understand what's happening on our web, our devices and on our streets and why they should care. I don't think I've seen this type of marketing for this demographic land in any meaningful way yet

New comment by stemlord in "Ask HN: In your experience, what are sound conventions for e-ink UI development?"

stemlord — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:00:09 +0000

All the conditions you describe are a graphic designer's wet dream, I love it

New comment by stemlord in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

stemlord — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:17:56 +0000

Hm but the drugs are only evidence because they're illegal? So the phone owner only destroyed evidence if the phone contained something illegal, but innocent until proben guilty?

New comment by stemlord in "Nintendo announces new product revisions in Europe with replaceable batteries"

stemlord — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:31:29 +0000

"Can" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there

New comment by stemlord in "Running local models is good now"

stemlord — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:24:44 +0000

> It's still worth it to avoid becoming massively reliant on centralized services.

This isn't really good enough. Many of us need to get things done in a pinch and if our employers are already getting used to the idea of paying for enterprise subscriptions to cloud llm's then the local option needs to be good

New comment by stemlord in "After AI takes everything"

stemlord — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:25:20 +0000

That really pissed me off. Why do people continute to pretend they can predict the future

New comment by stemlord in "Can we have the day off?"

stemlord — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:25:41 +0000

Musk supported the pretense of free speech online when he bought the bird website. Again, it's just letting them see the marketing benefit, not convincing them to actually care (assuming that's impossible)

New comment by stemlord in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

stemlord — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:28:08 +0000

>and by the time batteries wear out, most people are going to want a new a phone

That remains to be seen. This could accelerate cultural change around desiring shiny new toy being seen as cool

New comment by stemlord in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

stemlord — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:39:05 +0000

Idk, it seems like the marketing process on tiktok doesn't constitute trying to get people to go out of their way to interact/click with your content, tiktok users are just involuntarily fed content on some level (you don't know what the next autoplayed video will be)... how can it not be trival to manipulate that userbase with, in this case, a band whose music is just-good-enough for mass appeal?

New comment by stemlord in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

stemlord — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:02:35 +0000

That's mostly been my job since I started around 2010 haha

New comment by stemlord in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

stemlord — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:56:55 +0000

The average person dislikes AI not because it isn't useful. Anyway, we're more or less all on the cutting edge together

New comment by stemlord in "The Story of Marina Abramovic and Ulay (2020)"

stemlord — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:09:16 +0000

That would be amazing. Idk if you're hating on NYC but yeah, artists go there for career exposure so it would be interesting to somehow gain easy access to all of those who haven't sought exposure through the main institutional channels

New comment by stemlord in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

stemlord — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:53:28 +0000

I have constant issues with drag and drop on my windows pc. It'll stop working and I have to reboot to get it back

New comment by stemlord in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

stemlord — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:18:53 +0000

True, and then think of all the real estate that gets opened up for third spaces

New comment by stemlord in "Asian governments roll out 4-day weeks, WFH to solve fuel crisis caused by war"

stemlord — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:14:04 +0000

Even 3 days in office, 2 days home feels significantly better because that's the point at which one is spending less days out of the week in the office

New comment by stemlord in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

stemlord — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:09:32 +0000

Theres a zoomed out version immediately below that tweet.

https://x.com/JosephPolitano/status/2029916369056079975

New comment by stemlord in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

stemlord — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:45:41 +0000

you can't really fake the labor that goes into mastering a craft any more significantly than one can fake labor at a white collar job, let alone some level of institutional involvement that any professional pursuit would end up with (i.e., showing a work at the gallery on main st or giving workshops at the community center), so this isn't actually that challenging of a question in practice. even with highly conceptual work there's still an involved studio/research practice to audit

if your artistic practice is truly so abstract that you can't prove labor by any material means then you probably just won't get subsidized for it.

New comment by stemlord in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

stemlord — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:01:11 +0000

Curious how this will affect midjourney's earnings

New comment by stemlord in "Please don't say mean things about the AI I just invested a billion dollars in"

stemlord — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:49:23 +0000

people have been pretty clear about a positive path forward

- big tech should pay for the data they extract and sell back to us

- startups should stop forcing ai features that no one wants down our throats

- the vanguard of ai should be open and accessible to all not locked in the cloud behind paywalls