Hacker News: taco_emoji

New comment by taco_emoji in "Schools Never Taught Critical Thinking: AI Exposed the Lie"

taco_emoji — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:04:20 +0000

sorry, who's addicted?

New comment by taco_emoji in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

taco_emoji — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:03:04 +0000

CTRL+F hijacking is necessary in some cases when apps are not displaying the full text that the user would expect to search. E.g. when there's a 10K-line code file and the UI is not loading the whole thing into DOM, but the user would expect a "find" to search that whole code file.

New comment by taco_emoji in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

taco_emoji — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:00:25 +0000

Really wish this was applied to phone apps. In Android at least, app A linking to app B will FREQUENTLY break the "back" functionality, allowing app B to handle the "back" action instead of doing what every user would expect 100% of the time, which is to go back to app A.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

taco_emoji — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:43:22 +0000

> I don't get why writers do this.

Do what, edit?

New comment by taco_emoji in "Peptides: where to begin?"

taco_emoji — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:53:42 +0000

From the Wikipedia page on orange juice:

> Commercial orange juice with a long shelf life is made by pasteurizing the juice and removing the oxygen from it. This removes much of the taste, necessitating the later addition of a flavor pack, generally made from orange products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice

New comment by taco_emoji in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

taco_emoji — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:27:59 +0000

Can't affect you if you don't use it

New comment by taco_emoji in "The Last Quiet Thing"

taco_emoji — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:51:17 +0000

oh my god this is so pretentious. At least use high-contrast color if you want me to read your deep philosophical treatise on Technology These Days

New comment by taco_emoji in "The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened"

taco_emoji — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:18:08 +0000

Visicalc is widely regarded to be the first "killer app" for the Apple computer. Perhaps even the first "killer app" period.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Chuck Norris has died"

taco_emoji — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:40:38 +0000

Yeah, his support of the Obama "birther" conspiracy was super classy.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

taco_emoji — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:42:51 +0000

> I thought we as a society had moved on from superstition to evidence-based medicine

Surely you didn't actually believe that unless you JUST landed here from space after being away for 60 years.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

taco_emoji — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:23:01 +0000

thanks for the autoplay audio crap

New comment by taco_emoji in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

taco_emoji — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:13:49 +0000

i just had to go and google this. now that's something i wish i could un-read

New comment by taco_emoji in "Wisconsin communities signed secrecy deals for billion-dollar data centers"

taco_emoji — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:53:07 +0000

I have a feeling the Great Lakes Compact members will have something to say about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Compact

New comment by taco_emoji in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

taco_emoji — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:18:10 +0000

"Flying cars are only 5 years away, just like 10 years ago" --Some guy in 1985

New comment by taco_emoji in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

taco_emoji — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:10:00 +0000

absolutely no one said that in 1891

New comment by taco_emoji in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

taco_emoji — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:34:58 +0000

self-driving cars are only 5 years away, just like 10 years ago

New comment by taco_emoji in "Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant"

taco_emoji — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:29:09 +0000

I don't care what my "actual" job is. I like writing code. I like exercising my brain in that way. I like building things.

I do not want to be a supervisor of AI agents. I do not want to engineer prompts, I want to engineer software.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Michelangelo's first painting, created when he was 12 or 13"

taco_emoji — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:52:36 +0000

that's metal as hell

New comment by taco_emoji in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

taco_emoji — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:08:50 +0000

Eliminate the Internet. I'm not joking -- it's much, MUCH harder to be lonely if you don't have Amazon, Instacart, UberEats, and social media fulfilling various needs in your life.

New comment by taco_emoji in "Impeccable Style"

taco_emoji — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:24:35 +0000

i do not understand what this even is. Some stylesheets? What am I even downloading when I click "download"?