Hacker News: technol0gic

New comment by technol0gic in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

technol0gic — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:19:01 +0000

i only code in this when no ones around. one might say I...han solo

New comment by technol0gic in "Ageless Linux. We are legally required to ask how old you are. We won't"

technol0gic — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:15:50 +0000

maybe its being done by the people lobbying for the OS-based ID malarkey, so they can have something to point at and jump up and down

New comment by technol0gic in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

technol0gic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:09:22 +0000

by "say stupid things," you of course mean "tell bald-faced lies"

New comment by technol0gic in "Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE's Dilley Facility"

technol0gic — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:51:12 +0000

big hint: how many computer-literate people do you know that would put their whole-ass name as their HN handle, in 2026? none i'd professionally associate with, thats for sure

New comment by technol0gic in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

technol0gic — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:18:36 +0000

the old "it's all the same shit" fallacy that i loathe so dearly

New comment by technol0gic in "In 2025, venture capital can't pretend everything is fine any more"

technol0gic — Mon, 12 May 2025 02:59:26 +0000

halkias is that you? :P

New comment by technol0gic in "AI Slop Is Polluting Bug Bounty Platforms with Fake Vulnerability Reports"

technol0gic — Wed, 07 May 2025 01:44:26 +0000

i mean, to be fair, indirectly trusting people to do the right thing by doing things via "honor system" was never possible in an industry that runs on distrust.

that being said, people using AI to scam all the things is getting super old

New comment by technol0gic in "Careless People"

technol0gic — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 14:19:50 +0000

well put

New comment by technol0gic in "Show HN: I Built an iOS app to locate stray animals"

technol0gic — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:18:18 +0000

live-action Pokemon Go

New comment by technol0gic in "Our interfaces have lost their senses"

technol0gic — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:21:45 +0000

"sugar rush of saturated colors" is a great way to put it

New comment by technol0gic in "Big LLMs weights are a piece of history"

technol0gic — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:03:20 +0000

Smedium Language Model

New comment by technol0gic in "Are electric cars that much cheaper to operate?"

technol0gic — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:32:13 +0000

receipts, please

New comment by technol0gic in "The hardest working font in Manhattan"

technol0gic — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:10:17 +0000

For a time I wrote code for BMS/BAS systems for many prominent commercial buildings in the NYC area, control rooms in basements and on rooftops and all the secret in-between rooms, in-between. (A fascinating job not without its exposure to asbestos, among other hazards.)

And, as someone born and raised in the south, I was thoroughly enamored with this ubiquitous font that implied the seriousness and purpose of each control implement, to include the priority of the functionality said implement represented, on countless panels I engaged with.

This deep dive was pleasing to my soul and I'm immensely thankful to the author for taking the time (and the photos) to indulge in traversing this wormhole for us.

New comment by technol0gic in "The hardest working font in Manhattan"

technol0gic — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 11:00:40 +0000

it also facilitates legibility, especially at a slight distance, as well as distortion (squishing, stretching) if necessary.

Both of which are objectively desirable qualities of a font with massive control panels as its native habitat.

New comment by technol0gic in "The hardest working font in Manhattan"

technol0gic — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 10:54:13 +0000

If you think that's all they said about it, you didn't finish the article. That was the introduction.

New comment by technol0gic in "Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop"

technol0gic — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 10:07:53 +0000

kinda like that bad landlord map webapp that ppl in nyc setup

New comment by technol0gic in "Trump says he has directed Treasury to stop minting new pennies"

technol0gic — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:59:18 +0000

someone in his camp is smart/devious/slick enough to advise him to test his autocracy by skipping the rules on things that are already obvious before moving on to skip the rules on more dubious and unpalatable endeavors

I would liken it to testing the electric fences in different sectors like the velociraptors from Jurassic Park, starting with the sections that are hidden from cameras by bushes, before knocking down the ones out in the open.

New comment by technol0gic in "CFPB's 1,700 employees told to "not perform any work""

technol0gic — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 08:44:32 +0000

they aren't, this person just simply wants them to be.

and if you say anything to the contrary about LLMs not being fully baked enough for this undertaking, they will immediately frame it like you're against the entire endeavor. they hate nuance.

New comment by technol0gic in "Beavers finish seven-year dam project in two days saving – $1M"

technol0gic — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:00:15 +0000

that is an excellent metric for their beaver resumes

New comment by technol0gic in "UnitedHealth Is Sick of Everyone Complaining About Its Claim Denials"

technol0gic — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:11:02 +0000

and private industry has a prime directive to attain profit goals at predefined amounts, regardless of who is healthy or sick, so the more expensive of the two will fall by the wayside.

what has me pensive is, i think you already know this