Hacker News: terminatornet

New comment by terminatornet in "Why we don’t use AI"

terminatornet — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:26:09 +0000

No they aren't.

New comment by terminatornet in "Why we don’t use AI"

terminatornet — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:39:58 +0000

Didn't know yarn spinner was used to make so many cool games. Norco is a favorite from the last few years.

The anti-ai stance just makes em even cooler.

New comment by terminatornet in "NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives"

terminatornet — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 04:48:58 +0000

banned at one event.

New comment by terminatornet in "Rep Ro Khanna faces Silicon Valley backlash after embracing wealth tax"

terminatornet — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:37:47 +0000

Can I have some money since you're a billionaire?

New comment by terminatornet in "Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?"

terminatornet — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 03:07:57 +0000

> People find me funny and when I do talk to people we have decent conversations (though small talk tends to bore me). > However that doesn’t lead anywhere and doesn’t bring me any kind of comfort or fulfillment

You have two good things going for you here:

- you're able to hold a conversation with people, even if it might not be as deep a conversation as you'd like it to be.

- you're funny and can joke around with people.

It sounds like you might have some surface level relationships and want deeper connections with people, which is totally understandable. Small talk can be boring at first, but it often opens the possibility of deeper relationships. I'd recommend low-stakes/activity based social interactions and seeing where they take you.

Some ideas:

- If you're on your way to the dining hall to get a meal, ask your dorm mates if they wanna join

- Colleges have a movie night on weekends to see a movie for free, ask class mates, dorm mates to go.

- Does your campus have like a rec/game center (think pool, air hockey, games etc). Another thing to ask people to.

You might have to suffer through a lot of rejection before you get takers. After that you might have to suffer through small talk about the weather, where someone is from, what their major is, etc before you get to the deeper connections.

New comment by terminatornet in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

terminatornet — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:50:55 +0000

haha, this is freakin epic! I asked gemini to make up some new york times articles from 10 years in the future

- president buttigieg in hot water for being in epstein files

- Interview with mayor elect Narhoz Inadmam who ran on a platform of free food

- "Is 2035 AI in a bubble?"

And as you can see it did NOT just take today's headlines and sort of tweak them slightly.

New comment by terminatornet in "Built a Free, Unlimited Screen Recorder Because Everything Else Annoyed Me"

terminatornet — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:42:50 +0000

Every demo video I see now has the zoom effect that seems to have been popularized by https://screen.studio. Screen studio is $29/month.

The OP's software appears to be similar but free. There is definitely a use case for this.

New comment by terminatornet in "Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant"

terminatornet — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:09:57 +0000

> But there seems to be a recent trend of some who cry discrimination when their sub-par work is called out.

This sounds like you worked with or heard about 1 trans person who did shoddy work and now it's a "recent trend" that all trans software devs are saying it's discrimination.

New comment by terminatornet in "Is It Time to Regulate React?"

terminatornet — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:53:51 +0000

React should not be regulated, it should be banned outright.

New comment by terminatornet in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

terminatornet — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 23:50:12 +0000

I started a new job last year (on a greenfield project) and our director of product told us we had to use React because "we won't be able to find developers if we don't use react". I love constantly shooting myself in the foot with react because vercel has good marketing.

New comment by terminatornet in "Next.js is infuriating"

terminatornet — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 23:23:00 +0000

It rocks how Vercel has spent so much time and money on marketing Next.js that my product manager tried to tell me last year that I had to use it. In his mind we wouldn't be able to build our app correctly (an SPA that barely a couple hundred people use) or find developers since everyone uses and knows Next.js.

truly hate how hard these guys have made my job by making react popular.

New comment by terminatornet in "Andrew Ng says bottleneck in AI startups isn't coding – it's product management"

terminatornet — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 03:51:08 +0000

> When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.

Maybe you just think you're being more productive ;)

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

New comment by terminatornet in "AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'"

terminatornet — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:12:53 +0000

Sounds like someone got the memo that the bubble's about to burst.

New comment by terminatornet in "AI Mode in Search gets new agentic features and expands globally"

terminatornet — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 02:02:26 +0000

Finally made the switch to DuckDuckGo a few months ago after they introduced a feature that lets you hide AI images. They still have AI features and summaries, but you can at least easily opt out.

New comment by terminatornet in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

terminatornet — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:00:12 +0000

Every blog post about AI now is something along the lines of "hmm, yeah I guess AI doesn't really replace software engineers like they said it would, but maybe it'll be better tomorrow ¯\_(ツ)_/¯"

New comment by terminatornet in "Yet Another LLM Rant"

terminatornet — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 22:25:39 +0000

> I used Typescript...it is "absolute horseshit"

That's right

New comment by terminatornet in "Gleam v1.12"

terminatornet — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 02:23:41 +0000

Counterpoint: it's actually good to be vocally against nazi bullshit

New comment by terminatornet in "Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil"

terminatornet — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 19:00:06 +0000

This seems like a very defeatist attitude.

New comment by terminatornet in "Spotify used to seem like a necessary evil for musicians. Now it just seems evil"

terminatornet — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:16:04 +0000

You can't choose where your income tax goes, you can choose not to use spotify or put your music on there.

New comment by terminatornet in "Show HN: Tinder but it's only pictures of my wife and I can only swipe right"

terminatornet — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:27:50 +0000

Very funny idea, well done!