Hacker News: the_hoser

New comment by the_hoser in "Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions"

the_hoser — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:44:54 +0000

The policy isn't necessary to close the PR. The policy just helps to shut down the ensuing discussion after closing the PR. It helps in quickly dealing with well-meaning onlookers asking for clarification when you block PRs from the account.

New comment by the_hoser in "Ask HN: Why SF? Why not India? UK? Or anywhere else?"

the_hoser — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:38:35 +0000

I have a long-standing theory that the most significant factor is the weather.

New comment by the_hoser in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"

the_hoser — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:26:20 +0000

Blame Perl. As far as I can tell, they started it.

New comment by the_hoser in "What will enshittification of LLMs look like?"

the_hoser — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:29:50 +0000

You're already the product. They're just looking for the buyers.

New comment by the_hoser in "Ask HN: Why LLM Is Lying?"

the_hoser — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:11:03 +0000

An LLM cannot lie to you. Lying would imply that it somehow knows the truth, and chooses to tell you something other than the truth. The LLM doesn't know anything. It's just providing you with answer-shaped responses.

New comment by the_hoser in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

the_hoser — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:05:03 +0000

For those of us that have been using Linux for a long time (since 1999, here), the improvements have been incremental, and hard to spot over time. But sometimes I encounter something and it just blows my mind how good desktop Linux has become.

I just bought a laptop that came with Fedora installed. This isn't anything new, but what really blew me away is that everything... just worked. No tinkering. No alternative modules built from source (hopefully with a good DKMS script). Everything... just worked. I'd blocked out a few hours to get everything working in a satisfactory state and... I had nothing to do, really.

And when I say everything I mean EVERYTHING, not just the features that were significant to my own use cases. Mind-blowing, if you think about it.

New comment by the_hoser in "Windows 11 surges among PC gamers on Steam as Linux stalls"

the_hoser — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:00:57 +0000

NVIDIA is more than happy to forget about gaming.

New comment by the_hoser in "Linux is good now"

the_hoser — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:58:17 +0000

That would require that they actually make the effort to develop Linux support. The current "it just works" reality is that the games developers don't need to support running on Linux.

New comment by the_hoser in "Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition"

the_hoser — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:53:37 +0000

One of the biggest optimizations it offers is shrinking the size of the classes by obfuscating the names. If you're obfuscating the names anyway, there's no reason that the names have to be the same length.

"hn$z" is a heck of a lot smaller than "tld.organization.product.domain.concern.ClassName"

New comment by the_hoser in "DDG puts a little "L" hat on it's logo if you search Luigi"

the_hoser — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:30:47 +0000

And it puts a red "M" hat on if you search for Mario.

New comment by the_hoser in "Golden Age of Web Design"

the_hoser — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:50:19 +0000

An art lost to the ages. Granted, their purposes were so different than they are today. Most of them would be replaced by a social media presence today.

New comment by the_hoser in "Ask HN: Why has the meta portal never been jailbroken?"

the_hoser — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 12:29:10 +0000

It's probably that nobody with the ability to pull it off really cares enough to try. Lots of obscure devices never get jailbroken.

New comment by the_hoser in "Lighter, Cheaper Vision Air Coming in 2027"

the_hoser — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:31:27 +0000

The problem is that in order to attract developers to create those apps, you need users ready to buy those apps. The price of the Vision Pro is still the ultimate limiting factor for its success.

New comment by the_hoser in "[dead]"

the_hoser — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 14:03:21 +0000

That's a whole lot of airtime for an autobiography. Hubris, much?

New comment by the_hoser in "Ask HN: Do you think society will collapse within 10 years?"

the_hoser — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:09:02 +0000

New comment by the_hoser in "IRS head says free Direct File tax service is 'gone'"

the_hoser — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:49:08 +0000

You presume that the people in charge have the best interests of the government in mind when they make their decisions.

New comment by the_hoser in "Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption"

the_hoser — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:46:17 +0000

This is it 100%. Zuckerberg and Musk aren't doing anything more awful than Page or Brin, but they're smart enough to understand that it's WAY easier to get away with sketchy stuff when you're not someone that the average person knows about. There's a huge amount of value in keeping your mouth shut.

New comment by the_hoser in "Ask HN: Is Google Evil Now?"

the_hoser — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:53:03 +0000

Now?

New comment by the_hoser in "Show HN: Flux, a mid-level systems OOP language"

the_hoser — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 18:43:21 +0000

    (void)this.ptr;  // Explicit deallocation, very readable

Except it's not very readable? That appears to be the same syntax used for casting.

New comment by the_hoser in "Palmer Luckey considering entering laptop market with US-made model"

the_hoser — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:58:37 +0000

Not likely. In the PCMAG article, they stated that he said that he'd rather someone else do it.