Hacker News: theossuary

New comment by theossuary in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

theossuary — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:08:37 +0000

No, it was driving towards a cliff and deciding to jump out of the car instead of pressing the breaks. If you're costing at work, worried about being laid off some day, the last thing you do is just quit; you job hunt and try to change habits. Pretending like we have to feel immense pain to strengthen the economy is the quasi moralistic reasoning of a moron

New comment by theossuary in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

theossuary — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:56:43 +0000

Yes, there's every reason to believe the market will weed out the AI slop. The problem is, just like with stocks, the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. While we all wait for executives to learn that code rigor matters, we still have bills to pay. After a year when they start trying to hire people to clean up their mess, we'll be the ones having to shovel a whole new level of shit; and the choice will be between that and starving.

As someone who also falls into camp one, and absolutely loves that we have thinking computers now, I can also recognize that we're angling towards a world of hurt over the next few years while a bunch of people in power have to learn hard lessons we'll all suffer for.

New comment by theossuary in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

theossuary — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:55:50 +0000

Both sides aren't fighting each other, one side has turned themselves into a weapon for rich pedophiles to attack the other side with.

New comment by theossuary in "DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email"

theossuary — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:54:05 +0000

It's honestly incredible to me that there are people who truly believe these two things are comparable:

> Mr. Dernbach, don’t play Russian roulette with H’s life

Verses posting images of an arsenal, writing they need to buy guns for the upcoming election, and also:

> The time is right for a presidential assassination or two. First Joe then Kamala!!!

One is clearly threatening murder towards public officials and showing themselves taking steps to enact their plan. The other is a concerned citizen exercising their first amendment right. I have to believe the people saying these are the same are bots, because the alternative is just so pathetic.

New comment by theossuary in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

theossuary — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:14:14 +0000

Using your 1st, 2nd, and 4th amendment rights is considered civil disobedience at this point; keep up.

New comment by theossuary in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

theossuary — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:59:40 +0000

I don't know how you think this is worse than Renee Good's murder. She was shot in the temple through the driver side window while being directed by an Ice agent to drive away. She was then denied medical care at the scene, and local police were denied access to investigate while the shooter was shepherded out of state as quickly as possible

New comment by theossuary in "Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning"

theossuary — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:56:48 +0000

That's murder if so, not unfortunate

New comment by theossuary in "ICE's interest in high-tech gear raises new questions: 'What is it for?'"

theossuary — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:26:58 +0000

That's the neat trick, they won't! They'll always define a class of "illegals" to hunt, their job depends on it

New comment by theossuary in "Programming languages used for music"

theossuary — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:40:08 +0000

This is one of my all-time favorite YouTube videos, and it's of her coding music - https://youtu.be/iu5rnQkfO6M

New comment by theossuary in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

theossuary — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:00:54 +0000

I really wish these agentic systems had built in support for spinning up containers with a work tree of the repo. Then you could have multiple environments and a lot more safety.

I'm also surprised at the move to just using shell commands. I'd think an equally general purpose tool with a more explicit API could make checking permissions on calls a lot more sensible.

New comment by theossuary in "Mesh2Motion – Open-source web application to animate 3D models"

theossuary — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:57:53 +0000

No, use sketchup

New comment by theossuary in "SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem"

theossuary — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:36:57 +0000

Why tf does an electric vehicle need 500m+ lines of code

New comment by theossuary in "Ask HN: What are people doing to get off of VMware?"

theossuary — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:09:03 +0000

I don't think Proxmox is anywhere near ready for that sort of shift. It's interesting what a big hole in the market VMWare is leaving and nothing quite fills it. OpenStack is the closest, but way more complicated than VMWare, and doesn't work at all for smaller deployments.

New comment by theossuary in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

theossuary — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:41:50 +0000

It should be a matter of right. My parents mutilated me as a child because they denied me healthcare. We should not allow parents to deny their children healthcare which leads to their permanent disfiguration. That's disgusting.

If you think it'd be wrong to force a cis kid to be trans, then it's also wrong to force a trans kid to be cis.

New comment by theossuary in "Flock's gunshot detection microphones will start listening for human voices"

theossuary — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 17:25:56 +0000

And this guy is going to own TikTok through a deal with Trump, he's literally going to be the thought police

New comment by theossuary in "EPA tells some scientists to stop publishing studies"

theossuary — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:25:59 +0000

They've said it explicitly, this is a bloodless coup (so long as Democrats allow it). They see themselves as destroying America and creating their own country with completely different rights and laws, and they're well on their way.

New comment by theossuary in "The death of east London's most radical bookshop"

theossuary — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:27:58 +0000

More like a nice way of saying fascist

New comment by theossuary in "Man still alive six months after pig kidney transplant"

theossuary — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 02:40:45 +0000

If you include things directly related to, but not classified as defense spending, like veterans benefits, VA, and the cost of foreign bases; the military is about ~20% of the total US budget.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET-2025-PER/pdf/BUDG...

New comment by theossuary in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

theossuary — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:46:57 +0000

Republicans started cancel culture. It really gained steam in 2001 when they cancelled the Dixie Chicks for being anti-war (turns out they were right). So I guess you're right, the left adopted it after realizing they'd lose if they didn't use such an effective weapon against fascists.

New comment by theossuary in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

theossuary — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:27:44 +0000

It's actually been showed many times that deplatforming significantly reduces the number of followers an influencer has. Many watch out of habit or convenience, but won't follow when they move to a platform with less moderation.