Hacker News: thinkingemote

The Java Ring

thinkingemote — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:47:41 +0000

Article URL: https://yamad.jp/en/writings/java/ring/about.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009671

Points: 3

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New comment by thinkingemote in "The Voice of Google"

thinkingemote — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:50:43 +0000

There was no mention of this on hacker news (at least I cant find anything via the search at the bottom) but the story of Thomas Kurian's office break in / sit in was in 2024 so not that long ago: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryldympec

"Google employees arrested following protest over Israel ties at executive’s office. The employees were arrested during a sit-in at the office of Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian in California, during a day of company-wide protests by Google employees at offices across the US in protest of Google’s Project Nimbus deal with Israel"

New comment by thinkingemote in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

thinkingemote — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:50:03 +0000

Nothing remains here - only walls.

Most of these tombs have already, since ancient times, been looted and desecrated and most things inside including any human remains have long since been removed. It looks like this tomb is also in this category as all that remains of note are on the walls which cannot be easily removed.

I seem to recall a story that even at the time when they were building pyramids in ancient Egypt that they had a problem with looters of the older tombs.

Additionally: The use of the word "Sealed" in the title is not present in the text and I propose is click bait for attention and an emotional reaction. Looks like that strategy still works.

New comment by thinkingemote in "Scalable Detection of Adversarial Synthetic Slop and Coordinated Media Abuse"

thinkingemote — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:15:41 +0000

"Synthetic Slop" is a new term for me, I quite like it, more accurate than "AI Slop"

Allegedly these techniques are being used by Google on YouTube to delete slop videos.

Scalable Detection of Adversarial Synthetic Slop and Coordinated Media Abuse

thinkingemote — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 13:14:23 +0000

Article URL: https://research.google/pubs/scalable-detection-of-adversarial-synthetic-slop-and-coordinated-media-abuse-a-lora-enabled-multimodal-defense-system/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967962

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by thinkingemote in "Young adults are poor despite every metric which suggests otherwise"

thinkingemote — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 16:51:13 +0000

You might want to qualify this with start to buy a house and get a mortgage and then pay off when older than 20s-30s.

I think some people in the comments are thinking you are saying they could outright buy a house straight out of school! (Which in a way might be a symptom explained in the article!

NASA Dragonfly - a rotorcraft to explore Saturn's moon Titan

thinkingemote — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:08:20 +0000

Article URL: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/dragonfly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938057

Points: 5

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New comment by thinkingemote in "Ask HN: Add flag for AI-generated articles"

thinkingemote — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:35:51 +0000

Most articles that people want on HN are about LLMs and most of those are written by LLMs. The submissions are always horrible to read and usually have no gems to inspire, so if relevant I will at most skim it but the comments on HN about the submission is where the real jewels are likely to be.

If you can easily detect the pattern of LLM writing here's something for you to look at: I was reading some pre-consumer-LLM papers by AI researchers and founders and the way these are written are incredibly similar to existing LLM prose!

I miss post-internet art

thinkingemote — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://spectator.com/article/i-miss-post-internet-art/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872569

Points: 2

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How the Bayeux Tapestry broke the internet

thinkingemote — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:17:44 +0000

Article URL: https://spectator.com/article/how-the-bayeux-tapestry-broke-the-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48872293

Points: 3

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New comment by thinkingemote in "I think I have LLM burnout"

thinkingemote — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 07:24:18 +0000

We employees need to remember that most software projects fail. So the work we produce should have lower value than we give it.

We also need to be motivated to stay in our jobs.

Most developers like their projects and value their work. But the chances are that it's for nothing.

Many developers know they work on bad products (gambling industry, military, surveillance, whatever) and so it's here that they focus on their technologies, tools and frameworks rather than the work they produce.

"Agentic engineering" for example.

Id be curious to see what and how Googlers are doing with their 20% time.

Protecting your Supabase projects from NPM supply chain attacks

thinkingemote — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:01:48 +0000

Article URL: https://supabase.com/blog/protecting-your-supabase-projects-from-npm-supply-chain-attacks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48807431

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by thinkingemote in "Organic Maps"

thinkingemote — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:07:05 +0000

CoMaps is a fork/spin-off of Organic Maps, which in turn is a fork of Maps.ME

New comment by thinkingemote in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

thinkingemote — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:55:11 +0000

Although advocating to have less empathy generally isnt considered good there are ancient and modern schools of thought that explicitly says that empathy can be bad.

To understand the enemy is to some extent to start to love the enemy and that's bad because the enemy is bad. The idea is that you can only have empathy for certain people.

Worth also pointing out that there's also a more modern but uncommon idea that empathy towards someone or a group may weaken and shutter their own "truth" or identity stories but this is for the moment only heard in radical academia not on the street.

Generally there's also a large amount of people who don't know what "empathy" means with the ever present confusion of it with "sympathy", endorsement and alignment.

New comment by thinkingemote in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

thinkingemote — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:50:32 +0000

Agreed. It's telling that the ads for speed upgrades all seem to focus on families: when all are uploading and streaming maybe at the same time. The marketeers know that 1 individuals and couples are not the target market and 2 they want everyone to be using as much as possible.

New comment by thinkingemote in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

thinkingemote — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:25:37 +0000

I'd be interested in the rabbit hole of flow state. Also with regards to the dopamine rewards of solving a bug as motivation.

Sometimes using a LLM can assist these and sometimes it can feel like cheating myself out of a good thing and I'm not entirely sure where the borders are. It could also be related to a sense of ownership or pride in ones work and seeing the value in doing quality work.

New comment by thinkingemote in "Ask HN: Is anyone experimenting with different ways of using LLMs for coding?"

thinkingemote — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:18:42 +0000

If you like videos, I saw an interesting video yesterday about systems thinking, software as ecosystem particularly with AI. More of an overview but gives an insight into seeing where we might be able to experiment with different ways Its more focused on teams and companies than individual developers but I think it could be applied to the single dev.

"Software engineering at the tipping point" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n41YjR5QfU

Devin Desktop, Replacing Windsurf

thinkingemote — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:15:26 +0000

Article URL: https://cognition.com/blog/introducing-devin-desktop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48765351

Points: 1

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

thinkingemote — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:38:37 +0000

Godot's new contribution policy: https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

Looking Ahead to Postgres 19

thinkingemote — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:14:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engineering/postgresql-19-features-beta/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48733031

Points: 219

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