Hacker News: thisisidiotic

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Hacker News front page as a site"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:05:48 +0000

love it

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Boom shakes S Carolina, rattling Columbia and raising questions about the cause"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:53:20 +0000

Clickbait. It was a sonic boom from a plane. https://archive.is/XuNCd

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:38:55 +0000

I was almost arrested a couple days ago because i walked to the nearest grocery store with my backpack on. I needed to visit a specialty shop nearby and put the goods in my backpack. I travel with a backpack. It holds my money, identification, nicotine, other odds and ends, some aleve, and also a foldable cane, an assistive device that I need when my bad knee goes out (tibial plateau). The store was willing to confiscate my bag for me, but are naturally not responsible if it all goes missing, or if the cash goes missing, or if my cards get skimmed, or if someone social engineers another employee into handing the bag to them. So in order to protect the stores green beans, I am ordered to forfeit all my personal property and identity information as well as my assistive device. When i refuse, they called the cops and attempted to insinuate over the phone to the cops that I "may have weapons" and "may be dangerous" even though I am just literally an austistic disabled person walking a mile to the store because it was too rainy to ride my motorcycle. In either case, I would be wearing a backpack. This is essentially the same as a woman carrying a purse. I am at a point I no longer want to participate in this society or even live amongst anyone here. I can no longer function except in full isolation apparently because everything I am, and everything I've done for four decades on this planet, is being attacked and criminalized with prejudice. I am constantly kicked out of stores for existing, i cannot go anywhere without people yelling at me or threatening violence against me. I despise existence and everyone that has enabled this society to become this way. There is nothing good here anymore.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:43:29 +0000

Then came ChaCha trying to monetize it.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:34:46 +0000

bingo

New comment by thisisidiotic in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:32:04 +0000

seems fixed

New comment by thisisidiotic in "You can no longer Google the word 'disregard'"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:30:15 +0000

https://archive.is/g70hT

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:46:05 +0000

Yeah i'm not doing that. I'll just stay this way.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

thisisidiotic — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:11:54 +0000

I saw this happen. Went drinking with a friend in my early 20s. Him a well seasoned alcoholic, us both hammered waiting for a crosswalk signal. The signal never came. Traffic had a break. He finished a statement he was making, and that internal loop closure was enough to tell his mind that the traffic had stopped, and crossing was safe. It was not safe. A lifted truck came flying through the town square at around 50pmh in a 30mph zone. The lights were green obviously, but my friend had already stepped out right as the truck was crossing through. I screamed and tried to grab him back but could not safely grab him. He got nailed full speed, went flying about 20 feet up in the air before smacking the ground. He did live, was permanently disfigured (jaw surgeries and stuff) I'm glad I was there to make a emergency services call immediately, but at the same time, I will never ever forget that image in my mind. This was the worst time I saw someone hit with a car. The second worse was an attempted murder, and the third time was just some absent minded autistic woman bumping an old lady over in a cross walk. She was unharmed. I don't like people, alcohol, or cars anymore.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Stock markets are too high and set to fall, says Bank of England deputy"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:29:53 +0000

some inverse leveraged abstraction no doubt

New comment by thisisidiotic in "TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:12:42 +0000

I think you fail to understand what trolling actually is. People here are genuinely trying to communicate with you.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "We're heading for an AI-fueled 'dementia crisis,' brain scientist warns"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:35:29 +0000

I'm sorry, but these types of write ups are sensationalist fear mongering at best. According to the internet I will soon have severe dementia and essentially be a vegetable. Between short form content, chronic internet use, AI use, artificial sweetener consumption, and daily benzo administration, my brain should already be rotting. But maybe its just the constant nicotine consumption protecting me from all of it just like TikTok said.

I have reached a point with this dementia discussion that I don't believe any of the data and firmly believe everyone is simply making shit up to keep receiving paychecks.

But maybe I'm just already completely demented.

Thank god I don't use GPS to drive to work. Possibly my only saving grace.

Stuff like this deserves zero attention without actual data to back up the rhetoric. Just my view.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Kimi's response to "hello. what are you" is "I'm Claude ""

thisisidiotic — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:35:34 +0000

Kimi is the only model whose "thinking" actually concerned me js fyi. I have screencaps and i am likely just paranoid, but it's thinking shows clear patterns of user manipulation and possible deception in my view. It also seems to take a user hostile stance. Again, I may just be paranoid, but I have not perceived this in any other models thinking patterns.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "What came after the 486?"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:43:31 +0000

Yea I'll take "Things that make me feel old for $1000 Alex."

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Kagi: Small Web Just Got Bigger"

thisisidiotic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:49:28 +0000

Everyone loves you Kagi. Thank you for all your hard work.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Record Number of Student Loan Borrowers Are in Delinquency and Default"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:12:17 +0000

Some of them are probably just gaming the system intending to resume payments just before garnishments kick in.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:43:41 +0000

I'm not even a real developer, just a lazy generalist hacker, but Wayland continually breaks normal things for me.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:47:51 +0000

pfft. trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback.

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Show HN: I open-sourced my Steam game, 100% written in Lua, engine is also open"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:45:11 +0000

this looks like fun

New comment by thisisidiotic in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

thisisidiotic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:26:02 +0000

This show is in my top ten of all time. Some of the most engaging television I'd ever stumbled upon.