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New comment by thousand_nights in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

thousand_nights — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:25:42 +0000

i couldn't finish "Don't Look Up", it felt like sitting through a political lecture. all i wanted from a comedy was some laughs.

New comment by thousand_nights in "Men are ditching TV for YouTube as AI usage and social media fatigue grow"

thousand_nights — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:05:01 +0000

nowhere near comparable experience if you want to seamlessly use your YT account across a TV + phone + computer

i'd rather pay the $10 than pay with my time by being an ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician

New comment by thousand_nights in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

thousand_nights — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:13:54 +0000

i don't care if someone has bad grammar, i want to hear their thoughts as they came up with them, we're all intelligent beings and can parse the meaning behind what you write.

i type my comments without capitalization like i'm typing into some terminal because i'm lazy and people might hate it but i'm sure they prefer this to if i asked an LLM to rewrite what i type

your writing style is your personality, don't let a robot take it away from you

New comment by thousand_nights in "How Much Money Jeff Bezos Made Since You Started Reading This Page"

thousand_nights — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:12:24 +0000

i'm kinda jaded because it seems the type of people that get into politics do it to gain money and power.. so voting always feels like picking the lesser of two evils

New comment by thousand_nights in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

thousand_nights — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:17:29 +0000

overblown? billions of users use consumer tier hardware just fine. i have servers at home with years of uptime without any ECC memory

New comment by thousand_nights in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

thousand_nights — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:48:03 +0000

the whole concept of a "clean room" implementation sounds completely absurd.

a bunch of people get together, rewrite something while making a pinky promise not to look at the original source code

guaranteeing the premise is basically impossible, it sounds like some legal jester dance done to entertain the already absurd existing copyright laws

New comment by thousand_nights in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

thousand_nights — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:08:32 +0000

naming something tech related without referencing crabs or lobsters challenge [impossible difficulty]

New comment by thousand_nights in "Banned in California"

thousand_nights — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:57:22 +0000

the plurality of this website are californians so this whole discourse is about as predictable as can be

New comment by thousand_nights in "Banned in California"

thousand_nights — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:38:18 +0000

lol. yeah there is but instead of "farther from the population centers" it is "farther from YOUR population centers"

New comment by thousand_nights in "Palantir Built the Data Layer That Right to Erasure Can't Touch"

thousand_nights — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:10:07 +0000

it's funny because you'd think these trillion parameter models trained on the entirety of humanity's written works would be amazing at writing, but instead all the models just converge to the same tired overly-enthusiastic phrases

New comment by thousand_nights in "How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week"

thousand_nights — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:31:26 +0000

at my job we have some 7+ year old nextjs apps that don't receive new features but still do their jobs perfectly fine, and they keep changing random shit around for no reason, we've had to waste time on multiple refactors already for major nextjs version bumps once the older ones are no longer supported

New comment by thousand_nights in "Open Letter to Google on Mandatory Developer Registration for App Distribution"

thousand_nights — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:26:52 +0000

yeah the thing is, if someone can social engineer you on the phone and make you do their bidding, you've lost no matter what

New comment by thousand_nights in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

thousand_nights — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:25:11 +0000

an obvious tell from another tech influencer and Hn will eat it up

New comment by thousand_nights in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

thousand_nights — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:59:02 +0000

fr idg this obsession with lobsters/molting/claws/shrimps it feels like i'm going insane

New comment by thousand_nights in "Async/Await on the GPU"

thousand_nights — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:16:23 +0000

> I have been experimenting with AI-assisted drafting for HN comments

forgive the hyperbole but this seems completely insane to me. like is the purpose of a forum not to share our collective human experiences? or do you get off on some internetpointmaxxing side game instead

i just don't get it, what are you optimizing for here exactly. are you trying to remove every ounce of autonomy from your life or what

New comment by thousand_nights in "A shortage of tenors"

thousand_nights — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:39:50 +0000

i think it's very hard to sing all the way up to the high C5 as a male, this doesn't surprise me at all

New comment by thousand_nights in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

thousand_nights — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:43:58 +0000

i've never had to use control + o before but with the latest changes, i give Opus a simple task that should take a few seconds and it's like "used 15k tokens" and "thinking" for three minutes with absolutely zero indication or visibility as to what it's actually doing and i have to ESC ESC it to stop and ask what the FUCK are you actually doing claude?

New comment by thousand_nights in "Claude Composer"

thousand_nights — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 01:37:05 +0000

music is a form of storytelling and expression of human emotions, i can't connect with some generated noise or go to its live gig

New comment by thousand_nights in "Bitcoin gets a zero price target in wake of Burry warning"

thousand_nights — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:37:25 +0000

after seeing the recent surge of meme stocks, 0dte option trading, sports betting, prediction markets and funny internet coins, one thing is apparent is that people just love to gamble

so i don't believe it will ever go to zero as it has intrinsic value as a casino, if nothing else

New comment by thousand_nights in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

thousand_nights — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:18:40 +0000

this is cultural appropriation, i learned to type like this on irc in the 90s

also i don't want to be mistaken for a phone poster