Hacker News: thunderfork

New comment by thunderfork in "The tragedy of the commons, AI edition"

thunderfork — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:58:13 +0000

I think there's a distinction to be made between "a nuisance complaint" and "a legitimate complaint whose presumptive odds of succeeding in court are less than guaranteed"

New comment by thunderfork in "Everything you do is being recorded"

thunderfork — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:29:29 +0000

"if you are in the air and not descending, you can just not care about gravity"

New comment by thunderfork in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

thunderfork — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:37:26 +0000

The dream of a vaccine or cure is all well and good, but when my grandfather has Alzheimer's today and there's no properly functioning social supports, processes, etc to get him into a home and it takes months and months of phone calls and panicked searches when he wanders off to improve the situation at all, I think maybe there really is a dearth of "caring about the problem and not just the solution"

New comment by thunderfork in "Memory safety absolutists"

thunderfork — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:16:07 +0000

>What have you added to the conversation? Nothing.

This doesn't strike me as particularly constructive discourse

New comment by thunderfork in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

thunderfork — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:24:38 +0000

Apparently not

New comment by thunderfork in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

thunderfork — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:59:56 +0000

>civil war in the US

Between which parties, exactly..?

New comment by thunderfork in "The Reddit Problem – How a Reddit Alternative Was Banned from RedditAlternatives"

thunderfork — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:36:44 +0000

It seems like you want a different website than Reddit

New comment by thunderfork in "Designing emoji for the way we communicate today"

thunderfork — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:19:39 +0000

I believe you're referring to emotions, which are a separate and distinct concept/term

New comment by thunderfork in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

thunderfork — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:44:32 +0000

Everyone rushing to get these consolidations done before America starts having anti-trust law again, huh?

New comment by thunderfork in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

thunderfork — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:28:06 +0000

From the article text of its conclusion:

"the EcoHealth funding was not related to the experiments, but the collection of samples."

Pretty cut and dry?

New comment by thunderfork in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

thunderfork — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:22:16 +0000

I feel like "having enough useful context to be jumping in and answering the question in question" and "needing an LLM to shave off 25 minutes of writing on the subject" feel like they're incompatible premises.

I would prefer you give me whatever part of your answer takes you five minutes and then I can work from there on my end, in the method and with the tools I see fit. In other words - give me the prompt.

Totally possible I'm misunderstanding the situation you're presenting, though.

New comment by thunderfork in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

thunderfork — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:53:00 +0000

Going over the patch notes, here's some buffs you might have missed:

Mandatory parking minimums, high speed limits, car lanes without bus lanes or bike lanes, tearing down neighborhoods to build interchanges and highways...

New comment by thunderfork in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

thunderfork — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:46:45 +0000

And yet, 100% of states, successful and unsuccessful, use violence for various purposes

New comment by thunderfork in "DOGE is done. What happened to its records?"

thunderfork — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:42:50 +0000

>NIH funded gain-of-function research into coronaviruses in Wuhan

Even this assertion is heavily, heavily disputed:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210706065130/https://www.washi...

New comment by thunderfork in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

thunderfork — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:49:12 +0000

They'll send you to collections, probably.

New comment by thunderfork in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

thunderfork — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:19:54 +0000

Sometimes you have to nerf something because it's been buffed too many times, beyond what's sustainable or reasonable

New comment by thunderfork in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

thunderfork — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:30:20 +0000

I have complex feelings about this subject, but if you can't stop yourself from leaning on "absolute freedom is the only correct option", you're going to have to make sure you're not making the mistake of thinking "absolute freedom" is "some specific balance of freedoms and constraints"

New comment by thunderfork in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

thunderfork — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:39:33 +0000

People in jail/prison, for example, would not have the opportunity to access an account even if they wanted to keep it

New comment by thunderfork in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

thunderfork — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:46:19 +0000

My tools will catch string matches in docs, but if you're using reflection or etc where it's "too weird" for tools I can see it being useful there, yeah.

New comment by thunderfork in "You're Not a Better Engineer Because You Type Git Commands by Hand"

thunderfork — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:36:45 +0000

Picking on a particular nit here, but I think it is indicative of the broader flaw with this argument:

To rename `PostgreSQLClient`, I press F2 and type the new name, and I'm done.

I don't have to wait for an agent to "perform the refactor, update references, run the tests, fix the missing pieces, and mark the relevant checkboxes in the ticket" (btw, what checkboxes..?)

I press a key, type my change, and I'm done.

Wasting time waiting for tokens is also wasting time.