Hacker News: uncircle

New comment by uncircle in "U.S. science is in chaos"

uncircle — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:46:15 +0000

Make that $40.3 trillions.

New comment by uncircle in "Cessation of public development of Kefir C compiler"

uncircle — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:17:31 +0000

Let LLMs ingest its own output, everything past 2022 will be increasingly hallucinatory self-regurgitation.

New comment by uncircle in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:57:58 +0000

All news companies are smiling. “Great! 6 more months of content!”

New comment by uncircle in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:55:43 +0000

Panem et circenses, am I right? The American population is so cooked, but hey, at least they’re having fun!

New comment by uncircle in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:09:01 +0000

I'm mostly thinking about video games. The problem is systemic. It's simply less risky to remake than to create a new IP

New comment by uncircle in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:26:54 +0000

Entertainment companies have unlocked the infinite money glitch with remakes; not only companies but also people are afraid of trying something new, so why not profit from nostalgia.

I called it years ago, but I didn’t expect how people would love to play the same story and watch the same movie over and over again. Incidentally they will be also easier to AI generate, as part of their existing data set. It truly is the end game for our stale and uninspired culture.

I missed Breath of the Wild, I’ll play it on the Switch 4 remake in a couple of years.

/rant

New comment by uncircle in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:16:03 +0000

I guess not, and I feel dirty now. I'm logging off for the day.

New comment by uncircle in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:09:21 +0000

Statistically speaking, does extremely unlikely mean impossible? If it were replicable I'd raise my eyebrow, otherwise it's fair game, no?

As someone that enjoys the unterminable complaints about RNG in the video game scene, I would never trust any human's rationalization of random outcomes.

New comment by uncircle in "Utah data center: Projected daily heat equivalent to 23 atomic bombs"

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:15:48 +0000

Americans love their measurements in football stadium lengths or bananas, but they do not apply very well to thermal units.

Also what is a ‘standard atomic bomb’? Presumably one kept in a vault at the American National Standards Institute for reference.

New comment by uncircle in "Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered"

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:01:36 +0000

Dude, you should know on here the answer the every question, including the meaning of life, these days is AI.

New comment by uncircle in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

uncircle — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:46:21 +0000

Some of these are unintentionally as witty as Mark Twain’s

New comment by uncircle in "Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI"

uncircle — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:20:29 +0000

Slop

New comment by uncircle in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

uncircle — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:14:23 +0000

So any criticism of one of the richest family in history is inherently racist?

That’s exactly what you’re saying in response to nothing more than a quote.

New comment by uncircle in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

uncircle — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:05:35 +0000

They are so far removed from the process they can claim they are any % more productive and no one is able to contradict them. Call it a ‘productivity theatre’

The economic reality check is going to be devastating. It won’t be a crash of AI as a tech, it will be a crash of every ‘AI native’ company that does not even know what is their product any more.

New comment by uncircle in "Companies Will Stop Making Software"

uncircle — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:15:49 +0000

Haven't you heard? Shoe companies are pivoting to AI

New comment by uncircle in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

uncircle — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:00:55 +0000

I requested a refund of Cyberpunk 2077 after 3 hours (and the second time I refunded the same game - I still didn't like it) and I got it no questions asked.

New comment by uncircle in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

uncircle — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:59:42 +0000

He has three, that's a good redundancy plan.

New comment by uncircle in "Write some software, give it away for free"

uncircle — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:15:33 +0000

I agree. Free Software is a good idea in concept, but it is the foremost reason there exist billion dollar tech monopolies today built on the free work of idealists worldwide.

In the age of LLMs and entitled users, I must be selfish and cannot release my work as free software any more. The best of all worlds, for me, is to provide source code along with binaries to paying customers.

New comment by uncircle in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

uncircle — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:55:28 +0000

It is too AI generated, and pop music was formulaic. A common trope doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

New comment by uncircle in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

uncircle — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:20:07 +0000

It’s all mostly American tech blogs. I mean, it’s a nice initiative, but it’s less diverse than Hacker News.