Hacker News: ura_yukimitsu

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Laptop Based on 6502 CPU"

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 08:52:31 +0000

The goal of that machine is clearly not performance, she's probably just using a chip she's fond of

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Grace Hopper Celebration Cancelled"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:45:40 +0000

Can you please say what exactly you're implying here and what that has to do with the situation AnitaB is in?

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs"

ura_yukimitsu — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:56:16 +0000

Human builds a bomb and places it in a crowded place. Do you deal with the bomb or the human first?

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "When did Google get so weird?"

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 09:05:34 +0000

If you manually select the language instead of using the "Detect language" thing, you can use the old google translate model by clicking on "advanced" at the bottom

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "When did Google get so weird?"

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:53:21 +0000

In that case, why can you expand the AI overview and get a text box to reply to it? I'm sure Google could easily figure out how to filter what queries should trigger the AI overview or not, so if this is still there then I can only assume it's a conscious choice.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it"

ura_yukimitsu — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:03:54 +0000

I've seen dolls' tea parties that were absolutely violent when I was a kid, with the dolls ending up insulting each other and/or fighting.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Google Maps Showing 'Lake America' in U.S."

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:23:37 +0000

OpenStreetMap keeps a collection of tags for each node, including "official names," so in that sense it does include records of these arbitrary renamings, but there are rules about naming things and to solve disputes/edit wars[1] (most commonly, the "on the ground" rule that reflects real world usage[2]). For example, see the Gulf of Mexico node[3], its wiki page[4], and the discussion following the executive order to rename it[5].

[1]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputes

[2]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#Map_what's...

[3]: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/305639190/history/143

[4]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico

[5]: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-america-gulf-o...

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Google Maps Showing 'Lake America' in U.S."

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:03:30 +0000

I agree that HN is not the place for that, but on the other hand a lot of his policies have very real effects on a lot of people, so not everyone can afford to ignore him. And while this one policy doesn't really impact anyone, it does serve to prove to the rest of the world how self-centered he is.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "A CVE Dispute"

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:45:15 +0000

I don't see how that correlates, and that's already pretty much what they do anyway. The reporter's issue wasn't that it didn't get fixed (it did), but that it wasn't given a CVE.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ura_yukimitsu — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:29:21 +0000

Why do people "break the law" to come to the US, and how do their coming affect you negatively? And again, H1-B is not an immigrant visa, I don't see why you're talking about it here.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ura_yukimitsu — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:53:19 +0000

I don't see how any of this is reasonable. I've heard people say stuff like "I'm not against immigration but they should come through legal means," so how does preventing people from accessing those legal means help anyone? For a country that was built on immigration that seems awfully anti-American.

Wouldn't it make more sense to make the legal process shorter and less unnecessarily bureaucratic so that people are less likely to come in the country undocumented?

Furthermore, the whole "immigrants are stealing our jobs" talking point seems to be built on a lot of false pretenses (and anectodtal evidence is not good evidence), not to mention this is about immigrant visas, which the H1-B is not.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:46:54 +0000

I obviously don't know about that person's mom, but a lot of hosting platforms and blog providers will do that for you if you don't want to do it yourself.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Berd"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:43:37 +0000

I know my office computer isn't very powerful, but holy lag batman! I get between 1 and 10 FPS on that website.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

ura_yukimitsu — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:21:25 +0000

Using the website means the photos are backed up in the cloud which is precisely what they don't want. And in the first place, you shouldn't have to use an ad blocker to turn off something that you should be able to turn off with a setting.

Also huge disagree on websites having better UX than native apps; it may be true more often on PC, and it may also be true on mobile for some apps that are particularly bad, but otherwise I observe the exact opposite of what you're saying.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Show HN: I made a game where you build a CPU from logic gates"

ura_yukimitsu — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:34:56 +0000

That's a cool idea for a game, but the UX feels quite unintuitive and unpolished to me which discouraged me from playing past the first couple of levels. A few suggestions, if I may:

- You should be able to drag/drop elements from the sidebar onto the canvas

- Wiring shouldn't be a separate tool, and you should be able to drag/drop wires instead of having to click on the two endpoints separately

- You should be able to delete the currently selected gate with the delete key, and the "delete" button in the toolbar should delete the currently selected gate instead of it being a separate tool

- There's not enough contrast between the grid pattern and the background of the canvas

- There seems to be some problems with moving overlapping components

- There's no way to move around the canvas

- The progress doesn't seem to save and there's no way to skip levels

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Teacher Arrested for Clapping in Support of Anti-Data Center Activists"

ura_yukimitsu — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:47:09 +0000

Offloading your own healthcare to a LLM is a thing, forcing that decision onto a child is another altogether. I really hope your child never has serious health issues...

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:07:04 +0000

I'd like to point out the irony of that blog post checking all the boxes of LLM-generated text, and I'm surprised I don't really see anyone talking about it here. Did Tim Ferriss (who's supposed to be an author) use a LLM to write this? If he actually writes like that, perhaps the reason why his sales have gone downhill is that people have noticed they don't need to pay to get the same result.

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Work"

ura_yukimitsu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:13:26 +0000

Archived at https://archive.is/DY9F3

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

ura_yukimitsu — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:14:03 +0000

Calling LLMs "bullshit machines" is a reference to a 2024 paper [1] which itself uses the concept of "bullshit" as defined in the essay/book "On Bullshit" by Harry G. Frankfurt [2]. The TL;DR is that LLMs are fundamentally bullshit machines because they are only made to generate sentences that sound plausible, but plausible does not always mean true.

[1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit

New comment by ura_yukimitsu in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

ura_yukimitsu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:24:35 +0000

> It was essentially trained by us to be like us, it's partly human

I disagree with that, at best it's a digital skinwalker. I think projecting human intentions and emotions onto a computer program is delusional and dangerous.