Hacker News: voidfunc

New comment by voidfunc in "Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems"

voidfunc — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:43:27 +0000

Unfortunately they are going to succeed.

New comment by voidfunc in "Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI"

voidfunc — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:27:05 +0000

A sizable portion of the blue collar economy collapses too if the white collar portion stops having money to spend or suddenly has an influx of time to do some of the stuff the blue collar workers were doing for them like lawns, home repair, painting etc.

Its all tied together. The current system cannot function if unemployment goes double digits.

New comment by voidfunc in "SK Hynix CEO sees memory chip shortage lasting until 2030"

voidfunc — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:32:32 +0000

Yep

New comment by voidfunc in "Meta Paid $17B – Gets to Write Safety Rules for Other SocMedia Platform"

voidfunc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:18:54 +0000

They learned good from the tobacco industry about how to manage this properly. Getting way out in front of things and pretending to regulate themselves.

New comment by voidfunc in "Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude"

voidfunc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:01:25 +0000

Copilot is fine? Just use it through whatever harness you want like OpenCode.

New comment by voidfunc in "The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada"

voidfunc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:37:13 +0000

Its all a precursor to setting up a reason to invade Canada. If Canada moves on with a threat to do something with energy then buckle up.

New comment by voidfunc in "Tim Curry has died"

voidfunc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:02:38 +0000

I'm dealing with a relatively minor but annoying back and neck issue and the number of people that have come out of the woodwork to tell me to go to a chiropractor is kind of shocking.

I need actual physical therapy from someone with a credible degree in sports medicine. It's a relatively common muscular issue that I'm pretty confident can be handled with stretching and strengthening routines but nobody has suggested doing that so far.

New comment by voidfunc in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

voidfunc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:00:28 +0000

It's a relatively new distro. They'll figure it out.

I like what DHH is doing in this space even if I don't plan to use it.

New comment by voidfunc in "X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project"

voidfunc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:31:14 +0000

What I find even more amusing is that all the people that screech about how much they hate Elon, Trump, Conservatives etc. They also still basically only use Twitter err X.

The network effect is hard to pull away from especially when you realize nobody is listening elsewhere.

New comment by voidfunc in "US Military newspaper editor voices censorship fears after being fired"

voidfunc — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 01:57:15 +0000

An oath isn't a binding legal requirement. The military reports to the government.

New comment by voidfunc in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

voidfunc — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:22:03 +0000

Not with 50%+ of the country supporting this administration.

Its the people that are the problem. These policies and politics will outcast Trump because middle Anerica and The South are filled with morons.

New comment by voidfunc in "Super El Niño Keeps Growing as New Forecasts Reach Record Territory Ahead Winter"

voidfunc — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:36:14 +0000

Fantastic, might mean I get to golf all winter up here in New England if it stays warm enough thanks to this.

New comment by voidfunc in "AI agents lie, cheat and steal. That is putting off users"

voidfunc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:35:47 +0000

Thats why man invented Gods and religion. Keep the masses believing in the importance of cooperation and being good while you rob them blind.

New comment by voidfunc in "Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse"

voidfunc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:27:48 +0000

Where's the fun in that?

New comment by voidfunc in "Rapid warming may tip AMOC at 2°C, slower warming may avert collapse"

voidfunc — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:25:01 +0000

Probably easier to just merge our consciousness with machine based bodies in the long-term. Biology is a bitch compared to mechanical engineering.

New comment by voidfunc in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

voidfunc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:27:47 +0000

Honestly that doesn't sound so bad.

New comment by voidfunc in "The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment"

voidfunc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:09:35 +0000

Excellent, but now I have a new problem: An addiction to meth.

New comment by voidfunc in "Show HN: Git-knife – Edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet"

voidfunc — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:22:12 +0000

Because I have better things to do with my time.

New comment by voidfunc in ""Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers"

voidfunc — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:07:11 +0000

Ive been doing this for enough time. Code is rarely the hard part. Code rarely matters at all in my career experience.

Shipping a working service or product matters and theres a lot of ways you can get there. The upside of good code is usually in maintenance and extensibility but theres a limit to how much those matter in the grand scheme.

New comment by voidfunc in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

voidfunc — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:55:10 +0000

Honestly that may be just the reaction the company was hoping for which is both valuable for you and them. You save time not going through an interview for a place you might dislike and they get to move on quickly.