Hacker News: vpribish

New comment by vpribish in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

vpribish — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:43:59 +0000

good hilights! but - and i mean this kindly - you are starting to talk like an AI: "overshadowing real wins" "There's real momentum happening".

New comment by vpribish in "Coding agents could make free software matter again"

vpribish — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:59:59 +0000

right. because free software stopped mattering. what an asshole headline

New comment by vpribish in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

vpribish — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:16:56 +0000

nice

New comment by vpribish in "Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments"

vpribish — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:21:57 +0000

HAHAHA - I like me. but claude (sonnet 4.6) seemed like it was cheerleading a bit

New comment by vpribish in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

vpribish — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:58:24 +0000

and that's a faux pas, for sure

New comment by vpribish in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

vpribish — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:31:47 +0000

SNORT

New comment by vpribish in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

vpribish — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:30:28 +0000

competitive perfumed calligraphic etiquette -- of your grandfathers!

New comment by vpribish in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

vpribish — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:57:45 +0000

spotify's recommendation systems really work for me to discover new music i will enjoy, not just more music like what I already listen to

New comment by vpribish in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

vpribish — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:37:20 +0000

maybe you did, but I did not. my attention is valuable to me and I do not pay people to waste it. i had tapes, CDs, mp3s, and paid spotify. this is a well-proven market.

New comment by vpribish in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

vpribish — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:02:55 +0000

they funnelled money and attention to joe rogan. I hate them - not as much as i hate microsoft or oracle - maybe about as much as adobe. but i'm using them because i have not found an acceptable alternative ... yet.

New comment by vpribish in "Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers"

vpribish — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:55:15 +0000

IF this is happening it's gotta be a mistake. Ads on paid spotify will be the end of my subscription.

New comment by vpribish in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

vpribish — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 02:59:33 +0000

I thought he was being tactfully humorous, yous daves. And you counted that as an insult?! jesus.

New comment by vpribish in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

vpribish — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:46:06 +0000

pray tell, where do we learn this simple truth?

New comment by vpribish in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

vpribish — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 05:54:13 +0000

No popcorn? This needs popcorn

New comment by vpribish in "Someone needs to go to jail"

vpribish — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:49:05 +0000

yikes

New comment by vpribish in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"

vpribish — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:12:34 +0000

dang, we appreciate all you do. thanks

New comment by vpribish in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"

vpribish — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:10:37 +0000

This has just happened - i'm giving Ars a bit more time to come out with a piece examining the situation. They're a pretty good operation, I think. but it they don't...

New comment by vpribish in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

vpribish — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:24:46 +0000

Mostly that’s going to be noise. But in some rare occasion I could see it being useful. So my unhelpful notion is that we might need a new thing - leave the commit message as a meaning- dense human-to-human message, and also have a development process flight-recorder log stored alongside. Storage is basically free so why not?

New comment by vpribish in "First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study"

vpribish — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:08:01 +0000

Interesting - they had done surgery before, but not with stem cells. 6 babies operated on, results were very good and they are recruiting for phase 2

New comment by vpribish in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"

vpribish — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:12:13 +0000

zerohedge is absolute trash, do not look to it for information.