Hacker News: weedfroglozenge

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Understanding ChatGPT Work"

weedfroglozenge — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:52:18 +0000

I mean he is kind of speaking truth. Anything Simon posts seems to get upvoted and this article is nothing special or interesting. It's like a tutorial for a feature of a ChatGPT subscription.... Cool.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America"

weedfroglozenge — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:59:00 +0000

If I'm swimming in Lake America, in America, greatest country in the world, I don't want to hear this "Je ne sais quoi" - Keep it in American, buddy.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Don't Wordle"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:39:12 +0000

This game got surprisingly big for what once was an LLM prompt "Create an opposite version of wordle and throw AdSense on it"

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Claude Is Down?"

weedfroglozenge — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:25:33 +0000

Now let's see how the programmers of today function without someone holding their hand!!! xD

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Ask HN: My dev blog has 11k followers. I stopped writing it. What would you do?"

weedfroglozenge — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:58:22 +0000

OP is posting to receive offers :(

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

weedfroglozenge — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:41:31 +0000

I can tell you're not on a 4k monitor then.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

weedfroglozenge — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:33:44 +0000

The self importance this author has is sickening. No wonder he's chronically talking to chatbots.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

weedfroglozenge — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:50:09 +0000

If you think you need your alarm clock to be accurate down to the subsecond, you need to talk to someone about your anxiety.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:42:37 +0000

Honestly? About time.

This will help subsidise the cost of tokens leading to a cheaper experience for me (a consumer). Adblockers will come out for those in the know, and ChatGPT are not blending the advertisements WITH the answers.

Anybody getting angry by this clearly has never been in business because this is just par for the course.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Show HN: 18 Words"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:07:52 +0000

If unscrambling 6 letters is causing you stress..... word games might not be for you.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:41:00 +0000

I am an employee. I'm also an employee who wouldn't mind if all my key strokes were logged, my movements around the building tracked, and any work calls taken recorded.

When I'm at work, I'm working.

The above type of monitoring would really highlight those of you conducting "wage theft". And you're all getting angry at it. I don't understand. If you focus on work during your work hours, you have nothing to hide.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:39:00 +0000

Ok but that doesn't change what I said. Whether you work 1 hour that day, or 10, the hours you are giving to the business i.e what they are paying for - You need to be working.

If you're concerned about monitoring during your paid hours perhaps you should focus on being more productive during this time?

I don't think what I am saying is controversial but a lot of people seem to disagree with this

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:37:48 +0000

How?

If you're seriously concerned about the monitoring, what are you doing the company wouldn't approve of?

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:10:17 +0000

Perhaps the research is wrong though because our way of thinking has been "slow, controlled, non intensive".

Now that technology CAN give us content at faster speeds, isn't it better for the brains to change to adapt to the short form cycles? Otherwise you'll be left behind stuck on topic one when the new generation have absorbed 1, 2, 3, 4. etc.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:21:24 +0000

Are we surprised?

Books were entertainment when that's all the world offered. Now whenever reading gets mentioned online, it's a "smarter way" to consume entertainment. Readers always give off a smug aura.

Technology has come along and with that visuals, audio, engagement.

The Tiktok Algorithm is this generation's Shakespeare. This isn't a bad thing.

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Opera's browser is now available with chess baked in"

weedfroglozenge — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:53:37 +0000

Makes it easier to have an engine open behind :(

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Rekt.network"

weedfroglozenge — Wed, 17 May 2023 07:23:02 +0000

I really enjoy Soma.FM which has a wider range of genres. The cult classic is "Groove Salad"

Edit: There's also the free-with-ads, or paid subscription option, of digitally imported (Di.FM)

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "I found the best anagram in English (2017)"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 05 May 2023 07:43:44 +0000

One of the longest anagrams I know that doesn't involve obscure medical words is "astronomers" and "moon starers." Both of these phrases contain the same letters but in a different order, making them anagrams of each other. This anagram contains 11 letters and is quite interesting, as both phrases relate to looking up at the night sky and studying celestial bodies.

ChatGPT

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "Shutting down my legal torrent site after 17 years"

weedfroglozenge — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 01:13:42 +0000

I really like your writing style. The end of an era for you - Wishing you all the best

New comment by weedfroglozenge in "An unwinnable seed of Slay the Spire"

weedfroglozenge — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 05:07:33 +0000

Every round I start in StS is unwinnable :(