Hacker News: x3n0ph3n3

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Screen time can damage under-twos' development, landmark study suggests"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:51:41 +0000

Facetime calls with family. I've had to do a lot of travelling, and it's been amazing being able to see, talk to, and sing with my kid while I'm gone. He's also really close to his extended family and loves seeing them on video calls.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

x3n0ph3n3 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:32:35 +0000

I, also with an internationally unique name, am a Canadian entrepreneur and a professional rugby player.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

x3n0ph3n3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:30:51 +0000

I much prefer Cursor to Claude Code. Claude Code hides too much of what it's doing from me (can't monitor the thinking output, can't see output from in-progress commands being run.

I don't even use the IDE -- just the Agent Window interface. I also really like Composer 2.5.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

x3n0ph3n3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:13:18 +0000

We both know they wouldn't, though.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 04:06:17 +0000

I would bet they can't afford to operate them at the advertised price and this gives them a way to save face.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Show HN: Race to the Bottom"

x3n0ph3n3 — Fri, 15 May 2026 02:00:38 +0000

Yea, the last 2 are good things, not bad things.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

x3n0ph3n3 — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:02:50 +0000

I disagree -- we're clearly getting better safeguards by way of AI agents to spot potential vulnerabilities!

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "What async promised and what it delivered"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:41:45 +0000

It's baffling why concurrency is so complicated in every other language when Ruby does is so effortlessly.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Optimizing Ruby Path Methods"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 23:12:01 +0000

It's my daily language and I don't even use rails nowadays.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

x3n0ph3n3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:54:22 +0000

If you're using a native YouTube app, you've already lost the battle.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts"

x3n0ph3n3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:53:57 +0000

Never once had that problem.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

x3n0ph3n3 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:33:56 +0000

Just use uBlock origin and this filter: https://github.com/i5heu/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'"

x3n0ph3n3 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:25:28 +0000

Anyone working for a company like that should be deeply ashamed of themselves.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "An Interview with Pat Gelsinger"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:39:28 +0000

He similarly killed VMware during his tenure there. Now it's a subsidiary of Broadcom and a shell of its former self.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

x3n0ph3n3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:23:25 +0000

It's also difficult to write characters that are smarter than the writer. See how poorly TV and movie writers portray intelligent characters.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

x3n0ph3n3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:21:54 +0000

Yeah, but he also took students' PII and put it on his website. If someone did that in a bar, there's a good chance they'd get their face punched by others in the bar.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:23:53 +0000

Who is Scott Lawson and why does he have such bad ideas?

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:44:03 +0000

Yeah! I've found that learning the foundations of religions is a great way to inoculate people from worst aspects of those ideas.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"

x3n0ph3n3 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:13:50 +0000

It's a shame that calculus isn't required by every college degree. Just because I'm not integrating functions during my normal work, doesn't mean I don't benefit from understanding the fundamental principles.

New comment by x3n0ph3n3 in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

x3n0ph3n3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:21:10 +0000

I clicked on the wrong link on mobile and responded to the wrong article. Was absolutely written in the spirit of Swift, though.