Hacker News: x86x87

New comment by x86x87 in "US closely monitoring case of lab worker who possibly died of plague in Siberia"

x86x87 — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:29:52 +0000

the same US that gives zero fraks about public health and gutted the CDC before and during the pandemic?

New comment by x86x87 in "Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was Unconstitutional"

x86x87 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:03:31 +0000

lol. this is not for catching drug smugglers. that's the bs that is fed to the general public. it's mass surveillance. plain and simple

New comment by x86x87 in "Apple Pass Designer"

x86x87 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:57:35 +0000

going to pass on this one

New comment by x86x87 in "Claude Opus 5.5"

x86x87 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:48:58 +0000

is the frontier load bearing?

New comment by x86x87 in "We Must Return to the Office to Use AI in Person"

x86x87 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:26:49 +0000

it could given enough slop doulas

New comment by x86x87 in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

x86x87 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:12:02 +0000

so basically NTP!

New comment by x86x87 in "I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated"

x86x87 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:08:56 +0000

+/- 1 minute for month? holy smokes. does not qualify as self setting.

New comment by x86x87 in "Miami, your Waymo ride is ready"

x86x87 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:38:22 +0000

not having to talk to the driver and picking my own music are my fav parts. the novelty wears off quick and it becomes normal

New comment by x86x87 in "30 Year Anniversary of WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness"

x86x87 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:57:03 +0000

Bloodlust on a control of ogres? anyone? anyone? this was nearly unstoppable.

New comment by x86x87 in "Why aren't smart people happier?"

x86x87 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 04:46:09 +0000

Pleasure and happiness aren't the same thing, but most people chase pleasure while calling it happiness. Pleasure is the quick hit—good food, sex, scrolling your phone—it feels great but fades fast. Happiness is something else entirely, and what it means changes drastically depending on how smart you are. Less intelligent people tend to equate happiness with basic pleasures and getting their needs met. Average intelligence ties it to status, money, keeping up with others. But higher intelligence complicates everything: some people find meaning in ideas, creativity, or purpose; others overthink themselves into misery, seeing through all the goals that used to motivate them. Intelligence gives you better tools to understand happiness but can also strip away the simple certainties that make it easier to actually feel happy. You gain clarity but lose the blissful ignorance that makes chasing straightforward goals satisfying.

New comment by x86x87 in "Developing our position on AI"

x86x87 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 02:12:03 +0000

viewing it as an assistant is the way to go. it's there to help you - like an overpowered autocomplete - but not there to think for you.

New comment by x86x87 in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

x86x87 — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 02:35:25 +0000

that was a joke regarding bitcoin not Argentina. also: congrats for jumping to the worst possible interpretation

New comment by x86x87 in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

x86x87 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:33:13 +0000

I hear AI data centers are consuming more power than the entire country of Argentina /s

But I don't hear anyone worried about the massive power consumption without a clear indication if this is a net positive for our society.

New comment by x86x87 in "Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know"

x86x87 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:28:14 +0000

it's almost like they don't want tourists.

New comment by x86x87 in "“Normal” engineers are the key to great teams"

x86x87 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:02:16 +0000

hah. i'm sorry but this is extremely naive. projects don't succeed of fail solely on the technical chops of the engineers. it's a whole "ecosystem" that has to work and most projects I've seen failing are due to politics/bikeshedding at upper management level.

New comment by x86x87 in "My 16-month theanine self-experiment"

x86x87 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:02:17 +0000

there is more in coffee than caffeine? maybe another substance?

New comment by x86x87 in "The Tsunami of Burnout Few See"

x86x87 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:25:19 +0000

financially better? source?

New comment by x86x87 in "Ask HN: What Motivates you to keep going?"

x86x87 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 05:41:20 +0000

I like living indoors and eating slightly more than I hate my job.

New comment by x86x87 in "The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby"

x86x87 — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 16:26:13 +0000

RUBY_THREAD_VM_STACK_SIZE for Ruby

New comment by x86x87 in "Waymo One is now open to all in Los Angeles"

x86x87 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:22:16 +0000

so tesla works everywhere except where it doesn't work?