Hacker News: xigoi

New comment by xigoi in "Now is the best time to write code by hand"

xigoi — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:45:16 +0000

They meant to say that swithing from assembly to high-level programming is not the same as switching from high-level programming to LLMs, because the latter loses you the guarantee that the computer will do what you told it to.

New comment by xigoi in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

xigoi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:17:14 +0000

Sure, but that’s not what miners care about. The power needed to get a given amount of money doubles whenever the reward is halved.

New comment by xigoi in "Bitcoin miners are losing on every coin produced as difficulty drops"

xigoi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:33:50 +0000

Doesn’t that contradict the Wikipedia article?

> Miners who successfully create a new block with a valid nonce can collect transaction fees from the included transactions and a fixed reward in bitcoins. To claim this reward, a special transaction called a coinbase is included in the block, with the miner as the payee. All bitcoins in existence have been created through this type of transaction. This reward is halved every 210,000 blocks until ₿21 million have been issued in total, which is expected to occur around the year 2140. Afterward, miners will only earn from transaction fees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin (emphasis mine)

New comment by xigoi in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

xigoi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:53:20 +0000

Did the fake Wikipedia article explicitly say that it’s fake?

New comment by xigoi in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

xigoi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:44:42 +0000

Hopefully a med student would notice that the paper explicitly says multiple times it’s fake.

New comment by xigoi in "Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?"

xigoi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:21:24 +0000

You seem to be assuming that the men who exhibit toxic behavior toward women are the same people as those who find such behavior appaling when it’s toward men. Do you have any evidence for that?

New comment by xigoi in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

xigoi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:32:24 +0000

From what I can tell, good humor is usually appreciated on HN.

New comment by xigoi in "Ads in ChatGPT"

xigoi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:18:10 +0000

> Ads do not influence ChatGPT’s answers.

Yet.

New comment by xigoi in "EFF is leaving X"

xigoi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:18:04 +0000

I don’t use X so don’t know about that one, but I see a plenty of “something something trans people eat the rich ACAB kill all men” on Bluesky.

New comment by xigoi in "EFF is leaving X"

xigoi — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:07:48 +0000

I thought we were talking about pre-Musk Twitter.

New comment by xigoi in "EFF is leaving X"

xigoi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:01:48 +0000

Astounds me that anyone was using the platform even before Musk took over it.

New comment by xigoi in "EFF is leaving X"

xigoi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:59:49 +0000

> [group of people] are evil and don't deserve to be happy"

Most of the times I’ve seen such statements on Twitter, the [group of people was one of: men, white people, straight people, cisgender people. Something tells me those statements were not made by conservatives…

New comment by xigoi in "EFF is leaving X"

xigoi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:48:22 +0000

I still see links to X quite often. I don’t think I have ever seen a link to Threads.

New comment by xigoi in "EFF is leaving X"

xigoi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:42:44 +0000

Choosing media producers based on their politics is how it always worked. Social networks are not producers of their content.

New comment by xigoi in "Claude mixes up who said what"

xigoi — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:33:15 +0000

How long is it going to take before vibe coders reinvent normal programming?

New comment by xigoi in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

xigoi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:41:00 +0000

Permission to scrape is not permission to DDoS.

New comment by xigoi in "Greece to ban under-15s from social media from next year"

xigoi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:28:49 +0000

I also don’t think people under 15 should use Hacker News.

New comment by xigoi in "Greece to ban under-15s from social media from next year"

xigoi — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:28:06 +0000

You mean apps designed to get kids addicted to scrolling through endless brainrot content?

New comment by xigoi in "Has electricity decoupled from gas prices in Germany?"

xigoi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:14:22 +0000

Also, they drive on a parkway and park on a driveway.

New comment by xigoi in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""

xigoi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:15:56 +0000

A link that allows you to actually read the content has nothing to do with politics.