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New comment by xoac in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

xoac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:20:36 +0000

Wasn't this obvious?

New comment by xoac in "Punk, or why I don't stream anymore"

xoac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:19:53 +0000

You are a good consumer, consumer451, because you don't judge other consumers' consumption habits.

New comment by xoac in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

xoac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:33:13 +0000

Exactly. If social media apps had a configurable old style non-algorithmic feed the problem would be dramatically smaller.

New comment by xoac in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

xoac — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:06:41 +0000

somehow the invisible hand of the market is also blind af

19IN: A Collaborative Database of Studio Equipment

xoac — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:58:50 +0000

Article URL: https://19in.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933264

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by xoac in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

xoac — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:07:13 +0000

I couldn’t be farther from the rationalists in my views but there are definitely a lot of valjd arguments against utilitariansim…

New comment by xoac in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

xoac — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:02:33 +0000

For all the grief they are getting GTK4/Adwaita/Gnome is doing a lot for performance and consistency of experience.

New comment by xoac in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

xoac — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 18:11:10 +0000

> We can either hold ourselves back an an endless and futile journey on solving the human condition of poverty and inequality, or we can explore the stars. It's an easy choice.

Wait... Are you suggesting that "exploring the stars" is less of an endless and futile journey than dealing with poverty and inequality?

New comment by xoac in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

xoac — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:19:43 +0000

But he's not blaming his poverty on "whitey on the moon" but the lack of healthcare. There is an opportunity cost to war, Moon/Mars missions etc.

New comment by xoac in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

xoac — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 16:02:34 +0000

Kind of a false dichotomy. How about medical care as a right for a big abstract concept? He's not anti-science here, he's against the inequality of its distribution.

New comment by xoac in "The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind (2020)"

xoac — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:38:29 +0000

Of course, yes. Yes. It is also sad when it is hungry so best feed it with its preferred food, which is dollars. Loves to eat dollars.

New comment by xoac in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

xoac — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:39:58 +0000

Because they think this is good writing. You can’t correct what you don’t have taste for. Most software engineers think that reading books means reading NYT non-fiction bestsellers.

New comment by xoac in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

xoac — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:08:46 +0000

As opposed to.. the harsh realities of the Bay Area tech scene?

New comment by xoac in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

xoac — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:23:48 +0000

Reads just like Linkedin

New comment by xoac in "Sycophancy is the first LLM "dark pattern""

xoac — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:31:43 +0000

The fact that a theory exists does not mean that it is not garbage

New comment by xoac in "Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research"

xoac — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 01:24:51 +0000

Best time to sell his ai portfolio

New comment by xoac in "I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already"

xoac — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:42:15 +0000

I upvoted both posts

New comment by xoac in "AMD could enter ARM market with Sound Wave APU built on TSMC 3nm process"

xoac — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:50:41 +0000

Not sure what their intention is of course, but nowadays there is A LOT of Cortexes in various sound gear. Plenty in things like Eurorack but also outboard equipment like the Eventide H9000 etc.

New comment by xoac in "Becoming the person who does the thing"

xoac — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 12:53:28 +0000

Most tech people are only good at trite linkedin type writing and larping as pg.

New comment by xoac in "Being good isn't enough"

xoac — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 07:48:10 +0000

The problem is of course that there isn’t that many good managers.