Hacker News: yifanl

New comment by yifanl in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

yifanl — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:04:35 +0000

There exists a subset of business owners who would prefer hiring workers without standard protections or rights.

New comment by yifanl in "The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable"

yifanl — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:02:38 +0000

What are you proposing exactly, global distribution of cyanide capsules?

New comment by yifanl in "A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps"

yifanl — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:11:39 +0000

It's quite hollow and plasticky on the inside. This is not a bad thing nor a mark of cheapness, but it sounds very roomy and echo-y for a keyboard, so if you like the sound of the clacking on a keyboard, it's quite amplified by the board.

I wasn't around to use an actual C64 to compare the sound against that, but I suspect it's an intentional choice as a retro keyboard to mark itself apart from the foamy modern keyboards that tend to dampen the keyboard.

New comment by yifanl in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

yifanl — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:51:13 +0000

Can you use more than 2 words in your explanation next time? Reciting known talking points offers little.

New comment by yifanl in "Attention is all you have"

yifanl — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:29:39 +0000

The solution is simple, if unpalateable: No restrictions, but if its ever detected you are running a bot, you are punished in a way that ruins your life, without exception.

New comment by yifanl in "I Don't Like LLMs"

yifanl — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:31:35 +0000

It isn't, but the history of profitable software has been repackaging the same data in different UIs.

New comment by yifanl in "An update on Wayback Machine access"

yifanl — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:48:07 +0000

It's almost as if moral values aren't assigned universally.

New comment by yifanl in "VC isn't VC anymore"

yifanl — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:21:42 +0000

What's the difference between the two exactly?

New comment by yifanl in "ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage"

yifanl — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:06:01 +0000

Ads are the hacking of attention. Without attention, ChatGPT cannot exist.

New comment by yifanl in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

yifanl — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:59:01 +0000

We're way too far down this current UIUX disaster to pretend "sane defaults" is a nice-to-have.

New comment by yifanl in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

yifanl — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:09:44 +0000

You can't, as that removes the main value add of the AI.

New comment by yifanl in "Delta"

yifanl — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:44:07 +0000

Sublime

New comment by yifanl in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

yifanl — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:04:35 +0000

Nintendo would be the big publisher who still largely releases games the same way, but they aren't American.

New comment by yifanl in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

yifanl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:01:45 +0000

They did it on permissively licensed code would be the difference.

New comment by yifanl in "DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says"

yifanl — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:22:27 +0000

You don't get to decide how you're hated is the point.

New comment by yifanl in "Taste Is All That's Left"

yifanl — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:18:08 +0000

Thank you, I take great pride and effort in compressing as much emotional weight into as short a statement as possible.

New comment by yifanl in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

yifanl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:12:47 +0000

I agree that if things were different, things would be different, but I'm not sure what this adds to the conversation.

New comment by yifanl in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

yifanl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:12:00 +0000

And then what happened?

New comment by yifanl in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

yifanl — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:41:14 +0000

> For the most-dominant military power in the world to "whoopsy" run out of weapons because of a low-stakes engagement isn't readily believable.

This is a concerning statement, as it implies it'd be impossible for the United States to lose an engagement regardless of any and all evidence.

New comment by yifanl in "'My life's screwed': Korean investors stress out after AI bubble bursts"

yifanl — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:55:41 +0000

They set off circuit breakers for KOSPI twice in two days.