GaryBluto

It's always amusing to me when I see people who only interact with a tiny percentage of the web saying that it's time to burn everything down and start again. Do these people know other websites exist? I would hope a tech journalist would.

What about Hacker News but for Hacker News data frontends?

I have a friend whose family owned a funeral home, but due to unfortunate circumstances were forced to sell it. Now it belongs to an investment company who threw out any sense of respect and slathered it in gaudy baby-blue paint and a sans-serif logo, still keeping the old family name of course. I grimace every time I drive by.

I wonder if this is the start of a chain of events that will lead to anything that requires more tech savvy than editing an Excel spreadsheet to be limited to enterprise customers, while consumers get a dumbed-down chat bot.

Who is this hurting, exactly? It's just a project designed for writing short JavaScript animations. Nobody is forcing anybody to use it.

First they came for the names of bodies of water…

“The most frustrating aspect is that we are still using QuarkXPress 4 on Mac OS 9. That will be corrected by the autumn of this year, when we will migrate to InDesign on OS X.” - Arthur Hochstein

I’d love to read the paper on how email was objectively “proven to make the world better” and how LLMs fail this same test.

What do you mean, platform? Should Hacker News be forced to permit pornography?

Pre-emptively announcing the existence of an opposing view doesn't invalidate it.

I am absolutely confident that the people who created this comic would not be happy with everything that isn't illegal being allowed on the websites and social medias they frequent; more importantly, nothing about this seems to be specific to the sexual orientation of the banned content, despite the spin.

The only thing that actually seems to be an issue here is the credit card processors.

Just because somebody suggests one extreme is a bad idea doesn't mean they are advocating for the other. The framing of this response, especially the "bulldozed over predominantly Black communities" line very much feels like an attempt at character assassination, as if you were trying to connect opposition to the status quo with racism.

You are right that hash symbols were used for IRC channels but I'm almost certain that hashtags were a Twitter invention.

The whole thing reads like a bizarre, vaguely schizotypal manifesto, complete with it's own confusing form eccentricities.

I checked the "hashtags" link and was met with the following: "Hashtags are a critique and a rallying cry to gather round. They are the protest banners of the openweb"

Nothing says protest banner of the "openweb"(?) like a convention invented by Twitter.

After a quick Google you seem to be right that it is falsely attributed. Blaise Pascal does seem to be the most accepted originator however.

Could dang or tomhow manually decontract the title?

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” - Mark Twain

I think early Aqua (10.0-10.1) may be my personal favourite, although I don't think I can explain as to why. I remember liking the pinstripes (although I think they were controversial at the time). The 10.5-10.6 look (which was a relief after the brushed metal tsunami of 10.3 onwards) is a close second place and I still use a Snow Leopard box for occasional tasks to this day. I may even have my slipstreamed 10.6.8 disc image still kicking around somewhere.

Just because something may be over regulated does not mean that zero regulation is needed.

I've been planning to get back into flight simulation but was dismayed to find that the latest Steam client is a Chromium Embedded Framework that runs at all times (which I find great irony in considering Gabe Newell's famous "service problem" quote), so I used Claude to yak shave my way to a native Win32 frontend (and when I'm done tinkering with it, my Flight Sim). It's also (dubiously) portable.

https://ibb.co/ccPf9Yqq

This is the kind of personal task I think LLMs are the best at solving.

I never said manual coding doesn't matter and I don't think anything Kerr wrote implies that he thinks that either. Nor does using LLMs to code mean the implementation and architecture doesn't matter.

Why needlessly do extra work when it's easier than ever before to modernize what is already made? Why would he want to be a vanguard for "hand coding"?

> tl;dr - The shift you are seeing isn't specific to HN.

I'd argue that the problem isn't necessarily an occasional political discussion, but that all political discussion here feels like somebody copy and pasted a few longer-ish social media comments into an HN comment tree. It's as if the moment politics is mentioned, people magically forget where they're discussing it, and before long you end up with a flood of childish insults, flaming and nonsensical accusations of conspiracy.

I've never met a true scotsman who wears anything under his kilt.

Is it just me, or has Hacker News seen an uptick in politics-focused posts and comments recently?

This is the first time I've seen someone use the correct flavoured powder drink mix in that analogy. Thank you.