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BergAndCoon Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?

fetch(url).then(res => querySelector/querySelectorAll/getElementById().innerHTML = res.body());

BergAndCoon AI is an attack from above on wages": cognitive scientist Hagen Blix

All the headlines make sense if you know that AI stands for Actually Indians.

Printing money caused inflation caused interest rate hikes that forced companies to operate with a skeleton crew of slave labor.

BergAndCoon Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists

They figured out that autism is actually four completely distinct disease clusters with four completely different symptomologies, with some overlap of symptoms in the middle. One of the disease clusters correlates with Fragile X retardation. The idea that we clump together an actual genetic condition that causes retardation with 3 other disorders is ludicrous.

Therapists need to understand that many disorders can produce "autism-like" downstream effects, just like many things could cause anxiety or depression. Not understanding the disorders doesn't "help patients".

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/07/09/major-autism-study...

BergAndCoon AI will happily design the wrong thing for you

If you say you want to have a retro terminal where you can talk to ChatGPT, instead of telling you to use an LLM CLI in a terminal with a retro theme applied, LLMs will just build you a 500K-line terminal client from scratch uncritically. Even if you ask it to make architectural decisions, it will just riff off of your bad idea. And if you ask for critique, it will tell you bad ideas are good and good ideas are bad. We all have stories about arguing with LLMs until they tell us "Okay actually you're right, I was wrong because I think whatever my training data tells me to think."

BergAndCoon All the sad young terminally online men

He said, forgetting he was signed into an account with Derek spelled the same way.

BergAndCoon Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place

Wow, imagine that, 99% of academia is left-wing and they're afraid to have a presence on X because the the "tolerant" left calls it a "Nazi echo chamber" and will come after their careers. BlueSky is totally winning, you guys!

BergAndCoon NSPM-7 labels common beliefs as terrorism 'indicators'

Not every site has to be another Reddit

BergAndCoon The American Nations regions across North America

Thank God, so I'm not going crazy. Calling the Northeast (Irish-Italian) and Great Lakes (German) Megaregions a single country called "Yankeedom" because they both lean Left made absolutely zero sense to me.

BergAndCoon Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?

Applying to 400 jobs is apparently not enough sense of urgency, got it. It's surely American laziness that's the problem and not the infinite slave labor they're competing with.

BergAndCoon What's Up with Peter Thiel's Obsession with the Antichrist?

Yeah, no, Latin men swung wildly towards Trump in the last election, due to religion and family values. Try again.

BergAndCoon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

You triple-posted this comment that "The Right cheered when 2 MN lawmakers were killed..." Literally the only thing the Right said was that the killer claimed Tim Walz paid him to kill them and someone else; how did y'all manage to hear about the Right's "celebrations" when y'all never leave your echo chambers?

BergAndCoon Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah

77% of Republicans believe it is always unacceptable to feel joy at the death of someone they oppose, while only 38% of Democrats share this view (YouGov)

BergAndCoon Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

https://x.com/CBP/status/1937651325354795444

> Fact Check: FALSE

> Mads Mikkelsen was not denied entry for any memes or political reasons, it was for his admitted drug use.

BergAndCoon What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding

Literally the first example is an outright lie.

> At the dinner table a Norwegian is likely to say something like “Jeg vil ha potetene” (literally “I will have the potatoes”, which sounds presumptuous and haughty in English). Google Translate just gives the blunt direct translation.

"To will" means "it is my will", i.e. to want to, which became the future tense in English. In Norwegian is still means "want", and Google Translate indeed translates it as "I want the potatoes." If you translate the rising (pleading) intonation on "potatoes", you then have an unwritten "please?", i.e. "I want the potatoes?...", which is passable English.

Most businesses think AI code is "good enough", and that machine translation is "good enough", which tanks the entire industry because there is now more supply than demand. He says there are still plenty of translator jobs, but then justifies it as because "it’s inadvisable to subsititute (sic) Google Translate for an interpreter at a court hearing." Meaning, the thing taking away all the tech jobs temporarily (unchecked mass-migration) is the same thing keeping keeping him employed temporarily.

BergAndCoon I stopped using AI code editors

And the reason for this is he "forgot to drive after not driving for a few months". Which is weird because I haven't driven for years but I can still instantly do it when I need to, or instantly ride a bike after years of not cycling.

BergAndCoon Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

Here are a few shadowbanned users I saw in a /single/ thread (who don't know they're shadowbanned as they prolifically comment away), whose comments are pretty normie-tier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oldpersonintx https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tomohawk https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=techright75

(There seems to be extreme bias or unfair flagging by users simply because "old Texan" and "techright" are "scary Conservative-sounding usernames", yet you pursue the innocents being reported rather than the botfarms mass-flagging?)

It's all very "Everyone Stalin's sending to the gulags is a criminal, though, so keep your nose down and mind your own business." God sees everything, you know.

BergAndCoon Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

Right, so mods can claim it's my alt and ban me for ban evasion, while the buttkissers comb her history for anything too "techbro"-sounding to prove that she "had it coming". Not my first rodeo, Danny boy.

BergAndCoon Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

Thanks for replying; I had positive karma, now I have negative karma and am lucky I'm not shadowbanned yet. Whether you agree with the comments that got this user shadowbanned, do you agree with shadowbanning this user for these comments? Because it was only for these comments and nothing else.

BergAndCoon Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

Do you have showdead enabled to see how many good comments are being unfairly censored? Otherwise this is just survivorship bias talking.

BergAndCoon Tell HN: Announcing tomhow as a public moderator

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BergAndCoon The smallest Hello World program

Thank you, I knew I had read somewhere someone put the program in the ELF header itself and got it down to 45 bytes, this is that exact post.

BergAndCoon I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone

Except they've been literally boasting they can do it?

https://www.404media.co/heres-the-pitch-deck-for-active-list...