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Gigablah

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Gigablah··on Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion
The ageism in this comment is revolting.
Gigablah··on Lessons from 14 years at Google
Your favorite LLM can probably reproduce this entire discussion thread so what’s the point, right?
Gigablah··on Reddit Has Become the Internet's Strip Mall
One of the shallowest “articles” I have read on HN. Full of unsubstantiated statements and banal platitudes. Non sequiturs everywhere. Weak conclusion built upon a list of unrelated grievances.

Oh, that’s because it’s LLM slop.

Gigablah··on Artificial sweetener found in Diet Coke and gum could trigger heart brain damage
What’s interesting is that the linked study suggests that aspartame has appetite suppression effects.

The weight loss was not just due to reduced sugar intake, the mice ate less overall.

This directly contradicts some claims that aspartame increases appetite.

Gigablah··on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now
This is ironic because I’m now seeing comments that are way more sycophantic (several calling this the “best HN post ever”)
Gigablah··on The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat
this would likely make the test administrators liable if any of the phones went missing.
Gigablah··on India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app
There’s data scoping per request:

https://docs.developer.singpass.gov.sg/docs/getting-started/...

https://docs.developer.singpass.gov.sg/docs/data-catalog-myi...

As part of the flow you’ll be shown the list of data that’s being requested.

Gigablah··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
Well, would the community be willing to respond to AI-submitted CVEs without funding?
Gigablah··on LLM policy?
Humans are far more effective at producing garbage than LLMs will ever be :)
Gigablah··on Singapore to cane scammers as billions lost in financial crimes
Meanwhile, the US carries out extrajudicial killings over drugs
Gigablah··on United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet
Just say “virtue signaling”, it’s not that deep
Gigablah··on The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)
I’m not going to resize my browser each time I follow a link or switch between tabs.
Gigablah··on I kissed comment culture goodbye
> We're going to I expect this to

Is this another instance where a strikethrough was supposed to be placed

Gigablah··on Sam Altman Slams Meta's AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'
Is that the du jour unit of measurement for morality now?
Gigablah··on OpenAI dropped the price of o3 by 80%
This is just “f—- off” dressed in formal language, so not much better.
Gigablah··on Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
“Developers are lazy sacks who are held skyward because of hardware designers alone”

As a programmer who studied computer and electrical engineering in university, never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with

Gigablah··on PHP Core Security Audit Results
Laravel (when it started) was mostly built upon Symphony components, which in turn was inspired by Java frameworks.
Gigablah··on Ask HN: Are you afraid to travel to US to tech conferences?
> This is a logic driven community

Without evidence, that’s an emotional claim.

Gigablah··on Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline
Yandex is the only search engine with a working image search these days that I know of.
Gigablah··on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday
But for a lot of people, the character 红 / red is already enough to trigger the association with communism and Mao.
Gigablah··on Bhutan, after prioritizing happiness, now faces an existential crisis
Did you just claim all the technology behind the iPhone as American inventions?
Gigablah··on Gemini AI tells the user to die
That’s poetic.
Gigablah··on How I ship projects at big tech companies
“You really enjoy hearing yourself speak”.
Gigablah··on On Good Software Engineers
> That is the only thing guard-railing spreading nonsense.

I am honestly disappointed to see this level of discourse on HN.

Gigablah··on [dead]
I’d imagine that friendships easily become strained once money gets involved, let alone formal contracts.
Gigablah··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
I have been burned twice by iPhone battery issues (specifically my iPhone X).

Battery started discharging rapidly, I got it replaced, barely a year later it’s dying again.

Gigablah··on I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers
You’ll have to flag a lot more submissions then. HN is submarine article central
Gigablah··on Diamond industry 'in trouble' as lab-grown gemstones tank prices further
To be fair it’s not like they’re burning banknotes, that money goes somewhere.
Gigablah··on ICQ will stop working from June 26
402777 here!
Gigablah··on Selling 'Ghost in the Shell'
Satoshi Kon’s Millennium Actress is one of the best movies I have ever seen.
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