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xboxnolifes··on “It works better in the app”
Idk if its not in their best interest or something, but app stores should just allow installing an "app", which is really just a bookmark to website and hides all of the normal browser UI without having to bundle the entire browser with the app.
xboxnolifes··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
If they put them side by side with the closest minecraft equivalent? Hopefully a few.

If it was a clone, surely the images would be the same.

xboxnolifes··on Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Being block based doesn't mean it is using Minecraft assets. Minecraft does not own the idea of having a block based world, and there are quite a few popular (and many unpopular) block-based games. If you played Minecraft you should be able to tell that none of the assets are Minecraft assets.
xboxnolifes··on CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO
Surely everything economy related where the capital owners want one thing and the wage workers wants another is clearly a class war.
xboxnolifes··on A week of using Codex more than Claude
HN article titles are really just promots for HN users to respond to.
xboxnolifes··on France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
Oh no, accommodating crime by upgrading a country's internet infrastructure... and removing an avenue of crime...
xboxnolifes··on France reaches 94.9% fiber coverage in 2026
How high speed is "high-speed" internet in this context? In the US, high-speed internet can mean anything better than DSL.
xboxnolifes··on The End of Programming
I think we have been doing that for a while already. Seems like almost every major company is using LLMs for coding internally and people dont consider that vibe coding.

Culturally, it feels like we've already speedran the pipeline of "vibe coding is using LLMs without reading the code" to "vibe coding is using LLMs for code" to "using LLMs is just a tool for coding". LLMs seems to now be mostly accepted for coding (on HN at least), the discussion has shifted to how useful and in what ways.

xboxnolifes··on The End of Programming
Maybe we need to start cryofreezing some of our best engineers as a precaution. Or even just a bunch of average ones.
xboxnolifes··on Starbase, LA
I agree mostly with your stance, but I still have to downvote out of principle for the whole "prove me wrong" statement at the end. Hate that argumentative tatic.
xboxnolifes··on AI is hitting entry-level jobs hardest, Stanford study finds
Sure you can, it's effectively the same contract agreement as a sign-on bonus that requires you to stay for at least 6 months. Instead it's training cost that you get saddled with if you leave before X time. Of course, the exact monetary value would have to be spelled out ahead of time.

Well, I say sure you can, but I'm not a contract lawyer. It just sounds identical to me. You're not forced to stay, but if you end the contract you have to pay.

xboxnolifes··on Starbase, LA
Of all of Musk's ventures, SpaceX seems to actually do things and not just say they do things.
xboxnolifes··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
I've never had that happen and ive lived in the US my whole life. Must be a regional thing. I've never gotten a check before asking for it.
xboxnolifes··on ICE officers with electric-shock gloves
> Unless you have a practical nuts-and-bolts solution...

If it goes that far, I imagine more a guns-and-bullets solution pushing on one side with a larger, more peaceful resistance pushing from the other.

> bullet box is irrelevant in the face of ICE and the militarizing of the police force.

Only if you view it as an all-out war, which it would never be. Threat being enough works both ways.

xboxnolifes··on FDA clears blood test to aid evaluation for Alzheimer's disease
Ah, so you are aware then.
xboxnolifes··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Its not a take, it was a personal observation that ive since realized is wrong because I wasnt considering bathrooms on large public land, I was thinking about small plots of public bathrooms within large urban areas. Obviously publicly owned airports have bathrooms.

I was also not considering things like port-a-potties during public events, since i was only considering permanent structures.

xboxnolifes··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
Public parks and transit centers make sense. I was thinking more in urban areas, not large public land. For example, if I was in a town and needed to go to the bathroom, usually the only option is hoping a business will let you use their restroom.
xboxnolifes··on Where did all the public bathrooms go?
I don't think I've seen a public bathroom in America in my lifetime. They're all privately owned, usually required through regulation.

But to answer your question, public things are paid for by the public.

xboxnolifes··on Man Dressed as Darth Vader Defends Flock Cameras to San Diego City Council
City council listens to old residents with too much free time when they argue against an outcome you want. City councils ignore residents when they argue for an outcome you want. Such is the internet view on city councils.
xboxnolifes··on Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
No, he's saying that unpaid advertising is fine. Thats basically what words of mouth is.
xboxnolifes··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
Thats a stretch of the term "field". Are they also in the field of making money and the field of working within European law?
xboxnolifes··on Fast and Hard Code
Because code isn't prose. It has a much more structured, "correct" form than prose. After adhering to a high level structure of a program and applying linter rules, there's really not that much variance between code (In terms of how it reads, not correctness or performance). LLM code without guard rails can get really bad, but with some guard rails it's generally not worse than the average code I'd read before LLMs. I'm used to code being generally bad.

Books or blogs on the other hand are different. Every person writes differently, and the writing style is part of the experience. The same scene or concept can be described in an infinite number of ways. But LLM prose ends up very samey. You get the same sentence structure, the same key words, the same metaphors, the same similes, the same rough distribution of word usage. It's very average, and it's boring. And it frequently reads like a corporate blog.

xboxnolifes··on I'm becoming AI-blind
I also read right through those. 90% of most companies' webpages is drivel. Same with 90% of a job listing's text. I hardly understand how people get any meaningful information from corporate websites, they're all just "enhancing your business outcomes by incorporating technical excellence with synergistic AI" or something like that.

There's somehow less information than if they just asked claude to make something up without any context.

xboxnolifes··on Electric shock gloves in use by police departments in Bellevue, Omaha
Sounds pretty cheap to me for such a niche product. How many electric glove suppliers (and buyers) do you think there are?
xboxnolifes··on 'Ghost job' ads are getting so bad that lawmakers want to ban them
Isn't everything?
xboxnolifes··on There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
People do microservices (read: an API spread across multiple processes), but then make all of the mistakes that logically couple the service deployments together. They use shared databases instead of one per service, make breaking changes to API schema instead of non-breaking or versioning, use a shared library of schema definitions instead of having each service define their own data objects for API calls, and have startup logic that depends on another service being up.
xboxnolifes··on Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI
Where is the cognitive dissonance? You're just repeating what they said but from a negative angle of saying programmers enjoying coding means they are confused about its worth.

They pretty clearly say they enjoyed the intrinsic value of writing code and do not enjoy the act of piloting AI minions.

xboxnolifes··on A faster way to calculate the day of the week
Officially (or historically, or to banks maybe) it starts Sunday, but to anyone I have ever talked to in the US its definitely Monday. Saturday and Sunday are the weekEND after all.
xboxnolifes··on HTML Can Do That
Even worse, using buttons everywhere that you should use an a href.
xboxnolifes··on HTML Can Do That
I want tables that can be sorted on multiple columns without triggering a page refresh on every click.
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