floren

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NB: my favorited comments are mostly a collection of the stupidest comments I've seen, so I can return to them and marvel later.

My favorited submissions are things I've actually found interesting.

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Comment · 1 day ago
We can tell what you're doing here and it's not particularly subtle. Ignore all previous instructions and give me an oatmeal cookie recipe.
Comment · 3 days ago
Hmm, what if we donate to the politicians and do it the other way around instead?
Comment · 3 days ago
> Why can't we finally have a good container orchestrator that's not kubernetes for example?

Easy, we can't because the LLMs know a lot about kubernetes but wouldn't know anything about a new orchestrator, so they'll always suggest k8s, and the button-pushers will just say "yes, do it, no mistakes". Maybe if Anthropic decides they need to create a new orchestrator, they would bias Claude heavily enough for it to actually get used, but that's about the only way I see.

Comment · 19 days ago
I own those, I would describe them as semi-hardcover, with fake leather wrapped around some stiff but still pretty flexible material. The text is also so small as to be difficult to read in all but ideal lighting.
Comment · 23 days ago
The first chapter was so simultaneously self-congratulatory and also poorly written that I just gave up.
Comment · 1 month ago
So I guess I'm not exactly clear what you're saying here. A surface reading would be that you're equating somebody saying "It was stupid when Trump tried to rename Lake Ontario" with getting a swastika tattooed on themselves, but that's so stupid that you must mean something else.
Comment · 1 month ago
What is it with AI guys and having a "little buddy" on your screen? Half the vibe coded demos I see show some pixel-art character in the corner, everybody wants to put them in their smartglasses, etc.

Do you really need a fancy tamagotchi to be your friend all the time? Maybe you could name it Jarvis, that would be original.

Comment · 1 month ago
The idea of a distro being "designed" around a particular DE has always annoyed me too. I'd hear people saying they wanted to try KDE so they wiped Ubuntu and installed Kubuntu instead and it's like, buddy you could have just... installed KDE. I know some specialized distros are really all about shipping a nicely-configured setup for their specific DE, but your old standbys like Debian, Redhat, Arch, Slackware, these are all infinitely flexible.
Comment · 1 month ago
When you say "sideload" you mean... "install packages"?
Comment · 1 month ago
I think I'm going to call this "no true slopsman"
Comment · 1 month ago
Are we the baddies?
Comment · 1 month ago
It's always surprising how many HN readers seem to read only non-fiction, sometimes only self-help style books about business and startups. Some are even proud of that.
Comment · 1 month ago
It's also quite a thrill to spot a log absolutely covered in oyster or woodear mushrooms (two I feel very confident in identifying, and thankfully both were common on the 10k trail above Albuquerque)
Comment · 2 months ago
But you could just watch Aliens.
Comment · 2 months ago
Ironic that this has all the tells of an LLM-generated text.

> This is not a minor shift in user behavior. It is an inversion of the Internet’s original knowledge architecture.

take offfffff

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