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starkshifton Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News

Cool! This is great because it demonstrates how terrible NYTimes UI is on mobile, thanks!

starkshifton Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center

Was it don’t be evil, or something else?

starkshifton Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

It depends on the knowledge domain. I would argue that much of human knowledge is individual to the person acquired by interacting with their environment

starkshifton Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

That’s the thing. AI won’t be limited to being trained on only human input, why would it? Humans are trained by interacting with their environment plus a genetic world-mapping initial seed. There is no reason AI will not be the same, just at a much more extreme level

starkshifton Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post

That is very much the case at the current iteration of AI, but that should change with the introduction of world-mapping, computer vision, and world interacting AI. If machines are built out so that they are constructing accurate world-maps of how the physical world works and how to operate in it, then AI will begin to be able to out-invent human tool concepts and push past the horizon of what humans have so far been able to dream

starkshifton Incident with Github.com [resolved]

Captain obvious over here

starkshifton Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

The essential principle of free market economics is that good things may be done for selfish reasons and that this in itself is actually good

starkshifton Hyperspace

Nice I was just thinking about this the other day! Given the memory supply issue today, I wonder how much of data in our data centers worldwide is essentially just copied data? I have a feeling that there is a ton of redundancy, much of it absolutely necessary, but much of it essentially not at all, and howmuc memory we can reclaim by culling copies

starkshifton How to write English prose (2023)

Yes, the founders of the United States' were completely brilliant and lucid thinkers. The Federalist Papers are astounding. Maybe even more amazingly - they were written for popular consumption!

"To the People of the State of New York:

AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind."

And one of my favorite lines of Hamilton, on the dangers of skepticism and irresolution: "Imagination may range at pleasure till it gets bewildered amidst the labyrinths of an enchanted castle, and knows not which way to turn to escape the apparitions itself has raised."

starkshifton How to write English prose (2023)

I hate to say it, but the reactions in this discussion indicate to me a lack of imagination and literary thinking ability in the Hacker News audience. That is my overall impression anyway, I don't understand the hate!

starkshifton How to write English prose (2023)

This person - gets it

starkshifton How to Write English Prose

Ultracrepidarian!

starkshifton Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

Working on https://croncoco.io/, an api first scheduling and orchestration platform. This is my first attempt at a paid microservice build, and yes I will admit it is similar some other services that are already out there, but, I still had a ton of fun building everything that goes along with designing and building a small microservice!

https://croncoco.io

starkshifton Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)

  Location: US
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: All
  Résumé/CV: https://wbshields.com, https://www.croncoco.io, https://undergroundstudios.io
  Email: iamrobinhood12345@gmail.com

starkshifton Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)

beading the rear tire on my gsxr 600!

starkshifton White House plan to break up iconic U.S. climate lab moves forward

There’s no one single thing of course, but there are themes

A couple generally unifying themes:

1. People that for the most part want to be left alone and not messed with 2. People that don’t want to be talked down to

starkshifton Croatia declared free of landmines after 31 years

good news!