Hacker News: 220hertz

New comment by 220hertz in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

220hertz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:13:12 +0000

Hopefully this fares better than Stop Killing Games.

New comment by 220hertz in "Why does everything feel so joyless?"

220hertz — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:34:54 +0000

I think the author was just having a day, but to paraphrase Wilde, something something about the price of everything and the value of nothing.

New comment by 220hertz in "Interview with a Maintainer"

220hertz — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:54:30 +0000

That was brilliant.

New comment by 220hertz in "Are we living in an age of statistical mediocrity?"

220hertz — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:45:38 +0000

"How can one stay sharp in such an environment?"

Be as disagreeable as possible I think! If you constantly introduce conflict into people's lives you're always going to be dealing with people that are thinking on their feet. I'm being sarcastic, but I'll let the point stand.

New comment by 220hertz in "Why non-invasive glucose monitoring is hard"

220hertz — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:40:41 +0000

I cannot begin to tell you all how much of a difference it would make to people with either type of diabetes to have a non-disposable device to monitor blood glucose. CGMs are great, I use a Libre, but it's $$$ every other week, and sometimes the damn things just break when you're putting them on.

New comment by 220hertz in "OpenAI's first gadget is the $230 Codex Micro macropad"

220hertz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:23:11 +0000

I'm reminded of the Apple developer keyboard meme.

New comment by 220hertz in "Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)"

220hertz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:38:23 +0000

I generally agree with that video. But did she really need to take three hours to make her point?