Hacker News: AdmiralAsshat

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)"

AdmiralAsshat — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:39:34 +0000

Is the Stanley Lieber referred to by the title someone other than the Stanley Lieber (a.k.a. "Stan Lee") of Marvel Comics fame?

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:31:46 +0000

Remarkably on-brand, named after the signature trick of a well-known charlatan.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies from Customers' Accounts"

AdmiralAsshat — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:48:31 +0000

How is it that Steam manages to avoid yanking games from people's libraries even after the games are delisted for licensing issues, etc? I have multiple games that you can't "buy" anymore, but Steam doesn't stop me from reinstalling them as often as I like.

Are they negotiating that as part of the deal with their vendors? Or is it as simple as "We're not dicks." ?

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:43:00 +0000

Frieren is animated by Madhouse, though, which I feel like is one of the last bastions of high-quality Japanese animation.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "The disappearance of Japan's animators"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:10:25 +0000

Thanks!

MAGA Congresswoman Denies Using AI to Write Bill

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:26:01 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/maga-congresswoman-denies-using-ai-to-write-bill-love-claude-but-grok-is-way-more-savage-2000777136

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673013

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

AdmiralAsshat — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:51:55 +0000

Carmack is a godly programmer, but he's largely a technical guy. Everything he releases is a feat of technical engineering ("real 3D!"; "curved surfaces!"; "realistic lighting!"; "the Megatexture!"), not so much artistic achievement. We could really see that after Doom 2 when all of the creatives at Id started jumping ship. The level design that you need to reinforce the technical leaps just wasn't there anymore.

Following user outcry, AMD reinstates memory encryption in consumer CPUs

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:57:16 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/following-user-outcry-amd-reinstates-memory-encryption-in-consumer-cpus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48635230

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Never Give Them Your Face"

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:07:12 +0000

The frustration, I suppose, is that the government doesn't seem to demand this level of scrutiny to take my money, in the event that I owed on my tax returns for that year. But when they have money to give to me, suddenly it's 12 interviews and a colonoscopy to get approved.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Never Give Them Your Face"

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:18:41 +0000

I have yet to receive my federal tax refund because I submitted my taxes through a preparation service and, thinking that physical checks were still an option (the tax software didn't tell me otherwise), I did not give the federal government an ACH account number for direct deposit. The IRS then told me I'd have to open an account to update/provide direct deposit info, which in turn requires me to register with ID.me to create an account. ID.me has an obnoxious signup policy which includes sending them a boatload of documentation, and a headshot. I'm not doing it. So to date, I have yet to receive my federal refund.

Somewhere on the IRS website I had found buried in an article that if they can't submit my refund via direct deposit after some period of time, they are supposed to mail me a physical check. Yet so far, nada.

Before Bill Nye, There Was Julius Sumner Miller

AdmiralAsshat — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:59:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/before-bill-nye-there-was-julius-sumner-miller-watch-complete-episodes-of-his-classic-science.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48598059

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:55:07 +0000

My original comment was more along those lines, but then I did a quick Wiki refresher on Chariots of the Gods (possibly the origin of the popular "Ancient Aliens" push), and noted that the author included Stonehenge among his examples, so I changed course.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:29:44 +0000

"I personally can't conceive of how one might built this, and I must be a million times smarter than people 4500 years ago, ergo people didn't build this." is how the Ancient Aliens theory always sounds to me.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:01:15 +0000

Who said it was bad? I thought we were all pretty much in agreement that it was good, and the only thing holding it back from wider adoption into e.g. the Linux kernel was the poison-pill of Oracle's ownership and licensing.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "The 2-Year Apartment Rule"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:37:10 +0000

What I found amusingly about that paragraph is that the author laments encountering "the crackhead" while paying exorbitant rent.

That implies the crackhead can also afford said rent. In which case, they have just as much right to be in the elevator as the author. Fuck off!

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

AdmiralAsshat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:42:49 +0000

> The Commission’s full communication said a legal obligation to keep games playable, as requested by the initiative, “would not be proportionate.” It cited concerns about intellectual property rights, confidential business information, publisher costs, and potential cybersecurity or safety risks once games are no longer supported.

Nice job regurgitating point-for-point all of the talking points that the publishers spoon-fed you.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Fox to buy Roku"

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:03:47 +0000

I held off on buying it for many years because of the chorus of people saying, "Once the Switch 2 comes out, we'll get a new one!" (the line of thinking being that the Nvidia Shield used the same custom SoC as the Switch 1).

Switch 2 is out, no new Shield in sight. And the Shield TV Pro is still $200...

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Sealed Super Mario Bros Sells for $3M Setting New Record for a Video Game"

AdmiralAsshat — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:37:40 +0000

Of the cartridge, yes. As do about 58 million other people.

Not sealed in box, no. But usually a product going for a price like this is predicated on rarity, not just historical value. That's why Detective Comics #27, Action Comics #1, Amazing Fantasy #15, etc. command a pretty penny. Those comics didn't have circulation in the millions back in the day...

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Sealed Super Mario Bros Sells for $3M Setting New Record for a Video Game"

AdmiralAsshat — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:22:53 +0000

Considering that Super Mario Bros came with the console, this feels like nothing more than a flex. Or money laundering.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Show HN: A police department for your Claude Code agents"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:31:22 +0000

Probably needs a better metaphor than "police department", what with the most popular cop meme being:

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....