Hacker News: Angostura

New comment by Angostura in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

Angostura — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:27:22 +0000

You include it but with no mention of it. Allow recoding to be activated with an obscure undocumented button push.

Leave a subtle hong somewhere that someone clever can find out. Wait for news of the functionality to go viral and additional products to walk off the shelf bought by people who feel clever.

New comment by Angostura in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

Angostura — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:40:10 +0000

My LG one has had smomething like that - a coupkle of years old. Seems quite nifty though - it tumbles the load dry for a while and alledgely uses the patterm of weight shift to determine what kind of load it is - the materials etc - and adjusts the wash accordingly

New comment by Angostura in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

Angostura — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:38:11 +0000

I think AI has also become synonymous with slapdash, low effort, probably steals my data

New comment by Angostura in "The history of butterfly swimming"

Angostura — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:54:08 +0000

You’re familiar with the walking competition?

New comment by Angostura in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

Angostura — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:51:35 +0000

Has worked very well for my wife who notably couldn’t look at her phone for even a few seconds without feeling ill

New comment by Angostura in "Leaving Mozilla"

Angostura — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:06:04 +0000

I hate this. It basically takes as axiomatic that anyone in an administrative position in an organisation has zero interest in the goals of the organisation -and that those at the coal-face have no interest in the organisation and that there is little or no overlap in interest. Its reductionist, divisive and stupid.

New comment by Angostura in "David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88"

Angostura — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:03:12 +0000

Or perhaps they know it has been owned by News Corp since 1981 - Murdoch owned

New comment by Angostura in "David Hockney, Who Restored the Human Form to Art, Dies at 88"

Angostura — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Lovely story, thank you for sharing

New comment by Angostura in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

Angostura — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:05:28 +0000

It sounds like you learned lots of things related to the tool, but not so much about the problem that you were using the tool to solve?

Is that fair? Not trying to snark? I see similar results myself

New comment by Angostura in "The Future of Email"

Angostura — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:28:03 +0000

So... not e-mail then

New comment by Angostura in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

Angostura — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:03:56 +0000

Yes. I was being humorous. Apologies

New comment by Angostura in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

Angostura — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:02:44 +0000

Jokes on them. My bank will just truncate it to 10 characters.

New comment by Angostura in "The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography"

Angostura — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:25:27 +0000

So, a number station sending a message 'detonate the bomb' isn't a number station, because most people don't have the bomb?

New comment by Angostura in "India's surprise baby bust"

Angostura — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:21:52 +0000

If not money, what are the types of issue you face?

New comment by Angostura in "Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen"

Angostura — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:37:53 +0000

I can’t remember the last time I paid using anything else in the UK. Occasionally a credit card if I need additional protection

New comment by Angostura in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

Angostura — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:57:44 +0000

This tool is claimed to be able to find and fix bugs.

New comment by Angostura in "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy"

Angostura — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:35:02 +0000

I mean, yes - if your biggest external source of energy declares war, and your hitherto trusted defence partner goes rogue - it's going to have a chilling effect and the measures needed to address that will hit both the economy and the populous

New comment by Angostura in "London's Free Roof Terraces"

Angostura — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:22:43 +0000

The odd thing is you certainly used to have book

New comment by Angostura in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

Angostura — Sun, 31 May 2026 07:50:41 +0000

Meanwhile 2016 is still working fine…. Until Rosetta support is dropped.

New comment by Angostura in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

Angostura — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:20:50 +0000

Perhaps the commenter would just like to lead a contented life without having to bother with all of that