Hacker News: AppleAtCha

New comment by AppleAtCha in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

AppleAtCha — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:31:12 +0000

I do not live in California and am not up to speed on this issue, but as a casual observer I am shocked that they were allowed on the road without being ticketed for violations like any other vehicle operator.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

AppleAtCha — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:27:20 +0000

Is there a name for these types of "overbearing" and visually busy "TUIs"? It seems like all the other agents have the same aesthetic and it is unlike traditional nurses or plain text interfaces in a bad way IMO. The constant spinners, sidebars and needless margins are a nuisance to me. Especially over an ssh connection in a tmux session it feels wrong.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

AppleAtCha — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:46:41 +0000

This assumes that govt and individual families are the only players in the game. Now as in other historical periods large corporations hold arguably more power than either of those groups and reining in govt leaves little obstacle to them consolidating even more power and wielding it globally.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Animated Knots"

AppleAtCha — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 10:28:56 +0000

The Ian's Secure Knot is what I've used for years and the only shoelace knot my kids were taught. Trivial modification of the usual bunny ears and hardly ever comes undone.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

AppleAtCha — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:58:19 +0000

IANAL but I don't think it's so cut and dried that creating a crowdsourced map of publicly visible ice operations is illegal. Yes such a map could be used by illegal immigrants to avoid detention. It could also be used by law abiding citizens that want to avoid the hubbub these operations cause or by legal us citizens that don't wanna be targeted just for being in the neighborhood. It seems like a decent lawyer could make a case that publishing the location of an ice operation is not the same as acting with intent to interfere with the operation.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

AppleAtCha — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:48:43 +0000

Yeah true. I do enjoy visiting with the cashiers but I don't love waiting in line.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

AppleAtCha — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:47:27 +0000

Interesting! Thanks for the reality check. I personally like the home depot ones with the very prominent handheld scanner for big items. Hopefully it will keep improving. The days of waiting in line to check out were terrible and I don't want to go back.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

AppleAtCha — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:03:05 +0000

Yeah I agree that it can potentially go wrong but in my experience here in east TN the machines have gotten better to the point that hasn't happened for me in the past few years. Also it seems like the "just walk out" process would have more potential error modes but I never visited one.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

AppleAtCha — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:44:27 +0000

Do people really have problems with self-checkout? I use it all the time in box stores like Kroger, Walmart, Home Depot, etc. It seems to work just fine for me and doesn't add more than a minute or two vs just walking out of the store.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

AppleAtCha — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:28:45 +0000

So much of the past decade has been the internet infecting the population with 19th century thinking like this. Alliances are a thing, and might makes right is something we have told ourselves for generations that we oppose. I am so tired of this nihilism dressed as edge.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

AppleAtCha — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:15:54 +0000

Google really knew what they were doing by hiring Marc Levoy. The Google camera is the only thing keeping me from getting something other than a pixel phone.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Grok has become an Elon clone spewing dense jargon and never conceding points"

AppleAtCha — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:08:22 +0000

It's not censorship to concede a point in a civil debate or discussion. Republicans used to debate better than the other side back when I often voted for them. But there is no room for this in maga. It is simply willful ignorance or arguing in bad faith and it helps no one.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over"

AppleAtCha — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 12:32:52 +0000

This is why I left Facebook and I'm sure it drove away many others.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "The US Assault on Science: National Academies Letter"

AppleAtCha — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 22:43:18 +0000

Can you give an example of fraud that has been found by doge? If so it is to be commended, but I suspect they are just labelling stuff approved by congress and previous administrations fraud whenever they don't like it.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

AppleAtCha — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:35:46 +0000

SpaceX is worth less than 10% of what Tesla is valued at, so 15% is still a larger holding and very much "where it hurts". You should consider pausing before calling the popular position drivel.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Why Mark in 'Severance' Drives a 1997 Volvo"

AppleAtCha — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:05:48 +0000

I figured it was because he couldn't find a better car such as a 1986 volvo

New comment by AppleAtCha in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

AppleAtCha — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:15:33 +0000

This is such incredibly twisted logic. I would have honestly been aghast to see this on HN a few years ago, but now the site seems nearly as infected as Facebook or X with this.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

AppleAtCha — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:13:30 +0000

An obvious alternative is to increase support to Ukraine to give them what they need to expel Russia. The good old USA has the resources to do that but Republicans have blocked increasing aid at the orders of Donald Trump for years now. And now that he is in power he is finally blocking it altogether.

New comment by AppleAtCha in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

AppleAtCha — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:11:25 +0000

Is your plan really to just let Russia have new territory whenever they want it? Why do you think this would save money or lives?

New comment by AppleAtCha in "Missiles are now the biggest killer of airline passengers"

AppleAtCha — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 19:19:37 +0000

Why would Ukraine be accountable for a Russian missile hitting a civilian plane?