Hacker News: Ateoto

New comment by Ateoto in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

Ateoto — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:33:28 +0000

Yeah, as a physical media collector, this is pretty devastating.

New comment by Ateoto in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

Ateoto — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:49:18 +0000

I'm pretty upset about it honestly. TikTok's algorithm has always done a fantastic job of providing interesting clips in a way that Facebook and Instagram has never been able to provide. I will say that upon a new account, it's mostly garbage, but it quickly learned what I was interested in and what I would tend to engage with. It also does this while showing me considerably fewer ads than the meta platforms.

New comment by Ateoto in "Banning TikTok Is Unconstitutional. The Supreme Court Must Step In"

Ateoto — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:47:20 +0000

What happens if they refuse to transfer ownership?

New comment by Ateoto in "Intermittent fasting more effective than calorie restriction"

Ateoto — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:12:06 +0000

Hence breakfast

New comment by Ateoto in "YouTube's ad blocker crackdown is getting harder to dodge"

Ateoto — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:49:18 +0000

With the billions[1] they already make on ad revenue I guess? I don't care. For me it's either ad blockers or I don't use the service.

YouTube is only still viable because the barriers to start a competing service are so high. Just like every other Alphabet-owned service, their single-minded focus on serving the bare minimum content merely as a vehicle for ads has just decimated the quality of their products.

[1] https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/youtube-q3-2023-alphab...

New comment by Ateoto in "Nomad, a cluster manager and scheduler"

Ateoto — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:00:02 +0000

Kelsey Hightower plans on giving a talk on this tomorrow at HashiConf.

New comment by Ateoto in "Show HN: 10% off at Starbucks when you buy with Bitcoin"

Ateoto — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 20:56:44 +0000

I work at a Starbucks. The scanners are usually customer facing and all the barista needs to know is that you are going to pay with an app on your phone. As long as there are no complications I doubt the average barista will know or care exactly how you paid. As for the crowd sourced gold card, Starbucks' loyalty program gives you a special card after 30 transactions (Gold Card), once you hit that level, you get a free drink or food item. Every subsequent 12 transactions earns another free drink or food item. These would obviously be earned very quickly if multiple people are using the same account. However, I feel that if this is the way this app works, that it opens itself up to both Starbucks shutting it down quickly and user exploits. You could just generate your own image of this accounts barcode and use it whenever you'd like. The worst that would happen is that the barista would inform you that there wasn't enough money on the card, or that it was an invalid account, something that happens often. So I doubt this is the case with this app, I am interested in how they are running this though.

Edit: Up above it is mentioned that each customer gets their own account. So this isn't an issue.

New comment by Ateoto in "CloudFlare was down"

Ateoto — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:58:17 +0000

For those of us using cdnjs.com, hopefully you have local fallbacks.