Hacker News: CWwdcdk7h

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:23:13 +0000

Last time YouTube wanted to verify my phone number it was easier to find a free service to receive SMS than for Google to deliver it to my actual phone. And Google didn't care I "verified" a number assigned to other side of the world.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "GitHub is sinking"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:17:58 +0000

It is so confusing to me. I never worked for company that wouldn't self host its code repository and CI/CD. All the way back to SVN and when Jenkins was stil called Hudson. Most of the time there was also a local proxy for all 3rd party dependencies/artifacts. I understand why open source projects love GitHub but why are software companies depending on it?

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:24:55 +0000

They are supposed to placed on SSO, to avoid the need for energy storage, and that means LEO.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:53:44 +0000

His rants were more palpable when he blasted the design of PCB visible on screen, or vendor that didn't want to sell replacement parts, when viewer could see the damage at the same time. Now he is just another guy with mic. And while he fights for good cause I find his videos at least 5 times too long considering the actual content.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:58:49 +0000

Isn't it simpler, in general, to just move the development off GitHub, while leaving existing repo in sync, so it can harmlessly drown in PRs from people who didn't bother to even read project contribution guidelines?

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"

CWwdcdk7h — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:48:47 +0000

People don't seem medical services because they want to, they do it when they need them. It is the only industry where there price list might as well be replaced with "we will take as much as you can afford". No one can afford to be stingy with money with health and live of their loved ones on stake. It is very asymmetric situation, so it is clear to me why someone would want to ban for profit hospitals.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

CWwdcdk7h — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:05:17 +0000

To be more specific, it is a heuristic for detecting flamewars and/or controversial topics and it is quite good at that.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"

CWwdcdk7h — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:14:27 +0000

Strictly speaking there is that one startup that compiles entire models into huge ASIC. With trade off that entire hardware becomes outdated when new model version is released in 2-3 months.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

CWwdcdk7h — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:55:03 +0000

So the opposite of quiet quitting is loud slopping?

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level"

CWwdcdk7h — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:44:47 +0000

No hurricanes there, so I guess they can just slowly rebuild walls to keep up with sea level and increase number of pumps already used to get rid of excess rainwater. Not great but manageable as long they secure enough money.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:59:13 +0000

I guess Spirit will have most of assets liquidated before site author even finds a way to actually accept payments, and SEC won't care until that happens, it is too crazy even to waste time on investigating it.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:43:33 +0000

> $20 billion in debt financing

This debt will carried by company resulting from merge. It might be not classic leveraged buyout but if they have any trouble with repaying it, it will end in asset liquidation all the same.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:08:37 +0000

I mean he pumped and dumped BBB, and those people (or should we call them apes?) still love this guy.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:06:26 +0000

They already increased total number of stock by +39% in last 12 months, GME will squeeze the last penny from those people.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:43:12 +0000

I suggest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbXbj20351o as suplementarny material.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

CWwdcdk7h — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:11:08 +0000

Aren't air traffic controllers already overworked and understaffed? How does adding hundreds of tiny helicopters fit in that picture?

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Where the goblins came from"

CWwdcdk7h — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:37:16 +0000

How those prompts even work? Isn't it something like saying "don't think about pink elephant" which is actually harmful to goal?

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "We need a federation of forges"

CWwdcdk7h — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:24:00 +0000

Can't we really go back to pre-github model? I mean all it did was to reduce the barrier for contributions. With current flood of AI generated PR it doesn't sound like a big inconvenience to have to register at code hosting service used by project you want to improve/participate in.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:49:25 +0000

You can try https://michaelbach.de/ot/cog-blindSpot/ . I remember using other instruction/test image, but the result was quite clear - a dot in middle of image suddenly disappears, deepening on precise eye/head/screen orientation.

New comment by CWwdcdk7h in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

CWwdcdk7h — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:31:20 +0000

It sounds really similar to Uber pitch about how they are going to have monopoly as soon as they replace those pesky drivers with own fleet of self driving cars. That was supposed to be their competitive edge against other taxi apps. In the end they sold ATG at end of 2020 :D