Hacker News: Double_a_92

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Write some software, give it away for free"

Double_a_92 — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:56:58 +0000

Most programming languages and tools are free and open source. Software developers will not code you an app for free.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:03:35 +0000

Didn't work for me. It barely even show me content that my friends create. It's all reaction videos and conspiracy nonsense. Even if you block those channels, another one with a slightly different name pops up.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "LLM Inevitabilism"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 09:54:36 +0000

Are you sure? For me they always struggle and forget code after about 300 lines.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:17:21 +0000

In all of my school years, essays were THE WORST kind of exam there was. The grading was highly arbitrary anyway... Good that AI is killing that.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:40:50 +0000

The winnings were calculated and paid out correctly. The error was just in the string formatting in some App notification.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:38:24 +0000

But how is taking responsability just disappearing after you messed up?

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Thousands in Norway told they had won life-changing sums in lottery error"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:09:18 +0000

Why did the CEO leave because some dev made a typo? That wasn't necessarily caused by some error in the strategy of the company...

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Anticheat Update Tracking"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 09:05:08 +0000

To be fair in the specific case of CS2, the normal modes without FACEIT are really barely playable. Most games are just a massive loss or win, depending on who has the suspiciously good player with 100 hours in their team.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application"

Double_a_92 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:38:36 +0000

Since I assume that spaceships are more an artistic thing, go for Blender.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Show HN: Chili3d – A open-source, browser-based 3D CAD application"

Double_a_92 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 11:34:04 +0000

- There are too many views whithout explanation of what they are

- By default the position of the tools and buttons is a chaotic mess

- There are things that seem to be the same but arent (e.g. Sketch from the "Part Design" and "Sketch" view)

- The 3D view is glitchy. The reflections make things invisible, AA is off by default, there is no proper Grid...

- The QT stylesheet is kinda ugly. If you literally delete it completely and revert to the default that QT has it looks much nicer.

- The settings are a bit messy and often it's not clear what they do.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:59:13 +0000

How is it a single place if every dev has a full copy of the repository? Also unless it's some software that each user customizes and builds for themselves, you still need some kind of way to tell which is the official version.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:06:15 +0000

> it was a hassle to get people to pose for photos

This so much. I bought a better camera for a big party my parents where organizing, and it was such a terrible experience trying to get people into a photo. Even if they welcomed the photo, they just couldn't stop moving or talking while posing for it.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "On Not Carrying a Camera – Cultivating memories instead of snapshots"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 05 May 2025 10:02:06 +0000

You can do both though. It's silly to go to a music concert and constantly try to film something in the chaos, instead of enjoying it. But that shouldn't stop you from taking a few pictures of you and your friends at the concert.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Ask HN: Reddit Alternative?"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:52:01 +0000

My theory is that smartphones pushed people into only consuming since it's annoying to write long texts on a phone.

So you are only left with egomaniacs, spam, and old people on PC.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Ask HN: Reddit Alternative?"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:46:01 +0000

You're probably looking for the feeling of old-school Forums. So nowadays probably Discord servers?

Also... what on earth did you possibly comment to get banned from Reddit as a whole, and not just from a subreddit?!

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:58:47 +0000

My experience (with Aliexpress) is that you usually get what you pay for.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:46:46 +0000

I wouldn't mind a simple or even boring website... But sometimes they are actively ugly.

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Important open source projects should not use GitHub (2020)"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:40:03 +0000

Also why does their website have to look so damn ugly? Is it so hard to design something inviting? I know that's not what really matters for a git server, but I just can't take such a project seriously. "Who knows what else they didn't really care about?" in the back of my head...

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Kezurou-Kai #39"

Double_a_92 — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 09:33:13 +0000

Is the skill for this competition in honing the tool, or in using it? Or a combination of both?

New comment by Double_a_92 in "Data centers contain 90% crap data"

Double_a_92 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 10:10:50 +0000

The problem with that is that what you might find important or beautiful changes with time.

That random photo of your messy living room might be trash right now, but beloved in 20 years when you want to remember your old home.