Hacker News: Dusseldorf

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:15:15 +0000

It might be immoral, but certainly not illegal. But, what if the person it was driving to was planning to use it to commit crimes?! Then would it be okay?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Retired Penn professor arrested for blocking Uber Eats robot"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:06:04 +0000

The robot was absolutely free to go around her, I truly don't see how what she did was illegal. The next time my kids are out doing sidewalk chalk and the mail carrier walks by, should the kids be arrested for obstructing mail delivery?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "My old job feels distant now"

Dusseldorf — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:17:12 +0000

Maybe depends on industry? Working in finance during that time, the brogrammers were vim types, and super dogmatic about everything (first and foremost their workout regiment but also design patterns and algorithmic efficiency, to the point of exhaustion.)

New comment by Dusseldorf in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:26:47 +0000

I don't think they really try to hide the fact that they do it because it reduces attrition, they just act like that isn't wildly immoral.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Hermes creator Nous Research raises $90M to bring open-source AI to enterprises"

Dusseldorf — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:48:38 +0000

I went to grade school with the CTO, happy (but not at all surprised) to see him having success building something cool!

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Uber ordered to pay $40M over death of woman left on Southern California freeway"

Dusseldorf — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:26:28 +0000

A woman died, and your description of that is "a legal jackpot"?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:18:42 +0000

After getting several family group chats finally converted over to RCS, one day my phone just started absolutely refusing to verify my connection to the RCS servers. Instead of any kind of notification, I was just silently not sending or receiving messages for nearly an entire day. I had to disable RCS on my phone, which created a several day long issue where some chats would just fall back to SMS and others absolutely refused to work, or strange interactions with Apple devices where certain messages would not be displayed. After enough trouble with it I convinced everyone to switch to a third party messaging app. I'll never turn RCS on again, I can't trust that it won't just start silently failing.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:07:11 +0000

I can't recall ever needing to run a batch script to read a paragraph on a website, so doesn't seem like a very apt comparison. Are you claiming there's some group of people who have JavaScript disabled but would be happily running Activex if it were still around? Seems reasonable for some people to dislike and disable JavaScript in 2026, even though another, separate group of people had ActiveX enabled in 2009.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?"

Dusseldorf — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 21:47:39 +0000

Works fine for me (the initial link and the link to the sale page), might be something on your end

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Mark Cuban: Why US hospitals "don't know their costs""

Dusseldorf — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:19:01 +0000

Prescription drugs

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The turbulent AI era is here"

Dusseldorf — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:18:55 +0000

The issue here is that they've changed Old Reddit to require a login going forward.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

Dusseldorf — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:53:47 +0000

My town in the US has something like this. Several portable toilet trailers that are typically stationed near public gathering areas all year round, and moved to accommodate large events. They're significantly nicer than porta potties, and are about on par with any public bathroom accessed from outside. They require the ability to either scan a QR code, or send/receive SMS. They've always been clean any time I've used them, and have some mechanisms to report cleanliness issues back to toilet HQ.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "The Amazon tax"

Dusseldorf — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:39:25 +0000

Yes! It's very frustrating when I think I'm browsing several variations of a single product, only to realize that some of the results are a totally different product, the brand doesn't affect it either way. I'm fine seeing results for multiple trims if I didn't specify one.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "TreasuryDirect: Prepare for ID.me – Your New Way to Log In"

Dusseldorf — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:38:38 +0000

Does anyone know if there are any reasonable alternatives here if I don't want to create an ID.me account and hand my PII over to them? Do I just need to liquidate my positions and close my account out, or can I manage it offline via correspondence somehow? Seems absurd to have so quick a turnaround on this with no alternative options.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

Dusseldorf — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:06:45 +0000

might turn out that the next company they apply to is run by street urchins who don't take too kindly to the stereotype? or possibly humorless scolds who don't want their employees telling jokes in their free time?

New comment by Dusseldorf in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

Dusseldorf — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:30:48 +0000

I think the reason people get angry about it is that it feels like an asymmetric ask. It feels a bit like saying "everyone needs to come I to the office because I like there to be people in the office, regardless of whether that's what they want." (not saying that's what you're saying here, just trying to shine some light on how it may be perceived)

New comment by Dusseldorf in "GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:25:16 +0000

"I got on pickpocketed on my last vacation, so now I travel with an old backup phone instead"

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:07:56 +0000

I think you may have switched the "of" and "on" when you read the original post. They're saying that the human body can negatively affect radio waves, not that radio waves have a negative effect on the human body.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

Dusseldorf — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 23:36:22 +0000

I'm glad your username specifies your location. My biggest pet peeve online these days is someone telling a story about "my country" but never specifying which country that is.

New comment by Dusseldorf in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

Dusseldorf — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:52:29 +0000

or stay, and be subtly bad enough at your job to negatively affect the progress of the enterprise.